[DOE LETTERHEAD]

 

April 11, 2003

 

The Honorable John T. Conway

Chairman

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite 700

Washington, D.C. 20004-2901

 

Dear Mr. Chairman:

 

This letter is to report on the status of two Savannah River Site (SRS) commitments of Revision 2 to the Implementation Plan for Stabilization and Storage of Nuclear Material for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Recommendation 2000-l (July 2002).� Commitment 207 has been completed and commitment 224 is late.� Specifically,

 

-         Commitment 207:� SRS began packaging plutonium metal into welded DOE-STD-30 13 outer-cans on April 1, 2003.

 

-         Commitment 224:� Begin disposition of pre-existing high-enriched uranium (HEU) solutions, was due to be completed in March 2003.� SRS began the blend-down of HEU solutions to low-enriched uranium (LEU) solutions in February 2003 and is ready to ship the material off-site for disposition.� However, the Tennessee Valley Authority vendor has experienced project delays precluding their ability to receive the LEU solutions.� The Department expects to begin shipment of LEU solutions by June 2003.

 

If you have any further questions, please call me at (202) 586-7709 or Mr. Paul Golan, Chief Operating Officer, at (202) 586-0738.

 

Sincerely,

 

Jessie Hill Roberson

Assistant Secretary for

Environmental Management

 

cc:� Mark Whitaker, S-3. 1

Jeffrey M.� Allison, SR