ML20247F485
| ML20247F485 | |
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| Site: | 07003085 |
| Issue date: | 05/05/1998 |
| From: | Jim Hickey NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| NUDOCS 9805190349 | |
| Download: ML20247F485 (2) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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DOCKET NO.:
07003085 LICENSE NO.;
SNM-2001 AGENCY:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission ACTION:
Public Meeting to Discuss the Decommissioning of the Babcock and Wilcox Shallow Land Disposal Area in Parks Township, PA.
SUMMARY
- This notice is to inform the public of a meeting to discuss the decommissioning of the Babcock and Wilcox (aSW) Shallow Land Disposal Area (SLDA) in Parks Township, PA.
The meeting will be held on May 27,1998, in the Leechburg High School Cafeteria on Siberian Avenue, in Leechburg, PA. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will end at 9:30 p.m. The meeting will consist of a facilitated discussion, followed by an opportunity for comments by interested members of the public.
' SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SLDA is located in Armstrong County, PA, -
approximately 23 miles east-northeast of Pittsburgh. The SLDA consists of ten waste disposal trenches comprising approximately 1.2 acres surrounded by a 40-acre fenced buffer area. The SLDA was formerly owned by Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) which also operated the nearby Apollo Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Facility. In the 1960s and 1970s, the.
' SLDA was used by NUMEC to dispose of radioactively contaminated (primarily uranium and thorium) and non-radioactive wastes in accordance with NRC regulations at 10 CFR 20.304.
NRC rescinded 10 CFR 20.304 in 1981. In 1967, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) purchased stock in NUMEC and then sold it to B&W in 1971.
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' In September 1994, B&W submitted severai remediation attematives for the SLDA to NRC.
B&Ws preferred attemative was to stabilize the waste in place by covering the buried waste with a soil and synthetic cover and isolating the waste from the groundwater with slurry walls, grout curtains and other engineered barriers. Based on B&Ws proposed attemative for -
decommissioning the SLDA, NRC published a notice in the Federal Register announcing NRC's intent to develop an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the decommissioning of the site.
NRC conducted an EIS scoping meeting in Leechburg, PA, on January 26,1995, and released a scoping summary report on May 30,1995. In August 1997, NRC completed development of a draft EIS (DEIS) and published a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register on September 4,1997. NRC withdrew the DEIS on September 24,1997, so that NRC staff could develop additional information regarding the attematives presented in the DEIS.
CONDUCT _ OF MEETING: The meeting will be held on May 27,1998, in the Leechburg High School Cafeteria on Siberian Avenue, in Leechburg, PA. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m.
and will end at 9:30 p.m. The meeting will be facilitated by Mr. F. X. Cameron, NRC's Special Counsel for Public Liaison. The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss, with representative stakeholder and the public, the status of the decommissioning of the SLDA. The meeting will
' involve representatives from the NRC, local govemment and citizen groups and the public.
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These representatives will participate in a facilitated discussion. In addition, the public will be afforded the opportunity to provide comments at specified points during the discussion.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Dominick Orlando, Division of Waste Management, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop T-8F37, Washington, DC, j
telephone (301)'415-6749, e-mail DAO@NRC. GOV Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this [h day of 1998.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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u John W. N. Hickey, Chief Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning.
Projects Branch Division of Waste Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards i
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