ML20044A052
| ML20044A052 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 07000925 |
| Issue date: | 06/25/1990 |
| From: | Hurt R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Haughney C NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9006270350 | |
| Download: ML20044A052 (2) | |
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Docket No.70-925 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Charles J. Haughney, Chie
_ Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety FROM:
R. Davis Hurt Advanced Fuel'and Special Facilities Section Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Division of Industrial and-Medical Nuclear Safety
SUBJECT:
TRIP TO THE CIMARR0N URANIUM PLANT On ' June:6,1990, I visited the Cimarron Uranium Plant with John Starmer and Jack Parrott of the Division of Low-level Waste Management and Decommissioning.
The' purpose of the trip.was for Messrs. Starmer and Parrott to see the site, and for all.of us to discuss the terms of Kerr-McGee Corporation's request for
authorization to dispose of uranium-contaminated soil.
The Kerr-McGee representatives were Ed Still, John Stauter, Scott Munson, Roy Smith, and Wayne'Norwood. Jim Grant, Kerr-McGee's consultant, was also present.
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-We found the situation at the site to be approximately as we expected.
Kerr-McGee is in the middle of decontaminating the Uranium Plant.
The old burial trenches have.been excavated and decontaminated, and Kerr-McGee would like authorization to fill them in with clean soil' I will-pass this information F
on to Region III. The new, large trench in which Kerr-McGee would dispose of uranium-contaminated soil.is partly ' dug, and they are awaiting issuance of a
- license amendment to begin moving soil-into it.
We informed Kerr-McGee that with their latest submittal (May.15, 1990) we have i
the information we need to' proceed with the Environmental Assessment (EA) we are writing-to support a license amendment. We had a-useful discussion-about
'the scope,of the EA and the exact action that will be' evaluated.
We agreed.
that'the only soil disposal the EA will consider will be in the newly dug disposal-trench'.. We are aware that there is-uranium-contaminated soil on the site other than the estimated 400 000 cubic feet already surveyed and described to us in L the submittal of February 1,1990. We are also aware that Kerr-McGee may propose leaving some of-the other contaminated soil, such as recently found under the Uranium Plant, in place instead of moving it into the disposal trench.
D If Kerr-McGee chooses to make such a proposal in the future, we would consider it on-its own merits; but it will not be evaluated in the EA on the disposal 25 kb R ~
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e trench. We agreed that we will make an effort to authorize the disposal in the trench of:somewhat more than 400,000 cubic feet so that Kerr-McGee will have
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should-such a course of action be deemed appropriate..
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