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Progress in EM’s Footprint Reduction for the Oakland

Projects Office Projects

Rich SchassburgerNovember 16, 2010

Footprint Reduction - Oakland

• Oakland Projects Office is responsible for legacy environmental remediation and waste management at several sites in California, including:– Energy Technology Engineering Center– SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory – General Electric Vallecitos Nuclear Center


• ETEC 1988


• ETEC is 90 acres of Area IV (290 acres) of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (2,849 acres)

• Areas I, most of III and IV are owned by the Boeing Company; Areas II and a small portion of Area I is owned by NASA

• ETEC was the site of nuclear research beginning in the early 1950s and ending in the late 1980s


ETEC 2005

• ETEC waste, including TRU, LLW and MLLW, have been removed and disposed

• 25 structures remain• May 2007 – Court Order requiring EIS• Several Hazardous Ranking Surveys have

been performed by EPA• August 2007 – Parties signed a Consent

Order



• December 2007 – California passed legislation, SB990, setting stringent agricultural cleanup standards

• 2009 – Parties negotiated a revised Consent Order, unsuccessfully

• November 2009 – Boeing filed litigation questioning constitutionality and applicability of SB990


• 2010 – DOE and Cal EPA negotiated a framework agreement, with a legally binding agreement to follow

• ETEC received $38.3M in ARRA funds for a radiological survey

• ETEC received $15.8M in ARRA funds for RCRA characterization

• Cleanup completed 2017?

Footprint Reduction-Oakland


• SLAC

Footprint Reduction - Oakland• SLAC, established in the early 1960s, is a 426

acre accelerator research facility• Contamination includes VOCs, PCBs, metals,

petroleum hydrocarbons and other hazardous materials

• July 1985 – RWQCB issued waste discharge order addressing one underground storage tank

• 2005 – RWQCB revised order for the investigation and remediation of impacted soil and groundwater


• October 2009 – RWQCB issued updated order updating milestones and expanding West SLAC OU

• SLAC EM received $14.3M in ARRA funds for acceleration of remediation with completion planned by the end of 2011


• GEVNC


• GEVNC is a 1600 acre site owned by GE affiliate GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

• GE, under contract, performed research for Nuclear Energy Programs from 1965-1972 and from 1981-1982

• As a part of research contract close-out, DOE agreed to transport and dispose of defense-related waste


• TRU waste shipments began in September 2009 and were completed by June 2010


• Oakland Goals– Complete GEVNC Contract Closeout by end

of FY2011– Complete SLAC legacy environmental

remediation and waste disposal by the end of FY2011

– Complete ETEC remediation and D&D by 2017?

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