ML20209B401
| ML20209B401 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07003073 |
| Issue date: | 06/15/1999 |
| From: | Lux J KERR-MCGEE CORP. |
| To: | Brown S NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9907060452 | |
| Download: ML20209B401 (1) | |
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l h KERR-McGEEOORPORATION KERR-M< GEE CEPeTER e OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73125 June 15,1999 Mr. Stewart Brown Low-Level Waste & Decommissioning Projects Branch Division of Waste Management Office of Nuclear Materials Safety & Safeguards U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Re:
Docket No. 70-3073 License No. SNM-1999
Dear Mr. Brown:
Amendment # 8 to license SNM-1999 provides for the decommissioning of Pit 4 at the Cushing refinery site. At the time the Pit 4 decommissioning plan was submitted in November,1998, Kerr-McGee Corporation (KMC) was remediating the acid sludge in accordance with a DEQ-approved remedial design. The approved design included the disposal of treated wastes in an on site disposal cell located in Unaffected Area 3. It has become clear that, although the design allowed for as much as 20% growth in the total quantity of waste, the actual quantity of waste generated in Pits 1,2, 3, and 5 is much greater than this. The original disposal cell will not provide adequate capacity for the treated waste generated from all five acid sludge pits.
KMC is amending the remedial design to include the construction of a second disposal cell in Unaffected Area 4. Both unaffected areas occupy property released from license SNM-1999.
KMC will begin construction of this cell r.fter DEQ has approved the design.
KMC would like to amend license SNM-1999 to allow placement of waste from Pit 4 in either the existing disposal cell or in the planned disposal cell. Treatment criteria and final survey procedures will not change as a result of the construction of this second disposal cell. KMC requests NRC concurrence, prior to or along with site decommissioning plan approval, that all references to a disposal cell in license documents apply to either disposal cell. If you have any questions or comments, please call me at (405) 270-2694.
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C. L. Cain, NRC Region IV Cushing Citizens' Oversight Committee Earlon Shirley, ODEQ Darrell Shults, ODEQ _
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