ML20059A219
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| Issue date: | 12/21/1993 |
| From: | Mccann G, Wiedeman D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III Report No. 999-90003/93029(DRSS)
Docket No. NONE License No. 24-01882-01 and 24-01882-02 (terminated)'
- Facility: Universal Match Corporation Armament Division Biological Laboratories 472 Paul Avenue Ferguson, Missouri Inspection At: Crane Ferguson (a former Universal Match Corporation facility) 325 & 472 Paul Avenue Ferguson, Missouri Inspection Conducted: September 15, -1993 Inspector:
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Fuel Facilities and Decommissioning Section Inspection Summary j
Insoection on September 15. 1993 (Report No. 999-90003/93029(DRSS))
Areas Insoected: This was a special inspection to review the former l
licensee's-activities and to determine if the facilities were adequately-decontaminated prior to terminating the license. The inspector conducted independent radiation surveys in the former' licensee's manufacturing,
'l processing and animal research\\ development areas. This inspection was part of j
an NRC project which evaluated approximately.17,000 retired licenses. An NRC i
contractor, Oak Ridge National Laboratories (0RNL) performed the evaluation.
On the basis of the information in the retired license file, that is lack of decontamination documentation, ORNL_ concluded that these facilities have a potential for residual radioactive contamination. The contractor also i
concluded that outside contamination may exist due to burials of radioactive _-
material s.
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Results: The NRC inspector did not identify any radiation levels above natural background in or around Buildings 23, 24, 28 and the former animal research building-located at 325 Paul Avenue, Ferguson, Missouri.
Based upon the inspection findings, it was concluded that the buildings meet the current NRC release criteria for release of facility for unrestricted use.
- However, the inspector was not able to determine the exact location of the former burial site and no records of former burials were available.
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Persons Contacted
- D. R. King, President, Crane Ferguson, (current owner of Buildings 23, 24 & 28)
- Dale Griffith, Property Caretaker, and former Universal Match Corporation employee
- Gary McNutt, Radiological Health Analyst, Missouri State Department i
of Health
- Charles Arnold, Environmental Specialist, Missouri State Department of Health
- Darrell Hanneman, Owner, Designer Marble Co. occupant at 325 Paul Ave.
@Ed Gerhart, Crane Defence Systems
- Attended the exit meeting conducted on September 15, 1993.
@ Telephone discussion on November 5,1993 and December 2,1993, to
'l request a search of company records and/or additional information regarding the burial site.
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Backaround AEC License No. 24-1882-01 was issued to Universal Match Corporation on
'I January 23, 1957, for possession and use of millicurie quantities of l
iodine-131, phosphorous-32, cobalt-60, sulfur-35 and carbon-14 for i
l chemical and biological studies in lower animals.
License No. 24-01882-01 was superseded by license No. 24-01882-02 on May 20, 1957. This license authorized 100 millicuries {3,700 MBq) of each l
byproduct material with the atomic numbers between I to 83 in any form, with a total possession limit of I curie {37,000 MBq}. The authorized activities included reliability testing, measurement of electrical / mechanical characteristics, detonation of gas generators, and chemical / biological studies of lower animals (Attachment A). This license was terminated in 1963 when the former licensee notified the Commission that all use of radioactive material ceased and they were i
moving their operations to Phoenix, Arizona.
3.
Facility Status Crane Ferguson purchased Unidynamics and it's Universal Match l
Corporation Division during 1984 which included all of the buildings l
located at the Ferguson, Missouri site. The main buildings located at 472 Paul Avenue have been vacant for the last four years. _(See l
Attachment D for photograph of the entrance to the site.) The former d
l animal research area located at 325 Paul Avenue is now occupied by I
Designer Marble Company. This company has rented space in this building l
since 1989. The current owner of the building is. Commerce Park of Ferguson. According to Mr. Dale Griffith, a former UMC employee, the i
facilities located at 355 and 400 Ferguson Avenue (former machine shop l
I and business office) are now occupied by Apex Co. and the Memorial I
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Tabernacle Church, respectively. - According to Mr. Griffith these later two facilities were never used for licensed activities.
