ML092740160
| ML092740160 | |
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| Site: | Sequoyah  |
| Issue date: | 09/24/2009 |
| From: | Laster D - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch |
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4 V_: Iei e NUCLEAR ENERGY LIABILITY EXCLUSION ENDORSEMENT (BROAD FORM)
It is agreed that: possessions or Canada, this exclusion (c) applies only to property damage to such nuclear facility and A. The policy does not apply: any property thereat.
- 1. Under any Liability Coverage, to bodily injury or prop- B. As used in this endorsement:
erty damage "hazardous properties" include radioactive, toxic or ex-
- a. with respect to which an insured under the policy is plosive properties; also an insured under a, nuclear energy. liability "nuclear material" means source material, special nuclear policy issued by Nuclear Energy Liability Insurance material or byproduct material; Association, Mutual Atomic Energy Liability Under-
"source material", "special nuclear material", and "by-writers or Nuclear Insurance Association of Canada, or would be an insured under any such policy but for product material" have the meanings given them in the its termination upon exhaustion of its limit of lia- Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or in any law amendatory bility; or 'thereof; "spent fuel" means any fuel element or fuel component,
- b. resulting from the hazardous properties of nuclear material and with respect to which (1) any person or solid or liquid, which has been used or exposed to radia-organization is required to maintain financial pro- tion in a nuclear reactor; tection pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, "waste" means any waste material (a) containing byprod-or any law amendatory thereof, or (2) the insured is, uct material and (b) resulting from the operation by any or had this policy not been issued would be, en- person or organization of any nuclear facility included titled to *indemnity from the United States of within the definition of nuclear facility under paragraph America, or any.agency thereof, under any agree- 1 or 2 thereof; ment entered into by the United States of America, "nuclear facility" means orany agency thereof, with any person or organi-zation. 1. any nuclear reactor,
- 2. Under any Medical Payments Coverage, or under any 2. any equipment or device designed or used for (a)
Supplementary Payments provision relating to first aid, separating the isotopes of uranium or plutonium, (b) to expenses incurred with respect to bodily injury re- processing or utilizing spent fuel, or (c) handling, sulting from the hazardous properties of nuclear ma- processing or. packaging waste, terial and arising out of the operation of a nuclear fa-cility by any person or organization. 3. any equipment or device used for the processing, fabricating or alloying of special nuclear material if at
- 3. Under any.Liability Coverage, to bodily injury* or prop- any time the total amount of such material in the cus-erty damage resulting from the hazardous properties tody of the insured at the premises where such equip-of nuclear material, if ment or device is located consists of or contains more than 25 grams of plutonium or uranium 233 or any com-
- a. the nuclear material (1) is at any nuclear facility bination thereof, or more than 250 grams of uranium owned by, or operated by or on behalf of, an insured 235,
- or (2) has been discharged or dispersed therefrom;
- 4. any structure, basin, excavation, premises or place
- b. the nuclear material is contained in spent fuel or prepared or used for the storage or disposal of waste, waste at any time possessed, handled, used, proc-essed, stored, transported or disposed of by or on and includes the site on which any of the foregoing is lo-behalf of an insured; or cated, all operations conducted on such site and all premises used for such operations;
- c. the bodily injury or property damage arises out of "nuclear reactor" means any apparatus designed or used the furnishing by an insured of services, materials, parts or equipment in connection with the planning, to sustain nuclear fission in a self-supporting chain reac-
.tion or to contain a critical mass of fissionable material; construction, maintenance, operation or use of any nuclear facility, but if such facility is located within "property damage" includes all forms of radioactive con-the United States of America, its territories or tamination of property.
NEW YORK EXCEPTION: The "Nuclear Energy Liability Exclusion Endorsement (Broad Form)" does not apply to Automo-bile Liability Insurance in New York.
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ing the silo to fill with dense, black smoke. Two men working near the top man- time," says Captain McCarthy, "it will look like a meadowj aged to escape, but the rest were trapped. As the cloud of debris begins to settle, an elderly woman, The Titans have caused other serious damage. A 1978 explosion at a silo in edge of her lawn chair, breaks the silence. "Was the bombh Kansas killed two airmen and destroyed the missile. After the accident, Robert urgently. A crew member assures her that it was not.
