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DOE's 2004 Compliance Recertification Application
WIPP
EPA received the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) official Compliance Recertification Application on March 26, 2004. A 30-day comment period opened on May 24, 2004 and was extended to December 5, 2005, a total of 560 days.
DOE's application and supporting documents are available on below in pdf format:
- Compliance Recertification Application
- Federal Register notice announcing receipt of DOE's application (PDF) (5 pp, 104.7K)
- Completeness Determination-Related Correspondence
- Inventory and Performance Assessment Reports
- Supplemental Hydrologic Studies of WIPP Site
- Stakeholder Meetings: Summaries and Minutes
Compliance Recertification Application
In the recertification application documents which follow the color of the text indicates whether it is different from that of the original certification:
- unchanged text is <black>
- added and changed text is in <blue italics>
- deleted text is <
struck out>.
| Chapter | Title | File Size |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Summary (PDF) | 3 pp, 80K | |
| Table of Contents (PDF) | 24 pp, 86K | |
| Acronyms (PDF) | 10 pp, 183K | |
| 1 | Introduction (PDF) | 31 pp, 499K |
| 2 | Site Characterization (PDF) | 220 pp, 12906K |
| 3 | Facility Description (PDF) | 45 pp, 2042K |
| 4 | Waste Description (PDF) | 69 pp, 2093K |
| 5 | Quality Assurance (PDF) | 36 pp, 383K |
| 6 | Containment Requirements (PDF) | 218 pp, 11371K |
| 7 | Assurance Requirements (PDF) | 101 pp, 250K |
| 8 | Individual and Groundwater Protection Requirements (PDF) | 26 pp, 533K |
| 9 | Peer Reviews, 2004 (PDF) | 168 pp,1292K |
| Index (PDF) | 20 pp, 317K | |
| Glossary of Terms (PDF) | 54 pp, 428 K |
Recertification Application Completeness Determination
EPA made its determination that DOE's Compliance Recertification Application for WIPP was complete on September 29, 2005. The completeness determination was an administrative step required under the WIPP Compliance Criteria. It indicated that DOE had provided information relevant to each applicable provision of the WIPP Compliance Criteria and in sufficient detail for EPA to proceed with a full technical review of the CRA.
- Federal Register Notice -- EPA Completeness Determination (10/20/05) (PDF)
- Completeness Determination-Related Correspondence (PDF)
- Inventory and Performance Assessment Reports (PDF)
- Supplemental Hydrologic Studies of WIPP Site (PDF)
Completeness Determination-Related Correspondence
All EPA & DOE correspondence related to the determination of completeness and the CRA are provided below. Paper copies of these document and additional enclosures (generally references) are available by contacting Ray Lee at lee.raymond@epa.gov.
- Letter Transmitting EPA's CRA Completeness Determination (9/29/05) (PDF) (3pp, 336K)
- EPA to DOE Predetermination Correspondence
| EPA Letter # | Subject | File Size |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CRA Comments (5/20/04) (PDF) | 3 pp, 178K |
| Attachment -- List of Issues by CRA Section (5/20/04) (PDF) | 14 pp, 122K | |
| 2 | CRA Comments (7/12/04) (PDF) | 5 pp, 269K |
| 3 | CRA Comments (9/2/04) (PDF) | 14 pp, 1913K |
| 4 | CRA Comments (12/17/04) (PDF) | 3 pp, 520 K |
| 5 | CRA Comments (2/9/05) (PDF) | 2 pp, 311 K |
| 6 | CRA Comments; Performance Assessment (3/4/05) (PDF) | 6 pp, 732 K |
- DOE to EPA Predetermination Correspondence
Inventory and Performance Assessment Reports
DOE also submitted revised, summary information related to WIPP's inventory and the performance assessment. These documents were reviewed in the technical evaluation:
- DOE -- Performance Assessment Baseline Calculation Summary Report (10/19/05) (PDF) (153 pp, 3527K)
- DOE -- TRU Waste Inventory Report (2004 WIPP CRA; Performance Assessment Baseline Calculation) (9/29/05) (PDF) (56 pp, 2187K)
Supplemental Hydrologic Studies of WIPP Site
For over 25 years, DOE scientists have studied groundwater flow and conditions at the WIPP site to determine potential pathways for radioactive releases. DOE’s certification application identified two geologic units that are potential groundwater pathways for radioactive releases to the environment: The Culebra Dolomite unit in the Rustler Formation and The Salado Anhydrite units within the salt bed.
In addition, EPA identified the need for DOE to increase understanding of the hydrologic characteristics of the subsurface soils above the repository, such as the Magenta. Also of concern was the issue of karst. DOE provided EPA with two documents on this issue:
- Assessment
for the Potential of Karst in the Rustler Formation at
the WIPP Site (PDF) -- John C. Lorenz, Sandia National Laboratory (127 pp, 7,290K)
- Magenta Transmissivity Fact Sheet (PDF) DOE's investigations of the Magenta geologic unit above the WIPP (7 pp, 1,810K)
Stakeholder Meetings: Summaries and Minutes
These summaries are from public meetings that were held in Albuquerque, NM, during June of 2005. They include all topics raised by stakeholders attending the meetings.
EPA June 2005 Stakeholders Meeting Summaries (PDF) (7 pp, 80K)
