ML20199E334

Forwards DOE/ORO-2074, DOE Input to NRC Annual Rept to Congress Re Status of Environ,Safety & Health Gaseous Diffusion Plants for FY98. Rept Also Contains Brief Discussion Re Mods to Lease Agreement Between DOE & USEC

ML20199E334
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Site:	Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Issue date:	11/06/1998
From:	Jazel Parks ENERGY, DEPT. OF
To:	Ten Eyck E NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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Department of fiilergy 9

s Oak Ridge Operations 4f j\\j Post Office Box 62 6% d Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 -8651 November 6, 1998 l

gY Ms. Elizabeth Q. Ten Eyck, Director Division of Fuel Cycle Safety yY" and Safeguards, NMSS U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11545 Rockville Pike MS T8A33 Rockville, Maryland 20852

Dear Ms. Ten Eyck:

ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998 Section 1701(b)(1) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct) requires that

"[t]he Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in consultation with the Department [of Energy] and the Environmental Protection Agency, shall report at least annually to the Congress on the status of health, safety, and environmental conditions at the gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facilities of the Department." The enclosed report, entitled Department of Energy Input to the Nuclear Regulatory Conmission's Annual Report to Congress Regarding the Status of Environmental, Safety, and Health Conditions at the Paducah and Portsmouth I

Gaseous Diffusion Plants for Fiscal Year 1998, presents information regarding i

Department of Energy (D0E) activities at the Paducah and_Portsmouth Gaseous i

Diffusion Plants (GDP) and is transmitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in furtherance of the EPAct consultation requirement.

This report discusses the status of environmental, safety, and health conditions for those portions of the GDP sites for which DOE retains oversight responsibility. Also, because DOE continued to regulate highly enriched uranium (HEU) activities during FY 1998, this report includes information on the DOE Regulatory Oversight program activities in the leased, but not

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certified areas, at PORTS. This report also describes the HEU refeed, 1 lg suspension and removal, and transparency programs conducted by DOE and describes DOE Compliance Plan activities, the Nuclear Safety Upgrades program, and the Memorandum of Understanding employed by DOE and NRC to ensure h7 {T i

effective and efficient cooperation in our joint oversight activities conducted at the GDPs. The report also contains a brief discussion regarding modifications to the Lease Agreement Between the United States Department of Energy and the United States Enrichment Corporation.

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ee Ms. Elizabeth Q. Ten Eyck November 6, 1998 Should you have any questions or requests for additional or other information, please contact Randy DeVault at (423) 576-0802.

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W. Parks ssistant Manager for Enrichment Facilities Enclosure i

ccw/ enclosure:

R. M. George, NE-40 J. C. Hodges, EF-22, C-103, PAD E. W. Gillespie, EF-21, PORTS J. F. Nemec, Bechtel Jacobs, MS-7244, K-1225 G. G. Pennington, Bechtel Jacobs, MS-7239, K-1550V J. C. Massey, Bechtel Jacobs, PAD J. E. Shoemaker, Bechtel Jacobs, MS-7555, X-7725 J.R.McNeely,BechtelJacobs,EF-20/0STI l

R.M.DeVault,EF-20/OSTI J. D. Jackson, EF-20 T. T. Slack, CC-10 W. M. Yoder, DP-821, 2714-J f

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