ML20199H814

Responds to Requesting Clarification as to Whether Increase in Tritium & Iron-55 Contamination Limits That Were Approved for Plant Apply to All Licensees

ML20199H814
Person / Time
Site:	Fort Saint Vrain
Issue date:	11/21/1997
From:	Fauver D NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Norris S External (Affiliation Not Assigned)
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NUDOCS 9711260232
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. Mr. Sean T. Norris  :

Norris Environmental ,

3105F% Road Grand Junction, CO 81504

Dear Mr. Norris:

This letter responds to your November 12,1997, letter. You requested clarification as to whether the increase in Tritium and Iron 55 contamination limits that were approved for Fort St.

Vrain apply to all U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensees. The answer is no; requests for exceptions to the Regulawy Guide 1.8e surface contamination limits for other facilities must be reviewed by NRC on a case by case Ons. However, note that we are d9veloping guidance to implement our new Licer a Termination Rule, which was published on July 21,1997 The new guidance will be avanavie ia 1998.

If you have any questions, please call me at 301415-6625.

Sincerely,

[Originalsignedby]

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November 21, 1997 -1 Mr. Sean T. Norris Norris Environmental  :

3105F% Road

• Grand Junction, CO 81504

Dear Mr. Norris:

This letter responds to your November 12,1997, letter. You requested clarification as to whether the increase in Tritium and Iron 55 contamination limits that were approved for Fort St.

Vrain apply to all U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensees. The answer is no; requests l for exceptions to the Regulatory Guide 1.86 surface contamination limits for other facilities must ,

be reviewed by NRC on a case by-case basis. However, note that we are developing guidance to implement our new License Termination Rule, which was published on July 21,1997. The new guidance will be available in 1998.-

If you have any questions, please call me at 301-415-6625.

Sincerely, g[ ftMq David N. Fauver, Senior Project Manager Low Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch Division of Waste Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards I

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. Mr. Sean T. Norris Nottis Environmental 3105F% Road i Grand Junction, CO 81504

Dear Mr. Norris:

This letter responds to your November 12,1997, letter regarding SECY 94-145, " Increase of Tritium and Iron 55 Unrestricted Use Limits For Surface Contamination at Fort St. Vrain.' You ,

requested clarification as to whether the increase in Tritium and Iron 55 limits that were '

approved for Fort St.Vrain in SECY 94145 apply to all U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensees. The answer is no; the limits are only applicable to Fort St.Vrain at this time.

i Requests for exceptions to the Regulatory Guide 1.86 surface contamination limits for other facilities must be reviewed by NRC on a case by-case basis.

' If you have any questions, please call me at 301-415 6625.

Sincerely, David N. Fauver, Senior Project Manager Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch Division of Waste Management i Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards CKET: N/A-DjSTRIBUTION: Central File LLDP r/f NMSS r/f PUBLIC RJohnson  ;

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