ML20198L178
| ML20198L178 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 09/11/1997 |
| From: | Lohaus P NRC |
| To: | Dominick O NRC |
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| ML20198K172 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 9710240269 | |
| Download: ML20198L178 (2) | |
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s From Paul Lohaus To TWD2.TWP7(EAO)
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9/11/97 4:06pm Subjects GUIDANCE FOR LABORATORIES THAT TEST MIXED WASTE -Reply Nick:
We'll use your draft letter to prepare an all Agreement States letter.
We'll put Greeves on concurrence, and coordinate the letter with you.
BRENDA:
PLEASE CONTROL AND ASSIGN TO TOM.
ASK TOM TO TALK WITH DENNIS WHO HAS THE BACKGROUND AND TO COORDINATE THE LETTER WITH NICK ORLANDO.
THANKS PAUL
>>> Dominick Orlando 09/11/97 02:15pm >>>
Paul:
During the last DEDO Briefing on NRC/ EPA Interface Issues Hugh Thompson indicated that we should ask the States if additional guidance for laboratories testing mixed waste was needed. This idea was first voiced by Aubrey Godwin Snd Kirk Whatley during a side conversation with Hugh at a CRCPD naeting a few years ago.
EPA has not been to keen on the idea and believes that it would be more appropriatew to supply the AS with a recent study they did on the management of mixed waste at their labs, We think that we should both provide the report and pose the question to the Staten.
I spoke to Dennis Sollenberger about the most appropriate method to pose the question to the States. Dennis indicated that the best way would be through an All Agreement States letter enclosing the report and asking if more guidance was warranted.
If you feel that this would be the most appropriate way to get the States input could you please tell me what, if anything I need to do to start the process.
I've requested 50 copies of the report from EPA and have attached some draft language for the All Agreement States letter.
Please let me know the next step.
Thanks Nick Orlando 415-6749 CC:
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2 in the past, States have indicated to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff that guidance may be useful for laboratories that test mixed waste. Mixed waste is defined in the Pesource Conservation and Recovery Act as waste that contains both hazardous waste and source, -
special nuclear, or byproduct material subject to the Atomic Energy Act of 1956, as amended.
NRC and Environmental Protection Agency staff's will soon complete guidance on ways to reduce radiation exposures when testing mixed waste and on strategies for complying with mixed waste storage requirements. Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completed a 3-year study that examined the management options for, and technologies i
applicable to, mixed waste generated in its laboratories. A copy of the EPA report is attached, and you may find that it provides useful information to your State testing laboratories or those subject to your regulatory authority striving to manage their mixed wastes in a responsible manner.
Curr61tly, NRC staff is evaluating whether the development of additional guidance for laboratories testing mixed waste is warranted, if, after reviewing the attached report, you t
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conclude that additional guidance for laboratories, other than that already being developed by i
NRC and EPA, is needed please contact Nick Orlando at (301)4156749 or DAO@NRC. GOV F
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