ML121030197

Purdue University - NRC Approval of Request for Additional Time to Respond to the 60- and 90-day Requests for Additional Information Until January 31, 2013 (TAC No. ME1594)

ML121030197
Person / Time
Site:	Purdue University
Issue date:	05/29/2012
From:	Montgomery C K Research and Test Reactors Branch B
To:	Jenkins J H Purdue University
montgomery c 415-3398
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TAC ME1594
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May 29, 2012 Mr. Jere H. Jenkins Director of Radiation Laboratories Purdue University Nuclear Engineering Building 400 Central Dr. West Lafayette, IN 47907-2017

SUBJECT:

PURDUE UNIVERSITY-APPROVAL OF REQUEST FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO COMPLETE THE RESPONSES TO THE NRC 60- AND 90-DAY REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE PURDUE UNIVERSITY LICENSE RENEWAL AND POWER UPRATE (TAC NO. ME1594)

Dear Mr. Jenkins:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received your email dated March 26, 2012, (Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No.

ML120900571). In your e-mail you requested an extension of time, until January 31, 2013, to respond to NRC's Requests for Additional Information (RAIs) dated July 14, 2011, (ADAMS Accession No. ML103400250) and July 8, 2011, (ADAMS Accession No. ML111890201). The NRC is also in receipt of your email dated Friday, May 11, 2012, (ADAMS Accession No. ML121360631) in which you committed to a schedule for submitting the responses to the RAIs.

In your March 26, 2012, e-mail, you stated that the reasons for your request for extension were teaching load, work load, and staffing shortage and that you are unable to meet the previously set goals for responding to the remaining 58 RAIs for relicensing. You also stated that you will receive very limited assistance from Argonne National Laboratory.

We have reviewed and approved your extension request for the following reasons: 1) some of the remaining 58 RAIs are complex questions requiring technical analysis; 2) Purdue University has demonstrated progress by completing the first 42 RAI responses in accordance with previous commitments; 3) Purdue University has maintained good communication with the license renewal project manager regarding the status of your RAI response efforts; 4) You stated that you will provide biweekly status updates to the project manager of your progress; and 5) You have committed to submitting responses batchwise as follows:

For the 16 week period beginning May 21, 2012, and ending August 24, 2012, you will submit five responses every two weeks. For the 24 week period beginning August 27, 2012, and ending January 25, 2013, you will submit two responses every two weeks. For the last six days leading up to the deadline of January 31, 2013, you will submit the last response. You will inform the NRC in advance of a failed submission date and submit the late responses with the next batch due.

In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 50.30(b), you must execute your responses in a signed original document under oath or affirmation. Your responses must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 50.4, "Written Communications." Information included in your response that is considered security, sensitive, or proprietary, that

you seek to have withheld from the public, must be marked in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, "Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding."

The new date for the completion of the RAIs is January 31, 2013. If you have any questions, please contact me at Cindy.Montgomery@nrc.gov, or 301-415-3398.

Sincerely, /RA/

Cindy K. Montgomery, Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-182 License No. R-87

cc: See next page Purdue University Docket No. 50-182 cc: Leah Jamieson, Dean College of Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 Mayor City of West Lafayette 609 W. Navajo West Lafayette, IN 47906 Manager Epidemiology Res Center/Indoor & Radiological Health Indiana Department of Health 2525 N. Shadeland Ave., E3 Indianapolis, IN 46219 Director Consumer Protection Indiana State Department of Health 2 North Meridian Street, 5D Indianapolis, IN 46204 Mr. Ed Merritt Reactor Supervisor Department of Nuclear Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907

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