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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 

Availability of Branch Technical Position on When to Remediate 
Inadvertent Contamination of the Terrestrial Environment

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the 
availability of a Branch Technical Position on ``When To Remediate 
Inadvertent Contamination of the Terrestrial Environment.''
    Copies of this document may be obtained free of charge upon written 
request to Janette Copeland, Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning 
Projects Branch, Division of Waste Management, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, MS T-7F27, Washington, DC 20555. Further information can be 
obtained from Jack D. Parrott, Hydrogeologist, Low-Level Waste and 
Decommissioning Projects Branch, Division of Waste Management, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, MS T-7F27, Washington, DC 20555. 
Telephone 301/415-6700. Internet [email protected].
    The purposes of this Branch Technical Position (BTP) are: (a) to 
provide licensees with the NRC staff's expectations for operational 
good practices and remediation methods and procedures following 
inadvertent contamination of the terrestrial environment by radioactive 
materials; (b) to inform licensees of the nature of an NRC response to 
an inadvertent contamination of the terrestrial environment; and, (c) 
to help insure consistency in NRC responses to instances of inadvertent 
contamination of the terrestrial environment. This guidance is also 
intended to address the timing of remediation (immediate or delayed) of 
inadvertent contamination of the terrestrial environment. This BTP does 
not supplant NRC's emergency (contingency) planning. The need for this 
BTP stems from the Division of Waste Management staff's concern with 
instances of inadvertent contamination of the terrestrial environment 
at NRC licensed facilities, and the delay that sometimes occurs in 
remediating this contamination.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 31st day of October 1994.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John H. Austin,
Chief, Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch, Division of 
Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 94-27484 Filed 11-4-94; 8:45 am]
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