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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 03016055]

 

Advanced Medical Systems, Inc. (Byproduct License No. 34-19089-
01); Receipt of Petition for Director's Decision Under 10 CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
Staff has received a Petition dated August 19, 1994, filed by William 
B. Schatz, on behalf of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District 
(``Petitioner'' or ``NEORSD''). The Petition requests, pursuant to 10 
CFR 2.206, that the NRC take action with regard to Advanced Medical 
Systems, Inc. (AMS), to amend AMS's License No. 34-19089-01 to require 
AMS to install, maintain, and operate a radiation alarm system on all 
drains at 1020 London Road, Cleveland, Ohio (AMS Facility) that lead to 
either sanitary or storm sewers.
    Petitioner asserts as the bases for this request that it views the 
quantity of cobalt-60 waste in the basement of the AMS facility as a 
major threat; that the NRC admits that the existing contamination at 
the AMS Facility continues to pose a risk; that the contamination that 
exists at the AMS Facility is estimated to be 393 curies of loose, 
``talcum-like'' cobalt scattered upon the floor of the waste hold-up 
room in the basement; that cobalt-60 contamination was found in the 
sewer line connecting the AMS Facility to the public sewer and was 
found in the public sewer directly under the AMS discharge; that the 
NEORSD has already incurred costs of nearly $2 million addressing loose 
cobalt-60 contamination at its Easterly and Southerly Wastewater 
treatment plants; that the NRC has been unable or unwilling to explain 
the source of the cobalt-60 on the NEORSD property and unable to 
identify any likely sources for the cobalt-60 other than the AMS 
Facility; that the quantity of cobalt-60 at the Southerly Plant exceeds 
that which the AMS records show was released by AMS into the sewer 
system; and that License Amendment No. 10 to the original license for 
this site, issued to Picker in 1962, contained a requirement for an 
alarm system to detect unmonitored discharges. The Petitioner states 
that such an alarm system was not a condition of the subsequent AMS 
license despite a recommendation from Oak Ridge Associated Universities 
that such an alarm system be installed along with control valves to 
shut off flow to the sewer if the alarm sounds.
    The Petition has been referred to the Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206. As provided by Section 
2.206, appropriate action will be taken with regard to the specific 
issue raised by the Petition in a reasonable time.
    A copy of the Petition is available for inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room at 2110 L Street, N.W., Washington, 
D.C. 20555, and at the Local Public Document Room, Perry Public 
Library, 3753 Main Street, Perry, Ohio 44081.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of September 1994.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert M. Bernero,
Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 94-23138 Filed 9-16-94; 8:45 am]
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