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Long-Term Stewardship of DOE Legacy Waste Sites: A Status Report (2003)

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2003. Long-Term Stewardship of DOE Legacy Waste Sites: A Status Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10703.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2003. Long-Term Stewardship of DOE Legacy Waste Sites: A Status Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10703.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2003. Long-Term Stewardship of DOE Legacy Waste Sites: A Status Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10703.
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Appendix A

Statement of Task

The objective of this study is to analyze long-term institutional management plans and practices for a small group of representative DOE legacy waste sites and recommend improvements. To accomplish this objective, the study will

  1. Identify a small number of sites that are representative of the larger population of DOE sites that will require long-term institutional management. Selection of these representative sites will be based on characteristics such as amounts and types of waste and contaminants present; hazards; site characteristics; proximity of human development; long-term land uses; and uncertainties in the performance of waste and contaminant isolation technologies.

  2. Evaluate the adequacy of DOE’s long-term institutional management plans and programs for these representative sites against the conceptual framework and criteria developed in the phase 1 report and, if appropriate, information from related reports.

  3. Provide recommendations to improve DOE’s long-term institutional management plans or practices at these sites, and for contaminated sites in general, including recommendations for scientific (including social science) and engineering research and development to improve long-term institutional management capabilities.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2003. Long-Term Stewardship of DOE Legacy Waste Sites: A Status Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10703.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) has over 100 sites at which human access will be restricted even after scheduled cleanups because of the radioactive and chemical contamination and waste that will remain. This report reviews long-term plans for protecting human health and the environment at these sites--a mission DOE calls "long-term stewardship." The committee finds that there is a compartmentalization of cleanup planning and planning for long-term stewardship at the sites. The committee recommends that DOE explicitly plan for long-term stewardship responsibilities as part of its cleanup decisions, and that it taking into account capabilities and limitations of long-term stewardship when making cleanup decisions.

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