Re[4]: RAMP Rumors

[coogen_michael@hq2ccgw.hq.dla.mil]

Correct me if I'm wrong; If a generator surrenders radioactive waste ready for 
burial, the vendor is responsible to complete the contract by transporting it to
the burial site.  If the vendor processes the your waste by combining with other
like waste or volume reduction, then the liability belongs to the vendor.  
Although you are the generator, you may be liable to that portion of the waste 
in the event of an accident or incident, the vendor has treated or changed the 
intergity of the waste that was surrender in its original form for burial...mike
coogen sends


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Subject: Re: Re[2]: RAMP Rumors
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at hq2ccgw
Date:    7/28/95 1:22 PM



 As I heard (we don't use RAMP, but a company my husband 
 used to work for did), the problem wasn't necessary poor 
 QA on the generator's part, but that RAMP was actually 
 COMBINING drums of materials from different institutions 
 without noting it.  So, some of you could have some 
 drums in Hanford that have YOUR name on them, but 
 SOMEONE ELSE's waste in them.  Talk about a cradle- 
 to-grave nightmare!

 Margaret Ashton
 University of Colorado