Facilities disposition

DOE-STD-1120-98 Table 1, Hazard Analyses Required by Directives (taken from DOE-STD-1120-98, Integration of Environment, Safety, and Health into Facility Disposition Activities ), presents a model integrated approach to hazard analysis, which was piloted at Hanford. This table illustrates one example of the types of hazard analyses required by various directives. 

U.S. Department of Energy, DOE-STD-1120-98, Integration of Enviromnent, Safety, and Health into Facility Disposition Activities, Volume 1 of 2... 

Include in the report an estimate of the quantity of the waste removed from the scene, the name and address of the facility to which it was taken, and the manner of disposition (Section IX of DOT Form F5800.1). 

All facilities engaged in the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous wastes must be permitted by either EPA or an authorized state. Two types of such permits exist. Those facilities which were in existence prior to November 1980, received an interim permit which allows continued operation, under the provision of Part 265, until final administrative disposition of the owner s or operator permit application is made. 

The alternative regiochemical disposition of the diazo and tether of indole 260 failed to deliver any product upon addition of catalyst. Friedrichsen and co-workers (136) also applied this method to amine substituted tethers to generate polyaza-cyclic compounds (Scheme 4.70). The presence of the amino substituted furan subsequent to diazo-decomposition made it possible to cleave the ether bridge through the facility of the amino group formed to produce adduct 263. 

The term life-cycle framework is used broadly to refer to any and all of the tool and programs that provide insights into and to some extent quantify a company s extended environmental concerns (Sullivan and Ehrenfeld, 1994). It would therefore include all of the considerations we used above to evaluate solvents. These extended environmental concerns are associated with activities beyond as well as at the company s own production facilities, from raw material acquisition, to component production, to recycling or disposition of a product. This is a different way of expressing total quality management, or TQM. 

Uhe stockpile (the subject of the Amy s Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program) consists of (1) bulk containers of nerve and blister agents and (2) munitions, including rockets, mines, bombs, projectiles, and spray tanks, loaded with nerve or blister agents. Buried chemical warfare materiel, recovered chemical warfare materiel, binary weapons (in which two nonlethal components are mixed after firing to yield a lethal nerve agent), former production facilities, and miscellaneous chemical warfare materiel are not included in the stockpile. The disposition of these five classes of materials is the subject of a separate Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Pro-... 

Exempt Waste. Waste classified as exempt would be regulated as if it were nonhazardous, and would be generally acceptable for disposition as nonhazardous material (e.g., disposal in a municipal/ industrial landfill). As noted in Section 1.4.1, disposal is the only disposition of exempt materials considered in this Report. Limits on concentrations of hazardous substances in exempt waste would be derived based on an assumption that the risk or dose to a hypothetical inadvertent intruder at a disposal site should not exceed negligible levels. The use of a negligible risk or dose to determine exempt waste is based on an assumption that a disposal facility for nonhazardous waste could be released for unrestricted use by the public soon after the facility is closed. 

Emplacement in a near-surface disposal facility is the common disposition of solidified hazardous chemical waste, regardless of the hazard posed by the waste. Disposal sites must meet location requirements, and they must be provided with appropriate liner, leachate collection and removal, and leak detection systems. 

A number of dispositions could be acceptable for high-hazard chemical waste, including destruction (e.g., incineration), treatment to reduce the hazard to levels that would be acceptable for near-surface disposal, or disposal using a technology considerably more isolating than a near-surface facility. At the present time, there are no planned alternatives to near-surface facilities for disposal of high-hazard chemical wastes in the United States.16 However, there do not appear... 

The hazardous waste classification system recommended by NCRP is depicted in Figure 6.1 at the beginning of Section 6. This proposal was developed with two fundamental objectives in mind. First, all wastes that contain radionuclides, hazardous chemicals, or mixtures of the two should be included in the same classification system. A comprehensive hazardous waste classification system should be developed to replace the separate, and quite different, classification systems for radioactive and hazardous chemical wastes, as well as the separate classification systems for radioactive waste that arises from operations of the nuclear fuel cycle and NARM waste. Second, all hazardous wastes should be classified based on considerations of risks to the public that arise from disposition of the material. In this Report, permanent disposal in a permitted facility for hazardous or nonhazardous waste is the assumed disposition of waste containing hazardous substances that has no further use to its present custodian. An important consequence of these two objectives is that the same rules should apply in classifying any waste that contains hazardous substances. 

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