ML20217M650
| ML20217M650 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Maine Yankee |
| Issue date: | 08/09/1999 |
| From: | Ronald Bellamy NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Brack S CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL MONITORING, INC. |
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Box 144 Hulls Cove, ME 04644-0144
SUBJECT:
' VERIFICATION OF CLEANUP STANDARDS
Dear Mr. Brack:
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.I am responding to your E-mail of July 19,1999 pertaining to cleanup standards at the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company (MYAPC) station. In particular, you question the verification of meeting cleanup standards. NRC criteria for licensing nuclear power plants are contained in 10 CFR Part 50, Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities (copy enclosed). In particular,10 CFR 50.82, Termination of Licenses, addresses the requirements that MYAPC must meet in order to terminate its NRC license for the Maine Yankee station.
One of the requirements in 10 CFR 50.82 is the submission of a License Termination Plan for
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NRC approval. The License Termination Plan must include plans for site remediation and detailed plans for the final radiation survey. The NRC is required to notice receipt of the License Termination Plan and make it available for public comment in addition, a public meeting is required to be held in the vicinity of the facility to discuss the License Termination Plan.
. Following NRC review and notice to interested parties, NRC will approve the License
. Termination Plan if the plan demonstrates that the decommissioning activities will be performed in accordance with applicable regulations, will not be, harmful to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public, and will not have a significant effect on the
_ quality of the environment. The NRC can terminate the license for the facility if it determines that the decommissioning activities have been performed in accordance with the approved License Termination Plan and the final radiation survey documentation demonstrates that the site is suitable for release in accordance with the criteria for decommissioning in 10 CFR Part 20, subpart E (copy enclosed). The NRC has not received a License Termination Plan for the Maine Yankee station as of this date.
The NRC, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy jointly developed guidance to provide a nationally consistent consensus approach for conducting radiation surveys at contaminated sites, to determine if a site has been i
remediated to meet regulatory requirements. The NRC will accept surveys conducted using l
this guidance, the Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual (MARSSIM), for i
demonstruung that a site has been adequately decommissioned. The demonstration of
. compliance using the MARSSIM guidance is comprised of three interrelated parts: translation of the cleanup or release criteria into corresponding derived contaminent concentration levels through the use of environmental pathway modeling, measuring the levels and distribution of I
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residual contamination through surveys and analysis of samples, and determining that the site meets the release criteria, within an acceptable degree of uncertainty, through application of
. statistically based tests ' NRC staff or their contractors, will also make independent
- measurements and perform sampling and analysis to provide further confidence that the criteria i for release have been met before the license is terminated.
- Throughout the decommissioning process at MYAPC,' we will continue to routinely inspect the dismantlement and survey activities at the facility to determine compliance with NRC regulations and licensee commitments.' The findings of those inspections will be documented in NRC inspection reports and made available to the public through the Public Document Room.
I hope this is responsive to your concems.
Sihcerely, Mt.\\
Ronald R. Bellamy, Chief Decommissioning and Laboratory Branch Division of Nuclear Materials Safety
Enclosures:
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10 CFR Part 20, Subpart E
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