ML20209B664
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| Issue date: | 06/30/1999 |
| From: | Schmidt D NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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MEMORANDUM TO: File FROM:
Duane Schmidt, Health Physicist [0riginalsignedby:]
Decommissioning Branch Division of Waste Management, NMSS
SUBJECT:
SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE INTERAGENCY STEERING l
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SUMMARIES OF RECENT SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS Attached are meeting summaries for the seven meetings of the Sewage Subcommittee of I
the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Protection Standards (ISCORS) for the period February-June,1999. These summaries were developed by the ISCORS Sesqe Subcommittee. The Subcommittee is placing these documents in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Public Document Room to make them available to the public.
Attachments: (1) Meeting Summary for February 16,1999 (2) Meeting Summary for March 1,1999 I
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SUMMARIES OF RECENT SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS Attached are meeting summaries for the seven meetings of the Sewage Subcommittee of the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Protection Standards (ISCORS) for the period February-June,1999. These summaries were developed by the ISCORS Sewage Subcommittee. The Subcommittee is placing these documents in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Public Document Room to make them available to the public.
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MEMORANDUM TO: File FROM:
Duane Schmidt, Health Physicist [0riginal signed by:]
Decommissioning Branch Division of Waste Management, NMSS
SUBJECT:
SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE INTERAGENCY STEERING COMMITTEE ON RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS:
SUMMARIES OF RECENT SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS Attached are meeting summaries for the seven meetings of the Sewage Subcommittee of the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Protection Standards (ISCORS) for the period February-June,1999. These summaries were developed by the ISCORS Sewage Subcommittee. The Subcommittee is placing these documents in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Public Document Room to make them available to the public.
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Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, the l
State of New Jersey, and two Publicly Owned Treatment Works. The Sube, mmittee summaries have not been approved by the respective agencies and organizations and do not represent the official position of any participating organization at this time.]
ISCORS SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE MEET)NG
SUMMARY
Date:
February 16,-1999 Time:
9:00 a.m. to noon Location:
U.S. Department of Energy Forrestal Bldg.
Independence Ave., Washington, D.C.
Attendees:
DOE: Jim Bac'imaier NRC: Tin Mo, George E. Powers, Phyllis Sobel l
EPA: Robert Bastian, Mark Doehnert, Dale Hoffmeyer, Behram Shroff, Alan Rubin ORISE: Dale Condra NAREL: David Saunders, Mary Wisdom DOD: Roy Lovett STATES: Jill Lipoti, New Jersey POTW: Thomas Lenhart/NEORSD, Kevin Aiello/MCUA l
Agenda:
Sewage Survey Dose Modeling Work Group CRCPD Request INS Request j
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SURVEY:
1 OAPP & PRDL Decision Tree... As a follow-on to our previous meeting, Mary Wisdom l
recirculated copies (either via e-mail or paper copy) of the QAPP for the full survey, along with several questions regarding primary points of contact and distribution lists. Mary will continue to take ideas from us regarding potential future changes tliat may become needed. Any further Attachment I l
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r questions regarding the QAPP at this time should be forwarded to Mary thru Phyllis and/or Bob.
NAREL will attempt to get the final QAPP into a version on Adobe Acrobat (ys Postscript) in PDF format and send it out to everyone electronically.
It was pointed out that we still plan to conduct the individual isotope analyses on the samples with the highest gross alpha levels each month and consider adjusting that procedure after the first several months since it is anticipated that the ash samples will likely always be highest.
Mark asked if any of the lessons learned from the Nine Test Site Survey effort had been captured in the current version of the decision tree. Phyllis noted that the decision tree appears to be current as of July'97.
Bob raised the point that the Subcommittee needs to begin thinking about how it will address the second part of the QAPP - the handling of the data generated by the full survey. Mark pointed out the need for an interface between the NAREL and ORISE labs with NRC's contract support via Los Alamos for managing the data for us from the full survey. Lee and Mark were asked to provide an initial plan for the subcommittee on this matter at our next Subcommittee meeting.
Nine Test Site Survev Renort... It was agreed that all of the documents associated with the Nine Test Site Survey effort (the Labs Report to the Subcommittee; the Public Report with the Background radiation table; and the QAPP) are now in essentially final form since no comments i
were received from the full ISCORS committee that require changes, with the exception of the final format of the survey results summary table and the background data table which are to 9
include a' discussion of the gross Alpha and Gamma counts along with a footnote indicating that these values are provided only as indicators and are not included in Table 2. Tin and Jim are to finalize the Tables before the next Subcommittee meeting.
Responses from State letters re: the Survey... Phyllis has been pushing for responses from the States to the letters sent in Oct/Nov'98 regarding the full survey. She has compiled the responses received to date regarding identified state contacts, comments on the draft (May'97) guidance document, and on suggested POTWs for the full survey. Jill will help encourage states which have yet to respond. Bob and Phyllis will attempt to compile a list of State recommended POTWs for the questionnaire mail-out by early March.
AMSA/WEF Letter & Guidance Pke.... Tom noted that comments from a broad review by AMSA pretreatment and biosolids coordinators are due by 19Feb.
