ML19291A494
| ML19291A494 | |
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| Issue date: | 10/19/1977 |
| From: | Meyers S NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Kennedy R NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| FOIA-79-109 NUDOCS 7905160324 | |
| Download: ML19291A494 (4) | |
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SUBJECT:
ACCEPTABLE RISK CRITERIA t a L'.
T:iis acmrandu:n is in response to your request for iaformation concerning
....C stusies on acceptable risk (see enclosure 1).
L Tn Office of :uclcar,43terial Safety and Safeguards has contracted 4 f uith Lw.trcnce Livercare Laboratory (LLL) to select a mechanism for detencining what constitutes an acceptacle risk from waste canagement and to provide a set of acceptable risk guidelines for establishing waste canagement standards and evaluating waste nanagsent licensing actions.
pp T::a specific objcctives of the LLL contract are to:
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Develop a basis for deter,:ination of acceptable risk criteria for waste canagement.
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Evaluate altcrnative methods for development of acceptable
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risk criteria considering various levels and types of rish.
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Provide a technical Insis for the findings.
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Coordinate activitics with the riational Council on Radiation
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Protection and !!casurements (::CRP).
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-j MJ The LLL study is a two r, art study with LLL conducting some work in f". i house and subcontracting other work. The level of effort for tiRC's y.i -
. contract with LLL ms $260,000 for FY 77; $135,000 has been spent g,i ';{
on LLL's in house effort, and $125,000 has been subcontracted.
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LLL l.as subcontracted pirts of the overall study to Systens control, t
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cn Radiation Protection and :Teasurements (UCRP). The purpose of the i
SCI subcontract was to:
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Revicu existing approaches to acceptable risk criteria i
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Ident1Ty factors to be considered in acceptable risk criteria developnent.
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Identify alternative approaches.
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Assess apuroaches and s Jggest a preferred inathodology for I
acceptable risk criteria.
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The SCI verk has been ccmpleted and a report has been submitted to LLL i
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r.'s LLL has a subcontract with DOI to determine an optipal methodology for acceptable risk criteria development. This work has been completed e
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and has been subnitted to LLL for their review.
Tae ob.iectives of the UCRP contract are to:
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Study inechanisms to determine what constitutes acceptable risk
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to the public from various radioactive wastes, c.-?
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P.econnend a cechanisia appropriate for acceptable risk from
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reactor and fuel cyclo waste,s.
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Provide acceptable risk guidelines for I'RC to consider as a basis for rulemaking and regulation of vaste management operations.
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A status report of this work will bo included in the LLL report due 4.M in lata november 1977. A final report from aCRP will be published as p;,~-
an GCRP document and will be incorporated in MRC's data base for developnent of acceptab'le risk criteria,
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f LLL's principal in house t:sk is to coordinate the work of their necontractors and to :ugment the subcontractor's. ark witcre accessary witn technical data.
I A report of work on acccutable This report will cover the progress to date of both I
..urk as weil as the work of their subcontractors.
since tha develo;:nent of acceptable risk criteria involves both end product will be a procedura rather than a qua pian to develop acceptable risk criteria for liaste :
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regulations and of risk assessm/or policy stats.ents.
W.11e there are a number nt studies helng funded by the Of fice of Nuclear
.tegulatory Research (RES), there are no current studies directly
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siued at determining an acccptable risk.
[n 1977, tha Co.;aission suggested that the Probabilistic Analysis Mcwever, about June I
Cranch (PAS) of RES prepare a plan for developing an agency wid program to quantify acceptable risk.
Branch Program Plan. has allocated PAB in accordance with its 350,000 in FY 78 to initiate this study.
A cetailed statement of work has not been developed.
p The Uasta ihnage:"ent Program and PAB are in the process of their studies on acceptable risk to ensure that their a ng studies are not redundant yet consistent, respective r :.
Several program activities in the Office of Standards covel will provide information useful to developing acceptable risk op::ent criteria. These include a $2 nillion contractual effort by Pacific
.0 Northwest Laboratories to ovaluato the decoraissioning and d R
of generic fuel cycle facilities, a $200,000 i
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level discussions with EPA's Division of Critoria contractual effort L
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r ng on the development of practical criteria for cleanup of restoratio S'
ards type situations.
T-The Offica of Standards Developnent also has Q.'
proposed studies to support the detcrmination o gs criteria.
for risk reduction and a study on the role of risk per RP~,
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Informal meetings between NRC staff and EPA staff to coordinate their respective programs in waste canagement, including acceptable risk guidelines, have been taking place at approximately two week intervals.
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