ML20249B000
| ML20249B000 | |
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| Site: | 07000734 |
| Issue date: | 06/04/1998 |
| From: | NRC |
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| NUDOCS 9806190257 | |
| Download: ML20249B000 (2) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION f
WASHINGTON, D.C. enans mang 7une 4, 1998 DOCKET:
70-734 LICENSEE:
General Atomics San Diego, Califomia SL'BJECT:
SAFEGUARDS EVALUATION REPORT: SUBMITTAL DATED MAR';H 5,1998,.
REVISIONS TO FUNDAMENTAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL CONTROL PLAN BACKGROUND 4
By correspondence dated March 5,1998, General Atomics (GA) submitted a revision to its Fundamental Nuclear Material Control (FNMC) Plan. This Plan revision incorporates significant modifications and changes in various sections to reflect GA's current and very limited operating
- activities under its possession-only licent.e which went into effect September 1996.
DISCUSS 1QN GA, a Category ll facility, obtained a possession-only license in September 1996. Under this status, a full-fledged FNMC Plan required by 10 GR 70.58 is no longer necessary provided that any physical and/or chemical operations involving its possessed special nuclear material
= (SNM) are limited to material storage and disposition. Consequently, all safeguards conditions SG-2 through SG-8 associated with the material control and accounting (MC&A) program were deleted by License Amendment No 37 in 1996 because those conditions were'not applicable under a possession-only license. However, because the SNM quantity on site is more than 350 grams of U-235, GA continues to follow the MC&A requirements contained in 70.51(b), (c), and (d) pertaining to record keeping, maintenance and retention of MC&A procedures, and annual pnysical inventory, respectively as well as other requirements in 74.13 and 74.15, addressing NRC Forms 742 and 741 prutocols, respectively.
GA revised the entire FNMC Plan to retain necessary MC&A practices and procedures applicable to material storage and gradual shipments to outside sources. - To be consistent with the mentioned requirements in Paris 79 and 74,' GA removed from its FNMC Plan all non-applicable text portions of stopped activities at GA including material receipts, scrap control, measurement and measurement control associated with receipts, and intomal review and assessment of the MC&A system. The review confirmed that GA still maintains two key elements for material control and material accountability under the present possession-only license: (1) the physical inventory program and (2) the item control program.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW The staff has determined that the revised FNMC Plan will not adversely affect public health and safety, the common defense and security, or the environment and is otherwise in the public -
interest. The provisions in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(12) cite an exclusion for safeguards plans and j
matenal accountability. Therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor.an environmental
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' The staff conclucies that the licensee's MC&A program for storing, controlling, monitoring, and shipping nuclear materials as described in the revised FNMC Plan will achieve the performan2 -
objectives and system capabilities required by 10 CFR 70.51 regulations. Therefore, Section
- 1.0_of the license Safeguards Conditions has been revised to incorporate the revised FNMC Plan.
L The _ Operations Branch (FCOB) inspection staff has no objection to this proposed action.
PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTOR Thomas N. Pham -
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