The surrounding neighborhood is a mixture of commercial and manufacturing facilities and single family residences.
4.
Indeoendent Measurements Background radiation measurements taken in the St. Louis area with the i
Victoreen, Model 190 showed 40-50 cpm and the Ludlum Model 19 microR meter indicated 7-15 microroentgen/ hour (gR/h) gamma, {1.5-3.7 nC/kg/h).
The inspector conducted radiologic surveys in and around the former manufacturing areas in Building 23, 24, 28 and former animal research laboratories at 325 Paul Avenue. The areas surveyed included restrooms, hallways, research laboratories, offices, former manufacturing areas, basement areas, parking lot, building down spouts and loading docks.
The NRC inspector's surveys of the above referenced buildings, parking lots and adjacent property did not identify any radiation levels above natural background.
Radiation surveys were performed with a Victoreen, Model 190 portable survey instrument with a Model RP-1 pancake probe, NRC Tag No. 042444, calibrated January 22, 1993, and an Ludlum Model 19 microR meter, NRC-Tag No. 11021, calibrated May 8, 1993.
Prior to the inspection both instruments were checked for constancy and response with known sources of thorium-230, thorium-232, cesium-137 and carbon-14.
Both instruments responded as expected.
Attachment B shows measurement locations and results.
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Former Buriai Site In the licensee's application for renewal dated April 1,19E3, the licensee stated:
" Waste materials are burned in a well marked enclosed
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area at a minimum depth of four (4) feet and successive burials are separated by a distance of at least six (6) feet. A total of three (3) burials were made in the past twelve (12) months. Carbon" at an i
estimated amount of two (2) millicuries per burial was the only radioactive waste material disposed of in the past twelve-month period."
(Attachment E.)
In letter dated June 25, 1963, the licensee requested termination of their Ferguson, Missouri license and stated that-the burial ground currently used for deposition of radioactive waste would be retained by Unidynamics, and would not be leased or sold to the general public or private individuals (Attachment F). Mr. Griffith was asked about the former burial site and indicated that he was not aware of the site.
l Mr. King, President, Crane-Ferguson, was able to locate a report j
regarding a former burial site; however, the report was inconclusive that the area surveyed was actually the former waste burial site.
This report is dated January 1984 and indicates that during demolition of j
some of the buildings in 1984, a concrete vault was found between i
Buildings-12 and 23. The vault was checked for residual radiation by St. Louis Testing Laboratories, Inc. on January 11, 1984.
This report i
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indicates that no radiation above natural background was detected (Attachment C). The NRC inspector surveyed the general area where the vault was believed to be buried and found no radiation levels above natural background. At the time of this inspection no other records were available regarding the location or condition of the former burial site.
6.
Exit Meetina The NRC inspector met with the individuals identified in Section 1 of this report and summarized the findings of the inspection. The inspector informed the current property owner representatives that the-survey results indicated that their buildings meet the current NRC release criteria for release of facilities for unrestricted use. The inspector informed the current property owners that because the inspector was not able to identify the exact location of the former burial site useu for disposal of radioactive materials, this issue would be discussed with NRC management to determine future actions to resolve this issue. During the exit meetings with the current property owners, none of the participants indicated to the inspector that any of the inspection findings or documents provided to the inspector were considered proprietary.
Attachments:
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AEC license dated 12-28-61 and 2-18-63 B.
Locations surveyed and results C.
Report dated 1-16-84 on burial site D.
Photograph of entrance to site E.
License application dated 4-1-59 F.
Letter dated 6-25-63 I
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$ 24-1882-2 AMENDMENT NO, 6 (E64)
Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and Title 10, Code of Federal llegulations, Chapter 1, Part 30, Licensing of Byproduct Material, and in reliance on statements and representations heretofore nmde by the licensee, a license is hereby issued authorizing the licensee to receive, acquire, own, possess, transfer and irn.
port byproduct material listed below; and to use such byproduct material for the purpose (s) and at the place (s) designated below. This license shall be deemed to contain the conditions specified in Section 183 of the Atomic t
Energy Act of 19M, and is subject to all applicable ruks, regulations, and orders of the Atomic Energy Com-mission now or hereafter in effect and to any conditions specified below.
