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Email to Ohio SHPO Courtesy Notification of NRC Review of American Centrifuge License Amendment Request
ML24194A181
Person / Time
Site: 07007004
Issue date: 07/05/2024
From: Christine Pineda
NRC/NMSS/DREFS/EPMB2
To: Welling D
State of OH, Historic Preservation Office
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Download: ML24194A181 (1)


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From: Christine Pineda (She/Her)

To: dwelling@ohiohistory.org Cc: Yawar Faraz

Subject:

Courtesy notification of NRC review of American Centrifuge License Amendment request Date: Friday, July 5, 2024 1:00:00 PM

Dear Ms. Welling,

I am writing to inform you of an action before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regarding the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) located on the Department of Energy (DOE)

Reservation in Piketon, Ohio. The licensee, American Centrifuge Operating (ACO), is requesting a license amendment to increase its possession limit for high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) at its HALEU demonstration program (undertaking). If approved, this amendment would increase ACOs possession limit for HALEU from the currently approved 600 kg to a maximum of 1,400 kg UF6. The NRC is preparing an environmental assessment to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of granting this request.

The NRC issued a license amendment in 2021 to allow ACO to construct and operate the HALEU 16-centrifuge cascade. The NRCs environmental assessment for that license amendment is available at www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2108/ML21085A705.pdf.

Under Subpart B of the Section 106 process, at 36 CFR 800.3(a)(1) No Potential to cause effects, the NRC has determined that the undertaking, a license amendment to grant the increased possession limit, is a type of activity that does not have the potential to cause effects on historic properties, assuming such historic properties were present, and therefore the NRC has no further obligation under Section 106. The NRC has made this determination because there will be no ground-breaking and operation of the HALEU cascade will continue in existing structures. The NRC communicated with your office for the license amendment to approve operation of the HALEU demonstration cascade and made a similar determination for that licensing action (see the 2021 EA linked above).

If you have any questions or wish to discuss the project with the NRC, please let me know.

Kind Regards, Christine

Christine Pineda Environmental Project Manager U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Christine.Pineda@nrc.gov 301-415-6789