DOSE MODELING WORKING GROUP:
Behram and Dale Hoffmeyer noted that the EPA contract support for this effort is now in place and that they are working out specifics of what the contractor will do to support the working group. Their next meeting follows this Subcommittee meeting.
They are working on how to interface with the AMSA/WEF contract effort in order to be able to exchange information and avoid unnecessary duplication. It was pointed out that further effort is v
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questions regarding the QAPP at this time should be forwarded to Mary thru Phyllis and/or Bob.
NAREL will attempt to get the final QAPP into a version on Adobe Acrobat (vs Postscript) in PDF format and send it out to everyone electronically.
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It was pointed out that we still plan to conduct the individual isotope analyses on the samples with the highest gross alpha levels each month and consider adjusting that procedure after the first several months since it is anticipated that the ash samples will likely always be highest.
Mark asked if any of the lessons learned from the Nine Test Site Survey effort had been captured in the current version of the decision tree. Phyllis noted that the decision tree appears to be current as of July'97.
13ob raised the point that the Subcommittee needs to begin thinking about how it will address the j
second part of the QAPP - the handling of the data generated by the full survey. Mark pointed out the need for an interface between the NAREL and ORISE labs with NRC's contract support via Los Alamos for managing the data for us from the full survey. Lee and Mark were asked to i
provide an initial plan for the subcommittee on this matter at our next Subcommittee meeting.
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i Test Site Survey effort (the Labs Report to the Subcommittee; the Public Report with the Background radiation table; and the QAPP) are now in essentially final form since no comments were received from the full ISCORS committee that require changes, with the excepition of the a
final format of the survey results summary table and the background data table which are to include a discussion of the gross Alpha and Gamma counts along with a footnote indicating that 4
these values are provided only as indicators and are not included in Table 2. Tin and Jim are to j
finalize the Tables before the next Subcommittee meeting.
,l Resnonses from State letters re: the Survey. Phyllis has been pushing for responses from the States to the letters sent in Oct/Nov'98 regarding the full survey. She has compiled the responses received to date regarding identified state contacts, comments on the draft (May'97) guidance i
document, and on suggested POTWs for the full survey. Jill will help enco ": age states which have yet to respond. Bob and Phyllis will attempt to compile a list of State recommended POTWs for the questionnaire mail-out by early March.
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AMSA pretreatment and biosolids coordinators are due by 19Feb.
DOSE MODELING WORKING GROUP:
1 Behram and Dale Hoffmeyer noted that the EPA contract support for this effort is now in place and that they are working out specifics of what the contractor will do to support the working group. Their next meeting follows this Subcommittee meeting.
They are working on how to interface with the AMSA/WEF contract effort in order to be able to exchange information and avoid unnecessary duplication. It was pointed out that further effort is
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CRCPD REQUEST:
Bob noted that CRCPD has requested that he prepare a paper and make a presentation on the survey and guidance document development efforts of the Subcommittee at their annual meeting in Louisville during May'99. Jill Lipoti is the Conference Chair and emphasized the importance
. that this be done. Dave Saunders also expressed an interest in presenting papers on the Nine Test Site Survey results at upcoming NST & PHS meetings. Bob suggested that they jointly develop an updated version of the paper he presented at the WEF Biosolids Specialty Conference in Bellevue, WA, last summer for review by the Subcommittee.
INS REQUEST:
INS has sent letters to Tin and Bob requesting that they or another industry organization be allowed to have a representative join the Subcommittee (along with the two POTW representatives we were directed by OMB to include). Phyllis pointed out the problems that NRC has with having closed meetings with non-government groups. We also discussed possible FACA concerns, as well as options for ways to allow for more industry and other interested pany input and participation in our deliberations, including a public workshop, the AMSA/WEF advisory group, and the potential for announced meetings open to the public. It was agreed that full ISCORS direction would be needed and that Phyllis would draft a joint response letter in
.I coordination with the NRC General Council's Office. Bob noted that he willlikely have a conflict and won't be available to attend the full ISCORS meeting on 10 Mar; he asked Phyllis to do the Subcommittee presentation at that meeting.
GUIDANCE DOCUMENT:
Behram noted that EPA's responses to the comments on the May'97 draft document have now been compiled and distributed to the Subcommittee members. Phyllis has also distributed copies of the NRC and DOE responses, and an updated Gant chart for finalizing the guidance document.
It was agreed that all of the comments will be responded to in a Respon'se to Comments Summary Document that will be sent to all commentors. The Subcommittee agree that we now need to decide how (or if) we will have Techlaw respond to these comments and responses in the revised guidance document. The Subcommittee then proceefied to review the first group of NRC responses to comments.
The next meeting of the Subcommittee was scheduled to be held from 9:00 a.m. to noon on Monday, IMar99 at the NRC Headquarters in White Flint, MD. The primary focus of the next meeting will be to review additional respcnses to comments on the May'97 draft guidance j
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Finalize the Reference Radionuclide Tables 1 and 2 for the Public Document prior to the next Subcommittee meeting on 1 Mar 99 ( Mo, Bachmaier).
