ML20149G148

Forwards Order Terminating License R-II7,Exemption,SE & EA for Univ of Il at Urbana-Champaign Lopra

ML20149G148
Person / Time
Site:	05000356
Issue date:	07/16/1997
From:	Alexander Adams NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Holm R ILLINOIS, UNIV. OF, URBANA, IL
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ML20149B884	List: ML20149G148 ML20149G185 ML20149G209 ML20149H081
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TAC-M98404, NUDOCS 9707230033
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Reactor Administrator l Radiation Science Laboratory

~ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign i 214 Nuclear Engineering Laboratory i 103 South Goodwin Avenue 4 Urbana', Illinois 61801-2984

SUBJECT:

ORDER TERMINATING FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE N0. R-117 - UNIVERSITY OF ILLIN0IS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN LOW POWER REACTOR ASSEMBLY (TAC NO. M98404)

Dear Mr. Holm:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the enclosed Order ,

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(Enclosure 2) terminating Facility Operating License No. R-117 for the '

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Low Power Reactor Assembly (LOPRA) in accordance with your application dated February 10, 1995, as suppl mented on April 24, 1995; October 2, 1996; and April 15, 1997.

As part of this license termination, the NRC has granted at your request, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.12, a specific exemption (Enclosure 3) to the part of.the requirements in 10 CFR 50.82(b)(6) that requires as a condition of license termination a terminal radiation survey and associated documentation to demonstrate that the facility and site are suitable for release. As discussed in your decommissioning plan and letter of April 15, 1997, the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory in which the LOPRA was housed is also the site of /

the University of Illinois Advanced TRIGA Reactor (TRIGA) (Docket No. 50-151, 1 Facility License No. R-115) and is a restricted environment. The components and fuel from the LOPRA (byproduct and special nuclear material) were transferred to the TRIGA license during decommissioning. Some components h,f containing. byproduct material were subsequently iransferred to a University of Illinois byproduct materials license (License IL-01271-01) issued by the State

, 'of Illinois' to allow the components to be stored at a facility away from the

-Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. The components and fuel will be maintained for

'the capability to construct and operate a suberitical assembly as specifically allowed by the current TRIGA license. This order terminating the license does not releace the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory and LOPRA components for unrestric.:d use. The NRC will consider release of the site and facility components at some future time, when the University applies for termination of the TRIGA license.

In connection with termination of the LOPRA license, we are enclosing two copies of A nendment No.15 to Indemnity Agreement No. E-20 (Enclosure 1).

Plesse sign, date, and return one copy to this office.

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Richard L- Holm A copy of the Order and the exemption, which are being sent to the Office of the Federal Register for publication, the safety evaluation, and the .

environmental assessments associated with~ this action are enclosed.  !

i Sincerely, ORIGINAL SIGNED BY Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning -

Project Directorate Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-356

Enclosures:

l. Amendment No. 15 to Indemnity Agreement Nc. E-20

2. Order Terminating Facility 0';erating License No. R-117 1

3. Exemption

4. Safety Evaluation

5. Environmental Assessment Regarding License Termination

6. Environmental Assessment Regarding Exemption cc w/ enclosures:

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Project Directorate Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50.-356  !

Enclosures:

1. Amendment No. 15-to Indemnity Agreement No. E-20

2. Order-Terminating Facility Operating License No. R-117

3. Exemption

4. Safety Evaluation

5. Environmental Assessment Regarding License Termination l

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University of Illinois Docket Nos. 50-151-356 cc:

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The Honorable Tod Satterthwaite  :

Mayor of the City of Urbana

-P. O. Box 219 Urbana, Illinois 61803

. Illinois Department of Nuclear- i Safety Manager, Office of Nuclear -

Facility Safety  !

1035 Outer Park Drive '

Springfield, Illinois 62705 Dr. Barclay G. Jones, Head Department of Nuclear Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 103 South Goodwin Avenue Urbana,. Illinois 61801-2984 h

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Do'cket'No. 50-151 1

AMENDMENT TO INDEMNITY AGREEMENT NO. E-20 l AMENDMENT N0.-15 i Effective- July 16, 1997, Indemnity Agreement No. E-20, between The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and the Atomic Energy Commission, dated October 18, 1962, as amended, is hereby further amended as follows: 1 Item 2 of the Attachment to the indemnity agreement is deleted in its entirety and the following is substituted therefor:

I Item 2-License number or numbers R-69 (From 12:01 a.m., August 16, 1960, to 12 midnight, July 21, 1969, inclusive)

SNM-1110 (From 12:01 a.m., February 20, 1969, to 12 midnight, July 21, 1969, inclusive)

CPRR-105 (From 12:01 a.m., February 20, 1969, to 12 midnight, July 21, 1969, inclusive)

R-115 (From 12:01 a.m., July . 22,1969)

R-117 (From 12:01 a.m., December 27, 1971, to 12 midnight, July 16, 1997, . inclusive)

FOR THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION l uf David B. Matthews, Chief Generic Issues and Environmental Projects Branch Division of Reactor Regulation Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation l' Accepted ,

By The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois i