United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-04-24 monographic deposited born digital 34 p. GA 1.13:RCED-95-95 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-95 P0b002ee18037ff9c f:rc95095 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-95 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-95 RCED-95-95 Nuclear waste disposal Hazardous substances Non-government enterprises Radioactive pollution Obsolete facilities Licenses Nuclear radiation monitoring Independent regulatory commissions Site selection NRC Site Decommissioning Management Plan Letter Report RCED Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the effectiveness of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) decommissioning program, focusing on: (1) NRC progress in identifying all former licensees' sites that require additional cleanup; (2) NRC progress in ensuring that sites on its Site Decommissioning Management Plan (SDMP) are cleaned up in a timely manner; and (3) factors that impede the timely cleanup of sites.<p/>GAO found that: (1) NRC has reviewed about 75 percent of its terminated licenses to identify sites that need additional cleanup and has found 22 sites that exceed its radioactive contamination guidelines; (2) NRC is seeking additional information on another 895 terminated licenses to determine if those sites need additional remediation; (3) NRC will not know the total number of sites that will require additional cleanup until it completes its review; (4) NRC expects to complete its initial review in 1996, but it will take several more years to conduct site inspections to determine contamination levels; (5) although NRC established SDMP in 1990 to ensure the timely remediation of sites facing difficult or prolonged cleanups, it has made little progress in cleaning up those sites; (6) NRC has issued additional regulations that require licensees to document their activities that could affect decommissioning operations; (7) the delays in cleaning up contaminated sites increase the risk of human exposure to radioactive wastes; and (8) factors that have delayed or halted cleanup at SDMP sites include difficulties in disposing of large quantities of a certain radioactive waste, litigation, coordination and negotiations between affected parties, and time consuming administrative reviews of decommissioning documents. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-95/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-95.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-95/pdf/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-95.pdf GAO/RCED-95-95 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-95 Letter Report GAO/RCED-95-95; Nuclear Regulation: Slow Progress in Identifying and Cleaning Up NRC's Licensees' Contaminated Sites; Nuclear waste disposal Hazardous substances Non-government enterprises Radioactive pollution Obsolete facilities Licenses Nuclear radiation monitoring Independent regulatory commissions Site selection NRC Site Decommissioning Management Plan