ML20137K375
| ML20137K375 | |
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| Issue date: | 03/28/1997 |
| From: | Callan L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Owendoff J ENERGY, DEPT. OF |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001
- ,o March 28, 1997 7 Mr. James M. Owendoff Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management U. S. Department of Energy EM 40 58 050/FORS Washington, DC 20585
SUBJECT:
SCHEDULE FOR CLEANUP 0F SITES UNDER TITLE I 0F THE URANILM MILL
. TAILINGS RADIATION CONTROL ACT
Dear Mr. Owendoff:
I am responding to your letter of February 28, 1997, in which you asked for ;
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's support to quickly and efficiently '
complete the surface phase of the cleanup of sites under Title I of the )
Uranium Hill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA). The staff is committed :
to support DOE's requirements under the law. j Regarding yotr concern that the Title I work is second priority to the Title II actions 't is true that casework associated with new applications and with !
the specific high priority sites of Atlas-Moab and American Nuclear Corporation Gas Hills has been prioritized higher than the Title I work.
However, the Title I work has been given priority over all the other Title II reclamation work Title II license renewals, and Title II amendments related to operational flexibility. These priorities have been provided to DOE's Albuquerque Operations Office staff, along with the Uranium Recovery Operating Plan for fiscal year 1997 (FY97).
During your meeting last August with Mr. John Greeves and his staff of the Division of Waste Management, both DOE and NRC agreed to establish and work within schedules that would achieve the licensing of all the sites by the mandated end of the surface project. The Uranium Recovery Branch (URB) staff met with DOE Headquarters and Albuquerque staff, and set baseline dates that will achieve this goal. Biweekly telephone conferences and periodic management discussions between our staffs are being used to discuss details of and impacts to those schedules as the licensing process proceeds.
In response to your request, the latest schedule for licensing the Title I sites is enclosed. This indicates that eight sites are presently licensed.
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six sites sites will are planned in be licensed forFY98.
licensing this fiscal year, and the remaining fourThe Grand Ju open for many years to receive vicinity property material, as provided in the ;h amendment of UMTRCA, and will be licensed at some future date. TI.ese dates '
t your need to have most of the licensing completed by the end of this suppl fisca year. However, the timely receipt of high quality DOE submittals is an important factor in NRC's role in meeting this schedule. Although there is hjy \
some flexibility built into the site specific schedules, we need to work together to minimize submittal delays such as those presently being experienced for the Naturita, Colcrado site and issue resolution problems of } g\\'}
the sort presently beina dealt with for the Salt Lake City processing site.
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) During the past year, the Office of the Executive Director of Operations has provided support for NRC's Uranium Recovery Program by allocating increased
, , staff and contractor resources to that program. This action was taken in j response to the recent upswing in the uranium recovery industry and a recognition of the need to meet dates for completion of reclamation associated
- with both Title I and II uranium mill tailings sites. URB has just completed j its hiring of two additional hydrogeologists and a health physicist. This, 3
coupled with the reassignment of two additional staff within the Division of
- Waste Management, has increased the URB staff by five over the past year. In i addition, URB has established contract assistance for its program equivalent j to approximately five more staff for the next two years.
! These staff increases will aid the timely completion of the Title I casework, 2 and reflect my support to work with DOE to meet the mandated end date for the j surface phase of the UMTRA Project.
I trust this reply responds to your concerns.
Sincerely, o
L. Jc s ph Callan Exect.t'ive Director for Operations
Enclosure:
Status / Schedule for the Licensing of the Title I UMTRA Project Sites
STATUS / SCHEDULE FOR THE LICENSING OF THE TITLE I UMTRA PROJECT SITES Sites Presently Licensed:
' l. Spook, Wyoming
- 2. Burrell, Pennsylvania '
- 3. Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
- 4. Lakeview, Oregon
- 5. Lowman, Idaho l
- 6. Shiprock, New Mexico i
- 7. Durango, Colorado
- 8. Tuba City, Arizona Site Remaining to be Licensed:
- 9. Falls City, Texas 04/97
- 10. Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico 05/97
- 11. Gunnison, Colorado 06/97
- 12. Green River, Utah 06/97 i
- 13. Mexican Hat, Utah 09/97
- 14. Salt Lake City, Utah l 09/97 '
- 15. Rifle, Colorado 10/97
- 16. Slick Rock, Colorado 02/98
- 17. Naturita, Colorado 09/98
- 18. Maybell, Colorado 09/98
- 19. Grand Junction, Colorado TBD (site to remain open for vicinity property material per amendment of UMTRCA)
Enclosure
i
. J. Owendoff 2 i
During the past year, the Office of the Executive Director of Operations has
, provided support for NRC's Uranium Recovery Program by allocating increased staff and contractor resources to that program. This action was taken in
- response to the recent upswing in the uranium recovery industry and a recognition of the need to meet dates for completion of reclamation associated with both Title I and II uranium mill tailings sites. URB has just completed
, its hiring of two additional hydrogeologists and a health physicist. This, i coupled with the reassignment of two additional staff within the Diviuva of Waste Management, has increased the URB staff by five over the past year. In
', addition, URB has established contract assistance for its program equivalent
- to approximately five more staff for the next two years.
