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Responds to Asking General Question & Four Specific Questions About NRC Jurisdiction Over Several Sites in Tonawanda,Ny,Containing 11e(2) Byproduct Matl & Part of DOE Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program
ML20203L515
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Issue date: 02/06/1998
From: Bangart R
NRC OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS (OSP)
To: Merges P
NEW YORK, STATE OF
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Dear Dr. Merges:

I am responding to your letter dated March 12,1997, in which you asked a general question and four specific questions about NRC jurisdiction over several sites in the Tonawanda, New York area which contain 11e(2) byproduct matenal, and are part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program ( FUSRAP).

With respect to your general question about lack of NRC jurisdiction over these sites,

, DOE representatives have clarified ihet the classification of the material at the Tonawanda sites (Ashland 1, Ashland 2, Linde Air Products, and Seaway Industrial Park)is 11e(2) byproduct material (as defined by the Atomic Energy Act, as amended) that was generated prior to 1978 and was not produced in any activity licensed by NRC as of 1978, when the Uranium Mill Tallings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) was passed amending the Atomic Energy Act. Under UMTRCA, NRC and some Agreement Pates that amended their Agreements have jurisdiction over 11e(2) bypioduct material at facilities which were licensed as of 1978, but no jurisdiction was conferred by UMTRCA over byproduct material at facilities which were not licensed as of 1978, such as the Seaway Landfill and the other Tonawanda sites. Therefore, neither the NRC nor the State of New York Agreement State program has jurisdiction derived from the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, over the material at the Tonawanda sites. Of course, the State of New York may have State jurisdiction other than that which would derive from its Agreement State program under the Atomic Energy Act such as authority over radium hazards. Similarly, certain local govemment agencies may have some jurisdiction.

In light of NRC's lack of jurisdiction over this material, we have no basis on which to address the four questions you raised in your letter, in recent legislation, Congress reassigned responsibility for FUSRAP to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The implications of this change are still under review. However, since the material at the four Tonawanda sites is pre-197811e(2) byproduct material, the implementing agency I change does not change the material's status, that it is not subject to regulation by the NRC or the Agreement State program.

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