For security reasons, uranium from deactivated missiles is remolded to di ise the shape it had inthe Titan. The button is then stored inOak Ridge, Tenn.
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Public delves int0 injection well issue BY DICK MAYO, JEFF MAYO AND JIM top and 3,100 feet at the Public Meeting 8:30 a.m. Sept. 23. Wilson MAYO bottom. said he requested the pub-Wilson said representa- Vian High School audito- lic meeting to see if "we can State Sen. Jim Wilson tives from I-MAC will be rium at 6 p.m.Thursday to get comfortable [with the (D-Tahlequah). announced there to explain their pro- discuss proposed injection proposed well] or pursue a last week. that a public posal to anyone who is well. formal protest."
meeting to consider a interested, and the corpo- I-MAC proposes to inject proposed commercial in- ration commission, which regulates injection wells. saltwater waste from area jection well to dispose of regulates the state oil and B&B Saltwater Disposal oil and gas wells into the salt water near Vian will gas industry, including the LLC, which operates an Arbuckle Formation, which be held in the Vian High disposal of wastes from injection well in the Bri- lies under a large area that School auditorium at 6 drilling operations, will artown area of southern includes western Sequoyah p.m. Thursday. also be represented to ex- Muskogee County, and at County. Matt Skinner, infor-I-MAC Petroleum Ser- plain the commission's role least three Vian residents mation officer with the Cor-vices Inc.. of Muskogee has and the process by which it have filed protests to the poration Commission, said filed an application with proposed well. in an Aug. 6 news article in the Oklahoma Corpora- Your Times, that the com-tion Commission to open 'We requested the MEETING IS NOT OFFICIAL mission has guidelines to a well near the southeast The Thursday meeting follow if anyone suspects city limits of Vian. The per- meeting to see if is not an official hearing. contamination..
mit requests permission to we can get com- Next week's meeting will be for information and dis-Skinner said in a recent dispose of 40,000 barrels telephone interview that an COUNTY ASSESSOR (1,680,000 gallons) of salt fortable [with the cussion purposes, Wilson administrative law judge The large arrow above points to the site, in pink, of the proposed I-MAC water a day under 1,000 proposed well] or said. Legal notice 40,976 working for the commis- saltwater injection well. The well will be the subject of a public meet-pounds per square inch of published in this past sion will make the first ing at the Vian High School auditorium at 6 p.m. Thursday.
pressure, measured at the pursue a formal Thursday's and this issue ruling on the well. Anyone surface. The salt water will of Your TIMES states the can submit information for is made a part of the case dress is Oklahoma Corpo-be injected into a zone in protest.' permit hearing will be held consideration. Skinner said record. His e-mail address ration Commission, 2101 the Arbuckle formation at State Sen. Jim Wilson at First Floor, Jim Thorpe comments can be sent to is m.skinner@occemail.
a depth of 1,600 feet at the 9 1 Building, Oklahoma City at him, and he will see that it com, and the postal ad- SEE WELL, BACK PAGE
WELL: County sees increasetn drilling waste FROM PAGE 1 N. Lincoln Blvd., Room COMMISSION INSPECTORS called landfarming, or soil measures. The Arkansas de- While the salt water to be "Treated raffinate is a 310, Oklahoma City, Okla. TAKE SAMPLES farming. Soil farming is a partment is also stiffening injected in the Vian well has diluted solution of ammo-73105. Skinner also said that name given to spreading its regulations as a result of been compared to seawater, nium nitrate, a non-radio-The judge will consider commission field inspec- water-based waste on farm- the study. the experience of people active substance," Jim Carr, information and data pro- tors, not disposal site opera- land. The proposed injec- Drillers had to find new near the decommissioned then manager of Sequoyah vided by I-MAC, corporation tors, take the samples from tion well would add another places to dispose of the Sequoyah Fuels Nuclear Fuels, said in the Sept. 16, commission engineers and wells and other disposal disposal method. their waste fluids, and as Fuel plant near Gore was 1984, issue of Your TIMES.
