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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Science Financial Assistance Program Notice 03-12;
Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP): Research Related to
Transuranic and Mixed Wastes
AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice inviting grant applications.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) of
the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby
announce its interest in receiving grant applications to support the
performance of innovative, fundamental research on the characterization
of transuranic (TRU) and mixed wastes (MW) that are currently stored at
DOE sites, or will be produced as part of DOE's environmental cleanup
efforts.
DATES: The deadline for receipt of formal applications is 4:30 p.m.,
e.s.t., Tuesday, March 4, 2003, in order to be accepted for merit
review and to permit timely consideration for award in Fiscal Year
2003.
ADDRESSES: Formal applications in response to this solicitation are to
be electronically submitted by an authorized institutional business
official through DOE's Industry Interactive Procurement System (IIPS)
at: http://e-center.doe.gov/. IIPS provides for the posting of
solicitations and receipt of applications in a paperless environment
via the Internet. In order to submit applications through IIPS your
business official will need to register at the IIPS website. The Office
of Science will include attachments as part of this
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notice that provide the appropriate forms in PDF fillable format that
are to be submitted through IIPS. Color images should be submitted in
IIPS as a separate file in PDF format and identified as such. These
images should be kept to a minimum due to the limitations of
reproducing them. They should be numbered and referred to in the body
of the technical scientific application as Color image 1, Color image
2, etc. Questions regarding the operation of IIPS may be E-mailed to
the IIPS Help Desk at: HelpDesk@e-center.doe.gov or you may call the
help desk at: (800) 683-0751. Further information on the use of IIPS by
the Office of Science is available at: http://www.science.doe.gov/production/grants/grants.html
.
If you are unable to submit an application through IIPS please
contact the Grants and Contracts Division, Office of Science at: (301)
903-5212 in order to gain assistance for submission through IIPS or to
receive special approval and instructions on how to submit printed
applications.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dr. Roland F. Hirsch, Mail Stop F-237, Medical Sciences Division,
Office of Biological and Environmental Research, SC-73/Germantown
Building, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20585, telephone: (301) 903-9009, facsimile: (301) 903-
0567, E-mail: roland.hirsch@science.doe.gov, or
Mr. Mark Gilbertson, Office of Science and Technology, Office of
Environmental Management, EM-50, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20585, telephone: (202) 586-7150, facsimile: (202) 596-
1492, E-mail: mark.gilbertson@em.doe.gov.
The full text of Program Notice 03-12 is available on the World
Wide Web at: http://www.science.doe.gov/production/grants/grants.html.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Environmental Management Science
Program: Over the past 60 years, the United States created an
industrial complex to develop, test, manufacture, and maintain nuclear
weapons for national security purposes. The production and testing of
nuclear weapons created a legacy of significant environmental
contamination, ranging from uranium mining and milling, waste disposal,
and radionuclide migration in ground water and soil. In 1995, the 104th
Congress authorized creation of the Environmental Management Science
Program (EMSP) to develop a long term, basic science infrastructure
that would focus on scientific and technical challenges facing DOE's
environmental cleanup effort. Since its inception in 1996, the Program
has held seven competitions and has awarded over $320 million in
funding to nearly 400 research projects. To address the largest
environmental cleanup program in the world, from a cost perspective,
EMSP has the following objectives:
[sbull] To provide scientific knowledge that will revolutionize
technologies and cleanup approaches to significantly reduce future
costs, schedules, and risks;
[sbull] To ``bridge the gap'' between broad fundamental research
that has wide-ranging applicability and needs-driven applied technology
development;
[sbull] To focus the Nation's science infrastructure on critical
DOE environmental management problems.
Basic research proposed under this Notice should contribute to
DOE's environmental management activities by decreasing risk for the
public and workers, providing opportunities for major cost reductions,
reducing the time required to achieve DOE's mission goals, and, in
general, should address problems that are considered intractable
without new knowledge.
TRU and Mixed Waste Challenge: DOE's inventory of transuranic and
mixed wastes (TM wastes) includes about 155,000 cubic meters of waste
stored on some 30 DOE sites and another 450,000 cubic meters of buried
waste at least some of which is likely to require retrieval in the
course of DOE's site cleanup program. Most of the stored inventory is
in 55-gallon drums or other containers. Although some of the buried
waste is similarly packaged, knowledge of the condition of the
containers and their contents is limited.
