ML20126C765
| ML20126C765 | |
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| Issue date: | 12/07/1992 |
| From: | Bahadur S, Liza Cunningham NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS), Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Cline W, Joyner J, Pederson C NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I), NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II), NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| REF-WM-3 NUDOCS 9212230206 | |
| Download: ML20126C765 (5) | |
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( ..... ,/ DEC-7 g MEMORANDUM FOR: Those on Attached List FROM: She- B=h dur, Acting Chief low-Levc' Waste Management Branch Division of i.w-level Waste Management and Decommiss m 9ng Of fice of Nuclear Ma? rial Safety and Safeguards LeMoine J. Cunningham, Chief Radiation Protection Branch Division of Radiation Protection and Emergency .
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
SUBJECT:
WASTE VOLUME REPORTING REQdIREMENTS OF RG 1.21 AND THE NEED FOR WASTE CLASSIFICATION DOCUMENTATION The minutes of the April 1992 Reactor Health Physics Counterpart meeting identified two items (K-5 and K-6) requiring resolution. The first involved a question regarding the volumes and activity of luw-level waste, sent offsite for processing, which should be reported per RG 1.21 in the reactor licensees' semiannual (now annual) effluent release reports (i.e., per 50.36a). -This question came up again recently in a telephone conversation with a contractor; involved in decommissioning activities at the Shoreham plant. The-second item -
j involved the need for a licensee to provide waste classification-documentation l_ for radioactive material shipped to a processor for segregation prior to subsequent offsite disposal.
The solid waste information reported in the annual report should-be the volume and activity of the low-level waste leaving the reactor _ site which the licensee believes will be sent directly, or via a processor or. collector, to a licensed disposal site. Consistent with this response, and Regulatory Guide 1.21, Table 3, the report should identify the type of waste, the number of shipments, mode of transportation,-and destination of the waste shipments leaving the licensee's facility. If it is known by-the licensee that waste L shipped to a processor is to be received back following processing, the volume and activity of the processed waste would' not be' included in the annual reports until the waste again_ leaves the site for disposal.
-With _ respect to the second item, current regulations [20.311(d)] require the.
- preparation ~ of a manifest for transfers of radioactive waste.to a land t
disposal facility, a' licensed waste collector, or a licensed waste processor. '
The term,'" radioactive waste," as 'used'above a> plies to the transfer of any
, radioactive material for which no further use )y the license is: foreseer.
(e.g., material sent for compaction prior to disposal is waste; contaminated
- tools transferred for decontamination prior to_ intended reuse is not waste).
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, On the follow-on question, the regulations do nol require a generator to classify waste being sent to a processor, Classification is only required if the generator is shipping low-level waste to a collector or directly to the :
disposal site. Note that the May 1983 Techn'ical Position on Radioactive Waste Classification incorrectly states that transfers of waste to a processor :
require licensees to classify the waste. A pending revision to this Technical Position incorporates the needed correction.
DM M il 7#431 DY Sher Bahadur, Acting Chief Low-level Waste Management Branch Division of Low-Level Waste Management and Decommissioning Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards >
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SUBJECT ABSTRACT: WASTE VOLUME REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF RG L 21 AND THE NEED FOR WASTE CLASSIFICATION DOCUMENTATION
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For Those on Attached List dated:
James H. Joyner, Chief. FRSSB, DRSS, Region I William E. Cline, Chief, RPEPB, DRSS, Region II Cynthia D. Pederson, Chief, RPB, DRSS, Region 111 L. Joseph Callan, Director, DRSS, Region IV James H. Reese, Chief, RRPB, DRSS, Region V Paul H. Lohaus, Acting Chief, RDB, RES, NLS-129
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Attached List On the follow-on question the regulations do ng1 require a generator to classify waste being sent to a processor. Classification is only required if the generator is shipping low-level waste to a collector or directly to the disporal site. flote that the May 1983 Technical Pos tion on Radioactive Waste i Classificatt n 9 incorrectly states that transfers of waste to a processor require licensees to classify the waste. A pending revision to this Iechnical Position incorporates the needed correction.
Sher Bahadur, Acting Chief Low-level Waste Management Branch Division of Low-Level Waste Managerrent and Decommissioning Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards LeMoine J. Cunningham, Chief Radiation Protection Branch Division of Radiation Protection and Emeraency Preparedness ffice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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RCooper R-I JStohr R-il CNorelius R-III BMurray R-IV RScarano R-V GGrant E00 RAnderson -TN JLieberman OE PDR YES LCunningham LLWM t/f LLWB r/f POR NO Category: Proprietary or CF Only __
ACNW YES ___ NO SUBJECT ABSTRACT: WASTE VOLUME REPORTING REQ IREMENTS OF RG 1.21 AND THE NEED FOR WASTE CLASSIFIC ION DOCUMENTATION OCF LLDR LL(kC LLWB C LLWB\ NRR NAME Blahs JKNphdy 31hma SBahabuy Cunningham DATE /1/3 /92 l b /)/92 Il /3 /92 / /92 1 / /92 hKEdi!AUS\L256-2 / OFFICIAL RECORD COPY
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