[DOE
LETTERHEAD]
June 18, 2004
The Honorable John T. Conway
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite
700
Washington, DC 20004-2901
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This letter is to inform you
that the work has been completed at Richland resolving the weld porosity
concerns with some DOE-STD-3013 outer can welds. The re-packaging and welding of 358 DOE
STD-3013 outer containers was completed on May 27, 2004.
The need for this effort was
delineated in the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management’s February
5, 2003, letter on Commitment 110 of Revision 2 to the Implementation Plan for
Stabilization and Storage of Nuclear Material (IP 2000-1).
Should you or your staff have
any questions concerning these issues, please contact me at (202) 586-0738 or
Keith Klein, Manager, Richland Operations Office, at (509) 376-7395.
Sincerely,
Dr. Inés Triay
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Environmental Management
cc: M. Whitaker, DR-l/DOE
K.
Klein, RL/DOE