Information on DOE's waste inventory has been summarized in a
recent report (USDOE, 2001), and is also available via the World Wide
Web at DOE's Central Internet Database (http://cid.em.doe.gov). A short
summary of the nature of DOE's TM wastes, including definitions of TRU
and MW, is given in the ``Background Information'' section of this
Notice.
While DOE is making a concerted effort to accelerate the removal of
TM wastes from its sites, the size of the inventory translates to a
multi-decade effort that will require handling, characterizing,
shipping, and disposing of hundreds of thousands of waste drums and
other containers at a total cost of billions of dollars.
Overall, it is the intent of this Notice to solicit and encourage
research that will provide the scientific basis for the new
technologies and approaches that will be necessary to characterize
DOE's MW and TRU wastes over the next decades, and to enhance the
quantity and quality of scientific information available for decision-
making.
Research Needs: This research Notice has been developed for Fiscal
Year 2003, with the primary objective of developing scientific
knowledge that will enable major advances in technologies available for
characterizing TRU and MW waste. This section provides a summary of
research needs in this area, and is based on a National Academy of
Sciences, National Research Council (NRC) report published in 2002
entitled ``Research Opportunities for Managing the Department of
Energy's Transuranic and Mixed Wastes (National Research Council,
2002''). That report identified significant knowledge gaps and research
opportunities in a number of areas; however, due to the limited funds
expected to be available to support new EMSP projects in Fiscal Year
2003, this Notice focuses on research needs for waste characterization,
including characterization and detection of buried wastes.
Research is needed to improve the efficiency of characterizing
DOE's TRU and mixed waste inventory. This includes research toward
developing faster and more sensitive characterization and analysis
tools to reduce costs and accelerate throughput, particularly for waste
that produces sufficient penetrating radiation that it requires remote
handling. It also includes research to develop a fuller understanding
of how waste characteristics may change with time (chemical,
biological, radiological, and physical processes) to aid in decision
making about disposition paths and to simplify the demonstration of
regulatory compliance.
Determining the physical, chemical, and radiological properties of
TM wastes pertinent to handling, processing, transportation, and
storage is costly and time-consuming. The problem is amplified by the
wide variety of the wastes and their heterogeneity. Improving and
simplifying waste characterization can reduce costs and increase the
rate of shipping wastes to disposal facilities.
There is a need for faster and more sensitive characterization
technologies, for making automated sampling more reliable, and for
improving statistical sampling methods. There is a lack in basic
knowledge of how waste characteristics may change with time, including
both short-term changes that affect storage and shipment and long-
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term changes that may occur in a disposal facility. This lack of
knowledge drives conservatism in characterization, transportation, and
disposal requirements. Possible microbial effects in waste have
generally been ignored.
The greatest challenges for the next generation of characterization
technologies will be to provide the following:
[sbull] More rapid, automated nondestructive assay and evaluation
methods;
[sbull] More sensitive nondestructive assay and evaluation
technologies for larger containers and hard-to-detect contaminants; and
[sbull] Improved methods, based on fundamental modeling, to derive
present and future waste characteristics from a limited number of
sampling parameters.
Research toward new, noninvasive, remote imaging and image
recognition methods and in-drum sensors to provide faster and more
sensitive technologies for characterization could lead to significant
savings in time, cost, and risk of worker exposure. Although
noninvasive diagnostics are highly preferred, the use of minimally
invasive sensors also has promise.
Research is needed to evaluate the microbiology of MW and TRU
wastes. This research should focus on identifying the microorganisms
that exist in the waste, and evaluating their relationship to waste
materials (i.e., whether these microbes affect the hazardous or
radioactive components of the waste in ways that make it more or less
toxic, or more or less suitable for disposal in hazardous waste, low-
level waste, or other landfills or repositories. Additional research is
needed to develop tools for rapidly diagnosing microbial activity or
identifying specific microbes.
