ML25352A099
| ML25352A099 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07007005 |
| Issue date: | 12/23/2025 |
| From: | Duane White NRC/NMSS/DDUWP/LLWPB |
| To: | Robert Williams Waste Control Specialists |
| Shared Package | |
| ML25352A096 | List: |
| References | |
| EPID L-2025-LLO-0000 | |
| Download: ML25352A099 (0) | |
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Ryan Williams, Vice President Integrated Services Waste Control Specialists LLC The Summit at Preston Trails 17103 Preston Road, Suite #200 Dallas, TX 75248
SUBJECT:
ACCEPTANCE OF THE DECEMBER 10, 2025, WASTE CONTROL SPECIALISTS LLC REQUEST TO MODIFY ORDER CONDITIONS (CAC NO. 001542/DOCKET NO. 0707005/EPID NO. L-2025-LLO-0000)
Dear Mr. Williams:
On December 10, 2025, Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) sent a letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requesting modification of Conditions in the currently effective NRC Exemption Order to WCS. In the letter, WCS requested permission to: extend possession of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Waste at the WCS Low-Level Waste Disposal Site (WCS Site) near Andrews, Texas, until December 31, 2028; perform certain prepare for shipment activities with the LANL Waste; and remove no longer needed Order Conditions. The publicly available WCS request is available in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at Accession No. ML25346A049.
The purpose of this letter is to provide the results of the NRC staffs acceptance review of your request. The acceptance review was performed to determine if there is sufficient information to allow the NRC staff to complete its review. The staff has reviewed your submittal and concludes that it does provide sufficient information to enable the NRC to complete its review. The NRC staffs detailed review may identify safety and environmental issues that necessitate requests for additional information (RAI). If additional information is needed to address these areas, you will be advised by separate correspondence.
The NRC expects to complete its accelerated safety, environmental, and security review under Condition No. 12 (i.e., NRC Response Letter to WCS) of the NRC Exemption Order to WCS by January 30, 2026. Based on the information provided in the WCS request, the NRC staff has estimated that the safety and environmental review will take approximately 100 staff hours to complete.
If there are emergent complexities or challenges in our review that would cause changes to the schedule, then the reasons for the changes and the new schedule will be communicated to both WCS and the State of Texas.
In accordance with 10 CFR Section 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding, a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC December 23, 2025
R. Williams 2
Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records component of ADAMS. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Website at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html.
If you have any questions or need additional information, then please contact Harry Felsher of my staff at Harry.Felsher@nrc.gov or at 301415-6559.
Sincerely, Duane E. White, Branch Chief Low-Level Waste and Projects Branch Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and Waste Programs Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 07007005 cc: C. Goodin, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality chance.goodin@tceq.texas.gov J. Cartwright, Waste Control Specialists LLC jcartwright@wcstexas.com Signed by White, Duane on 12/23/25
ML25352A096; Ltr ML25352A099 OFFICE NMSS/DUWP/LLWPB NMSS/DUWP
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/LLWPB NAME HFelsher DWhite DWhite DATE Dec 18, 2025 Dec 23, 2025 Dec 23, 2025