Energia i regulacje · 29/09/2000

Army Research Laboratory, Watertown Mall Area Site

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has removed the Watertown Mall Area site in Watertown, Massachusetts, from the NRC Site Decommissioning Management Plan (SDMP). In 1990, NRC developed the SDMP program for approximately 50 sites that warranted additional NRC oversight to ensure the timely and safe decommissioning of sites with residual radioactive material in excess of NRC's criteria for release for unrestricted use and license termination. One of these sites was the Watertown Arsenal/Mall area site. In 1997, the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) portion of the Watertown Arsenal Mall site was removed from the SDMP, having met the SDMP Action Plan criteria (as specified in 57 FR 13389) for release for unrestricted use. At the time the Watertown Arsenal was removed from the SDMP, radiological assessments had been completed for a majority of the Mall Area, which indicated that it could be released for unrestricted use. However, these assessments also indicated that there was the potential for residual radioactive material in excess of NRC SDMP criteria to be present in buried drain/sewer lines on the site that had not yet been evaluated. The Watertown Mall Area is currently authori