One of the most beneficial cost-saving tools would be the
formulation of more reliable predictive models, validated by
experimental data, of how waste characteristics may change with time
due to chemical, biological, radiological, and physical processes. This
would be most useful in predicting deleterious processes that might
occur in the waste, such as gas generation or matrix degradation.
Program Funding: It is anticipated that up to a total of $2,000,000
of Fiscal Year 2003 funds will be available for new EMSP awards
resulting from this Notice. Multiple-year funding of grant awards is
anticipated, contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds.
Award sizes are expected to be on the order of $100,000-$300,000 per
year for total project costs for a typical three-year grant.
Collaborative projects involving several research groups or more than
one institution may receive larger awards if merited. The program will
be competitive and offered to investigators in universities or other
institutions of higher education, other non-profit or for-profit
organizations, non-Federal agencies or entities, or unaffiliated
individuals. DOE reserves the right to fund in whole or part any or
none of the applications received in response to this Notice. A
parallel Notice with a similar potential total amount of funds will be
issued to DOE Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
(FFRDCs). All projects will be evaluated using the same criteria,
regardless of the submitting institution.
Collaboration and Training: Applicants to the EMSP are encouraged
to collaborate with researchers in other institutions, such as
universities, industry, non-profit organizations, federal laboratories
and FFRDCs, including the DOE National Laboratories, where appropriate.
Applicants are also encouraged to provide training opportunities,
including student involvement, in applications submitted to EMSP.
Application Format: Applicants are expected to use the following
format in addition to following instructions in the Office of Science
Application Guide (see: http://www.science.doe.gov/production/grants/guide.html
). Applications must be written in English, with all budgets
in U.S. dollars. In the case of applications involving multiple
institutions, only one application that encompasses the entire scope of
the proposed research should be submitted; however, the application
should include separate budgets and budget explanations for each
participating institution.
[sbull] Office of Science Face Page (DOE F 4650.2 (10-91))
[sbull] Application classification sheet (a plain sheet of paper
with one selection from the list of scientific fields listed in the
Application Categories Section)
[sbull] Table of Contents
[sbull] Project Abstract (no more than one page)
[sbull] Budgets for each year and a summary budget page for the
entire project period (using DOE F-4620.1)
[sbull] Budget Explanation. (Note: applicants are requested to
include in the travel budget funds to attend: (1) An initial research
kick-off meeting; (2) an annual EMSP workshop; and (3) one or more
extended visits (1 to 2 weeks in duration) to a cleanup site by the
Principal Investigator, a senior staff member, or a collaborator
[sbull] Budgets and Budget explanations for each collaborating
institution, if any
[sbull] Project Narrative (recommended length is no more than 20
pages; multi-investigator collaborative projects may use more pages if
necessary, up to a total of 35 pages)
--Project Goals
--Significance of Project to the EM Mission
--Background
--Preliminary Studies (if applicable) and/or Summary of Results from
Previous Research (if application is a renewal)
--Research Plan
--Research Design and Methodologies
[sbull] Literature Cited
[sbull] Collaborative Arrangements (if applicable)
[sbull] Biographical Sketches of Senior Investigators (limit 2
pages per investigator)
[sbull] Description of Facilities and Resources
[sbull] Current and Pending Support for each senior investigator
Application Categories: In order to properly classify each
application for evaluation and review, the documents must indicate the
applicant's preferred scientific research field, selected from the
following list.
Field of Scientific Research
1. Actinide Chemistry.
2. Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation.
3. Engineering Sciences.
4. Geochemistry.
5. Geophysics.
6. Inorganic Chemistry.
7. Materials Science.
8. Biology (including Microbiology).
9. Other.
Application Evaluation and Selection
Scientific Merit: Applications will be subjected to scientific
merit review (peer review) and will be evaluated against the following
criteria listed in descending order of importance as codified at 10 CFR
part 605.10(d):
1. Scientific and/or technical merit of the project;
2. Appropriateness of the proposed method or approach;
3. Competency of applicant's personnel and adequacy of proposed
resources;
4. Reasonableness and appropriateness of the proposed budget.
External peer reviewers are selected with regard to both their
scientific expertise and the absence of conflict-of-interest issues.
