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RE: DOE Facilities - Radioactive Material Management Areas
We still use them at Y-12. Have several procedures in place.
Randy Redmond (32458)
Radiological Control Organization
BWXT Y-12 L.L.C.
Oak Ridge, TN
865-574-5640
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oldewage, Hans D [SMTP:HDOLDEW@SANDIA.GOV]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:45 AM
> To: Radsafe (E-mail)
> Subject: DOE Facilities - Radioactive Material Management Areas
>
> Remember the dreaded RMMA's?
>
> We still have this program in effect at Sandia National Laboratories, and
> I'm trying to get a feel for what other DOE facililities are doing. Do
> you
> still have such an area defined in your ES&H Programs? Or have most of
> you
> incorporated those requirements into your general waste management
> programs,
> and eliminated the RMMA?
>
> I did a DOE Directives/Standards search, and the only reference I could
> find
> was the 1999 draft technical standard on establishing authorized limits -
> never approved. So there are no written requirments that I'm aware of.
> The
> DOE order for Radioactive Waste Management (DOE O 435.1) and the
> associated
> M 435 (Radioactive Waste Management Manual) - both approved in 2001, do
> not
> address RMMA's. If RMMA's were still a headquarters expectation, I think
> they would have included them in there most recent requirements.
>
> A google search got a few pages of hits on "RMMA DOE" - including several
> Sandia documents. Certainly not a great number compared to most internet
> searches I've done - and not many of those were written in the recent
> past.
>
> Are RMMA's dead? Please let me know. It may be better to respond
> directly
> to me, rather than to the entire group.
>
> Thanks,
> Hans
>
> =======================
> Hans Oldewage
> Sandia National Laboratories
> (505)845-7728
> hdoldew@sandia.gov
>
>
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