Licensee In accordance with letters from Hal P,.
Spragg dated October 23 and December 18,1961,I 1.Name Universal Match Corporation
- 3. License number 24-1882-2 is amended in Amamnt Division
_ita._ entirety to read as follows:
- 2. Address Biological Laboratories
- 4. Expiration date Ferguson 21, Missouri g,y 3g,19g
- 5. Reference No.
- 6. Byproduct material
- 7. Chemical and/or physical form
- 8. Maximum amount of radioactivity (element and mass number) which licensee may possess at any
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A. Any byproduct material A.
Any A.100 millicuries of any having Atomic Nos.
j byproductcaterialhaving83, between 1 and 83, inclusive i
Atomic Nos. between 1 an f etusive. Total,l_Curje.
- 9. Authorized use A.
Chemical and biological laboratory studies in lower animals.
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- 10. Unless otherwise specified, the authorized place of use is the licensee's address stated in Item 2 above.
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The licensee shall comply with the provisions of Title 10 Fart 20, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 1, " Standards for Protection Against Radiai: ion".
12.
Byproduct caterial shall be used by, or under the supervision of. Hal R. Spragg, Larry V. Gibbone or Richard L. Curtin.
13.
Byproduct material shall not be used in or on human beings, in products distributed to the public nor in field applications where such activity is released.
14.
Except as provided otherwise by this license, the licensee shall possess and use byproduct material described in Items 6, 7 and 8 of this license in accordance with staternents, representations, and procedures contained in his application received April 1, 1959 and letters from Hal R. Spragg dated October 23 and December 18, 1961.
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Amendment No.
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/,tru: ment Division Biological Laboratories Ferguson 21, Missouri Attention: llal R. Spragg Larry V. Gibbons Richard L. Curtin i
In accordance with letter dated January 31, 1903, and signed by Hal n. Spragg, License No.
24-1882-2 is amended as follows:
To Add:
- 6. Byproduct material
- 7. Chemical and/or phrsical form
- 8. Maximum amount of redioactivity which (element and mass number) licenseo may possess at any one time 15. 1.ny byproduct material B. Activated gas generators D. Total not to exceed 50 (explosive actuatod) millicurica.
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Reliability testing, including measurement of electrical and mechanical characteristics and detonation.
j Condition 15 is added as follows:
- 15. The testing and detonation authorized by item 9.B. above shall be performed only at facilities of the licensee at Marion, Illinois, and in accordance with procedures described in letter dated January 31, 1963, and signed by llal R. Spragg.
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Apritutturel Testing and Analyses investigations. Research end Development. Inspection, field Services January 16, 1984 Report No. 84-0207 Lab No. 84N80 UNIDYNAMICS 472 Paul Street St. Louis, MO 63135 4 '/js Attention:
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Radiation Monitorine IDENTIFICATION:
Unidynamics,472 Paul Street, Ferguson, MO Tract of land at the north border between i
buildines 12 and 23 bordered by the main entrance and railroad track l
EQUIPMENT:
Eberline Radiation Monitor RM3A S/N 450 j
Hand probe, Model HP-230A thin window Alpha, beta, camma detector i
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January 11, 1984 i
PURPOSE OF INSPECTION:
To determine if hazardous radioactive materials were Dresent at the site RESULTS OF INSPECTION:
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Using the end window detector described, positioned about 4" above ground level, the entire surface area of the site was j
carefully monitored.
Complete coverage of the site was assured by indexing the detector at approximate 6" increments across the entire site.
No evidence of radiation levels above normal back levels was detected.
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RECORD OF TELECON DATE
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SUBJECT:
I called Claes Wennerth at Universal Match to advise him of the following:
Dbeing the demolition of two of the buildings that we acquired from Universal Match last year and the clearing of adjacent ground, we uncovered what appears to be a buried concrete vault.
In check-ing around there have been several comments that this vault contains radioactive wasta or at one time was used to store radioactive waste.
I advised Claes that we hired an outside lab to scan the area for any trace of radioactivity and found no indication of any.
I asked him to check with his people to see if anyone knew anything about this vault and to call me back.
