ML19207B557
| ML19207B557 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 04/02/1976 |
| From: | Anders W NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Brooks J HOUSE OF REP., GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS |
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| RULE-PRM-20-7 NUDOCS 7908300251 | |
| Download: ML19207B557 (2) | |
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E OFFICE OF THE APR 2 1976 CHAIRMAN Honorable Jack Brooks Chairman, Committee on Government Operations U. S. House of Representatives
Dear Chairman Brooks:
On January 12, 1976. the Comptroller General of the United States issued a report to Congress entitled, " Improvements Needed in the Land Disposal of Radioactive Wastes-A Prob'lem
.of Centuries".
The report addressed several recommendations to the Administrator, Energy Research and Development Admin-istration (ERDA), and Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
( I am pleased to provide you with the enclosed statement of the actions NRC has taken or plans to take to implement the report's recommendations.
As the scope and detailed require-ments of the NRC actions are established by NRC staff and if it becomes ap prent that additional resources are necessz.ry, we will subsequently request them.
A principal GAO recommendation relates to conducting a comprehensive study of existing commercial and ERDA disposal sites to better evaluate their ability to retain radioactive waste.
It may be of interest in this regard that the common-wealth of Kentucky, an Agreement State, raccably established a committee of federal, state, industry and university personnel to design such a comprehensive study for the Maxey
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Flats, Kentucky site.
The Committee recommended a detailed program which included a deep geology study, a weather zone study and an environmental-biological exposure pathway study.
In this case the Committee estimated that the cost for the complete program for this one site would exceed one million dollars.
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r Honorable Jack Brooks The NRC plans to work closely with the other_ federal and Agreemer.t State agencies to achieve maximum cost-effec-tiveness in carrying out the overall study of disposal sites which tras recommended by GAO, as well as in implementing the other GAO recommendations.
Sincerely, f/;xa William A. Anders Chairman Enclosure.
NRC Actions on GAO Recommendations on Waste Burial w/ attached Summary of Major
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