Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

Site Specific Advisory Board

Consensus Recommendation

DATE: Sept. 8, 1997

NUMBER: 97-2

RESPONSE REQUESTED BY (date): Sept. 30, 1997

REGARDING: Accelerated Cleanup Plan

TO: Jimmie Hodges, DOE

CC: Carl Froede, Jr., EPA

Tuss Taylor, KDEP

Dr. John Volpe, Radiation Control Branch

Wayne Davis, Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources

Regular members — Nola Courtney, Tommy Fletcher, David Fuller, Rev. W.G. Harvey, William Kressenberg, Ronald Lamb, Linda Long, Ray McLennan, Connie Sykes, Bill Tanner, Rev. Gregory Waldrop

 

At a special meeting of the Site Specific Advisory Board (SSAB) held Sept. 4, 1997, the board identified several concerns in the draft document "Accelerating Cleanup: Focus on 2006."

COMMENTS:

  1. The SSAB is concerned that not enough characterization has been performed to know the extent of the contamination at Paducah and that the schedule and funds identified in this document could be very unrealistic. The SSAB is concerned that once these funding numbers and schedule are published in final form, that changes will be difficult if not impossible to implement.
  2. The SSAB does not feel comfortable with DOE making numerous assumptions in order to

CO-CHAIRS

Mark Donham Vicki Jones

Route 1 1131 Hamburg Road

Brookport, Illinois 62910 Kevil, Kentucky 42053

mandk@midwest.net jonesvw@ornl.gov

 

fit a pre-determined schedule. The SSAB wants the cleanup activities to be completed regardless of the time required to finish. The SSAB is concerned that as funds and schedules become tight, that the effectiveness of the cleanup activities could easily be sacrificed.
  1. The SSAB is concerned that since the Paducah plant is part of the Oak Ridge complex, that Paducah’s contamination problems will be overshadowed by Oak Ridge’s contamination problems.
  2. The Paducah SSAB did not have an opportunity to provide input to the prioritization process as a whole and has numerous questions on how the projects were ranked.
  3. The SSAB would also like to know what type of NEPA review was performed on the plan.