any other interested party, sites that are used to verify a result, Sequoyah County much more serious. Raffinate is a by-product of and then recommend to what was disposed of. The WASTE IS COMING FROM and other parts of Oklaho- The injection well at the processing of uranium corporation commissioners commission employs about ARKANSAS ma have seen an upsurge in Sequoyah Fuels is about that was done at the Gore whether to approve or deny 50 field inspectors. Much of the waste is com- waste disposal activity. six miles from the I-MAC plant.
the application. While injection wells are ing into the county from In addition to the Vian dis- proposed well. The I-MAC The permit was later de-If the commissioners deny uncommon in Sequoyah Arkansas. In April the Ar- posal well, the corporation proposed well is between nied and the 35 million gal-the application, the matter County, they are quite com- kansas Department of Envi- commission Web site shows Interstate 40 and Vian just lons of raffinate was pro-will end, or the applicant mon in other parts of the ronmental Quality released the number of requests off of the east side of High- hibited from being pumped can appeal to the Oklaho- state. Skinner said the state a report critical of the dis- for permits to spread drill- way 82. into the well.
ma Supreme Court, Skin- currently has 10,426 active posal of oil and gas drilling ing fluids on farmland in .A little over 25 years ago, Sequoyah Fuels first test-ner said. If commissioners injection wells, and the total wastes on Arkansas farm- Sequoyah County went from Sequoyah Fuels pumped ed the well by injecting 5 feel there is enough reason drilled, including inactive land. only five between 1989 and wastewater from their plant million gallons of treated to call a public hearing on wells, is 25,207. In Arkansas that depart- 2008 to more than 80 so far down an injection well, raffinate between June 6 the matter, it can do so, at He said that in fiscal year ment regulates disposal of this year alone. only to see it come out in and Aug. 2, 1983. The raf-which time those protesting 2008, the commission ap- drilling wastes. The report home water wells near their finate was injected into the can present evidence. proved 208 noncommercial attacked disposal practices VIEWS VARY WIDELY ON property. In that case, the Arbuckle formation at a Skinner said that opera- disposal wells. These only at 11 landfarm sites, stating DRILLING WASTE TOXICITY contamination was radio- depth of 3,122 feet, accord-tors of injection wells are take waste from the com- that fluids used in natural Skinner said that some active. In the Nov. 6, 1984, ing to the Sept. 16, 1984, is-licensed to dispose of spe- pany drilling the well and gas production had been farmers think it improves issue of Your TIMES, it was sue of Your TIMES.
cific things, and they are not from other companies. improperly applied, causing soil productivity when reported that "radium had Sequoyah Fuels officials responsible for what they The commission also ap- environmental harm. spread on farmland. That been discovered in two spe- were later quoted as saying put down the well. The com- proved 37 commercial wells In November 2008, the de- view is disputed by C.K. cific areas, Dirty Creek near the water in the Arbuckle mission can demand their that take waste from other partment halted consider- Rice, agronomist with the Warner, and a spring near formation is already more records and audit them. companies. ation of any new landfarm Oklahoma State Univer- Nicut." radioactive than raffinate.
Trucks hauling the waste In recent months, there permits until a study of the sity Extension Service, who According to news stories Disposal of oil and gas are also regulated by the has been an increase in 11 sites was completed. By says much of the research in Your TIMES from fall and well waste is a serious and state. the amount of oil and gas April, the department had results on the wastes have winter 1984, Sequoyah Fu- complex subject that is new "I can't stress enough, well waste coming into taken enforcement actions shown reductions in plant els wanted to use a well on to Sequoyah Countians, if anyone has any reason Sequoyah County for dis- against all 11 landfarms and growth, and more study is its property first drilled in and the Thursday meeting to think that an operation posal. Some of this waste is sought to revoke permits at needed to learn the effects 1969 to store 35 million gal- should provide more in-is not working properly, being applied to farmland two sites and was consid- of land applying drilling flu- lons of treated raffinate by formation for county resi-report it," Skinner said. under a regulated program ering further enforcernent ids. injecting it into the ground. dents.
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