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Develop an initial plan for the Subcommittee on data management from the full survey and interface between NAREL & ORISE with Los Alamos (Abramson & Bachmaier).
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Continue ivorking on compilation of comments from the States on the survey and the Guidance Document (Sobel, Lipoti).
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Complete list of POTWs, including State input, for the full survey questionnaire mail out (Bastian, Sobel),
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Further clarify the schedule for completing the dose modeling effort (Hoffmeyer).
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Prepare a joint NRC/ EPA response to the INS request for industry membership on the Subcommittee after coordination with ISCORS and NRC 's General Council (Sobel).
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Prepare an updated paper for presentations at CRCPD, NST & PHS meetings (Bastian,
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Prepare the Subcommittee input for the 10 Mar 99 ISCORS meeting (Bastian, Mo, Sobel).
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have not been approved by the respective agencies and organizations and do not represent the official position of any participating organization at this time.]
ISCORS SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING SUMM ARY Date:
March 1,1999 Time:
9:00 a.m. to noon Location:
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comniission White Flint, MD Attendees:
NRC: Tin Mo, Phyllis Sobel, George Powers, Lee Abramson, Tom O'Brien DOE: Jim Bachmaier EPA: Robert Bastian, Mark Dochnert, Dale Hoffmeyer, Behram Shroff ORISE: Dale Condra NAREL: David Saunders DOD: Roy Lovett Agenda:
Sewage Survey Dose Modeling Work Group Responses to May'97 Guidance Document Comments Summary:
SURVEY:
OAPP... looks good for now. Mary is now satisfied for now.
Reference Table.... Jim still needs to finalize before 10 Mar ISCORS meeting where Phyllis will hand it out.
1.ist of POTWs.. Bob and Phyllis are still w iting for final State input.. So far 16 States have identified 45 POTWs; waiting for input from 10 more states that was due the end of January.
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Full Survey Data Coordination... Lee Abramson indicated that the Los Alamos contract support is now ready to set up a database for handling the POTW questionnaire responses. We to coordinate data formats between the NAREL & ORISE Labs with Los. Alamos and begin to address data processing plans.
AMSA/WEF Letter & Guidance Pke.... Bob indicated that AMSA will nee the. uestionnaires are mailed out to get their letter / guidance sent ahead of time. Sam Had AMSA is in the process ofincorporating changes to respond to NRC's comments and inpu their pretreatment & biosolids coordinators after their coordinating committee meeting Charlotte, NC, the end of Jan'99.
CRCPD PAPER:
Bob plans to do the presentation at the May'99 CRCPD meeting in Louisville, althoug Setlow can do it if a conliict arises. Dave plans on presenting a similar paper on the resu the Nine Test Site Survey effort at NST and PHS meetings later this year. Bob and Dave Saunders will coordinate updating the paper presented at the WEF Biosolids Specialty Conference in 13ellevue, WA, last summer.
INS REQUEST:
Phyllis is ready with a draft response letter for coordination with ISCORS at their 10 meeting.
DOSE MODELING WORKING GROUP:
Jim and Behram noted that the working group will need to do a screening step to help the most critical pathways (probably 4) for modeling. Some of the modeling will be isotope specific - some will likely be focused on worker exposure and other on plant u need to work on coordination mechanisms with the AMSA/WEF contract effo f
ISCORS MEETING:
Phyllis agreed to coordinate the Subcommittee briefing at the 10 Mar 99 ISCOR Bob anticipates being in Denver.
GUIDANCE DOCUMENT:
Phyllis provided an updated GANTT chart. She noted the plan is to issue a FR Not facilitate a 60 day public comment period on a draft of the final document before go a formal final publication.
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The next meeting of the Subcommittee w:ui scheduled to be held from 9:00 a.m. to noon on Monday,18 Mar 99 at DOE Rm.2E-072 Forrestal Bldg l in Washington, D.C. The primary focus of the next meeting will be on the revie.w of the additional responses to comments from States on the May'97 draft guidance document, directions for TechLaw regarding the comments / responses they should address in revising the guidance document, the POTW mailing list for the questionnaires, and final publication of the Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document.
Action Items:
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Finalize the Reference Radionuclide Tables 1 and 2 for the Public Document ( Mo, Bachmaier).
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Work on details of the plan for the Subcommittee to address the data from the full survey and interface between NAREL & ORISE with Los Alamos (Abramson & Bachmaier).
3; Prepare and review responses to comments from the States on the survey and the Guidance Document (All).
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Finalize list of POTWs, including remaining State input, for the full survey questionnaire mail out (Bastian, Sobel).
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Further clarify the schedule for completing the dose modeling effort (Hoffmeyer).
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Finalize joint NRC/ EPA response to the INS request for industry membership on the Subcommittee after coordination with ISCORS and NRC 's General Council (Sobel).
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Develc p Techlaw directions on which comments and responses to address in updated guidan:e document (Shroff, Sobel).
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ISCORS SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING
SUMMARY
Date:
March 18,1999 Time:
9:00 a.m. to noon.
Location:
U.S. Department of Energy Forrestal Bldg.
Independence Ave., Washington, D.C.
