ML20210T583

Submits Items of Interest,Including Table S-3 Rulemaking Re 10CFR51,operational Safety Assessment of B&W Commercial Nuclear Fuel Plant & Status of Hearings Re Sequoyah Fuels & Kerr-McGee Facilities

ML20210T583
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Site:	07001201
Issue date:	02/10/1987
From:	Crow W NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Jennifer Davis NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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NUDOCS 8702180233
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I FEB 101987 MEMORANDUM FOR: John G. Davis, Director Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards THRU: Richard E. Cunningham, Director Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety FROM: W.'T. Crow, Acting Chief Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch

SUBJECT:

ITEMS OF INTEREST TABLE S-3 RULEMAKING, 10 CFR PART 51 The memorandum of December 11, 1986, from John G. Davis (NMSS) and Eric S.

Beckjord (RES) to Victor Stello, Jr. (ED0) expressed their agreement on transferring rulemaking responsibility for the Table S-3 final rule _ to RES, maintaining the scope and schedule given in SECY 86-242. On February 6, 1987, WilliamE. Thompson (NMSS)andWilliamR.$ arson (RES)completedaseriesof meetings to review the extensive background of the proposed rulemaking and to plan a cooperative development of the final Table S-3 rule, with RES taking the lead responsibility in the formalized rulemaking process. RES has prepared a Task Control memorandum which is being circulated for concurrence.

. OPERATIONAL SAFETY ASSESSMENT, BABC0CK & WILCOX (COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR FUEL PLANT)

A member of the NMSS staff participated on February 2-6, 1987, as a member of a team making an operational safety assessment of the Babcock & Wilcox Commercial Nuclear Fuel Plant in Lynchburg, Virginia. The team was lead by personnel from NRC Region II and also included a member of the Safeguards and Materials Program Branch, Division of Inspection Programs, Office of Inspection and Enforcement. -The team assessment report is being prepared.

STATUS OF MEARINGS ,

1. Sequoyah Fuels, Gore, Oklahoma, UF to UF 6 4 The informal evidentiary hearing on the amendment request was held in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, on January l' - 15, 1987. Testimony was received from Sequoyah Fuels Corporation and the intervenor groups on the topics outlined in December 31, 1986 Memorandum and Order. A decision has not been rendered.

2. Sequoyah Fuels, Gore, Oklahoma, Comprehensive Waste Disposal Plan Sequoyah Fuels Corporation submitted the Comprehensive Radiological Solid Waste Management Plan as required by Source Material License No.

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. John G. Davis. 2 FEB 101987 schedule set for.this proceeding. Several parties have filed their complaints in the case and Sequoyah Fuels Corporation will be responding to these. The Staff informed the Judge in January that would not.be a party to the proceeding.

3. Kerr-McGee, West Chicago, Illinois, Kress Creek Decontamination The ASLB decision dated June 19, 1986, dismissed the Order to Show Cause issued to Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation on March 2, 1984. On August 11 1986, the staff filed an appeal with the ASLAB. The ASLAB ruled that they are deferring consideration of the staff's appeal at this time.

4. Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility, Decommissioning Plan, West Chicago, Illinois This hearing.is being held'in abeyance pending the staff's completion of the supplement to the Environmental Impact Statement. The current schedule calls for issuance of the Draft Supplement in March 1987, and the Final in September 1987. The Board has indicated thatithey may resume a portion of the Hearing after the Draft is issued.

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