ML20217M463
| ML20217M463 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/29/1998 |
| From: | Huffert T NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | External (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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' April 29, 1998 -
Dear. Members of the ISCORS Sewage Subcommittee:
1 invite you to attend the next meeting of the ISCORS Sewage Subcommittee to be held on May 6. 1998, from 9:00 a.m. to noon. The meeting will be held at
-the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11555 Rockvjlle Pike. Rockville.
~ Maryland in Conference Room 0-7F5.
The purpose of this subcommittee meeting is to discuss progress on the sewage-sludge / ash survey and the guidance document for POTW operators. An agenda and the summary of.the last subcommittee meeting are enclosed.
I look forward to meeting with you on May 6.
If4you have any questions'about the meeting, please call me at (301) 415-6416 or Bob Bastian at the U.S.
Environmental' Protection Agency at (202) 260-7378.
Sincerely.
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Tony Huffert. Senior Health Physicst Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch Division of Waste Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
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April 29, 1998
Dear Members of the ISCORS Sewage Subcommittee:
I invite you to attend the next meeting of the ISCORS Sewage Subcommittee to be_ held on May 6. 1998, from 9:00 a.m. to noon.
The meeting will_be held at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike. Rockville, Maryland in Conference Room 0-7F5.
The purpose of this subcommittee meeting is to discuss progress on the sewage sludge / ash survey and the guidance document.for P01W operators. An agenda and the summary of the last subcommittee meeting are enclosed.
I look forward to meeting with you on May 6.
If you have any questions about the meeting. please call me at-(301) 415-6416 or Bob Bastian at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency at (202) 260-7378.
Sincerely.
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Robert Bastian Office of Wastewater Management (4204) 401 M Street. S.W.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20460 Loren Setlow i
Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (6602J) i U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
401 M Street. S.W.
Washington. DC 20460 Deborah Kopsick Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (6602J)
U.S. Envir onmental Protection Agenc) 401 M Street. S.W.
Washington, DC 20460 Mark Doehnert Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (6602J)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 401 M Street. S.W.
Washington. DC 20460 Roy Lovett Directorate for Safety and Engineering ATTN: MCH0-SHE Building 1500. Ft. Detrick Frederick. MD 21702 James Bachmaier U.S. Department of Energy Mail Stop El!-412 1000 Independence Avenue SW Washington. DC 20585 i
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i Dr. Jill Lipoti. Assistant Director for Radiation Protection Programs Division of Environmental Safety. Health and Analytical Programs Department of Environmental Protection CN 415 Trenton, NJ 08625-0415 Dale Condra-f Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education P.O. Box-117 l
'0ak Ridge TN 37831-0117 Dave Saunders
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-ISCORS SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE-1 L'
- AGENDA FOR'MAY
- 6,11998 MEETING i
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. SEWAGE-SURVEY (9i00 to 10:15'am)-
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. Status-of 0MB clearance 1(Huffert)
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Status of Quality Assurance Project Plan (Setlow)
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Comparison of ORISE and NAREL results from test sites
-(Abramsdn/Huffert) g i-1 L
Data sheets.from AMSA survey for POTWs used as test cases in NRC/ EPA
. survey (Bastian)
Confidentiality of POTWs/ flow of'information (Bastian)
List of_POTWs for questionnaire (Bastian)'
i Briefing for ISCORS members' on screening.levelsf(Bastian)
DOSE MODELING WORKING GROUP (10:15 to 10:30 am).
-StatusLreport (Setlow)
- BREAK (10:30to10i40am)
..POTW GUIDANCE DOCUMENT'-(10:40 to MiE0 am)
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' Comments on guidance document (Bastian)
-FUTURE ACTIONS (11:50 to' noon)
-Summarydfactionitems Schedule next subcommittee meeting ENCLOSURE 1-
l DISCLAIMER These ISCORS subcommittee meeting' summaries result from interagency discussions.
The Sewage Subcommittee is composed of representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Department of Defense,. Department of Energy, and the State of New-Jersey.
The subcommittee meeting summaries have not been approved by the respective federal. agencies and do not represent the )fficial position of any participating agency-at this time.
ISCORS SEWAGE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING
SUMMARY
Date:
March 26, 1998 Time:
9:00 am to noon Location:
Department of Defense Ft. Detrick, Frederick. Maryland Attendees:
NRC:
Phyllis Sobel Tony Huffert. Lee Abramson. Tin Mo EPA: Bob Bastian. Loren Setlow, Mark Doehnert. Behram Shroff D00: Roy Lovett DOE: Jim Bachmaier EPA /NAREL:
Dave Saunders. Scott Telofski States:. Jill Lipoti, NJ
-Agenda:
Sewage survey Guidance document
' Summary:
OMB is still reviewing the survey before granting approval.
l The. Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) for the survey will be completed when we have finalized the survey design.
Lee Abramson reported on his ongoing analysis of the results from the test sites to d termine if there are significant differences between the ORISE and l
NAREL results.
There was discussion about the sources of uncertainty in the ENCLOSURE 2
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measurementsandthe.needtoidentkfyanysystematicdifferencesbetweenthe
.labt 000 a'nd 00E plan to volunte'er lists of.POTWs associated with their agency ls l
facilities that these agencies would like to include in the survey. ~ EPA's
.NORrt contractor -is assembling a list of POTWs associated with industries that-
- discharge radionucli_ des;but are not NRC licensees and POTWs in.high NORM L
areas.
The dose modeling working group plans to meet in April. -The EPA-NORM contractor is, performing dose modeling using the results from the test sites-
~and results from the AMSA survey.
Mark.Doehnert suggested that.the working-
. group' perform a literature review and then. develop a conceptual model of L
. potential pathways.
At:the March 12 ISCORS meeting. Bob Bastian ask ISCORS for assistance'in determining whether.to include a table ofJacceptable concentrations'in +.he l
POTW guidanca document and the appropriate dose limit for this table. A table u
of concei 3tions is also needed to determine which survey results are-elevated.
Loren Setlow is attempting to set up al conference call for Monday, March 30. The subcommittee members are assembling information for the phone-call on background soil concentrations and clearance lev'els for consumer.
products.
The group agreed to review Phyllis Sobel's list'of the comments on the 1
guidance document and determine assignments.for each response.
The next subcommittee meeting will be held on May 26 at NRC in Rockville.
Maryland. -At this meeting we will discuss the report on the test sites, the list of POTWs to be sent the questionnaire, comments on the guidance document I
and the stacus of the dose modeling working group.
Action Items:
- 1. - Lee Abramson will finalize the analysis of the test site data to determine if:there are any significant differences between the ORISE and NAREL results.
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- 2. ~ Tony Huffert will continue the analysis to determine the cause of any systematic differences between the labs data.
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Scott Telofski of NAREL will also compare the data from the two labs.
4 ' D0D-and DOE will compile lists of POTWs associated with their agencies' 4
i f acilJas (or. lists of the D00 and DOE facilities so Bob Bastian can identify the POTlds).
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Loren'Setlow will schedule a conference call for the ISCORS working group to discuss the-table of. concentrations,ieeded to determine..which survey i
results are elevated.
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Phyllis Sobel will' circulate the list of comments on the guidance document and so the subcommittee members can determine assignments for each response.
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