Attendees:
DOE: Jim Bachmaier, Judy Odoulamy NRC: Tin Mo, Phyllis Sobel, Duane Schmidt I
EPA: Robert Bastian, Behram Shroff ORISE: Dale Condra NAREL: David Saunders
- POTW: Thomas Lenhart/NEORSD Agenda:
Sewage Survey Dose Modeling Work Group Responses to May'97 Guidance Document Comments Summary:
NEW SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS:
NRC... Phyllis introduced her eventual replacement (due to reorganization within NRC) on the Subcommittee - Duane Schtnidt.
DDE... Jim introduced a representative from DOE's General Council's Office - Judy Odoulamy
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OAPP... Any additional questions'or suggested changes should be routed through Phyllis or Bob. Mark Doehnert will be providing the Subcommittee with his ideas on QAPP related issues associated with managing and interpreting the data generated from the full survey effort.
Public Reoort.... Bob handed out a draft cover page with an EPA report number for the final public report. The acknowledgments page that Bob produced several meetings ago and the standard report disclaimer statement are to be added to the document. Phyllis indicated that the report will not be listed as a NUREG document and will not be assigned a separate NRC num although NRC now wants to put the final report on the NRC web page as well as EPA's. Phylli also noted that NRC's management review of the final version of the Public Document had identified several issues needing further discussion. These issues were discussed and suggested wording changes developed by the Subcommittee members. Phyllis will forward these in a redline version to the full Subcommittee membership early next week. Final changes to the reference tables were also discussed. We now hope to clear the final document at our next Subcommittee meeting.
List of POTWs... Bob and Phyllis are attempting to obtain input from 12 more States that have not suggested POTWs for the survey. Phyllis will work with Jill to send out one more request for input from these States by the end of the month.
AMS A/WEF Letter & Guidance Pke.... AMSA/WEF has yet to provide the final version of their letter / guidance document which they now recommend that we include with our mail-out of the 1f questionnaires.
DOSE MODELING WORKING GROUP:
Jim and Behram noted that the planned working group meeting following the Subcommittee meeting had been canceled. The working group is continuing to work on identifying the most j
critical pathways for modeling and to seek approaches for coordinating with the ongoing
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ISCORS MEETING:
On 10 Mar 99 Phyllis provided the full ISCORS committee with a status report on the Subcommittee activities and raised the INS request for membership on the Subcommittee for guidance from the full ISCORS committee.
GUIDANCE DOCUMENT:
Bob identified background materials that he had recently reviewed on several web pages (e.g.,
U.MI and UC-Santa Barbara) for possible inclusion in the updated guidance document and/or links to the agency's web page listings of the public release documents produced by the Subcommittee.
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The next meeting of the Subcommittee was scheduled to be held from 9:00 a.m. to noon on Friday,2Apr99 at NRC Headquarters Rm.T-08F1 in White Flint, MD. The primary foc next meeting will be on the final clearance of the Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document, the review of the draft responses to recent comments from States on the May guidance document, directions for TechLaw regarding the comments / responses th address in revising the guidance document. the POTW mailing list for the questionnaires, a publication of the Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document.
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Final clearance of the Nine Test Sites Sun'ey results Public Document (All).
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EPA and NRC web pages (Sobel, Mo, Bastian, Shroff).
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and interface between NAREL & ORISE with Los Alamos (Abramson, Bachmaier &
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mail out (Bastian, To, Sobel).
Further clarify the schedule for completing the dose modeling effort (Hoffmeyer).
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Finalizejoint NRC/ EPA response to the INS request for industry membership on the 7.
Subcommittee after coordination with ISCORS and NRC 's General Council (S Develop Techlaw directions on which comments and responses to address in updated 8.
guidance document (Shroff, Sobel).
Update paper for presentations at CRCPD, NST & PHS meetings (Bastian, Saunders) 9.
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ISCORS SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING
SUMMARY
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9:00 a.m. to noon Location:
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Two White Flint North Building 10555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland Attendees:
NRC: Tin Mo, Duane Schmidt, Lee Abramson EPA: Robert Bastian, Behram Shroff DOE: Judy Odoulamy i
ORISE: Dale Condra NAREL: David Saunders POTW: Thomas Lenhart/NEORSD, Kevin Aiello, MCUA -
Agenda:
Sewage Sun'ey Dose Modeling Work Group Responses to May'97 Guidance Document Comments Summary:
GENERAL:
Bob Bastian handed out copies of an updated list of Subcommittee member e-mail addresses and mailing addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers for review and further updating. He also handed out copies of the final minutes for the Subcommittee meetings held on 16Feb99 and IMar99, plus a draft of the minutes for the meeting held on 18 Mar 99 for review and comment.
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OAPP... Mark Doehnen had provided comments for the Subcommittee with his ideas on several QAPP related issues associated with managing and interpreting the data generated from the full survey effort,- but wasn't present to discuss them.
Public Report '... Discussions regarding the final public report materials that were reviewed by the Subcommittee since the last meeting (on 18 Mar 99) resulted in the following:
-> the title of the repon will be modified to read " Joint NRC/ EPA Sewage Sludge Radiological Survey: Survey Design & Test Site Results" which adds " sludge" and " radiological" to the title.
