ML21217A075

Acceptance for Detailed Review of Centrus Energy Corporation'S License Amendment Application for Using Digital IROFS

ML21217A075
Person / Time
Site:	07007003, 07007004
Issue date:	08/12/2021
From:	Yawar Faraz NRC/NMSS/DFM/FFLB
To:	Karen Fitch American Centrifuge Operating
YHFaraz NMSS/DFM/FFL 301.415.7154
References
EPID L-2021-LLA-0125
Download: ML21217A075 (3)

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August 12, 2021 Ms. Kelly L. Fitch, Regulatory Manager American Centrifuge Operating, LLC P.O. Box 628 Mail Stop 7560 3930 U.S. 23 South Piketon, Ohio 45661

SUBJECT:

ACCEPTANCE FOR DETAILED REVIEW OF AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE OPERATINGS LICENSE AMENDMENT APPLICATION FOR ITS HIGH ASSAY LOW ENRICHED URANIUM DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM DIGITALLY BASED ITEMS RELIED ON FOR SAFETY (ENTERPRISE PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: L-2021-LLA-0125)

Dear Ms. Fitch:

By letter dated June 30, 2021 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System

[ADAMS] Accession No. ML21196A038), American Centrifuge Operating, LLC (ACO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp. (Centrus), provided the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a request to amend its materials license for the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) in Piketon Ohio by incorporating the use of digitally based items relied on for safety for its High Assay Low Enriched Uranium Demonstration program.

We have completed our acceptance review of your submittal and have identified no administrative omissions or deficiencies. Your submittal has been assigned Enterprise Project Identification Number (EPID) L-2021-LLA-0125. Please reference this EPID number and Docket Number 07007004 in any future correspondence associated with this request. Please note that the NRC staffs detailed technical review of your submittal may identify omissions in the submittal information or technical issues which require additional information.

Based on our acceptance review and projection of current review schedules, we anticipate that we will complete the technical review of your submittal by November 1, 2021. In addition, the NRC staff estimates that completing the review of the submittal will require approximately 360 staff hours. The total cost of the review corresponds to $100,440 ($279.00/hour).

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. The ADAMS database is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

K. Fitch 2 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 cc: centrus_acp@listmgr.nrc.gov L. Cutlip, Vice President, Centrus S. Harlow, DOE NE-HQ J. Hutson, DOE NE-ORSO Contract Support

K. Fitch 3

SUBJECT:

ACCEPTANCE FOR DETAILED REVIEW OF AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE OPERATINGS LICENSE AMENDMENT APPLICATION FOR ITS HIGH ASSAY LOW ENRICHED URANIUM DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM DIGITALLY BASED ITEMS RELIED ON FOR SAFETY (ENTERPRISE PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: L-2021-LLA-0125)

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