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3.5.2.4
Although most of the comments an the technical content of Chapter 4 ere contained on
the comments on individual upPem&ces, some will be included here. The reference to
Myers end Price, 1979, axteeively paraphrased o0 pages 43 and 4.9, Is confuel, because
the referenee is not Bated in this format in the reference list an page 4.39. The vertical
exaggeration of 52 on Pigwa 4.3 is We great, leading the ley reader to A distorted view
Of the seeficiai geology of the Hanford men. Although the magnitude of the probable
maximum flood on Cdtl Creek he d iscussed oa page 4.12, ne locations of any high-level
waste disposal sites within the 200 Arses Net may be Included In this Hoodplain now or
10,000 years in Me future ere not d iscussed in Amiga a 4 or 5.
be used In construction of each Alternative. Therefore, the "operational" ecological
Impacts of the no disposal action Alternative (Section 5.5.3.4) Would be defines As 0
impacts from blowing dust, seepage, etc., Over the period from the present N the year
2150, Area no conventional "operations" will be performed to clean up the waste. These
impacts we stated to be "... essentially unchanged from present nonditiore," although
the potential for the tong-teem contamination of plants and wildlife though ale
Alternative is undoubtedly greater then Me potential for W the older Alternatives
combined.
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CHAPTER 5 - POSTULATED IMPACTS AND POTENTIAL
CONSEQUENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL
Be... Chapter 5 deals win impeet. N the four alternatives dEmm ed to Chapter 3 . It
E based on data from all Me Appendices. For am reason, detailed comments on the
models end conclusions discussed in the chapter me found in Me decimations of the
individual appendices. Some general comments are, however, included M the following
parsg,aphe.
On page 5.4, data concerning monitored releaser from Hanford In 1904 Is deseumad The
cumulative wholebody dose incurred by an individual due to 40 years of Hanford releases
I. not discussed The impact of the pr.,.ad action is not An isolated event, but only e
Part of the total history of plutonium processing, radioactive materials research, melee
power plant construction and operation, end high- end low-level waste disposal Activities
M Hanford. Unless Made activities are considered together, the Actual impacts to the
envbonment cannot be determined For this reason, Me Had Perce, who Are very
concerned about long-term impacts to their Possessory and usage rights area, which
Includes oil the Hanford reservation, new not accept the Impact sceneries discussed in
Summery tables we needed for Sections 5.3.4.3 and 5.5.4.3, Impacts from Disruption of
Wastes by Intruders, and 5.3.5 And 5.5.5, Resettlement, sim per N those in Appendix R.
These tables should summarize the very Range maximum doses net an intruder may inew
during the first $00 to 1000 years from drilling, excavating, drinking water, or farming on
the waste sites for the in-situ And de disposal action alternatives.
CHAPTER 6 - APPLICABLE REGULATIONS
Regulations concerning We Applicable EPA standards for radionuclides we covered in
Chapter S. The regWaHOru amUcable to hazardous chemical wastes, that, contro4 And
their Approved disposal methods are not Included in this chapter. Seemed the hazard he
the environment may be es greet or greeter from the chemical processing wastes,
Including heavy metab And ,Art. compounds, As from Me radioactive wastes,, these
regulations must be included in this chapter and a discussion of the short- end long-term
impacts of these chemical wastes moat be Included In Chapter 5.
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Chapter 5 and APpeaniees H, 4 N,. end R.
Sections 5.2.2.4 1 5.3.2.4, 5.4.2.4, and 5.5.2.4 discuss ecological impacts of the four
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Alternatives being considered for defense waste disposal These walions, however,
cloacae only Me on-site impacts end not %e impacts off Me Hanford reservation. Even
OR Hanford, Chapter 5 presents no quantitative data for impacts to wildlife and plants
DOE seems to cooled. "ecological Imprts" with the amount of sand gravel resources to