ML20148S100

Forwards NRC Updated Contribution to 1980 Federal Committee on Matls Inventory

ML20148S100
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Issue date:	01/19/1981
From:	Minogue R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES)
To:	Wachtman J NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS & TECHNOLOGY (FORMERL
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JAN 191981 Mr. John B. Wacht:1a n, J r.

Director, Center for Materials Science National Bureau of Standards Building 223 US Department of Commerce Washington, DC 20234

Dear Mr. Wachtman:

In responte to Mr. Edward A. Frieman's letter of December 2, 1980, we are pleased to provide the Nuclear Regulatory Comission contribution to the 1980 Federal Cumittee on Materials (COMAT) Inventory. We have provided updated information for Tables 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10 and 11.

Dr. John T. L3rkins (427-4344)g the NRC material, please contact If you have questions regardin Sincerely, DTUGINAC SIGNED BY2 C. C. BASSE"C Robert B. Minogue, Director Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research

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3 COMAT has recogni:ed that proper management of the Federal materials R&D program can only be made by using knowledge of the foral program, i.e., not only that part supported by the Federal Governrnent, but also the part supported by industry, academia, foreign sources and others. OOMAT concerns itself with all funding sources:it should be noted, however, that the present report is limited to the Federally funded program.

COMAT Task Force 1 COMAT activities are divided into three tasks as noted above; the present report is concerned only with the Task 1 study.

.e The Federal departments and agencies that comprise Task Force 1 are given in Table 1: 18 separate depart.

ments and agencies are represented.

Each Task Force member was charged with representing their entire department or agency and with provid:ng the required inventory information on t% i agency's pertinent programs. Information was requested in two forms: (1) a broad statement of the mabr thrust (s) of the department or agency materials R&D program, and (2) detailed descriptions et a level providing sufficient individuality for cataloguing by the COMAT method.

I in some instances, this required " project-level" detail and in others " program-level *' descriptions, it was rreguested that all descriptions be from the FY76 budget; however, because of the time period during which the inventory was conducted (September-November 1975), some members were unable to pavide complete 1976 program descriptions and, instead, supplemented their input with FY75 data - assuming that for the purposes of the inventory program differences from one year to the next would be minor.

TARE t. COMAT TASK FORCE 1 MEM8ERS (T. V. Felkie. Cheirw.ent Department of Agesc..ture A. M. Comen and J. f. Zerbe Department of Corame*ce

1. R. Bartky Department of Def ense J.Persh and J. Ayers Department of Health. Education and We4 fare F. D. Alteeri Department of Housing and Urban Devetooment K. Credte Department of the Interior C. Rampeceir, M.A. Sche artr, R.C. Kirby Depertment of Labor S. Urmen end D. Welsh Department of State O. H. Canley Department of Ternoortaten R. E. Hey Department of the Treasury S. Gorden Energy Research as Deveterment Administreten D. K. Stevens And R. L. Cobie Envwonmental Protection A,ency G. Rause 1

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ANALYSIS OF THE FEDF.RAL FY76 COMMITMENT TO MATERIALS R&D AS CONTAINED IN THE COMAT INVENTORY s

The COMAT inventory identified that eighteen Federal departments and agencies are supporting a total of almost $1 b.: lion in materials R&D in fiscal year 1976. On the basis of an estimated total Federal R&D budget for the current ye:r of $20 billion,l8I the materials effort amounts to about 5 percent.

Of this amount, three agencies fund more than 65 percent, with ERDA supporting 34.S%, 001 17.2%, and DOD 13.7%, The amount of funds budgeted by the individual agencies for the current fiscal year are sum.

marized in Table 3 below. Appendix E provides a r,immary description of the mission of each agency, and further detail on its current materials R&D program. By using recently published data on funding levels for all types of Federal agencies,l81 it is found that the Department of Defense spends about 1.3% of its tctal R&D funds on materials: NASA similarly comrnits approximately 1.6% of its R&D budget to materian work; ERDA, however, spends nearly 15% of its R&D funds on materials progre ns.

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Pwcan W Toul EMDA 332,397 34.6 dot 166,350 t 7.2 DOD 131.881 13.7 EPA pp Agg 10.3 NSF 68,700 7.1 NASA 51,533 5.4

'i USDA 38,254 4.0 DOC 21,080 2.2 HEW 16,625 1.7 TVA 9,226 1.0

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Two points need emphasis regarding the levels of funding shown by this inventory. First, they present a considerably larger Federal commitment tnan any previous inventory due in part to the broad definition of materials used for the present inventory, and further, due to the availability to COMAT of substantially more data from the Federal agencies. Secondly, the present inventory effort is only the first step toward an assessment of the Nation's tors / rnaterials R&D commitment. Complate'and valid analysis of gaps, j

opportunities and roadblocks" wi!! not be possible until data on the content of the tota! program which

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TABLE 5. DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALE R&D FUNDb SPONSORED VPAbt IPATING FEDERAL AGENCIES IN,

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2245 40 929 7521 Depertment o Defense 131,663 Department of Interior 59429 94816 31295 18337' 200 16158

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95 Depertment of Transportation 505 75 6078 Envwc.-s:.e ;tel Protection 989 12319 35218 68775 Agency 58800 14573 194,203 750 26622 875 12728 Energy Research and Development Administration General Serweces Administration 132 Deperement of Health. Educe-16585 55 140 tsn and Wolf are Urben Developnent 3500 200 2692 595

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TA8LE 7. DISTRl8UTION OF MATERIALS R&D FUNDS RELATE D TO FUNCTIOre ISTAGE IN MATydBALS CYC(El[ SPONSORING AGENCY. ($1000)

