ML20151V304

Safety Evaluation for 880426 Application for Amend to License SNM-696,deleting Five Sampling Stations from Existing Environ Monitoring Program

ML20151V304
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Site:	07000734
Issue date:	08/12/1988
From:	Shum E, Swift J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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DOCKET NO: 70-734 LICENSEE: GeneralAtomics(GA) l FACILITY: Fuel Fabrication Facility i San Diego, California

SUBJECT:

EVALUATION FOR AMENDMENT APPLICATION DATED APRIL 26, 1988, .

RE: DELETION OF FIVE SAMPLING STATIONS FROM THE EXISTING ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PROGRAM i

Background

By letter dated April 26, 1988, General Atomics (the licensee) applied for 1 a license amendment to its Special Nuclear Materials License No. SNM-696 to request the deletion of five of the sampling stations from the existing twenty-one stations in their environmental monitoring program. The five <

sampling stations are for soil, vegetation, water sampling, and gamma radiation .  ;

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The GA's environmental monitoring program for soil, vegetation, water, and 1 ganna radiation :neasurement consists of twenty-one stations. An annual survey  !

shall be made of samples of typical soil, vegetation, water, and their radiation l e ve *i s . Gross-alpha, gross-beta and gnuna spectral analyses shall be perfoimed on each sample. In n.tition, ganna radiation shall be measured at each station.

The major objective of this program is to monitor the long-term accumulation

, of radioactivity in the local enviroraent due to releases from the plant, j i

From this monitoring, contamination of the environment can be detected before 1 it becomes significant, and corrective measures can be taken to prevent further ,

releases. The lecations of sampling stettons are generally in the vicinity of i the points of release and at the site boundary. In additif.a. the frequency of i rn,nitoring will be increased to a quarterly basis if the air sample results,  !

, from stations at the site boundary, show quarterly average releases equal to l hg or greater than 25% of the unrestricted ar. a maximum permissible concentration j

) (HPC) specified in 10 CFR 20, Appendix B.

gg N Of the five stations requested for deletion, three stations are located at the O

J site of EA's former Waste Processing Facility; one station is . located:edjacent

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gx to Room 307 (building 2), near where an underground tank had been; and one i

' olk station is locateri near another underground tank adjacent to Room 541 of GA's i

< Labtratory Building. At present, all of the above sreas have been decontaminated. l and the sources o# potential Contamination have been res.oved. Therefore, the l p staff believes tbt there is no need to continue taking samples at these stations. l c$u Accordingly, it is recommended that GA's proposed deletion of them five sampling stations from the environmental monitoring program ba approved, j l

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AUG 12 Wee General Atomics 2-GA's proposed license action for the deletion of sampling stations is of the nature of an administrative requirenent, and in accordance with NRC's regulations specified in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(10)(ii), neither an environmental impact statement nor an environnental dssessment is warranted for this proposed action.

The Region V Principle Inspector has no objection to this action.

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Edward Y. Shum Uranium Fuel Soction Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Division of Inaustrial and g g g,pygg g tiJ1 cal Nuclear Safety, NMSS Approved by:

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