ML19345C222
| ML19345C222 | |
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| Site: | 07001308 |
| Issue date: | 10/14/1980 |
| From: | Rouse L NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Drey L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8012040166 | |
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s Mrs. Leo A. Drey 515 West Point Avenue University City, Missouri 63130
Dear Mrs. Drey:
Thank you for your letter of September 26, 1980 related to the us'e of
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evaporation or spray ponds.
Your statement that "the Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not approve of the use of evaporation ponds except 'in regions where the evaporation rate is significantly greater than the rainfall' as per Regulatory Guide 3.13" is not entirely accurate.
Regulatory Guides are issued to describe and make available to the public methods acceptable to the Nuclear Regulatory Comission staff of implementing specific parts of the Commission's regulations, to delineate techniques used by the staff in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, or to provide guidanca to applicants.
Regulatory Guides are not substitutes for regulations and compdance with them is not required.
The method for liquid radioactive waste storage described in Regulatory Guide 3.13, while acceptable, may not be the only practice which the staff would accept.
Indeed, a seepage basin, allowing slow permeation into a soil with excellent ion exchange characteristics could be determined to be acceptable under certain circumstances.
On July 2,1980 the NRC staff issued an Environmental Impact Appraisal (EIA) related to the renewal of Materials License SNM-1265 for the Morris Operation, NUREG-0695.
I am enclosing a copy..f this document for your use.
NUREG-0695 should answer all of the questions in your letter insofar as they relate to the Morris Opera. on.
I would like to note that the partially installed spray field irrigation system at the Morris Operation would use only treated water from the sanitary waste system. There are no releases of liquid effluents which contain radioactivity from the process building at the site.
Please do not hesitate to contact me, if you have any further questions.
Sincerely, C.
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Leland C. Rouse, Chief Advanced Fuel and Spent Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety
Enclosure:
NUREG-0695 8012040///6 g