7 told him that I would not open the vault until I heard from him.
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Dear Mel:
This letter will serve to confirm our telephone conversation relative to the concrete vault which you recently uncovered during your demoli-tion work adjacent to the buildings recently torn down.
I, of course, have no knowledge of what possibly could have been buried in that vault, so I did some investigative work, and I discussed the subject with several people who I felt might be able to shed some light on the matter.
I was able to determine that the only nuclear activity that UMC Industries had been involved in in the Ferguson area, at least. Was the research done with the monkeys many years ago.
This work was classified and therefore most of our people don't have any inside information.
Harold Baum, who headed up the project, is deceased and Hal Sprague, his assistant, I be-lieve was transferred to Unidynamics, Phoenix.
Recently, about a year ago, a representative of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency visited our plant and informed us that the Nuclear Regulatory Agency was cleaning up some old files which they were closing, and he needed to test the engineering building where the monkey project was con-ducted.
He scanned the entire area with a geiger counter and found nothing, and informed Roy Long at that time that the file would be closed and the building was given a clean bill of health.
I remembered that Isadore Kowarski had been a supervisor in the Armament Division during the second war and the Korean conflict, and I thought he perhaps could shed some light on what might be in the concrete container.
Isadore informed me that it was his recollection, and he felt 99% sure this was the case, that an accident occurred with some red phosphorus in the composition mixing area, and the phosphorus continued to burn and could not be extinguished.
As you know, amorphorus phosphorus, when it
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It was Isadore's' recollection that this material had-been submerged into water and then encased in concrete ter permanently-defuse its potential for re-igniting.
I have attempted'to find out what would occur if this concrete vault were' opened, and I have several opinions.
One opinion is that if the material has been mixed with earth and it is allowed to oxidize, in all probability, it has been converted to fertilizer over these past years. However,'some experts are of the opinion that if the material was sealed in an airtight container and was not allowed to oxidize, that it would be dangerous to re-open the container, Mel, I can't be sure that this is what is in this' container; it is only the consensus of the people ~that I've talked to.that this is what is probably there.
Isadore mentioned that Dr. Herbert Ellern might be able to shed some light on the subject.
I hope this letter is in some way helpful in your establishing your modus operandi in dealing with this container..
Best personal
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' y 3riSQ INSTRUCTIONS.-Complete items 1 through 16 if this is on initial application. If application is for plete only items 1 through 7 and indicate new information or changes in the program os requ4ste?gesegl M a license, c om-Elleep,s B through 15. Use sup;,lemental sheets where necessary. item 16 must be completed on cll applications. Mail three cdpida ods E S. Atomic Energy Commi s sion, Washington 25, D. C. Attention: Isotopes Branch, Division of Licensing and RegulationAlpon opproval of this application, the applicant will receive on AEC Byproduct Material License. An AEC Byproduct Material License is issued in occordance with the genero! requirements contained in Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 30 and the Licensee is sub-iect to Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 20.
- 1. (c) NAME AND STREET ADDRESS OF APPLICANT. (Jashfutson, ferm, hospetof, (b) STREET ADDRES5(ES) AT WHICH SYPRODUCT MATERIAL WILL BE USED. (if person % est) shRerent hem 1 (a))
Universal Match Corporation Universal Match Corporation Armament Division Armament Division Biological Laboratories Biological Laboratories P. O. Box 5841 Pe Oe Box 5841 g
Ferguson 21, Missouri
- 2. DEPART' MENT TO USE OPRODUCT MATERIAL
- 3. PkfVIOUS LICENSE NUMBER (5). '(af shis is em gp '
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Biological Laboratories Application for renewal of License f2b1882-2 and Amendments f1 and f 2
- 4. NDIYlDUAL USER (5). (Nome end hele of endi.iduel s) who will use er directly
- 5. RADIAT80td PROTECDON OFFICER (Nome of p-son designa8ed as rodeafion pro-t e,pe, vise e or Srp,. duce m enar. c
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- 7. D15CRISE PURPOLE FOR WHICH RYPRODUCT MATERIAL WILL BE USED. (if byproduce monsriot is fw " human ese," supplement A (Form AfC-3 3 3e) must be com-pleend an leu of skis esenis.
