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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The primary requirements of the Radiation Area Remedial Action activity
are to conduct the surveillance, maintenance, decontamination, and/or interim
stabilization of inactive burial grounds, cribs, ponds, trenches, and
unplanned release sites at the Hanford Site. A major concern associated with
these requirements is the management and control of surface soil
contamination. A Radiation Area Remedial Action site is defined as follows:
any inactive ground site that has no identified programmatic use; is
contaminated with radioactivity to levels that require controlled access; is
outside the jurisdictional land and administrative boundaries of an operating
plant, and has been specifically assigned to the Radiation Area Remedial
Action program in accordance with Draft DOE Order 58XX.XX, "Transition of
Facilities to the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management,"
August 27, 1992.
Appendix A provides a complete list of all currently numbered
contaminated surface soil sites at the Hanford Site. These sites have been
further sorted by the responsible organization or program and ranked using a
system developed by the Westinghouse Hanford Company Environmental Engineering
Studies Function Organization. The responsible organizations listed in
Appendix A will be adjusted as company reorganization and group
responsibilities are redefined. The priority for stabilizing the individual
sites will be established using the ranking system, budget guidance from
U.S. Department of Energy Richland Field Office, and technical and operational
considerations. All of these sites are located within an Environmental
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