ML20198J198
| ML20198J198 | |
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| Issue date: | 11/30/1998 |
| From: | Paperiello C NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Cochran T National Resources Defense Council |
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| 2.206, NUDOCS 9812300111 | |
| Download: ML20198J198 (2) | |
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November 30, 1998 Dr. Thomas B. Cochran, Director Nuclear Program Naturaf Resources Defense Council 1200 New York Avenue Suite 400 Washington, DC 20005
Dear Dr. Cochran:
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of the petition submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on October 15,1998.
The petition requested that the NRC exert authority to ensure that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers'(Corps) hand!ing of radioactive materials in connection with the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is executed in accordance with a properly issued license and all other applicable requirements.
NRC has decided to treat the petition under 10 CFR 2.206, and is currently reviewing the request.
Enclosed for your information are copies of November 30,1998, letters notifying the U.S.
Department of Energy and the Corps of the NRDC petition and the opportunity to comment (Enclosures 1 & 2). A copy of a notice of the petition for publication in the Federal Reaister is also enclosed (Enclosure 3). If you have any questions regarding this response or the staff's ongoing review of the NRC licensing authority over the Corps in conducting activities under FUSRAP, please contact Mr. Hampton Newsome of the Office of the General Counsel (301-4151623) or Mr. John H. Lusher (301-415-7694) of my staff.
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ACTION:
RECEIPT OF PETITION FOR U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ACTION Notice is hereby given that by petition dated October 15,1998, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) exert authority to ensure that the United States Army Corps of Engineers'(the " Corps")
handling of radioactive materials in connection with the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action l
Program (FUSRAP) is effected in accord with properly issued license and all other applicable requirements. As NRDC notes in its petition, FUSRAP began in 1974 as a program of the Department of Energy (DOE), and that DOE had identified a total of 46 sites for cleanup under FUSRAP. By 1997, cleanup of 25 of these sites had been completed. There are currently 21 sites stillin need of remediation, in October.1997, Congress transferred funding for FUSRAP j
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301/415-7694. A copy of the petition is available for inspection at the Commission's Public l
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