‘ THEADVISOR.’- . A Publication of the Ro‘cky Flats Citizens-AdvisoryBoard -I _- - - - - - - - - - -- 1 J Spring 1998 I 8 1 1 ._^___^ I - - - . I __p I - ._- .- Kaiser-Hill Earns 82 % of Available Incentives for 1997 Cleanup Work I rior to the start of each fiscal year, the Department of , ’ In FY97, Kaiser-Hill earned 100% of :a Energy (DOE) and its contractor, Kaiser-Hil1;negoti- I It. ,P I . 1 ate performance measures and associated incentive I available incentive fees for: I fees for the upcoming year. With most of the reporting and ; I 1 I I evaluation completed, Kaisei-Hill has’received just over $20 Shipment of low-level mixed waste I million in incentive fees ou‘t 0f.a possible $24.6 million for (saltcrete and pondcrete) I cleanup work completed during Fiscal Year (FY) i997. This 1 represents about 82% of the available fee. In comparison, Waste minimization and pollution prevention I. Kaiser-Hill earned about 72% of the incentive fees for the Pre-certification of WlPP waste ’i 1.... work it completed during FY96. Additionally, there are still Waste consolidation and evacuation in the some performance measures open for which Kaiser-Hill I protected area -. could earn fees for FY97. I I Deactivation work in Building 779 and the .. 1. 2- According to DOE’S manager-at Rocky Flats, Jessie ... 1 771 and 886 clusters I Roberson, “While significant progress was made in 1997, .., I . we’re looking to accomplish even more next ye&. 1 *. Environmental remediation (Mound and T1) Successful completion of these performance measures helps ’ 8 Building 771 nuclear holdup measurements I bring the site closer to the goal of accelerated closure in a 1. SmalVdisadvantaged business subcontracting ...... safe, secure and efficient manner.” 4. Comprehensive peiformance (schedule and cost) Under Kaiser-Hil1,’s contract with DOE, the company’is I 1. Life-cycle baseline development reimbursed for the costs it incurs as a result-of doing the .I Additional demolition activities (SS) ,. work at the site. Additionally, it negotiates with DOE an >I* ... ’. amount of money that is available as profit. Fifteen percent f 1 Removal of Building 776/777 pencil tanks (SS) . .- I of this pool is guaranteed, providing that Kaiser-Hill demon- i . Life-cycle baseline revisions (SS) .. , strates an acceptable level of performance. Only the Removal of nuclear materials - Bldg. 776/777 (SS) successful completion of an annual set of performance mea- I* <*Material disposition from environmental restoration sures entitles Kaiker-Hill to the other 85% of available fees. < at Mound and T3n4 (SS) . FY97 performance measures included both standard -1 and superstretch measures. Standard measures are those Automation of security posts/access control which D,OE expects Kaiser-Hill to complete under the exist- , systems (SS) ing closure plan. Superstretch measures are used to 1. Building 444 deactivation (SS) encourage Kaiser-Hill to, go beyond the current baseline plans Additional low level waste shipments (SS) 1 and accelerate completion of work not scheduled or funded in i the current fiscal year. Kaiser-Hill earned 84% of the 1 I’ (SS=superstretch) 4. ... .. ” . ... L__ ... I. .. .- .~ .- ......... I ..... .- . ‘. -I . L. ,. I (continued..... on page 3) ’ . : .. ... .... Highlights Inside: Rocky Flats Updates ....................................... i.2 INEEL Citizens Advisory Board ............................. 6 Review of Soil Action Levels ........i .................. 3 New CAB Staff / Providing Input to CAB ............. 7 State of the Flats Meeting ......’.; ................... i: ....4 Public Meeting Calendar ..........1 ................................ ,8 .. I I \ Updates ‘ Environmental Monitoring CDPHE Assigns New CAB Over the past year, The Advisor has Ex-Oflcio Representative reported on the progress of the evalua- Steve Gunderson recently took over .. tion commissioned by the Citizens as the Colorado Department of Public Advisory Board to look at the environ- Health and Environment’s ex-officio mental monitoring at Rocky Flats. This (non-voting) member on the CAB. evaluation, entitled An Analysis of Steve is a native of Iowa and has been a Environmental Monitoring ut and resident of Colorado since 1981. He around the Rocky Flats Environmental has a Bachelor of Arts in geology from Technology Site, is now available for Augustana College in Illinois. He also has a Master of Science degree in geolo- review on CAB’S web page 2006 Plan