ML20234C623

Forwards Pages 1 & 4 to Amend 2 to License SNM-960,changing Condition 12 to Incorporate 870406 Changes to Radiological Contingency Plan

ML20234C623
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Site:	07000754
Issue date:	06/30/1987
From:	Rouse L NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Cunningham G GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
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NUDOCS 8707060572
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Pursuant to Title 10, Code of Federal D.egulations, Part 70, toffdi~tTon u. of Special Nuclear Material License No. SNM-960 is hereby amended to incorporate i

the changes submitted for your Radiological Contingency Plan (RCP) by your letter j

of April 6, 1987. Accordingly. Condition 12, shall read as follows:

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l The licensee shall implement, maintain, end execute the response measures of his

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Radiological Contingency plan submitted to the Commission on October 29, 1982, et seo., and latest revision dated April 6.1987. The licensee shall also prepare and maintain implementing proceoures for his Radiological Contingency Plan as necessary to implement the Plan.

(This Radiological Contingency Plan and associated implementing procedures incorporate the emergency planning requirements of 10 CFR 70.22(1) as they refer to onsite planning and notification.) The licensee shall make no change in his Radiological Contingency Plan that would decrease the response effectiveness of the Plan without prior Commission approval as evidenced by a license amendment.

The licensee may make changes to his Radiological Contingency Plan without prior Commission approval if the changes do not decrease the response effectiveness of the Plan. The licensee shall maintain racords of changes that are made to the Plan without prior approval for a period of two years from the

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date of the change and shall furnish the Chief, Fuel Cycle Safety Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle, Medical, Academic, and Commercial Use Safety, hMSS, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, and the NRC Regional Office-Region V at the address specified in Appendix D of 10 CFR Part 20, a report containing a description of each change within six months after the change is made.

All other conditions of Special Nuclear Material License No. SNM-960 license shall remain the same.

Based on our review of the revisions to your RCP, we agree with your conclusions that these changes do not decrease the response effectiveness of

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the Plan. This amendment is issued for the convenience of the Commission to maintain up-to-date references to the Plan for your license.

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Enclosed are revised pages 1 and 4 of Special Nuclear Material License No.

SNM-960 (identifying this action as Amendment No. 2 on page 1 and revising Condition 12 on page 4). Also enclosed are copies of our Safety Evaluation and determination of eligibility for categorical exclusion from the requirement for an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement, in accordance with the ;rovisions of 10 CFR Part 51, supporting issuance of this Amendment.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION oes*ww Clenn A.Teny Leland C. Rouse, Chief Fuel Cycle Safety B anch 3

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Revised License pages 1 and 4 2.

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I Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-438),and Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter I, Parts 30,31,32,33,34,35,40 and 70, and in seliance on statements and representations heretofore made by the licensee, a license is hereby issued authorizing the licensee to receive, acquire, pos.er, and transfer byproduct. -

source, and special nuc! car material designated below; to use such rnaterial for the purpose (s) and at the pbce(s) designated below;to deliver or transfer such material to persorn authorited to rec.eive it b acerrdance with the regulations of the appUq:ble Part(s). This licente shall be deerned to contain the conditions specified in Section 183 of the Atomk Energy Act cf 1954, as amended, and is subject to all spplicable raies, regulations and orders cf the Nuctcar keplatory CormaMod now or he;eafter in effe:t and to any

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" License Conditinn for Leak Testing Sealed Byprcduct Material Sources gj' and Sealed Plutonium Sources," for all sealed plutonium sources as authorized hll under this licerse and in the licensee's possession and/or supervision.

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