ML21026A048

Announcement of Change in Authorizing Official Facility Clearance for the Global Laser Enrichment (Gle) Facility (Enterprise Project Identification Number: L2020-NEW-0007)

ML21026A048
Person / Time
Site:	07007033
Issue date:	01/29/2021
From:	Darryl Parsons Division of Security Operations
To:	Owens T Global Laser Enrichment
DTiktinsky - NMSS/DFM/FFL - 301.415.8740
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EPID L2020-NEW-0007
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January 29, 2021 Mr. Thomas H. Owens President and Chief Executive Officer Global Laser Enrichment, LLC P.O. Box 780 - M/C H10 3901 Castle Haynes Road Wilmington, NC 28402

SUBJECT:

FACILITY CLEARANCE FOR THE GLOBAL LASER ENRICHMENT FACILITY (ENTERPRISE PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: L2020-NEW-0007)

Dear Mr. Owens:

By letter dated February 18, 2020 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System

[ADAMS] Accession No. ML20064G292), as supplemented on August 25, 2020 (ADAMS No. ML20282A567), you requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) terminate License No. SNM-2019 for the Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), coinciding with approval of a new facility clearance for GLE. The response to the GLE request to terminate License No. SNM-2019 can be found in ADAMS at Accession No. ML20293A174.

The facility clearance review required the evaluation of the foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI) related to the transfer of ownership of GLE and the standard practice procedures plan (SPPP) for the protection of classified matter at the GLE Wilmington, NC facility.

The details of NRCs review of FOCI and SPPP were documented in a letter dated January 5, 2021 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20290A397). The review concluded that implementation of the mitigation measures, recommended by the NRC and committed to by GLE, will ensure that the degree and extent of FOCI over GLE will not pose an undue risk to national security, and that a facility clearance should be granted. The letter also referenced the results of the operational readiness review (ORR) that was conducted on November 15-19, 2020 in Wilmington, NC which are documented in NRC Inspection Report number 70-7016/2020-401, dated December 14, 2020. Based on the results of the ORR and the NRC-approved Standard Practice Procedures Plan for GLE, the NRC hereby grants GLE a facility security clearance to allow classified information, including sensitive nuclear technology and restricted data, to continue to be used, processed, stored, reproduced, transported and handled at the GLE facility located at 3901 Castle Hayne Road Wilmington, NC 28402. The standalone facility clearance is effective on the date that the transfer of ownership is completed from GE-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment to the new ownership group.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding, of the NRCs Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure, a copy of this letter will be available

T. Owens 2 electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the publicly available records component of NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS database is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

If you have any questions regarding this action, please contact J. Keith Everly by telephone at 301-415-7048, or via e-mail at JKeith.Everly@nrc.gov.

Sincerely, Darryl H. Digitally signed by Darryl H. Parsons Parsons Darryl H. Parsons, Chief Date: 2021.01.29 09:40:22 -05'00' Information Security Branch Division of Security Operations Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response Docket No.: 70-7033 cc: Ms. Pat Jenny, Security Manager, GLE gle@listmgr.nrc.gov

T. Owens 3

SUBJECT:

FACILITY CLEARANCE FOR THE GLOBAL LASER ENRICHMENT FACILITY (ENTERPRISE PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: L2020-NEW-0007)

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