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3 Approaches to Assessment
Pages 93-116

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From page 93...
... projects manager for the DOE Oversight Division of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. The session was moderated by Patricia Culligan, professor, civil engineering and engineering mechanics, Columbia University and planning committee member.
From page 94...
... • Following the DOE American Indian Policy, and reference to the Blue Ribbon Commission policy involving Tribes • Ensuring that any land transfer that may be offered to tribes be contamination free above and below ground level • Concerning LTS the tribes would like for the DOE to constantly monitor those areas that have administrative controls and to pass on the history of what was there previously-Tribes occupation as aboriginal or treaty rights areas. • Following Treaty rights of Tribes regarding the LTS sites, federal trust responsibility.
From page 95...
... These programs collect samples in parallel to DOE monitoring programs. Analysis is performed at independent laboratories, and the tribes share the results with DOE.
From page 96...
... For example, before DOE Order 144.1 was enacted (circa 1973) , INL employees would collect arrow heads 1  Federal Indian trust responsibility is explained on the Bureau of Indian Affairs site: "The federal Indian trust responsibility is a legally enforceable fiduciary obligation on the part of the United States to protect tribal treaty rights, lands, assets, and resources, as well as a duty to carry out the mandates of federal law with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages.
From page 97...
... 3.2  SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION SESSION Monitoring Program. Session moderator and planning committee member Patricia Culligan (Columbia University)
From page 98...
... For example, although 50 tribes are located along the subject transportation routes, only three tribal representatives speak at meetings of the National Transportation Stakeholder Forum. They cannot speak for all of the tribes.
From page 99...
... FIGURE 3-2  Proposed risk management regulatory framework from the USNRC. SOURCE: Reckley 2014.
From page 100...
... NUREG-2150 defines the new framework. It was published in April 2012, and the public comment period, originally ending in November 2013, was extended to February 2014.6 Already, recent USNRC decisions regarding response to the Fukushima accident have incorporated aspects of risk analysis and the decision-making process.
From page 101...
... Simpler facilities will have less complex analyses, while larger facilities such as nuclear power plants will have substantially more complex analyses. PRA = probabilistic risk analysis, PA = performance assessment, ISA = integrated safety analysis.
From page 102...
... Mr. Levitan identified the Lower Watts Bar Reservoir presentation (see Petrie 2014)
From page 103...
... Navy issued updated guidance on optimizing its environmental remediation and removal actions at U.S. Department of Navy sites.
From page 104...
... The property is located in a heavily populated area with multiple water districts and multiple potentially responsible parties (PRPs) beyond the Navy and Northrup Grumman.10 However, the Navy and Northrup Grumman remain the responsible parties for the Bethpage groundwater plume, which resulted from more than 50 years of building Naval aircraft.
From page 105...
... The plume is split into operable units (OUs) : OU1 is the onsite unit 11  Radon has been detected during cleanup, but it is not a significant contaminant.
From page 106...
... The current remedy for OU2 of the plume includes hot spot treatment, P&T with an exit strategy, and wellhead treatment. Wellhead treatment for affected water districts is in place and operational.
From page 107...
... . The 2 Figure 3-5 R02626, Navy and Northrop Grumman are the primary responsible parties for OU2.
From page 108...
... New York public water systems require their personnel to acquire, install, and operate any wellhead treatment system attached to a public water system. The Navy cannot use cleanup money to pay the public water districts to purchase or operate wellhead treatment equipment.
From page 109...
... Rather, the Navy presented a solution that made sense for a massive plume. Although the public water districts affected by the plume did not initially support the wellhead treatment remedy, the wells were already being treated for other contaminants.
From page 110...
... The optimization team recommended more accurate and localized models be developed. 3.7  INSTITUTIONAL CONTROLS ON LOWER WATTS BAR RESERVOIR Roger Petrie The Lower Watts Bar Reservoir was constructed by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
From page 111...
... , at the time there was no formalized framework for addressing remediation of FIGURE 3-6 Locations of the Lower Watts Bar Reservoir, Clinch River, Poplar Creek, and the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) (site boundary shown in dotted line)
From page 112...
... Cesium has been detected in sediment throughout the Clinch River and Lower Watts Bar Reservoir (and other places)
From page 113...
... The area downstream of Oak Ridge was split into two operable units (Clinch River/Poplar Creek and Lower Watts Bar Reservoir) to address remediation challenges.
From page 114...
... , which is not required to make them consistent with the Lower Watts Bar Reservoir's Record of Decision (this example also highlights the challenge of managing multiple and potentially conflicting remediation decisions within a single state agency because TDEC is also a signatory to the FFA)
From page 115...
... A workshop attendee asked about the Lower East Fork Flood Plain decision and asked for additional information on the public's decision to push for a less protective remedy.
From page 116...
... Mr. Petrie agreed and noted that similar sustainability approaches are currently being used to guide remediation decisions for new sources of contamination (such as mercury contamination from the Kingston plant fly ash release)


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