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1 Progress in EM’s Footprint Reduction for the Oakland Projects Office Projects Rich Schassburger November 16, 2010

2 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

3 Footprint Reduction - Oakland ETEC 1988

4 Footprint Reduction - Oakland 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

5 Footprint Reduction - Oakland ETEC 2005

6 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 Footprint Reduction - Oakland

7 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

8 Footprint Reduction - Oakland 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?

9 Footprint Reduction-Oakland

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11 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

12 Footprint Reduction - Oakland 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

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17 GEVNC

18 Footprint Reduction - Oakland 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

19 Footprint Reduction - Oakland TRU waste shipments began in September 2009 and were completed by June 2010

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22 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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