-> the figure on the draft cover page will be deleted and replaced with the photo from the cover on the draft Techtaw guidance document (which Behram Shroff will obtain)
-> the NRC logo on the draft cover page will be replaced by one'that doesn't have the banner over the eagle (to be provided by Duane Schmidt)
-> the final changes to the reference tables were again discussed resulting in minor corrections.
-> the Subcommittee's discussion of NRC management's revisions provided by Phyllis Sobel as a redline revision to the final draft version of the Public Document lead to some questions and further suggested wording changes developed by the Subcommittee members. Duane will forward these suggested wording changes to the NRC management for review and clearance.
-> We now hope to clear the final document at our next Subcommittee meeting (scheduled for Wed,21 Apr., at NRC) unless NRC management agrees to the Subcommittee's suggested wording changes sooner.
List of POTWs... Bob handed out copies of:
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-> a list of active NRC licensees with the greatest potential for discharge
-> a working matrix of potential POTWs to receive the full survey questionnaire with the following categories: POTWs with NRC &/or State licensees most likely to discharge; POTWs with incinerators; POTWs recommended by states; POTWs identified in the draft Techlaw report as located in High NORM areas; POTWs servicing Superfund sites; POTWs involved in the EPA National Sewage Sludge Survey; and an "other" category.
-> a working master list of POTWs to receive the full survey questionnaire.
Bob is attempting to obtain contacts and mailing addresses for the POTWs on the master list, while along with Phyllis, Jill and Tin continues to seek input from the States that have not suggested POTWs for the survey.
The Subcommittee wants to get on with mailing out at least some of the questionnaires as soon as possible.
AMS A/WEF Letter & Guidance Pke... AMSA/WEF has yet to provide the final version of their letter / guidance document to be included with our mail-out of the questionnaires. Tom indicated that comments from their advisory group were being addressed by AMS A in preparing that final version. Bob is to contact AMSA in an attempt to get the final version ASAP.
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The Dose Modeling Working Group planned to meet following the Subcommittee meeting,
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I'SCORS MEETING:
Phyllis was not present to brief the Subcommittee on here briefing for the full ISCORS committee on 10 Mar 99, but it was reported that she did follow thru with raising the INS request for membership on the Subconunittee and obtained guidance from the full ISCORS committee on this matter.
GUIDANCE DOCUMENT:
Bob noted that Jim Bachmaier had provided copies of pie-charts from NCRP'93 on radiation exposure in the U.S. from natural and man-made sources for possible inclusion in the revised guidance document, etc.
The Subcommittee then proceeded to review the action items that had bee recommended for Techlaw follow-up at the previous Subcommittee meeting and to continue the review of Phyllis's summary of the more recent State comments on the May'97 draft document and draft i
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meeting will again be on the final clearance of the Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document, the review of the draft responses to recent comments from States on the May'97 draft guidance document, directions for TechLaw regarding the comments / responses they should address in revising the guidance document, the POTW mailing list for the questionnaires, and the publication of the Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document.
Action Items:
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Final clearance of the Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document, with revised title,
- logo, picture vs figure, and modified language (All).
2.
Publish the final Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document and put it up on the
- EPA and NRC web pages (Sobel, Mo, Bastian, Shroff).
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Begin mail'-out of questionnaires ASAP, once the final A.MSA/WEF letter & guidance materials are obtained (Bastian, To).
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Prepare and review responses to comments from the States on the survey and the May'97 draft Guidance Document (All).
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Finalize list of POTWs, including remaining State input, for the full survey questionnaire mail out (Bastian, To, Sobel).
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Further clarify the schedule for completing the dose modeling effort (Hoffmeyer).
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Finalizejoint NRC/ EPA response to the INS request for industry rnembership on the Subcommittee after coordination with ISCORS and NRC 's General Council (Sobel).
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Develop Techlaw directions on which comments and responses to address in updated guidance document (Shroff, Sobel).
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Update paper for presentations at CRCPD, NST & PHS meetings (Bastian, Saunders).
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ISCORS SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING
SUMMARY
l Date:
April 21,1999 Time:
9:00 a.m. to noon Location:
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Two White Flint North Building 10555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland Attendees:
NRC: Tin Mo, Phyllis Sobel, Duane Schmidt, Lee Abramson, Tom O'Brien, Charleen Raddatz EPA: Robert Bastian, Behram Shroff, Mark Doehnert, Alan Rubin DOE: Jim Bachmaier DOD: Roy Lovett ORISE: Dale Condra NAPEL: David Saunders, Scott Telofski, Mary Wisdom POTW: Thomas Lenhart/NEORSD Agenda:
Sewage Survey Dose Modeling Work Group Responses to May'97 Guidance Document Comments Summary:
GENERAL:
Bob Bastian handed out copics of the final minutes for the Subcommittee meeting held on 1 Mar 99 and a draft of the minutes for the meeting held on 12Apr99 for review and comment, lie also handed out copies of an Inside EPA Water Policy Report article on the Santa Fe court case brought by INS regarding Santa Fe's city ordinance which limits the amount of radionuclide concentration in wastewater that would be accepted by the POTW, as well as an AMSA alert lV addressing the planned survey, and the initial page of an updated paper on the Subcommittee activities.
