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Submits Input in Response to Re 1980 Annual Status Rept to Congress on 800101-0930 U Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program
ML19338F698
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Issue date: 09/17/1980
From: Scarano R
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To: Campbell R
ENERGY, DEPT. OF
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WMUR:JER WM-39 Mr. Richard H. Campbell, Project Manager Uranium Mill Tailings Project Officer Department of Energy Albuquerque Operations Office P. O. Box 5400 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87115

Dear Mr. Campbell:

The following is submitted in response to your letter of August 21, 1980 requesting ir.put to be incorporated in the 1980 Annual Status Report to the Congress on the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program covering N period January 1,1980 through September 30, 1980:

- The Comission met with the Department of Energy and agreed on detailed plans and procedures to be followed in implementing the NRC review and concurrence functions specified in Title I of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) of 1978.

It was also agreed that the DOE as the lead agency would formally request NRC participation as a cooperating agency in the NEPA/EIS process.

In this manner NRC will be involved in reviewing the development of remedial action programs from the beginning.

- The NRC coordinated with the Department of Energy in the identification and initiation of research programs to be conducted in providing the technical bases for the remedial action program.

- In compliance with Section 103 of UMTRCA, the Comission reviewed and concurred in Cooperative Agreements with the Comonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of Utah regarding remedial actions at the designated processing sites in Canonsburg and Salt Lake City.

- The Comission cooperated with EPA in reviewing and providing coments on the Interim Cleanu; Standards for Inactive Uranium Processing Sites which were promulgated and become effective on April 22,1980.

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If you have any questions on this matter, please call me or Mr. J. E.

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