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Executive Summary
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... The report addresses the task statement by developing lessons that could be learned from the sites the committee visited and the documents it reviewecl, and 1 Long-term institutional management (LTIM) is an approach to planning and decision making that balances the use of measures available to site managers in protecting public and worker health and safety, and the environment: contaminant reduction, contaminant isolation, and long-term stewardship (NRC 2000a)
From page 2...
... a lane/ manager, facilitating ecological processes and human use; a repairer of engineered and ecological structures as failures occur and are discovered, as unexpected problems are found, and as re-remediation is needed; an archivist of knowledge and clata, to inform the future; an eclucatorto affected communities, renewing memory of the site's history, hazards, and burdens; and a trustee, assuring the financial wherewithal to accomplish all of the other functions; This range of activities requires the human and institutional capacity to fulfill these roles as needed, through the decacles and centuries in which the risks persist. The human and institutional demands of these activities are broader than the traditional engineering expertise of DOE, so questions arise regarding how best to meet the feclera~ government's responsibilities over the long term.
From page 3...
... The liability is in the form of the risks to human health and ecosystems that, at some sites, are likely to be unacceptable if planned or contemplated stewardship measures fail. For example, if controls at uranium tailings sites fail, anyone residing on or using waste materials from those sites could encounter risks that remain unacceptably high, indefinitely.
From page 4...
... Without clearly articulated value premises, DOE lacks a basis on which to defend its decisions, except by complying with regulations that are as yet unable to address adequately the ~ong-term demancis of the legacy waste sites. At many of its contaminated sites, DOE operates in a social environment of public distrust.2 Yet DOE needs public trust if the agency is to have sufficient flexibility to reach its cleanup objectives and to undertake UTS.
From page 5...
... · Initiate a national dialogue, involving DOE and other agencies facing stewardship responsibilities, on these enduring responsibilities for wastes ~ , created by industrial activities. The current leadership of DOE cannot assure that the proper actions are taken one hundred years hence.


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