ML20012B192
| ML20012B192 | |
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| Site: | 07000925 |
| Issue date: | 03/09/1990 |
| From: | Hurt R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Haughney C NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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MAR 0 91990 Docket No.70-975 i
HEMORANDllM FOR: Charles J. Haughney, Chief Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Division of Industrial and v
v Medical Nuclear Safety FROM:
R. Davis Hurt Advanced Fuel and Special Facilities Section Fuel Cycle Safety Branch 1
Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety
SUBJECT:
ilEETING WITH KERR-tiCGEE ON THE CIMARR0N URANillM PLANT We met with representatives of Kerr-ilcGee Corporation on March 1. 1990, to discur;s the Cimarron liranium Plant in Crescent, Oklahoma. A list of meeting attendees is enclosed.
Kerr-McGee hopes to terminate the Uranium Plant 11 pense as soon as possible, i
They have requested that we authorize onsite disposal of uranium-contaminated soil as part of their program for overall site decommissioning.
The soil disposal would be of the type described as Option Two in the Branch Technical
. Position on Disposal or Onsite Storage of Therium or tiranium Wastes from Past Operations (46 FR 5?061-5?063).
l Kerr-llcGee first made this reauest in October 1987.
Several meetings f.
l and exchanges of correspondence have been necessary since then to clarify important aspects of the reauest.. In response to geological and hydrological questions posed in the correspondence, Kerr-McGee. prepared a document called the Cimarron Site Investigation Report, which was submitted to us in October 4
1989. The purpose of the March 1 meeting was to discuss the NPC staff's comments on this report.
t The topics discussed are listed below, along with the actions agreed to by Kerr-McGee to address the staff's co m nts.
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Joints Kerr-licGee will provide information on the spacing, orientation, and staining (if.any) of,i';nts in the rock in the vicinity of the proposed soil disposal cell.
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. Perched aquifers i
Kerr-McGee will provide information on the location and orientation of mudstone lenses in the vicinity of the proposed soil disposal cell.
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Groundwater flow direction l
Kerr-McGee will determine how much of the groundwater flow in the vicinity of the proposed soil disposal cell ~1s in the direction of the No.-3 Reservoir.
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Groundwater and land use Kerr-McGee will provide information to justify their belief that
. groundwater from the shallow aquifer under the proposed soil disposal cell is not. likely to be used for drinking or irrigation. Data from government. agencies, well-drilling companies,_or local residents are possible sources of such information.
Potential groundwater users north of the Cimarron River need not be considered.
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Erosion Kerr-McGee will estimate tbs rate at which soil will be eroded + rom 1
the cover over the proposed soil disposal cell (assuming thct the cover is cultivated for crops).
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Computer simulations t
Kerr-McGee will send us a floppy disk with the input values used in simulating uranium transport from the proposed-soil disposal cell.-
7-Existing groundwater contamination Kerr-McGee will provide information on the mechanism by which uranium contamination has reached groundwater monitoring wells in the vicinity',
of the Uranium Plant (wells 1322 and 1331).
Kerr-McGee must demonstrate that. conditions that may have caused accelerated migration of uranium into these wells will not recur in the proposed soil disposal cell.
- 8.. Groundwater pathway model tj-Kerr-McGee will provide an overall groundwater pathway model of the area around the proposed soil disposal cell. All potential ground-water' pathways by which uranium could reach members of the public should be included in the model.
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. March 23, 1990. NRC staff members will probably visit the site in early April.
[M R. Davis Hurt-l Advanced Fuel and Special.-
Facilities Section Fuel Cycle Safety Branch.
Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety
Enclosure:
List of meeting attendees i
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i Meeting with Kerr-McGee Corporation on the CIMARRON URAN!UM FACILITY i
March i, 1990 Rockville, Pn Attendees from NRC:
Davis Hurt Cimarron Pro.iect Manager Charlie Haughney Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Jerry Swift Chief, Fuel Cycle Safety Branch IMNS.
Section Leader, Fuel _ Cycle Safety Branch, IMNS Jack Parrott Fred Ross Technical Branch, LLWM John Starmer Technical Branch, LLWM
.lohn Surmeier Section Leader, Technical Branch, l.LWM Chief, Technical Branch, LLWM Attendees-from Kerr-McGee:
Ed Still' John Stauter Vice-President, Environmental and Health Management Scott Munson Director, Nuclear Licensing and Regulation Environmental Specialist Jim Grant James L. Grant & Associates I
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