DOE/ORO/2327 Oak Ridge Reservation Annual Site Environmental ...

Table 5.6. Summary of regulatory environmental audits and
assessments conducted at ORNL
Annual Site Environmental Report
Date Reviewer Subject Issues
May 11–14 TDEC, RCRA
UT-Battelle
TDEC Annual RCRA Inspection 0
July 23 USDA/TNDA USDA Compliance Inspection 0
September 22 TDEC CWA NPDES program Inspection 0
September 25 TDEC RATA for Predictive Emissions 0
November 2–4 TDEC Annual RCRA inspection at Y-12
Complex
0
December 17 TDEC Annual CAA inspection
TWPC (WAI)
0
May 14
Abbreviations
TDEC TDEC Annual RCRA Inspection 0
CAA Clean Air Act
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
RATA Relative Accuracy Test Audit
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
TDEC Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
TNDA Tennessee Department of Agriculture
TWPC Transuranic Waste Processing Center
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
or cumulatively have a significant effect on the
human environment and for which neither an
environmental assessment nor an environmental
impact statement is normally required.
UT-Battelle utilizes SBMS as the delivery
system to manage and control work at ORNL.
NEPA is an integral part of SBMS, and a UT-
Battelle NEPA coordinator, along with principal
investigators, environmental compliance
representatives, and environmental protection
officers within each UT-Battelle division,
participate in determining appropriate NEPA
decisions.
In 2009, an Environmental Assessment for the
Isotek-managed U-233 Material Downblending
and Disposition Project (Building 3019 Complex)
Table 5.7. National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) activities, 2009
Number of
Types of NEPA documentation
instances
ORNL
Categorical exclusions (CXs) approved 1
Approved under general actions or
generic CX documents 59 a
WAI
Approved under general actions or
generic CX documents 5 a
Isotek
Environmental assessment 1
a
Projects that were reviewed and documented
through the site NEPA compliance coordinator.
was completed and a Finding of No Significant Impact under the NEPA process was issued in January
2010.
Compliance with National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) at ORNL is achieved and maintained in
conjunction with NEPA compliance. The scope of proposed actions is reviewed in accordance with the
Cultural Resource Management Plan (DOE 2001). A Section 106 consultation of the Act was completed
for the demolition of Buildings 3008, 3012, 3044, 3503, 3504, 3508 and 3592. The State Historic
Preservation Officer had no objection to implementing actions for the demolition of these buildings (letter
to DOE-ORO, August 20, 2009).
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