ML19281C399

Affidavit Re Util Actions in 1973 Conditioning Sante Cooper Participation Upon Enactment of Territorial Allocation Law

ML19281C399
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Site:	Summer
Issue date:	03/14/1979
From:	Smith K SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, INC.
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Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your URC license.

Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.

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Enclosures:

1. IE Bulletin No. 79-19 .

2. List of Bulletins Issued in Last Six Months 1

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• i UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 Date: August 10, 1979

Page 1 of 3 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL Description of Circumstances:

Low-level radioactive waste is that waste which can be transferred and shipped to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in and licensed by the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington. On July 10, 1979, the Governors of the three states notified NRC Chairman Hendrie af the serious and repeated disregard for rules governing the shipments of low-level radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.

Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules follow:

Improperly packaged uranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintillation vials in combustible waste is believed to ' .ie caused a fire and destruction of a truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial .acility on May 14, 1979.

On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatty burial facility were found to be leaking radioactive material. The material was described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporator concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from a reactor facility. The Governor of the State of Nevada ordered the drums to be shipped out of the state and the burial facility was temporarily closed.

On July 30, the first shipment into the reopened Beatty facility contained free liquid in " solid" .aaterial. The radioactive contents weit: sand filters used at an insitu leaching process at a uraniun mill.

Forty-three shipments with sixty-three deficiencies were observed during the package inspection program between April 10 and July 5, 1979, by the Agreement State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, South Carolina burial facility. The shipments were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.

On June 28, 1979, the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violat-ion to a reactor facility proposing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-tion resulting from improper closures on 55 gallon drums of LSA material and for improper loading of the drums on the vehicle. _- __

These are a few examples of shipments of

• DUPLICATE DOCUMENT facilities which did not fully meet NRC, which were developed to protect the healt Entire document previously Governors of the three States with licens entered into system under:

that if the situation is not rectified, t would deny use of the three burial sites

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