ML20236K405

Advises That NRC Cannot Provide Financial Assistance Toward Review of Maxey Flats Disposal Site.Rept of NRC Review Group That Concludes No Health Problem Re Release of Radioactive Matl at Burial Site Encl.State Action Supported.W/O Encl

ML20236K405
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Issue date:	07/14/1975
From:	Karen Chapman NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Dawson C KENTUCKY, COMMONWEALTH OF
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION W ASHIN GTO N. D. C. 2055 5 l

l JUL 141975 Mr. C. Leslie Dawson The Secretary for Human Resources Commonwealth of Kentucky Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 l

Dear Mr. Dawson:

In our June 25, 1975, response to your May 13, 1975, letter, we informed you of our activities regarding review of the Maxey Flats low level radioactive waste disposal site which included consideration of your request for financial assistance to conduct further studies at the site.

While we are able to pro'ide continuing technical assistance to the i

State, we are not able to provide financial assistance. We believe that the information expected to be obtained from the Environmental Study Design Committee's proposed studies will be sufficiently site specific so as not to be of direct applicability to other NRC activities.

Enclosed is the report of the NRC review group which we have sent to Governor Carroll. The report concludes that there is no significant public health problem associated with the release of radioactive material from this burial site.

It is also our conclusion that the State has been taking appropriate action concerning implementation of the recommendations as contained in the six-month study report. The report includes several recommendations for consideration by the State which deal principally with methods for improving water management at the site so as to minimize migration of radioactive material.

Regarding the statements in your letter that the AEC concurred in your issuance of the license for the Maxey Flats burial ground in 1963, information in our files shows that while the AEC staff commented upon certain geo-hydrological aspects of the site that should be. investigated, the AEC never actually reviewed or concurred in all the information upon which the original licensing action was based.

This was considered appropriate since Kentucky was an Agreement State with authority to regulate, among other things, commercial burial of certain radioactive waste in the State.

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Mr. C. Leslie Dawson If you have any questions regarding the attached report and its recommendations, please let me know.

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