Re[4]: RAMP Rumors

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If the vendor goes out of business, then the regulators go back to the
waste generator and gets them to retrieve and properly dispose of their
waste.

Donald P. Mercado, O/47-20, B/106      PROFS Nickname: DMERCADO
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 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
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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