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Letter to Mr. Frank Marcinowski of DOE - Forwarding the Technical Evaluation Report for the Draft Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation for the Vitrification Melter at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York
ML112031101
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Site: West Valley Demonstration Project, P00M-032
Issue date: 09/30/2011
From: Camper L
NRC/FSME/DWMEP
To: Marcinowski F
US Dept of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
Devaser N DWMEP/EPPAD/LLWB 415-5196
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September 30, 2011 Mr. Frank Marcinowski Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technical and Regulatory Support Office of Environmental Management U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.

Washington, DC 20585

SUBJECT:

TECHNICAL EVALUATION REPORT FOR THE DRAFT WASTE INCIDENTAL TO REPROCESSING EVALUATION FOR THE VITRIFICATION MELTER

Dear Mr. Marcinowski:

By letter dated March 8, 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) submitted the Draft Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation for the Vitrification Melter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for review. The submitted document evaluates whether the Vitrification Melter at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) in New York meets the waste incidental to reprocessing (WIR) criteria of DOE-Manual 435.1-1, Radioactive Waste Management. Demonstration that the criteria in DOE-Manual 435.1-1 are met allows DOE to dispose of the used Vitrification Melter offsite as low-level radioactive waste. The NRC staff has performed a technical review to assess whether the draft evaluation is technically sufficient to demonstrate that the melter meets the criteria in Section II.B (2)(a) of DOE-M 435.1-1 accompanying DOE-O 435.1-1. The NRCs assumptions, analyses, and conclusions are presented in the attached Technical Evaluation Report (TER). The NRC has conducted this consultative review per request of the DOE in accordance with Interagency Agreement (IA)

DE-EM0000284, dated June 30, 2010.

The NRC has focused its review on waste characterization, waste form stability, waste classification, and removal of radionuclides to the maximum extent practical; operational radiation protection at the West Valley site; and applicable quality assurance program elements.

As outlined in the IA, this review does not include the sufficiency of the waste acceptance criteria or the sufficiency of the performance assessment for the potential disposal facility being considered to receive the waste. This review also does not include consideration of operational radiation protection at the disposal facility.

Based on the NRCs review of DOEs draft WIR evaluation and supporting references, the NRC considers the DOEs conclusions to be adequate and reasonable such that the DOE can meet the NRC-reviewed and applicable portions of the DOE-Manual 435.1-1 criteria.

Mr. Marcinowski 2 A copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS Accession Number ML112031078).

ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

If you have any questions, please contact Nishka Devaser, Project Manager in the Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, by email at Nishka.Devaser@nrc.gov, or by phone at (301) 415-5196.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Larry W. Camper, Director Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs Docket No. P00M-032

Enclosure:

Technical Evaluation Report

Mr. Marcinowski 2 A copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS Accession Number ML112031078).

ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

If you have any questions, please contact Nishka Devaser, Project Manager in the Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, by email at Nishka.Devaser@nrc.gov, or by phone at (301) 415-5196.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Larry W. Camper, Director Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs Docket No.: P00M-032

Enclosure:

Technical Evaluation Report ML112031078 OFC DWMEP DWMEP DWMEP DWMEP NAME NDevaser LSpradley AWalker-Smith GSuber (electronically, attached)

DATE 08/08/11 08/08/11 08/15/11 08/19/11 OFC DWMEP OGC DWMEP DWMEP NAME CMcKenney BJones APersinko LCamper (electronically, attached)

DATE 08/28/11 09/22/11 09/26/11 09/30/11 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY