ML20214Q251

Issues New Condition 5.2 to Amend SG-1 to License SNM-1227, in Response to 860107 Request to Implement Annual Inventory Frequency.Matl Control & Accounting Procedures Adequate for Annual Inventory.Request Granted

ML20214Q251
Person / Time
Site:	Framatome ANP Richland
Issue date:	01/21/1986
From:	Brown W NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Schneider R SIEMENS POWER CORP. (FORMERLY SIEMENS NUCLEAR POWER
References
SGMI:DRG-86-07, SGMI:DRG-86-7, NUDOCS 8609240233
Download: ML20214Q251 (2)

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4 UNITED STATES O ho NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 i

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+.,...../ DESIGNATED ORIGINAL mna SGMI:0RJ-36-07 70-1257 Exxon Nuclear Compar.y, Inc.

ATTN: Mr. R. A. Schneider Staff Specialist-Safeguards 2101 Horn Rapids Road P. O. Box 130 Richland, Washington 99352 -

Gentlemen:

This'is in response to your letter dated January 7,1986, in which you requested permission to implement an annual inventory frequency as permitted under the provisions of 10 CFR 74.31. Although your Fundamental Nuclear Material Control Plan which you submitted for 10 CFR Part 74 has not yet been approved, we have determined that your present material control and accounting requirements and commitments as well as your past performance under 10 CFR Part 70 are adequate relative to the criteria for allowing an annual inventory frequency for facilities possessing and using special nuclear material of low strategic significance. We have further deter-mined that the granting of your request will not adversely affect the common defense and security nor the public health and safety, and is otherwise in the public interest.

It must be noted, however, that when your Transitional Facility Attachment is finalized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in accord-ance with the provisions of 10 CFR Part 75, there is a possibility that an inventory frequency of twice every calendar year could be reestablished.

At the current time, we are anticipating that the IAEA will agree to allowing an annual inventory frequency for all low enriched uranium facilities in the United States that are under international safeguards. This issue is to be discussed with the IAEA during special negotiating sessions later this year.

Accordingly, we are issuing a new License Condition 5.2 to Amendment SG-1 of your License No. SNM-1227 effective immediately, to read as follows:

5.2 Notwithstanding the requirements of 70.51(e)(3)(ii) and of Section 5.4 of the Plan identified in Condition 2.1 (both of which pertain to the frequency of physical inventories),

the licensee need only conduct one physical inventory during calendar year 1986, to be initiated no later than September 30, 1986. Thereafter, an annual inventory shall be conducted -

between August 1st and October 30th of each calendar year with 8609240233 860121

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JAN R1 EE6 Mr. R. A. Schneider no more than 13 months elapsing between any two consecutive inventories. If the above stated inventory frequency should ever be in conflict with a frequency stated in a Facility Attachment (FA) or Transitional Facility Attachment (TFA),

as defined by 10 CFR 75.8, the FA or TFA frequency shall prevail.

We have determined that your January 7.1986 letter contains information of the type specified in 10 CFR 2.790(d). Accordingly, pursuant to Section 2.790(d)(1), such information is deemed to be commercial or financial __

within the meaning of 10 CFR 9.5(a)(4) and shall be withheld from public disclosure unless subject to the provisions of 10 CFR 9.12.

Si ncerely, p' M O.

Willard B. Brown, Chief Safeguards Material Licensing and International Activities Branch Division of Safeguards, NMSS 9

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