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Departenent of Commerce 72 708 3812 7194 1979 151 7164 21080 Department of Defense 184 2776 23390 25410 57373 60 16688 131881 Department of interior 38308-80908 16100 375 2584 900 845 14105 11225 165350 I

tupestrnent of State 485 30 540 mportment of Transportation 505 655 2370 2304 319 6153 Envisonmental Protection 2879 4118 5187 2017 62:;94 21332 1474 99399 Agtvicy Energy Research and Develop-14000 152 30420 3240 724658 69089 7075 45485 38778 332897 ment Admiriistration G.nesel Services Administration 42 90 132 i

Desutment of Health. Educe-80 130 198 1179 13610 1039 96 293 16625 tion and Welfare Depestment of Housing orid 2364 3850 325 100 30 0669 Urtwn Development NASA 2324 11 37639 427 Sig hteer Reptatory Commission

.aeti 6t.onet Science Foundettoe 4800 600 690 1:000 193C5 2680 6100 26525 68700

$nuthsonien Institution 1000 1000 1ennesse VMley Authority 220 211 7266 1095 434 al226 Department of Ayeculture 11 5064 8875 3070 8576 601 4208 4321 3%28 38254 Departrnent of Labor 63 4000 4063 Department of the Treasury 88 525 45 839 790 Total:

59.948 89.0S3 60.497 16.244 187.583 219.488 122.778 93.873 111.825 981,320 Percea:I*I 7.0 10.5 7.1 1.9 22.1 25 8 14.5 11.1 100.0 te) Eactucas **Unspecifics"*

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$1000 al Orgenlaation deral Government National Laboratories F e ivate Academic Not-forProfits State / Local LImpecified Total Department of Commerce 15650 4530 900 21.000 tb)

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Totats 245.548 232.858 124.520 125.519 26.620 5.980 200.275 961.320 1

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. Fuel Materials - Fuel Materials was especially chosen for analysis because most previous materials R&D inventories did not include this class of materials. A total of $197.8 million l

of the FY76 Federally funded materials R&D program was identified as being specifically directed toward fuel materials. This Is distriisted among the general classes of fuel materi-l als as shown in Table 9.

TABLE 9. DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS R&D FUNDS ON FUEL MATERIALS Amount of Funding by Agoney (81000)

Peel Meteriel D00 001 ERDA TVA. USD A EPA ' NRC Tesels Fossil 0079 370 90 5400 11918 j

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Petroleum 1707 1707 Oil Shele 5139 86 5205 Gas 10416 33 Nuclear

$117 76763 15 32192 Weste end Refuse 30 60 57 9 709 Unspecified 110 1889 2

30 14 1901 3746-Totels 230 91311 90644-298 2790 12:33 295

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O.1 100.0' Again, for example purposes, the effort directed towards oil shale was chosen for further analysis. Five projects were identified, four funded by D01, BuMines, and one funded by.

EPA. Two of the DOI programs, totcling $4,615,000, involve oil shale extraction, and two, totaling $524,000, irwolve oil shale waste management. The mission of the latter two programs was in " Environmental Quality: Mining and Beneficiation impacts" and both are continuing

• quiti year) projects; the function of both is " Waste Management: Eco-logical Restoration", and the objective is " Environmental Protection". The proiset funded by EPA, $66,000, involves waste product characterization in processing fuel from cil shale.

The mission is " Environmental Quality" and the functi6n is " Waste".

Waste Materials - An effe t totaling $115,404,000 (excludinir R&D on pellutants as a waste material) is being conducted within the Federally funded materials R&D program on waste materials. This effort, accounting for about 12% of the total program, is shown in Table 10 by class of waste material and agencies funding the program. As shown, some programs were classified accorchng to the type of weste (i.e., gaseous, liquid, solid, or composite) and for others according to the source of the waste (i.e., industrial, commercial, agricultural, nuclear, space, and municipal). A third classificat on category was " Waste as a Resource", There i

are no double entries in the tables, so wmmatior's can be made. As shown, over 82 percent of the effort is supported by ERDA and EPA, with 60% and 22%, respectively, of the total.

Also of interest is the fact that eleven separate agencies have R&D programs involving eleven different classes of waste materials.

To illustrate the detail of analysis possible, one of these, the liquid waste class, was further -

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TABLE 11. SOURCES OF FUNOING DATA USED IN COMPtLING COMAT INVENTORY FISCAL. YE AR FUNDING AGENCY INFORMATION SOURCE OF FUNOING DATA Desertmen2 of Agriculture 1975 Work Reporting Unit (WRU) Report Plan

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Deportenant of Carmnerce 1976 N85 Project Report Forme Deportrnent of Defense 1976 Meteriets Technology Coordineting Papers (TCP), Form 1498, Form 1634. end other budget documents.

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Department of latertor 1976 Budget estimates Deprtment of Labor 1976 Budget estimnIee Departenent e4 State 1970 Contract sword Information Department of the Treasury 1976 Budget authortretione a

Department of Transe.ortation 1976 Pienning and budget documente Environmental Protection Agency 1976 EPA /ORD budget estimates I

Energy flesserch one D. -,. _ : Admk%stration 1976 and 1975 Form 189 budget requests and other sources Ooneral Seretcas Adminletreelen 1976 dudget authorizations Department of Hestth, Educotiog and Welfare 1976 Research Objective forme Department of Housing and Urban Doeslopmet.t 1976 Project Development end Reneereh (PD and R) and Project j

Information reports National Aeronauties and Spees Adneinastration 1976 Reneerch and Technology Operating Plan (RTOP) documente

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