[DOE LETTERHEAD]

 

August 29, 2005

 

The Honorable A. J. Eggenberger

Chairman

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

625 Indiana Avenue, N W, Suite 700

Washington, DC 20004-2901

 

Dear Mr. Chairman:

 

This is to inform you that Commitment 225 of the Implementation Plan (IP) for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Recommendation 2000-1, Revision 2, Stabilization and Storage of Nuclear Material, has been completed.

 

Commitment 225 was to complete disposition of pre-existing enriched uranium solution and enriched uranium solution resulting from Mk-16/22 Spent Nuclear Fuel dissolution at the Savannah River Site. �This work was completed on June 22, 2005, by the dissolution and blend-down of high enriched uranium to low enriched uranium (LEU) and subsequent shipment of the LEU to the Tennessee Valley Authority. �This was accomplished 3 months ahead of the September 2005 commitment identified in the IP.

 

If you have any further questions, please call me at (202) 586-0738 or call Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Integrated Safety Management and Operations Oversight, at (301) 903-4954.

 

Sincerely,

 

Dr. Ines R. Triay

Chief Operating Officer for

Environmental Management

 

cc: ��Mark Whitaker, DR-1

Jeffrey Allison, SR