ML20245E175

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RAIs Letter 08/31/2020
ML20245E175
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Site: 07000004
Issue date: 09/11/2020
From: Yawar Faraz
NRC/NMSS/DFM/FFLB
To: Wiehle K
American Centrifuge Operating
Faraz Y
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OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY - RELATED INFORMATION September 11, 2020 Ms. Kelly L. Wiehle, Regulatory Manager American Centrifuge Operating, LLC P.O. Box 628 Mail Stop 7560 3930 U.S. 23 South Piketon, Ohio 45661

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING CENTRUS ENERGY CORP. AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE OPERATING AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE PLANT HIGH ASSAY LOW ENRICHED URANIUM PROGRAM AMENDMENT (ENTERPRISE PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: L-2020-LLA-0085)

Dear Ms. Wiehle:

This is in regard to your submittals dated April 22, 2020 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System [ADAMS] Accession No. ML20125A103), May 7, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20139A100), and June 17, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20174A144). In your submittals, you requested approval of proposed amendments to the American Centrifuge Plant license SNM-2011 for possessing byproduct, source and special nuclear material for the purpose of operating a 16-centrifuge High Assay Low Enriched Uranium cascade in existing buildings leased from the Department of Energy in Piketon, Ohio. Our review of your application has identified that additional information is needed before final action can be taken. We previously provided to you drafts of the additional information via two separate e-mails, on August 7, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20223A155) and August 10, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20230A028). These were appropriately modified as a result of discussions that took place during an NRC staff site visit to your Technology and Manufacturing Center in Oak Ridge Tennessee on October 10 to 12, 2020.

Please provide your response within 30 days from the date of this letter.

Pending your response, we anticipate completing our review by June 2, 2021. This date could change depending on the findings of our technical review, urgent assignments, or other factors. We will promptly communicate any significant changes to this schedule.

Enclosure 1 transmitted herewith contains Security Related Information. When this document is separated from the security related conditions in Enclosure 1, this document is decontrolled.

OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY - RELATED INFORMATION

OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY - RELATED INFORMATION K. Wiehle 2 In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 2.390 of the NRCs Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure, a copy of this letter and one of its enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records component of the NRCs ADAMS. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room). An enclosure to this letter contains sensitive, unclassified information, and is therefore deemed Official Use Only.

Therefore, it will not be placed in the Public Document Room, nor will it be publicly available in ADAMS.

If you have any questions regarding this communication, please contact me by telephone at 301-415-7220, or via e-mail at Yawar.Faraz@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Yawar H. Faraz, Senior Project Manager Fuel Facility Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 70-7004 License No. SNM-2011

Enclosures:

1. Request for Additional Information (Non-Public)
2. Request for Additional Information (Public) cc: L. Cutlip, Vice President, Centrus S. Harlow, DOE NE-HQ M. McCune, DOE NE-HQ OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY - RELATED INFORMATION

Pkg/ML20245E173; Ltr/ML20245E173; Encl. 1 (non-public)/ML20245E76; Encl. 2 (public)/ML20245E173

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