Non-federal reviewers may be used, and submission of an application
constitutes agreement that
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this is acceptable to the investigator(s) and the submitting
institution(s).
Relevance to Mission: In addition to the formal scientific merit
review, applications that are judged to be scientifically meritorious
will be evaluated by DOE for relevance to the objectives of EMSP. DOE
will also consider, as part of the evaluation, program policy factors
such as an appropriate balance among the program areas, including
research already in progress. Additional information about the general
program can be found at: http://emsp.em.doe.gov. Past research
solicitations, abstracts, and research reports of projects funded under
EMSP can be found at: http://emsp.em.doe.gov/researcher.htm.
Applicants are encouraged to demonstrate a linkage between their
research projects and significant problems related to MW and TRU waste
at DOE sites. This linkage can be established in a variety of ways; for
example, by elucidating the scientific problems to be addressed by the
proposed research and explaining how the solution of these problems
could lead to improved capabilities that would reduce costs, accelerate
throughput, or reduce the risk of worker exposure. It is understood
that given the nature of basic research, there will not always be a
clear pathway between research results and application to site
remediation.
A listing of points of contact and site web pages is provided for
applicants who may have site-specific questions related to TRU and MW
problems:
Hanford (http://www.hanford.gov): Rudy Garcia, (509) 376-5494,
Rudolph_F_Garcia@rl.gov.
Idaho (http://www.id.doe.gov): William Owca, (208) 526-1983,
owcawa@id.doe.gov.
Oak Ridge (http://www.oro.doe.gov): for TRU--Gary Riner, (805) 241-
3498, rinerg@oro.doe.gov; for MW--Brian Westich, (805) 241-2198,
westichb@oro.doe.gov.
Savannah River (http://sro.srs.gov): for TRU--Bert Crapse, (803) 725-
9866, Herbert.Crapse@srs.gov or Ann Gibbs, (803) 952-2265,
Ann.Gibbs@srs.gov; for MW--Mike Simmons, (803) 725-1627,
Jonathan.Simmons@srs.gov or Bernie Mayancsik, (803) 952-2271,
Bernadette.Mayancsik@srs.gov.
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (http://www.wipp.carlsbad.nm.us): George
Basabilvazo, (505) 234-7488, George.Basabilvazo@wipp.ws
Application Guide and Forms: Information about the development,
submission of applications, eligibility, limitations, evaluation, the
selection process, and other policies and procedures may be found in 10
CFR part 605, and in the Application Guide for the Office of Science
Financial Assistance Program. Electronic access to the Guide and
required forms is available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.science.doe.gov/production/grants/grants.html.
DOE is under no
obligation to pay for any costs associated with the preparation or
submission of applications if an award is made.
Background Information: Information on DOE's waste inventory has
been summarized in a recent report (USDOE, 2001), and is also available
via the World Wide Web at DOE's Central Internet Database (http://cid.em.doe.gov
). The two categories of waste listed in these sources
that are pertinent to this Notice are transuranic (TRU) and mixed low-
level waste (MLLW). Transuranic waste is defined by DOE Order 435.1 as
waste that contains more than 100 nanocuries per gram arising from
alpha-emitting radionuclides having atomic numbers greater than that of
uranium (92) and half-lives greater than 20 years. Low-level waste
(LLW) is defined in the Low-Level Radioactive Policy Amendments Act of
1985 by what it is not, and consequently is a very broad category of
waste. LLW is defined as waste that is not spent nuclear fuel, not
high-level waste resulting from reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, and
not byproduct material as defined in section 11e.2 of the Atomic Energy
Act of 1954. LLW encompasses materials that are slightly above natural
radiation background levels to highly radioactive materials that
require extreme caution when handling. Hazardous waste is defined by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Title 40 of the Code
of Federal Regulations, parts 260 and 261, as a subset of solid wastes
that pose substantial or potential threats to public health or the
environment and that meet any of the following three criteria: (1)
Waste that is specifically listed as a hazardous waste by EPA; (2)
waste that exhibits one or more of the characteristics of hazardous
waste (ignitability, corrosiveness, reactivity, and/or toxicity); or
(3) waste that is generated by the treatment of hazardous waste, or is
contained in a hazardous waste. Mixed low-level waste (MLLW) is waste
that meets the above definitions of both LLW and hazardous waste. It
contains low levels of radioactive contamination as well as materials
that are chemically hazardous. Mixed transuranic waste (MTRU) is waste
that meets the definitions of both TRU and hazardous wastes. The EPA
estimates that over half of DOE's TRU inventory is MTRU (EPA 2002);
however, because all of DOE's retrievably stored, defense TRU wastes
are slated for disposal in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), DOE
no longer distinguishes MTRU as a special category in its inventory
(USDOE, 2001).
