ML25344A143

Application for Louisiana Energy Services, LLC, Also Dba Urenco USA, Exemption Request to 10 CFR 71.17 - Acknowledgment of Receipt and Start of Technical Review

ML25344A143
Person / Time
Site:	07003103
Issue date:	12/02/2025
From:	Melendez-Colon D Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch
To:	Lorskulsint P, Pfabe J Louisiana Energy Services
References
CAC 001029, EPID L-2025-LLE-0030
Download: ML25344A143 (0)

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From:

Daneira Meléndez-Colón To:

john.pfabe@urenco.com Cc:

LicensingUUSA@urenco.com; ext_Barry_Love

Subject:

APPLICATION FOR LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, LLC, ALSO DOING BUSINESS AS URENCO USA, EXEMPTION REQUEST TO 10 CFR 71.17 - ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT AND START OF TECHNICAL REVIEW Date:

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 3:22:07 PM

SUBJECT:

APPLICATION FOR LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, LLC, ALSO DOING BUSINESS AS URENCO USA, EXEMPTION REQUEST TO 10 CFR 71.17 -

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT AND START OF TECHNICAL REVIEW -

COST ACTIVITY CODE/ENTERPRISE PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NOS.

001029/L-2025-LLE-0030

Dear Paul Lorskulsint:

By letter dated October 8, 2025 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System [ADAMS] Accession No. ML25281A317), Louisiana Energy Services, LLC, also doing business as Urenco USA (UUSA), requested the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) an exemption to 10 CFR 71.17 for the domestic transportation of uranium hexafluoride (UF6), enriched to greater than 5, but less than 10 weight percent (wt.%) uranium-235 utilizing 30B cylinders within certified DN30 transportation packages.

We received your submittal, and the staff has started a detailed technical review. Your application has been assigned Cost Activity Code (CAC)/Enterprise Project Identification (EPID) Nos. 001029/L-2025-LLE-0030. Please reference these numbers and Docket No.

70-3103 in any future correspondence associated with this request. Please note that the technical review is focused only on the exemption request to 10 CFR 71.17.

Based on our preliminary evaluation and projection of current review schedules, we anticipate completing our formal review by April 2026. The schedule includes the issuance of a request for additional information (RAI) by December 2025, and receiving your responses to the RAI within 30 days after its issuance. Please note that these dates could change depending on the findings of our technical review, urgent assignments, or other factors, such as whether your responses to the RAI are or not adequate. The NRC staff estimates that completing the review of your submittal will require approximately 250 staff hours. We will promptly communicate significant schedule and/or cost changes, if any.

Please note that this email will be placed in ADAMS as publicly available to document this communication.

In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Section 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding, a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) or from the Publicly Available Records component of the NRCs ADAMS. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The PDR is open by appointment. To make an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

If you have any questions regarding this communication, please contact me at (301) 415-7295, or via email to Daneira.Melendez-Colon@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

Daneira Meléndez Colón

Docket No.: 70-3103 CAC No.: 001029 EPID No.: L-2025-LLE-0030

Daneira Meléndez Colón Project Manager Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (301) 415-7295 l Daneira.Melendez-Colon@nrc.gov