ML20202A805

Forwards Amend 10 to License SNM-639,in Resonse to 971204 Request to Amend Decommissioning Plan for Tuxedo,Ny Facility to Reduce off-site Environ Monitoring Program

ML20202A805
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Site:	05000054, 07000687
Issue date:	02/02/1998
From:	Jim Hickey NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Mcgovern J CINTICHEM, INC.
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UNITED STATES 4 ]2 - NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHfMGToN, D.C. 20066-0001 L

yj J February 2, 1998 Mr. James J. McGovern

~ Prersident/ Plant Manager

- Cintichem, Inc.

P.O. Box 816 Tuxedo', New York .10987

SUBJECT:

- RADIOLOGICAL MONITORING PROGRAM (LCENSE NOS. R81 AND SNM 639)-

Dear Mr. McGovem:

I am _ writing in response to your requeist, dated December 4,1997, to amend the decommissioning plan for Cintichem Inc.'s Tuxedo, New York, facility to reduce the off-site environmental monitoring program. Your rationale for this request is that the off-site -

environmental monitoring program is no longer necessary, as all remediation work at the site . ,

has been completed. As such, the Order Authorizing Dismantling of Facility and Disposition of Component Parts, issued on November 21,1991, has essentially been completed. Per a phone conversation between Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Cintichem staff on -

January 21,1998, we understand that the only radioactive material currently on site consists of seven drums of material that may be classified as mixed waste, approximate iO cubic feet of

, miscellaneous activated and contaminated pieces of equipment that has bee, ackaged in a

' High Integrity Container and one cpen topped trailer containing miscellaneo <a ntaW; ated -

and activated equipment and contem!neteo soil.

Periodic in$pections conducted during decommissioning activities verified Cintichem's programs to control releases of radioacNe material to tne environment and your programs were '

cons;stently satisfactory in controlling potential releases. Some inspections, most recently in August 1997, specifically verified the performance and results of the environmental monitoring program specified in the decommissioning plan, in all cases, these inspections indicated that sampling locations and collection frequenciec were proper and laboratory analysis of environmental sa;r.ples indicated decommissioning activities did not result in off-site

~ radioactivity or exrosure above typical background levels in addition, NRC maintains a n

network of off-site unvironmental thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD) around the Cintichem site whien are collected and processed quarterly. Data from these TLDs has not detected an s increase in off-site exposure above normal background due to decommissioning aciivities.

' In your letter you state that you will continue to evaluate samples from airbome particulate monitoring stations and TLDs adjacent to the icimer radiological control area. In addition, you

- state that you will evaluate quarterly water shmples from the Indian Kill Reservoir water treatmer.t plant intake for Strontium-90i Based on the curront activity and form of radioactive material at toe Cintichem facility, the NRC staff has concluded that this revised monitoring '

progtem is sufficient to ensure that radioactive material frdm licensed activities is properly fh (

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• controlled and that reducing the environmental monitoring at the Cintichem facility as described in your letter dated December 4,1997, will not_ result in increased risk to the public health and safety. Based on these factors, your license is amended to incorporate your request. A copy of the amendment is enclosed.

NRC staff has determined that this amendment providea for: (i) no significant change in the types, or significant increase in th e amounts of any effluent that may be released off site; (ii) no significant increase in individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure; (iii) no significant construction impact; and (iv) no significant increase in the potential for, or -

consequences from, radiological accidents.' Therefore, in accordance with

, 10 CFR 51.22(c)(11), neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact l statement is warranted for this action.

Development of this letter has been coordinated with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, if you have any questions; please contact Dominick A. Orlando at (301) 415-6749.

Sin:erely,

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John W. N. Hickey, Chief Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning i Projects Branch Division of Waste Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

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J. McGovern - cohtrolled and that reducing the environmental monitoring at the Cintichem facility as described in your letter dated December 4,1997, will not result in increased risk to the public health and safety. Based on these factors, your license is amended to incorporate your request. A copy of the amendment is enclosed.

NPO staff has determined that this amendment provides for: (i) no significant change in the types, or significant increase in the amounts of any effluent that may be released oif site; (ii) no significant increate in individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure; (iii) no significant construction impact; and (iv) no significant increase in the potential for, or consequences from, radiological accidents. Therefore, in accordance with p 10.CFR 51.22(c)(11), neither an environmental assestment nor an environmental impact statement is warranted for this action.

Development of this letter has been coordinated with the New York State Department of-Environmental Conservation. If you have any questions, please contact Dominick A. Orlando at (301) 415-6749.

Sincerely, cel gs /j' :&rd' j John _W. N. Hickey,- Chief .

Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch Division of Waste Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety _

and Safeguards

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As stated Docket Nos. 50-54 70-687 k

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