ML19249E076
| ML19249E076 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | San Onofre  |
| Issue date: | 09/10/1979 |
| From: | Engelken R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Arenal A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7909260230 | |
| Download: ML19249E076 (1) | |
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9 WALtJUT CR E E K, CALIF ORNI A 94596 September 10, 1979 Docket tio. 50-206 Southern California Edison Company P. O. Box 800 2244 Walnut Grove Avenue Rosemead, California 91770 Attention:
A. L. Arenal Vice President, Advanced Engineering Gentlemen:
Enclosed is Information tiotice !!o. 79-21, " Transportation and Commercial Burial of Radioactive fiaterial," which provides information on packaging and disposal of radioactive material.
Sincerely, b g$b R. H. Engelken Director E nclosure:
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20555 September 7, 1979 IE Information l'otice No. 79-21 TRANSPORTATICN AND COMMERCIAL BURIAL OF RADI0 ACTIVE MATERIAL On July 10, 1979, the Governors of the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington notified fiRC Chaiman Hendrie of the serious and repeated disregard for the rules governing the shipments of low-level radioactive wastes to their burial facilities.
The problems causing the Governors' concern may be summarized as contaminated packages; improper loading of packages which results in unneces-sary radiation exposure; packages containing liquids when liquids or free-standing water are not authorized to be burird; leaking packages; inproper labeling of packages; and improper papenvork for shipments.
Recently, you should have received either IE Bulletin t c. 79-19 or 79-20 on this subject. The enclosures to this flotice provide information regarding the reg-ulatory requirements for the packaging, transportation and disposal of radioactive material.
The requirements for packaging and transnort referenced herein are applicable to shiprents of all radioactive material.
The enclosed summary of radioactive waste burial criteria defines the current burial-site license and State requirements on waste forn and packaging. A summary of the requirements for transportation is in the enclosed DOT publication, "A Review of the DOT Regulations for Transportation of Radioactive Materials."
The enclosures are intended only as a convenient reference; they are neither a substitute for the actual regulations nor a cony of the burial site license or other_ buriB site documents. The DUT regulatory requirenents can be found in 49 CFR Parts 170-179 (Oct. 1, 1977). The flRC requirements are in 10 CFR Part 71.
To conduct your waste disposal operations properly you must comply with NRC and DOT requirements for packaging and transportation, and the waste packaged for eventual disposal at any of the three operating waste-burial sites must be in a form authorized in the particular burial-site license and State requirements.
To assure that the latter requirements are met, you should coordinate your waste disposal activities with the waste collection companies and/or the waste burial site operators. The sites receiving wastes for burial are operated either by the Nuclear Engineering Co., Inc. (502-426-7160), or Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc.
(205-827-0711).
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