February 23, 2010 

Mr. John J. Miller, CHP 

International Isotopes, Inc. 

4137 Commerce Circle 

Idaho Falls, ID 83401 

SUBJECT: LICENSE APPLICATION FOR INTERNATIONAL ISOTOPES FLUORINE 

PRODUCTS, INC. FACILITY – ACCEPTANCE REVIEW (TAC NO’S. L32739 AND 

L32740) 

Dear Mr. Miller: 

We have received your application, including an Environmental Report and an Integrated Safety 

Analysis Summary, dated December 30, 2009, to possess and use source and by-product 

material at the proposed International Isotopes Fluorine Products, Inc. (IIFP) facility. The IIFP, 

which is to be located in Lea County, New Mexico, is proposed to deconvert 7.3 million pounds 

of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) annually into fluoride products and depleted uranium 

oxides (DUO). Your request has been assigned the technical assignment control (TAC) 

numbers L32739 for the safety review and L32740 for the environmental review. Please 

reference these numbers in any future correspondence associated with this request. 

We have completed our acceptance review of your application and have determined the 

application to be acceptable for formal review. Please note that the complete technical review 

may identify omissions in the submittal information or technical issues that require additional 

information. 

Based on our projection of the administrative and technical review schedules, we anticipate 

completing our reviews and issuing our Safety Evaluation Report and Environmental Impact 

Statement documents by January 2012; however, this date could change depending on budget 

and resource constraints, the findings of our technical review, or other factors. We will promptly 

communicate any significant changes to this schedule. 

Be advised that this application does not require a mandatory hearing, but a notice of 

opportunity for stakeholders to request a hearing will be published in the Federal Register, 

shortly after the distribution of this letter. 

A copy of your submittal has been forwarded to our License Fee and Accounts Receivable 

Branch, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, who will contact you separately for billing, as the 

review of your application is subject to full cost fee recovery. 
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In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 2.390 of the NRC’s “Rules of 

Practice,” a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC 

Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records component of the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible 

from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic 

Reading Room). 

If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact me at (301) 492-3119 or via 

email to Matthew.Bartlett@nrc.gov. 

Sincerely, 

 /RA/ 

 Matt Bartlett, Project Manager 

 Advanced Fuel Cycle, Enrichment, 

 and Uranium Conversion Branch 

 Special Projects and Technical 

 Support Directorate 

 Division of Fuel Cycle Safety 

 and Safeguards 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety 

 and Safeguards 

Docket No.: 40-9086 

 
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In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 2.390 of the NRC’s “Rules of 

Practice,” a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC 

Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records component of the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible 

from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic 

Reading Room). 

If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact me at (301) 492-3119 or via 

email to Matthew.Bartlett@nrc.gov. 

Sincerely, 

 /RA/ 

 Matt Bartlett, Project Manager 

 Advanced Fuel Cycle, Enrichment, 

 and Uranium Conversion Branch 

 Special Projects and Technical 

 Support Directorate 

 Division of Fuel Cycle Safety 

 and Safeguards 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety 

 and Safeguards 

Docket No.: 40-9086 

 

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