I The.se staff increases will aid the timely completion of the Title I casework, and reflect my support to work with DOE to meet the mandated end date for the
- surface phase of the UMTRA Project.
I trust this reply responds to your concerns.
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Enclosure:
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JJ Owendoff some flexibility built into ..es, submittal delays (as presently experienced for th, site) and issue-resolution problems (as presently experit it Lake City processing site) can make meeting the schedules mort ..
. During the past year, the Office sr the Executive Director of Operations has provided support for NRC's Uranium Recovery Program by allocating increased 4
staff and contractor resources to that program. This action was taken in response to the recent upswing in the uranium recovery industry and a l recognition of the need to meet dates for completion'of reclamation associated 4
with both Title I and II uranium mill tailings sit (s. URB has just completed
- its hiring of two additional hydrogeologists and4 health physicist. This, coupled with the reassignment of two additional / staff within the Division of
- Waste Management, has increased the URB staff,by five over the past year. In
- addition, URB has established contract assi t'ance for its program equivalent to approximately five more staff for the xt two years.
Thess :taff increases will aid the tim y completion of the Title I casework, and reflect my support to work with E to meet the mandated end date for the .
surface phase of the UMTRA Project l Itrustthisreplyrespondstoj/ your concerns.
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L. Joseph Callan
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Enclosure:
Status / Schedule for the Licensing of the Title I
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J. 0wendoff 2 some flexibility built into the site-specific schedules, bmittal delays (as and issue-resolution presently problems (as experienced for the Naturita, presently experienced Colorado for the Salt Lake site)(ty processing site) can make meeting the schedules more difficult.
During the past year, the Office of the Executiv Director of Operations has provided support for NRC's Uranium Recovery Pr ram by allocating increased staff and contractor resources to that progr . This action was taken in response to the recent upswing in the urani recovery industry and a recognition of the need to meet dates fo ompletion of reclamation associated with both Title I and II uranium mill tp lings sites. URB has just completed its hiring of two additional hydroge This, coupled with the reassignment of tw additional )o egists and staff a health physicist.
within the Division of Waste Management, has increased t URB staff by five over the past year. In addition, URB has established c tract assistance for its program equivalent to approximately five more st f for the next two years.
These staff increases will id the timely completion of the Title I casework, and reflect my support work with DOE to meet the mandated end date for the surface phase of the U RA Project. I trust this reply responds to your Concerns.
Sincerely, L. Joseph Callan Executive Director for Operations
Enclosure:
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4 J. 0'endoff w 2 z{ During the past year, the Offico of the Executive Director of Operations has
- provided support for NRC's Uranium Recovery Program by allocating increased i staff and contractor resources to that program. This action was taken in i response to the recent upswing in the uranium recovery industry and a 1 recognition of the need to meet dates for completion of reclamation associated '
with both Title I and II uranium mill tailings sites. URB has just completed its hiring of two additional hydrogeologists and a health physicist. This, coupled with the reassignment of two additional staff within the Division of Waste Management, has increased the URB staff by five over the past year. In l addition, URB has established contract assistance for its program equivalent I
to approximately five more staff for the next two years.
These staff increases will aid the timely completion of the Title I casework, and reflect my support to work with DOE to meet the mandated end date for the surface phase of the UMTRA Project.
I trust this reply responds to your concerns.
Sincerely, L.Jc's/phCallan l l
Exectfive Director i for Operations i l
Enclosure:
Status / Schedule for the Licensing of the Title I UMTRA Project Sites N
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