ML19325C677

Forwards List of Action Items Resulting from Recent Synar Hearing.Commitments Requested to Be Factored Into NRC Response to Gao Rept RCED-89-119, Nuclear Regulation:Nrc Decommissioning Procedures & Criteria Need to Be..

ML19325C677
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Issue date:	08/14/1989
From:	Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
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ML19325C181	List: ML19325C180 ML19325C677 ML20248F269
References
FRN-61FR26582, FRN-61FR26852 AC57-1-049, AC57-1-48, AC57-1-49, NUDOCS 8910170169
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MEMORANDUM FOR: James M. Taylor i

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Kenneth M. Carr

SUBJECT:

ACTION ITEMS RESULTING FROM THE SYNAR HEARING ON DECOMMIS$10NING.

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Attached is a list of staff action items resulting from the recent Synar i

hearing. About one-third of these consnitments were included in our testimony, and the rest were discussed at the hearing or during ny meetings with the staff.

I Please ensure that these consnitments are factored into our response to the GA0 report RCED-89-119. " Nuclear Regulation: NRC's Deconsnissioning Procedures and Criteria Need to be Strengthened".

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ACTION ITEMS FRON SYNAR HEARING ON DECOMMIS$10NING f

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Develop Connission policy on BRC by December 1989 (Preparation and Hearing: COM and RES).

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Interim guidance on residual radioactivity standards for deconsnissioning actions by December 1989 (Testimony:

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i eevelop final standards within 2 - 26 years (Preparation: RES).

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Require licensees to list in one document all land, buildings, and

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equipment involved in licensed operations (Testimony: NMSSandNRR).

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Revise existing guidance to clarify the scopa and rigor of

-l Verification surveys conducted to ensure that licensees decontaminate facilities in accordance with NRC's guidelines (Testimony: NMS$ and 1

RES).

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Reconsider Health Physics Society's standards for residual radioactivity if revised to respond to NRC's concerns (Testimony:

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RES).-

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Require licensee monitoring of buried waste sites, as appropriate, and i

determine what remedial measures, including removal of such waste i

offsite, are appropriate at time of license termination (Testimony:

NMSS).

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Submit program to Commission for deconnissioning records retention f

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NMSS and ARM).

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Ensure that sites are decontaminated in accordance with NRC's guidance prior to terminating the license and releasing all or part of a site (Testimony:

NMSS and NRR).

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Review sites terminated since 1965, including review of NRC records to identify sites, contacting licensees to supplement inadequate NRC i

records, and visiting sites to build a record when the existing record is inadequate (Testimony: HMSS).

10. Review and comment on GAO's report and provide responses to GA0 and theSubcommittee(Testimony:

NMSS),

11. Complete review of renewal application and preparation of environmental assassment for B&W Apollo by September 1989 (Preparation:

NMSS).

Complete review of renewal app &W Parks Township in early 1990 lication and preparation of 12.

environmental assessment for B 1

(Preparation: NMSS).

Require groundwater monitoring)at B&W Apollo and Parks Township 13.

facilities (Preparation: HMSS.

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14. Look into requiring licensees to inform NRC of follow-up surveys and cecommissioning after license termination (Hearing: NMSS).

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15. Know extent of groundwater contamination at Kerr-McGee Cimmaron before i

terminatinglicenseandreleasingthesite(Hearing: NMSS).

16. Consider requiring licensees to meet more stringent standards developed by EPA after a license has been terminated based upon NRC's interim standard (Hearing: NMS$andOGC).

17. Provide number of onsite burials since 1981 to the Subcommittee (Hearing:

NMSS and NRR).

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18. Conduct contractor surveys at GUNC, Pawling, New York and Kerr-McGee, i

Cushing. Oklahoma to determine extent and significance of l

contamination (Hearing: NMSS).

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let$$ and 0GC)p action at West Lake Landfill (Hearing and Preparation:

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20. Consider adding a " reopener" clause to license termination decisions-to require additional decontamination if subsequent informationindicatesadditionalcontamination(Hearing: NMSS and OGC).

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21. Explain why 3 out of the lg facilities reviewed by GA0 did not need L

to submit decomissioning plans (Preparation: NMSS).

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22. Find out whether NRC sponsored the ORNL study cited on Page 15 of the GA0 report (Preparation: NMSS).

i Commitments made in preparation for and during the Synar hearing on August 3,1989, as well as in NRC's testimony submitted for the record.

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