[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 226 (Wednesday, November 22, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70368-70369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29835]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket 70-7001]


Notice of Receipt of Amendment Application to Certificate of 
Compliance GDP-1 for the U.S. Enrichment Corporation, Paducah Gaseous 
Diffusion Plant, Paducah, KY; Notice of Comment Period

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC or the Commission) has received an amendment application from the 
United States Enrichment Corporation that is considered to be a major 
change in the facility and/or the operating procedures which could 
substantially increase the risk. Any interested party may submit 
written comments on the application for amendment for consideration by 
the staff. To be certain of consideration, comments must be received by 
December 22, 2000. Comments received after the due date will be 
considered if it is practical to do so. The Commission is able to 
assure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.
    Written comments on the amendment application should be mailed to 
the Chief, Rules Review and Directives Branch, Office of 
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555, or may be hand delivered to 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD, 
20854, between 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. Comments 
should be legible and reproducible, and include the name, affiliation 
(if any), and address of the submitter at the Commission's Public 
Document Room and the Local Public Document Room. In accordance with 10 
CFR 76.62 and 76.64, a member of the public must submit written 
comments to petition the Commission requesting review of the Director's 
Decision on the amendment request.
    For further details with respect to the action, see the application 
for amendment. The application is available for public inspection at 
the Commission's Public Document Room, NRC's Headquarters Building, One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD, 20852, and 
electronically from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of 
NRC's document management system (ADAMS), which is accessible from the 
NRC Web Site at: http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html.
    Date of amendment request: October 20, 2000.
    Brief description of amendment: The U.S. Enrichment Corporation is 
requesting that the assay limit for the Paducah facility be increased 
from the current 2.75 wt% \235\U up to 5.5 wt% \235\U. The proposed 
amendment, if approved, would allow the Paducah facility to withdraw 
from the cascade and ship 5.0 wt% enriched uranium hexafluoride 
(UF<INF>6</INF>).
    Certificate of Compliance No. GDP-1: USEC, in its proposed 
amendment, is providing revision number 52 to the certificate to allow 
the higher enrichment. This amendment also proposes changes to the 
Technical Safety Requirements Basis Statements.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of November 2000.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Eric J. Leeds,
Chief, Special Projects Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and 
Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 00-29835 Filed 11-21-00; 8:45 am]
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