As a result of the NRC reorganization, Charleen Raddatz will now be serving as a liaison w EPA and will be actively involved with the Subcommittee activities again.
Jim Bachmaier requested that the Subcommittee be given an update on the Lowry Landfill / )
Denver METRO situation which he and Bob Bastian presented.
Phyllis Sobel asked about the status of the Jt. NRC/ EPA response letter based on ad by the full ISCORS committee to the INS request to have an industry representative Subcommittee membership, which Tin Mo agreed to put into final form.
SURVEY:
Public Renort... Most of the meeting was taken up by discussion dealing with a series of comments raised by George Powers via Tin Mo, Charleen Raddatz, Mark Doehnert and other members of the Subcommittee about various aspects of the report that lead to a series of text wording changes and revised Table footnotes as well as the need to add several new refere Charleen will help Duane and Phyllis and work with Dave Saunders to finalize language regarding C-14, H-3, and the use of standard environmental sample detection limits f in the final report language in time to allow for distribution to the Subcommittee members an final NRC management review before the next Subcommittee meeting on 13May.
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List of POTS... Bob Bastian noted that he hopes to finalize the mailing list of POTWS to rece the questionnaires by the end of the month and to work with Tin and Duane to complete tI mailing of the questionnaires before the next Subcommittee meeting on 13May.
The Subcommittee wants to get on with mailing out at least some of the questionnaires as soon as possible.
AMSA/WEF Letter & Guidance Pke... Bob Bastian noted that the fina', version of the AMSA guidance document ("Characteri:ation ofRadioactivity Sources at Wastewater Treatment Facilities: A Guidance Documentfor Pretreatment Coordinators"), previousiy reviewed by the Subcommittee, is due to be approved for distribution later this week. They now plan to issue t final document by the Biosolids Partnership (AMSA, WEF & EPA) and for AMSA to send it, along with an AMS A regulatory alert on radiation, to all of the POTWS that are to receive questionnaire shortly before they receive the questionnaires. A revised version of the AM alert in the form of a letter from AMSA & WEF is to be provided for the Subcommittee to include with the questionnaires when they are mailed to the POTWS. As a result, AMSA now needs a copy of the mailing list ASAP.
DOSE MODELING WORKING GROUP:
The Does Modeling Working Group canceled their last scheduled meeting, but plans to meet i v
the same general time frame as the next Subcommittee meeting.
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GUIDANCE DOCUMENT:
Behram agreed to forward to Techlaw the responses to comments received on the May'97 document that have been agreed upon to'date by the Subcommittee in order to try to keep Techlaw on schedule to get the revised document into a releasable form by July'99.
. The next meeting of the Subcommittee was scheduled to be held from 9.00 a.m. to noon on Thursday,13May99 at NRC Headquarters in White Flint, MD. The primary focus of the next meeting will again be on the final clearance of the Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document, the review of the draft responses to recent comments from States on the May'97 draft guidance document, and directions for TechLaw regarding the comments / responses they should address in revising the guidance document.
Action items:
1.
Final clearance of the Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document, with revised title, logo, picture vs figure, and modified language (All).
2.
Finalize mailing list of POTWS to receive questionnaires. Provide AMSA with the i
mailinglist (Bastian).
3.
Publish the final'Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document and put it up on the I
EPA and NRC web pages (Sobel, Mo, Bastian, Shroff).
4.
Begin mail-out of questionnaires ASAP, once the final AMSA/WEF letter is provided (Bastian, To).
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Finalize and send the joint NRC/ EPA letter to INS responding to their request for an industry representative to be added to the Subcommittee membership based on full ISCORS guidance (To, Bastian).
6.
Further work on details of the plan for the Subcommittee to address the data from the full survey and interface between NAREL & ORISE with Los Alamos (Abramson, Bachmaier & Doehnert).
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Prepare and review responses to comments from the States on the survey and the May'97 draft Guidance Document (All).
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Further clarify the schedule for completing the dose modeling effort (floffmeyer).
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ISCORS SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING
SUMMARY
Date:
May 13,1999 Time:
9:00 a.m. to noon Location:
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Two White Flint North Building 10555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland Attendees:
NRC: Tin Mo, Phyllis Sobel, Duane Schmidt, Mary Thomas, Lee Abramson, Charleen Raddatz, Mary Pat Siemien EPA: Robert Bastian, Behram Shroff, Mark Doehnert, Dale Hoffmeyer, Alan Margolis, Ariadne Goerke, John Hines DOE: Jim Bachmaier DOD: Roy Lovett POTW: Thomas Lenhart/NEORSD, Kevin Aiello, MCUA Agenda:
General Issues Sewage Survey Dose Modeling Work Group Review of FOIA Issues Summary-
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GENERAL ISSUES:
Bob Bastian handed cut copies of the final minutes for the Subcommittee meeting held on 21 Apr99 and the fir TCPD paper.
