ML20151Q761
| ML20151Q761 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 11/20/1980 |
| From: | Martin J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Jennifer Davis NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| TASK-TF, TASK-URFO NUDOCS 9808250307 | |
| Download: ML20151Q761 (2) | |
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t MEMORANDUM FORi John G.LDavis, Director
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from the Chairman to Congressman Ashley. "High-level waste" is defined in
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'(FPRSA)-~ of 1972 to be reprocessed waste. Since H.R. -8119 is an amendment to MPRSA, there is no need, therefore, to provide clarifying language as tol ya
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Weidiscussed 'the' approach we are taking to " classify" radioactive waste' for near surface' earth _ disposal with the Chairman-during our last waste -
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l PROPOSED RESPONSE The Honorable Thomas L. Ashley Acting Chaiman Committee on Merchant Marine &
Fisheries United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This is in response to the Committee's request for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) views of H.R. 8119, a bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to undertake a study to determine the effects of certain past ocean dumping of radioactive wastes.
Section 203(f)(2) would direct the
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The NRC will be glad to assist the Secretary's review of old records related to ocean disposal licensed by our predecessor agency, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Those records are not complete, however, because the Department of Energy (DOE) possesses the records of ocean disposal by unlicensed AEC contractors. Accordingly, the NRC recommends that Section 203(f)(2) be amended to include D0E.
Thank you for this opportunity to provide the Commission's views on this O
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Si ncerely, John F. Ahearne Chaiman a
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