ML20198F900
| ML20198F900 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 07000734 |
| Issue date: | 12/19/1997 |
| From: | Ten Eyck E NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Asmussen K GENERAL ATOMICS (FORMERLY GA TECHNOLOGIES, INC./GENER |
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| NUDOCS 9801120200 | |
| Download: ML20198F900 (2) | |
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December 19, 1997 Dr. Keith E. Asmussen, Director General Atomics Licensing, Safety and Nuclear Compliance P.O. Box 85608 San Diego, California 92186-9784
SUBJECT:
NEEDED TIMELY APPROVAL OF GENERAL ATOMICS' SITE DECOMMISSIONING PLAN
Dear Dr. Asmussen:
This is in response to your letter of December 9,1997, requesting timely approval of General Atomics' Site Decommissioning Plan.
Our technical review of your site decommissioning plan is essentially complete. As you have discussed with Mr. Charles E. Gaskin, the General Atomics licensing Project Manager, we anticipate the finallicensing action associated with this review to be completed by the end of January 1998.
If you have any questions regarding this response please contact Mr. Gaskin at Iyf (301)415-8116 E-Mail CEGi@NRC, GOV.
Sincerely, I(
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SUBJECT:
NEEDED TIMELY APPROVAL OF GENERAL ATOMICS' SITE DECOMMISSIONING PLAN
Dear Dr. Asmussen:
This is in response to your letter of December 9,1997, requesting timely approval of General Atomics' Site Decommissioning Plan.
Our technical review of your site decommissioning plan is essentially complete. As you have discussed with Mr. Charles E. Gaskin, the General Atomics licensing Project Manager, we anticipate the finallicensing action associated with this review to be completed by the end of January 1998.
If you have any questions regarding this response please contact Mr. Gaskin at (301) 415-8116, E-Mail CEGi@NRC. GOV.
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Elizpbeth Q. Ten Eyck, Director
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ATTN: Ms. Elizabeth O. Ten Eyck, Director Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS Mall Stop 8 A33 Two White Flint North 11545 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 2738
Subject:
Needed Timely Approval of General Atomics' Site Decommissioning Plan
Dear Ms. Ten Eyck:
By letter dated September 30,1996, General Atomics (GA) submitted a plan for decom-missioning its site in San Diego, CA. In response to comments from NRC staff, revisions to this plan were submitted one year ago this month (i.e., in December 1996). Then, following very valuable and useful visits to GA s site by members of your staff on February 3 5,1997 and by NRC Region IV staff on February 4 5,1997 to discuss the decommissioning plan, further revisions were submitted to NRC in April 1997. In July of this year, GA was of the understanding there were no remaining open that: 1) the internal technical review had been completed,2)ld be issued shortly. However, G issues, and 3) a license amendment approving the plan wou has not yet obtained approval of the plan. (The State of California app.oved the plan in August, 1997.)
Currently, it is GA's understanding that very little remains to be done to complete approval of the plan, and that the delay is a matter of priorities. While GA realizes that there are many important tasks competing for the attention of your staff, and that they have numerous other priorities, the delay in getting GA's decommissioning plan approved has now reached a point where it will very soon begin having significant negative impacts on current decommission-ing staf!ing levels, schedule and total decommissioning costs.
The purpose of this letter is to appeal for your assistance in obtaining the priority required by your staff to finish the nearly completed, and urgently needed, approval of GA's decommissioning plan. Having said that, I would also like to take this opportunity to gratefully acknowledge the cooperation and assistance provided to-date by your staff that has led to the improved plan now awaiting of,'icial approval in the form of a license amenc' ment.
If you have any questions rogarding this request, I would be ) leased to discuss them with you. I may be reached at (619) 455-2823. Thank you for your time n considering this matter, it is sincerely appreciated.
Very truly yours, Dr. Keith E. Asmussen, Director Licensing, Safety & Nuclear Compliance cc:
E. Waliam Brach Michael F. Weber MaryT. Adams Charles E. Gaskin
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