Funher changes concerning the Subcommittee as a result of the.NRC reorganization, include Mary Thomas serving as the NRC co-chair (replacing Tin Mo), Tin Mo minimizing his participation to the Dose Modeling Work Group, and Phyllis Sobel phasing out her participation with Duane Schmidt taking over most of Phyllis's past roles.
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The Subcommittee discussed the general issues that needed to be addressed when the NRC and EPA FOIA lawyers were scheduled to participate in the meeting.
SURVEY:
Public Report.... The Subcommittee reviewed the " final" text wording changes requested by
- NRC concerning various aspects of the report and reviewed the final Table footnote changes and reference additions. The specific language developed by Duane and Phyllis with input from Charleen, Dave Saunders and others regarding C-14, H-3, and the use of standard environmental sample detection limits was discussed in detail. Final revisions were agreed to by the Subcommittee as well as arrangements for printing and placing the final document on the EPA and NRC web pages after the final document language was circulated to the full Subcommittee one last time.
List of POTS... Bob Bastian noted that he was continuing to work on the problems associated with matching up the list of licensee sites and POTS in order to develop the final list of POTS, compile their mailing addresses and preparing mailing labels for use in sending out the survey questionnaire shortly after the Biosolids Partnership guidance document for pretreatment coordinators and the AMSA alert on radiation are distributed later this' month. The Subcommittee L
continued to want to get on with mailing out at least some of the questionnaires as soon as 1
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' DOSE MODELING WORKING GROUP:
The Does Modeling Working Group planed to meet after the Subcommittee meeting.
REVIEW OF FOIA ISSUES:
The bulk of the meeting was taken up by the Subcommittee's participation in detailed discussions with both NRC and EPA FOIA lawyers concerning a series of general issues related to the survey effort. The discussions touched on many areas, including what should be considered to be deliberative during the effort, who should maintain the code book during the effort and its final disposition, status of the NRC contractors (ORISE and Los Alamos) relative to
. FOIA requests, what should be considered to be proprietary information, selection of the POTS f
for involvement in the sampling / analyses phase of the survey, timing ofinformation release to the participating POTS, the anticipated approach to be taken for releasing and distributing the survey's final results, and referrals of requests for specific POTW sample results to the POTS for response. Follow-up discussions are to continue on some of these issues afte,r more information
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Final review of the fm' al Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document language (All).
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Finalize mailing list of POTS to receive questionnaires. Provide AMSA with the mailinglist (Bastian).
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Publish the final Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document and put it up on the EPA and NRC web pages (Sobel, Schmidt, Bastian, Shroff).
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Finalize and send the joint NRC/ EPA letter to INS responding to their request for an industry representative to be added to the Subcommittee membership based on full l
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from the full survey and interface between NAREL & ORISE with Los Alamos (Abramson, Bachmaier & Doehnert).
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Prepare and review responses to comments from the States on the survey and the May'97 draft Guidance Document (All).
8.
Further clarify the schedule for completing the dose modeling effort (Hoffmeyer).
9.
' Develop Techlaw directions on which comments and responses to address in updated guidance document (Shroff, Schmidt).
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Continue to address issues conceming information release (All).
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Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, the State of New Jersey, and two Publicly Owned Treatment Works. The Subcommittee summaries have not been approved by the respective agencies and organizations and do not represent the I
official position of any participating organization at this time.]
ISCORS SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING
SUMMARY
Date:
June 3,1999 Time:
9:00 a.m. to noon Location:
U.S. DOE Washington, D.C.
Attendees:
NRC: Mary Thomas, Duane Schmidt, Charleen Raddatz j
EPA: Robert Bastian, Dale Hoffmeyer, Alan Rubin l
DOE: Jim Bachmaier, Judy Odoulamy DOD: Roy Lovett ORISE: Dale Condra NAREL: David Saunders POTW: Thomas Lenhart/NEORSD, Kevin Aiello, MCUA Agenda:
General Issues Sewage Survey i
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FOIA Issues Follow-up Dose Modeling Work Group Responses to May'97 Guidance Document Comments Summary:
GENERAL ISSUES:
Mary Thomas reported that the final Jt. NRC/ EPA response letter based on advice provided by the full ISCORS committee to the INS request to have an industry representative added to the Subcommittee membership, had been signed and mailed to Bob at EPA for signature and mailing.
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Public Recon.... Duane Schmidt reported that the final version of the document would be released on 4 June and that arrangements for printing by NRC and EPA, and placing the final document on the EPA web page with links to it from the NRC web page have been set up. It was agreed to include a copy of the final document with the survey questionnaires that will be mailed out to the POTWs over the next week or two.
List of POTWs... Bob Bastian handed out copies of a list of 636 POTWs to receive the
-questionnaire and an updated version of the categories (service NRC and/or state licensees that potentially discharge, have sludge incinerators, were recommended by State agencies, located in high NORM areas, service SUPERFUND sites or receive landfill leachates, were involved in the
- NSSS, other) represented by these facilities, and noted that the mailing labels were in the process-of being printed for use in sending out the survey questionnaire shortly after the Biosolids Partnership guidance document for pretreatment coordinators and the AMSA alert on radiation are distributed.