Since 1970, DOE sites have stored most TRU waste and MW in
retrievable 55-gallon drums or larger containers for future treatment
(if needed) and disposal. Prior to 1970, DOE sites buried materials
that meet the current definition of TRU waste and MW in shallow land
facilities, within about 30 meters of the surface. A much smaller
fraction of these wastes were buried at depths between 30 and 300
meters. Most of this waste was buried in 55-gallon drums; however, some
was buried in other types of containers, and some had no form of
durable containment. At the time, DOE considered buried wastes to be
permanently disposed, but some of the buried wastes may require
retrieval and treatment.
The previous practice of discharging low-level liquid wastes to
retention basins has resulted in the generation of contaminated soils
and sediments. DOE recognizes that some of these materials are
sufficiently contaminated to warrant retrieval. Such materials are
termed ``ex-situ contaminated media'' in the inventory summary (USDOE
2001). If they are retrieved, both the pre-1970 buried wastes and the
ex-situ media will be considered newly generated waste. In addition to
these historical wastes, activities at DOE sites, including
environmental cleanup activities, will continue to generate new MLLW
and TRU wastes over the next several decades.
The materials making up DOE's inventory of MW and TRU wastes are
extremely diverse. This diversity was described in a report (USDOE,
1995) based on data compiled by the various DOE sites in order to
develop site remediation plans. The inventory was divided into five
groups, each with various subcategories:
1. Debris
[sbull] Metallic debris (including materials containing lead and
cadmium)
[sbull] Inorganic, nonmetallic debris (e.g., concrete, glass,
graphite, and rock)
[sbull] Organic debris (e.g., such as rubber, leaded gloves,
halogenated and nonhalogenated plastics, wood, paper, and biological
materials
[sbull] Heterogeneous debris (e.g., composite fillers, asphalt,
electronic
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equipment, and other types of organic and inorganic materials)
2. Inorganic Homogenous Solids and Soils
[sbull] Homogeneous solids (e.g., ash, sandblasting media,
inorganic particulate absorbents, absorbed organic liquids, inorganic
ion-exchange media, metal chips and turnings, glass, ceramics, and
activated carbon)
[sbull] Sludges (e.g., sludges arising from wastewater treatment
ponds, off-gas treatment, plating activities, and low-level
reprocessing)
[sbull] Other wastes (e.g., paint chips, solids, and sludges, salt
waste containing chlorides, sulphates, nitrates, metal oxides/
hydroxides, and other inorganic chemicals)
[sbull] Solidified homogeneous solids (e.g., soil and gravel)
3. Organics
[sbull] Liquids (aqueous streams containing both halogenated and
nonhalogenated organic compounds)
[sbull] Homogeneous solids (e.g., particulate matter such as resins
and absorbents, biological sludges, halogenated and nonhalogenated
organic sludges, and organic chemicals)
4. Unique wastes
[sbull] Lab packs (e.g., organic, aqueous, and solid laboratory
chemicals and scintillation cocktails)
[sbull] Special wastes (e.g., elemental mercury, lead, and cadmium,
beryllium dust, batteries, reactive metals in bulk and as contamination
in/on other components, pyrophoric particulates, explosives or
propellants, and compressed gasses and aerosols)
[sbull] All others (materials placed in a final waste form are
included in this category)
5. Wastewaters
[sbull] Aqueous liquids and slurries ranging from acidic to basic
pH, including cyanide-containing materials.
