[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 241 (Thursday, December 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66997-66998]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-30029]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos.: 70-7003, 70-7004; NRC-2009-0177]


USEC, Inc.; American Centrifuge Plant; American Centrifuge Lead 
Cascade Facility; Notice of Withdrawal of License Transfer Application 
and Consideration of Approval of Application Regarding Proposed 
Corporate Restructuring and Conforming Amendment

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted a request 
from USEC Inc. (USEC) to withdraw its February 10, 2009 (Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System [ADAMS] Accession No. 
ML090850065), request for written consent to transfer control of 
Material Licenses SNM-7003 and SNM-2011 (American Centrifuge Lead 
Cascade Facility [LCF] and American Centrifuge Plant [ACP], 
respectively) from USEC to a subsidiary limited liability company (LLC) 
under the provisions of 10 Code of Regulations (CFR) 70.36. The request 
was supplemented by letters dated June 12, 2009 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML091670085, Supplement to Request for Written Consent to Transfer of 
Licenses), and June 17, 2009 (ADAMS Accession No. ML091970393, Draft 
Financial Assurance Instrument Associated with Request for Transfer of 
Licenses).
    Under their request, USEC proposed to modify its existing corporate 
structure and requested NRC consent to transfer control of Material 
Licenses SNM-7003 and SNM-2011 from USEC Inc. to the subsidiary 
American Centrifuge Operating, LLC. In addition,

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USEC requested NRC approval of changes to the LCF and the ACP Material 
Licenses, license applications, and security program documents to 
reflect the changes in USEC's corporate structure. No physical or 
operational changes to the LCF or the ACP were being proposed.
    The NRC had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of the 
Receipt of a License Transfer Application and Consideration of Approval 
of Application Regarding Proposed Corporate Restructuring and 
Conforming Amendment and Opportunity to Provide Comments and Request a 
Hearing in the Federal Register on April 24, 2009 (74 FR 18749). 
However, by letter dated November 25, 2009 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML093350026), USEC withdrew its request.
    For further details with respect to this action, see USEC's request 
dated February 10, 2009, the supplemental letter dated June 12, 2009, 
and the licensee's letter dated November 25, 2009, which withdrew the 
request for consent to transfer control of Material Licenses SNM-7003 
and SNM-2011. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at 
the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 
Room O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 
Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the 
ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC Web 
site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html. Persons who do not have 
access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents 
located in ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by 
telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of December, 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Osiris Siurano,
 Project Manager, Uranium Enrichment Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle 
Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. E9-30029 Filed 12-16-09; 8:45 am]
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