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Cover Letter Forwarding American Centrifuge Plant RAI (Public)
ML20338A149
Person / Time
Site: 07007003, 07007004
Issue date: 12/15/2020
From: Yawar Faraz
NRC/NMSS/DFM/FFLB
To: Wiehle K
American Centrifuge Operating
YHFaraz - NMSS/DFM/FFLB - 301.415.7220
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EPID L-2020-SPR-0009
Download: ML20338A149 (3)


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OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY - RELATED INFORMATION OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY - RELATED INFORMATION December 15, 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, LLC PHYSICAL SECURITY PLAN FOR THE AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE PLANT HIGH ASSAY LOW ENRICHED URANIUM PROGRAM AMENDMENT (ENTERPRISE PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: L-2020-SPR-0009)

Dear Ms. Wiehle:

This is regarding your submittal dated June 23, 2020 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System [ADAMS] Accession No. ML20314A098). In your submittal, you requested the NRC to amend the American Centrifuge Plant license SNM-2011 by approving your new security plan for the physical protection of 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. The additional information, specified in the enclosure, should be provided 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. Also, we anticipate expending a total of about 380 staff hours for the entire review under L-2020-SPR-0009, which is equivalent to about $106,000. Please note that of the 380 hours0.0044 days <br />0.106 hours <br />6.283069e-4 weeks <br />1.4459e-4 months <br />, to date we have expended about 140 hours0.00162 days <br />0.0389 hours <br />2.314815e-4 weeks <br />5.327e-5 months <br />.

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 K. Wiehle 2

OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY - RELATED INFORMATION 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 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). The 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, 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

Enclosure:

Request for Additional Information (Non-Public) cc:

L. Cutlip, Vice President, Centrus S. Harlow, DOE NE-HQ M. McCune, DOE NE-HQ

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