The 1995 inventory also characterized DOE's level of confidence as
to how well the wastes were characterized. In general terms, DOE has
high or medium confidence that the physical nature (i.e., soil or
sludge) of most wastes is correctly identified, but it lacks confidence
in the existing quantitative data on the wastes' chemical and
radioactive constituents.
The volume and diversity of DOE's MW and TRU wastes pose
significant challenges for disposing of this waste. Currently, DOE's
TRU waste disposal efforts are focused on maximizing the utility of the
WIPP. Several hundred thousand drums of TRU waste will need to be
shipped to WIPP, and the characterization required for shipping and
acceptance at the WIPP currently requires many hours and costs
thousands of dollars for each drum of waste generated prior to 1999.
Methods to improve characterization are therefore likely to result in
significant savings of time and money.
Some components in TRU waste are problematic for shipping to or
disposal in the WIPP. About two percent (approximately 14,200 drum
equivalents) of DOE's TRU waste contains organic materials that
continue to pose shipping problems due to potential gas generation,
especially of hydrogen. Drums containing reactive and corrosive
chemicals, as well as drums containing liquids, sealed containers, and
gas cylinders (including paint cans) may not be accepted by the WIPP,
and they are currently removed by manually sorting through the waste.
Waste that is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
constitutes about one percent of the inventory, and currently cannot be
accepted by the WIPP. Approximately two to four percent of the TRU
waste inventory produces sufficient penetrating radiation from fission
products that it requires remote handling, rather than hands-on
operator contact. The requirement for remote handling greatly increases
the cost and difficulty of characterizing, treating, and packaging or
repackaging of this waste. Meeting the per-drum limits on heat
generation and fissile material content can necessitate repackaging of
the waste. In addition to increasing the waste volume, repackaging to
meet these limits is expensive, time-consuming, and creates the
potential for worker exposure.
DOE currently relies primarily on private contractors and
commercial facilities for treating and disposing of its MLLW. (MLLW
cannot be disposed in the WIPP because under current law, only TRU
waste can be disposed there). The characterization and treatment of
MLLW that will be necessary to meet the disposal requirements of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) have received relatively
little attention compared to TRU waste. Despite the general lack of
quantitative chemical characterization, it is known that much of DOE's
MLLW inventory contains hazardous chemicals that can be difficult to
treat (e.g., heavy metals, solvents and other organics, and mercury).
Furthermore, there is considerable commingling of these materials,
which complicates the selection of disposition options. MLLW that
contains certain specified materials is prohibited from near-surface
disposal under current EPA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
regulations. These include the following:
[sbull] Liquids,
[sbull] Reactive or explosive materials,
[sbull] Flammable materials,
[sbull] Untreated biological material,
[sbull] Materials that may emit toxic gases or fumes,
[sbull] Other materials subject to the EPA's land disposal
restrictions, as listed in 40 CFR 268,
[sbull] Radioactive isotopes that exceed the NRC limits for Class C
wastes (700 Ci/m3 of 63Ni, or 7,000 Ci/m3 of
90Sr, or 4,600Ci/m3 of 137Cs).
In order to be disposed, these wastes will require treatment that
may be difficult and expensive. Characterization of the wastes is a
necessary first step in the selection of disposition options.
References
National Research Council, 2002, Research Opportunities for Managing
the Department of Energy's Transuranic and Mixed Wastes. National
Academy Press, Washington, DC, 118pp. http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084717/html/
.
USEPA, 2002, Mixed Waste Glossary. EPA Radiation Protection Program
Waste Management Team. Available at: http://www.epa.gov/radiation/mixed-waste/mw_pg5.htm
.
USDOE, 1995, The DOE National 1995 Mixed Waste Inventory Report. U.S.
Department of Energy, Washington DC.
USDOE, 2001, Summary Data on the Radioactive Waste, Spent Nuclear Fuel,
and Contaminated Media Managed by the U.S. Department of Energy. April
2001, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington DC http://cid.em.doe.gov/.
(The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number for this program
is 81.049, and the solicitation control number is ERFAP 10 CFR part
605.)
Issued in Washington DC on November 25, 2002.
John Rodney Clark,
Associate Director of Science for Resource Management.
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