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Progress in EM’s Footprint Reduction for the Oakland
Projects Office Projects
Rich SchassburgerNovember 16, 2010
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
• Oakland Projects Office is responsible for legacy environmental remediation and waste management at several sites in California, including:– Energy Technology Engineering Center– SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory – General Electric Vallecitos Nuclear Center
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
• ETEC 1988
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
• ETEC is 90 acres of Area IV (290 acres) of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (2,849 acres)
• Areas I, most of III and IV are owned by the Boeing Company; Areas II and a small portion of Area I is owned by NASA
• ETEC was the site of nuclear research beginning in the early 1950s and ending in the late 1980s
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
ETEC 2005
• ETEC waste, including TRU, LLW and MLLW, have been removed and disposed
• 25 structures remain• May 2007 – Court Order requiring EIS• Several Hazardous Ranking Surveys have
been performed by EPA• August 2007 – Parties signed a Consent
Order
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
• December 2007 – California passed legislation, SB990, setting stringent agricultural cleanup standards
• 2009 – Parties negotiated a revised Consent Order, unsuccessfully
• November 2009 – Boeing filed litigation questioning constitutionality and applicability of SB990
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• 2010 – DOE and Cal EPA negotiated a framework agreement, with a legally binding agreement to follow
• ETEC received $38.3M in ARRA funds for a radiological survey
• ETEC received $15.8M in ARRA funds for RCRA characterization
• Cleanup completed 2017?
Footprint Reduction-Oakland
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
• SLAC
Footprint Reduction - Oakland• SLAC, established in the early 1960s, is a 426
acre accelerator research facility• Contamination includes VOCs, PCBs, metals,
petroleum hydrocarbons and other hazardous materials
• July 1985 – RWQCB issued waste discharge order addressing one underground storage tank
• 2005 – RWQCB revised order for the investigation and remediation of impacted soil and groundwater
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
• October 2009 – RWQCB issued updated order updating milestones and expanding West SLAC OU
• SLAC EM received $14.3M in ARRA funds for acceleration of remediation with completion planned by the end of 2011
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
• GEVNC
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
• GEVNC is a 1600 acre site owned by GE affiliate GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
• GE, under contract, performed research for Nuclear Energy Programs from 1965-1972 and from 1981-1982
• As a part of research contract close-out, DOE agreed to transport and dispose of defense-related waste
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• TRU waste shipments began in September 2009 and were completed by June 2010
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
Footprint Reduction - Oakland
• Oakland Goals– Complete GEVNC Contract Closeout by end
of FY2011– Complete SLAC legacy environmental
remediation and waste disposal by the end of FY2011
– Complete ETEC remediation and D&D by 2017?