[DOE LETTERHEAD]
Oak Ridge Operations Office
May 4, 2004
The Honorable
John T.
Conway
Chairman
Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW
Suite 700
Washington,
D.C. 20004-2091
Dear Mr. Chairman:
The purpose
of this letter is to inform you of the completion
of a commitment contained
in the Department’s 2000-1 Implementation Plan (IP) pertaining
to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The specific commitment (Number 401) is stated in the IP as follows:
Repackage all plutonium metals and oxides to meet the metal and oxide storage standard by May, 2003.
ORNL completed
the material disposition effort
in March
2004
as described in the enclosed
letter.
The
enclosed summary describes
the technical
aspects of the material
disposition associated with completion of Commitment 401.
If
there are any questions, please contact me at (865) 576-4444 or George J. Malosh at (865) 576-4523.
Sincerely,
Gerald
G. Boyd
Manager
cc
w/enclosure:
M. B. Whitaker, DR-I,
HQ/FORS