Application Review Schedule for Sweetwater Uranium Mill

The following table summarizes the key milestones in the schedule that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has established for its review of the application that Kennecott Uranium Co. submitted to renew its license for the Sweetwater Uranium Mill Conventional Uranium Mill site.

Key Milestones	Completion Date Actual - A Target - T
Application Tendered (docketed date)	09/08/14 – A
Acceptance Review
Financial Re-baseline Acceptance Review Complete	09/16/14 – A
Docketing Decision Letter Issued/Acceptance Review Complete for Technical Review	11/25/14 – A
Financial Review
Requests for Additional Information (RAIs) on financial rebaseline portion of application	12/01/14 – A
Publish FRN - notice of Opportunity for hearing	01/30/15 – A
Financial 5 year Rebaseline Amendment Issued	02/02/15 – A
Safety Review *
Round 1 of RAIs Issued for Technical/Environmental Review	07/13/15 – A
Second Round of RAIs issued to licensee	02/12/16 – A
Draft License Conditions Issued	08/25/16 – A
RAI responses received with change of design	10/12/16 – A
Third round of RAIs issued to the licensee	06/16/17 – A
Final Safety Evaluation Report (SER) completed	02/28/18 – A
Environmental Review
Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) Issued	03/26/18 – A
Final EA Issued	06/04/18 – A
Record of Decision
License Amendment issued	07/05/18 – A

* Timeline does not include extended lead times for applicants to respond to RAIs or open issues.

Information on Federal Register notices for receipt of the application and opportunity to request a hearing or petition to intervene can be found on the Hearing Opportunities page.

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Wednesday, March 24, 2021