' AMS A/WEF Letter & Guidance Pke.... Tom lenhart noted that he his authority had just received a copy of the final Biosolids Partnership guidance document and AMSA Radiation Alert via AMSA's distribution to its members. Bob Bastian noted that he had yet to receive the final letter from AMSA and WEF for inclusion with the questionnaire. Bob is to request copies of the final Biosolids Partnership guidance document and AMSA Radiation Alert for distribution to interested Subcommittee members.
Survey Ouestionnaire Mailout... Mary and Duane will coordinate the mailout by NRC of the questionnaires along with copies of the public report and letter from AMSA/WEF once all of the t i ls are available. Mary will sign the transmittal letter, which she had revised slightly and
.ma er a circulated for comment, since the responses are to be returned to NRC. Bob will get them a set of mailing labels by early next week and push for the final letter from AMSA/WEF.
ISCORS MEETING:
Mary Thomas and Duane Schmidt agreed to present the Subcommittee status report at the next full ISCORS meeting scheduled for 10 June (Bob will be out of town). Copies of the final public report on the results of the Nine Test Site Survey will be distributed. Dale Hoffmeyer will present a short briefing on the Dose Modeling Working Group's efforts.
FOIA ISSUES FOLLOW-UP:
Bob noted that the final public report will be used as a part of the formal response to the pending FOIA appeal. The Subcommittee agreed that as a result of the discussion with the NRC and EPA
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retention schedule. Los Alamos will have access to the coded information if necessary to i
complete their data evaluation efforts. Any need for conducting follow-up evaluations will need i
to be coordinated with ORISE relative to coded information. It was also agreed that NRC needed to check on the status of ORISE with respect to FOIAs.
DOSE MODELING WORKING GROUP:
Dale Hoffmeyer summarized the current status, plans and direction of the Dose Modeling Working Group's efforts. A general discussion folbwed that helped clarify various issues and i
objectives for these efforts. A series of follow-up actions were identified tLat included
- determining any'effect of the clearance rule on sewage sludge / ash, possible affects on the risk 1
harmonization subcommittee's activities, determine how radon in water and air should be i
handled, find out how NORM should be handled relative to EPA's ongoing broad NORM evaluation efforts, and find out what exposure assumptions were used in the State of Washington report. Dale requested that copies of the WEF CD-ROM with the Part 503 support documents be obtained for the Dose Modeling Working Group.
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Duane to get a written response from his NRC OGC lawyers to his summary of Federal, State and local legal authorities that could be used to secure an EPA OGC response. The Subcommittee members were encourage to complete their responses to the remaining comments for discussion at the next Subcommittee meeting.
The next meeting of the Subcommittee was scheduled to be held from 9:00 a.m. to noon on
- Thursday,24 June 99 at either EPA in Washington, D.C. or at Ft. Detrich in Frederick, MD. The primary focus of the next meeting will again be on addressing data handling issues /QAPP provisions associated with the full survey effort and the review of draft responses to the State comments on the May'97 draft guidance document in order to prepare the combined response summary for distribution to those submitting comments and to provide further directions for Techlaw regarding the comments / responses they should address in revising the guidance document.
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Entry on EPA web page, establishment of web'page links at NRC, printing and -
. distribution of the final Nine Test Sites Survey results Public Document language (Cumberland, Bastian, Schmidt, Thomas).
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Provide NRC and AMSA with the POTW mailing labels (Bastian).
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Obtain final AMSA/WEF letter for inclusion with mailing of questionnaires (Bastian).
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Finalize transmittal letter and mail-out of questionnaires ASAP, once the final AMS A/WEF letter is provided (Thomas, Schmidt).
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Coordinate mailing ot questionnaires, letters, and publications to Pots (Thomas, Bastian).
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Sign and mail the joint NRC/ EPA letter to INS responding to their request for an
- industry representative to be added to the Subcommittee membership based oi. full ISCORS guidance (Thomas, Bastian).
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Further work on details of the plan (and QAPP) for the Subcommittee to address the data from the full survey and interface between NAREL & ORISE with Los Alamos (Abramson, Bachmaier & Doehnert).
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Check on status of ORISE with respect to FOIA (Schmidt).
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Continue coordination of the dose modeling effort (Hoffmeyer).
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Check on any effects of the clearance rule on sewage sludge / ash (Schmidt).
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Check on possible affects of the dose modeling effort on the risk harmonization subcommittee's activities (Thomas).
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Inquire about how radon in water and air should be handled relative to the dose modeling effort (Rubin).
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Check with Loren Setlow concerning how NORM should be handled in the dose modeling effort relative to EPA's ongoing broad NORM evaluation efforts (Hoffmeyer).
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Find out what exposure assumptio:'.s were used in the State of Washington report Bachmaier).
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Obtain copies of the WEF CD-ROM with Part 503 support documents for the Dose Modeling Working Group (Bastian).
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Prepare and review responses to comments from the States on the survey and the May'97 draft Guidance Document (All).
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Obtain feedback from NRC OGC lawyers on Bob's legal authorities summary (Schmidt).
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' Develop Techlaw directions on which comments and responses to address in updated guidance document (Shroff, Schmidt).
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