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Annual Site Environmental Report for 1999
• Sanitary/Industrial waste - waste
that is neither radioactive nor hazardous.
Solid sanitary/industrial waste is basically
refuse or industrial/construction debris
and is disposed in landfills.
identified. Table 3.5 summarizes the major
accomplishments of the Waste Management
Program during 1999.
Waste Minimization I Pollution Prevention
Requirements for meeting waste
management regulatory objectives are varied
and complex because of the variety of waste
streams generated by DOE activities. The goal,
however, is to comply with all current
regulations while planning actions to comply
with anticipated future regulations.
Compliance for waste management
activities involves meeting EPA and state
regulations and DOE orders. In addition to
compliance with these regulations, supplemental
policies are enacted for" management of
radioactive, hazardous, and mixed wastes.
These policies include. reducing the amount of
wastes generated; characterizing and certifying
waste before it is stored, processed, treated, or
disposed; and pursuing volume reduction and
use of on-site storage, when safe and cost
effective, until a final disposal option is
The Pollution Prevention/Waste
Minimization (PPIWM) Program at the Paducah
Site provides guidance and objectives for
minimizing waste generation. Guidance for the
program comes from regulations promulgated
by RCRA, the Pollution Prevention Act,
applicable state and EPA rules, DOE Orders, and
Executive Orders.
The program is striving to meet its goals
with the following strategy:
• source reduction,
o
segregation,
• reuse of materials, and
Table 3.5 Waste Management Accomplishments During 1999
• Shipped 28 cubic meters of PCB/RCRA/ Rad liquid waste to the TSCA Incinerator
• Treated 6.5 cubic meters of pyrophoric uranium metal chips to meet Envirocare of Utah Waste
Acceptance Criteria for future disposal
• Shipped 8 cubic meters of newly generated mixed low level waste to Envirocare of Utah for
treatment and disposal
. .
• Shipped 120 cubic meters of I?w level waste to Envirocare of Utah for disposal
• Issued an Engineering Evaluation/Cost A'nalysis (EE/CA,) for the remov.al of aU scrap metal
• Disposal' of 524 cubic meters of reclassified h~w"level waste in the C-746-U landfill
• Awarded the Waste Operations Subcontract to WESKEM LLC
• Chilracterized'29 waste streams, repre~enting 760 containers of waste under the TCLP FFCA
• Disposed 4;434 cubic meters of industrial waste/construction debris in the C-746-U landfiII
• Continued DMSA projectfield activities and completed corrective actions within 13 DMSAs
• Closed 34 PCB gasket spills and 23 PCB non-gasket s'pills
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