Il byproduct manereal is in the farm of a sealed sourse, include the make an.k model number of the seurage container and/or device in whrh she soune e,11 be stored and/w ened4 Naterials will be used as tracers in chemical reactions s.nd laboratory animal investigations. Lower animals will be used in the latter project.
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WASTE DISPOSAI, The waste licensed material is disposed of by buriel in the soil in accordance with the regulations specified in the Federal Register, Title 10 3
Waste materials are burned in a well marked enclosed area at a minimum depth of four (4) feet and successive burials are separated by a distames of at least six (6) feet.
A total of three (3) burials were made in the past twelve (12) 14 months.
Carbon at an estimated amount of two (2) mil 11 curies per burial was the only radioactive waste material disposed of in the past twelve-conth period.
Present estimates do not indicate any great increase in the amount of accumulated waste materiale during the next twelve (12) months.
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Dear Mr. Buchenan:
i In reference to our recent phone conversation regarding tbs pending transfer of the Bio-Sciences laboratories, licensee of ABC License No. 2k-1882-2 and AEC License No. 24-1882-k, from the current facilities located at the Unidynssaics Division of Universal Match Corporation, 472 Peul Avenue, Ferguson 35, Missouri, to the newly constructed Iboenix Operations of Unidynmat es,1000 North Litohtield Road, Goodyear, Arizona, this letter is submitted in request of a bypaduct material license for use of byproduct material at the cited location in Goodyear, Arizona.
Enclosed with this letter you will find the required forms for license application which differ frun those previously submitted only in i
address of licensee. It is important to inform you that no trenster of rsdio-setive awterial, other than the encapsulated cobalt-60 source which is de-i scribed in detail in a later section, vill occur duttn6 operational trcusferral.
All operations involving the use of bypruiuct meterial have ceased and radis-tion surveys and wipe tests are presently bein6 conducted to determine the annount of residual radiation in the laboratory area..:hould any bench or eres i
be found contaminated, sdequate end proper decontamination procedures vill be followed and surveys repe6ted. h e ebenAnned facility vill be retained by J
thidynamics, a Itivision of Universal Natch Corporation, as ' office space, and vill not be leemed or sold to the Generel public or privete individuhla.
Similarly, the burial ground, currently used for dep:>sition of radioactive j
waste, vill be maintained by U.M.C. in its current status. Similar provisions i
for handling of radioactive vaste have been provided at the Goodyear facility and all AEC rules e,nd regulations vill be followed in storing the vaste materiels
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ct the newly constructed leocratory, he following description of facilities and transfer of the cobalt-6C encapsulated source hns been delinetted into two sections for the purpose of clarity and to best fulfill those requirmnents for license application.
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j Page Four proper radiation insignies und warning signe vill be prcainently displayed in conformance to those rules set forth in Part 20, Title 10 of the Federal Register.
Therefore, enclooed you will find the fonnal applications for licenses to employ (1) byproduct material from Atcnaic Bos.1 to 83, and (2) ocbalt-60, encapsulated, sealed source sttunitted by the Bio-Scianoes I
Imboratories, thidynamics, a Division of thiversal htch Corporation, 1000 Borth Litattfield Boed, Goodyear, Arizona. Terms, licensee and designated users roamin unchanged from those found on License No. 2k-1882-2(364) and 24-1882-4(066) dated December 28, 1961 and E r* 29, 1961, mopectively. All credentials of the licensed users are in effect and no change in terms of h M14ng, use, possession or transport have been made.
Enclosed you vill also find an organisetional chart describing the v
line position of licensed users and blueprints of the newly constructed facility et Goodyeer, Arizona.
If any further infonnation is needed prior to licensing, please call I
me at your convenience end we vill submit this additional information with the greatest possible expediency.
Sincerely, Hal R. Spregg, k nager Bio-Sciences Imboratories HRS mah Enclosures 3copiesFormAEC-313(24-1882-2) 3 copies Fom AEC-313 (24-1882-4J I copy of Blueprint, Phoenix 1 copy Drawing M 1041k1 1 Copy thipping order 1 Copy Organization Chart l
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