[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 109 (Monday, June 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32418-32419]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-13937]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-609; NRC-2013-0235]
Northwest Medical Isotopes, LLC; Construction Permit Application
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Construction permit application; docketing.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has
determined that the partial application for a construction permit,
submitted by Northwest Medical Isotopes, LLC (NWMI) is acceptable for
docketing. The NWMI proposes to build a medical radioisotope production
facility located in Columbia, Missouri.
DATES: June 8, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0235 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0235. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time
that a document is referenced.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Balazik, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2856; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 7, 2014, NWMI filed with the
NRC, pursuant to Section 103 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, and part 50 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR), a portion of an application for a construction permit for a
medical radioisotope production facility in Columbia, Missouri. By
letter dated February 5, 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15086A262), NWMI
withdrew and resubmitted this portion of its construction permit
application (ADAMS Accession No. ML15086A261) to include a discussion
of connected actions in its environmental report in response to a
January 23, 2015, letter from the NRC (ADAMS Accession No.
ML14349A501). A notice of receipt of this application was previously
published in the Federal Register on April 21, 2015 (80 FR 22227).
An exemption from certain requirements of 10 CFR 2.101(a)(5)
granted by the Commission on October 7, 2013, and published in the
Federal Register on October 24, 2013 (78 FR 63501), in response to a
letter from NWMI dated August 9, 2013 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML13227A295), allowed for NWMI to submit its construction permit
application in two parts. Specifically, the exemption allowed NWMI to
submit a portion of its application for a construction permit up to six
months prior to the remainder of the application regardless of whether
or not an environmental impact statement or a supplement to an
environmental impact statement was prepared during the review of its
application. On February 5, 2015, in accordance with 10 CFR
2.101(a)(5), NWMI submitted the following in part one of the
construction permit application (ADAMS Accession No. ML15086A261):
The description and safety assessment of the site required
by 10 CFR 50.34(a)(1),
the environmental report required by 10 CFR 50.30(f),
the filing fee information required by 10 CFR 50.30(e) and
10 CFR 170.21,
the general information required by 10 CFR 50.33; and
the agreement limiting access to classified information
required by 10 CFR 50.37.
The NRC staff has determined that NWMI has submitted the
information listed above in accordance with 10 CFR 2.101(a)(5) and that
the partial application is acceptable for docketing. The docket number
established for the NWMI facility is 50-609.
The NRC staff will perform a detailed technical review of the
partial construction permit application. Docketing of the partial
construction permit application does not preclude the NRC from
requesting additional information from the applicant as the review
proceeds, nor does it predict whether the Commission will grant or deny
the application. The NRC staff will also perform an acceptance review
of the second and final part of the construction permit application
when it is tendered. As stated in NWMI's February 5, 2015, letter, the
second and final part of NWMI's application for a construction permit
will contain the remainder of the preliminary safety analysis report
required by 10 CFR 50.34(a) and will be submitted in accordance with
the requirements of 10 CFR 2.101(a)(5). If, after completion of the
acceptance review of the full construction permit application, the full
construction permit application is found acceptable for docketing, the
Commission or a designated Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will
conduct a hearing in accordance with Subpart L, ``Simplified Hearing
Procedures for NRC Adjudications,'' of 10 CFR part 2 and the Advisory
Committee on Reactor Safeguards will prepare a report on the
construction permit application consistent with 10 CFR 50.58,
``Hearings and report of the Advisory Committee on Reactor
Safeguards.'' The Commission will announce in a future Federal Register
notice, the opportunity to petition for leave to intervene in the
hearing required for this application by 10 CFR 50.58, as well as the
time and place of the hearing. If the Commission finds that the full
construction permit application meets the applicable standards of the
Atomic Energy Act and
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the Commission's regulations, and that required notifications to other
agencies and bodies have been made, the Commission will issue a
construction permit, in the form and containing conditions and
limitations that the Commission finds appropriate and necessary.
Pursuant to 10 CFR part 51, the NRC staff will conduct an
environmental review of the construction permit before recommending
Commission action on the application. The NRC staff will determine in
accordance with 10 CFR 51.25, whether it will prepare an environmental
impact statement or an environmental assessment to inform the decision
on the construction permit application and will publish a Federal
Register notice concerning its environmental review.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of May 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Alexander Adams, Jr.,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch, Division of Policy
and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-13937 Filed 6-5-15; 8:45 am]
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