Update . gy from the University of California, (www.rfcab.org). A limited-number of The process of developing an accel- Berkeley. Steve worked as a corporate paper copies are available and may be erated closure plan for Rocky Flats and officer in a small Denver based petrole- obtained by contacting the CAB office. other Department of Energy nuclear um exploration and production company sites continues. A Discussion Draft of Work on a companion report, A Citizens prior to joining the state Department of the national 2006 Plan was released in Guide to Environmental Monitoring at Health as a geologist in 1989. June 1997. In December, Rocky Flats Rocky Flats, has been delayed. In 1992, Steve was assigned submitted a slightly modified version of Currently, CAB is reviewing the responsibility for creation of the its plan to DOE-Headquarters in evaluation and is engaged in discussions Emergency Management Program Washington, D.C (available on the with the Rocky Flats contractors respon- (EMP) within the health department. Rocky Flats web page - www.rfets.gov). sible for the environmental monitoring EMP responsibilities included offsite Headquarters is currently in the process programs, as well as representatives emergency planning related to Rocky of synthesizing the individual site plans from the local city governments, the Flats; emergency planning and pre- into an overall national Draft 2006 Plan. Colorado Department of Public Health The release of this version is paredness activities in Colorado relative scheduled for early March. The plan and Environment, and the to DOE radioactive waste shipments, will be available on the DOE web page Environmental Protection Agency. including those destined for WIPP; and at www.em.doe.gov/acc2006. A 45-day These groups have reviewed the evalua- coordinating department activities rela- public comment period will commence tion and have offered comments to tive to hazardous materials spills, public upon the release of the plan, followed CAB. By March of this year, GAB health emergency, and natural disasters. by the development of the Final 2006 . hopes to develop a set of recommenda- As EMP director, Steve was co- plan. A Preliminary Response to tions, based on the evaluation and the chair of the Colorado Emergency Comment document was prepared that discussions with the site and the regula- Planning Commission, chaired the addresses,public comments on the tors, for changes to the current Governor’s Interagency Advisory Group Discussion Draft and is currently avail- environmental monitoring program. on Hazardous Materials, and was a able in Rocky Flats Reading Rooms. One important area that has already member of DOE’S national Transportation External Coordination Rocky Flats’ plan now contains ’ been identified is the need to improve Working Group. only one scenario, in contrast to earlier the way in which environmental moni- versions which offered a number of Steve became the State Rocky Flats toring information and results are shared different cases. Only one substantive Cleanup Agreement Project Manager in with the public. CAB hopes to work change was made in this submittal. January 1998, at which time he was Whereas the June version identified nine collaboratively with the site and the reg- appointed as the Colorado Department buildings that would not be decommis- ulators on new ways to provide this of Public Health and Environment’s ex- sioned under the plan because of information, and thus has delayed the officio representative on CAB. CAB’S potential community reuse, the publication of the Citizens Guide until other ex-officio representatives are Tim December plan includes the D&D costs . these changes can be made. If you have Rehder from the U.S. Environmental for these buildings. Other than this additional questions about the project, Protection Agency and Joe Legare from change and some substantial formatting please contact Ken Korkia at the CAB the U.S. Department of Energy- changes, the document remains the office. Rocky Flats. same as the June discussion draft. .. ..' .. -. ,. I. ,. ' '-. 1. .. I I Review of Soil Action Levels is Now Underway n October 1996, DOE, the State of Colorado and the Environmental I Protection Agency established numeri- cal guidelines for the cleanup of . '4 contaminated soil at Rocky Flats. These guidelines, or Soil Action Levels, provide limits for determining when action must be taken to remove, treat, or otherwise contain soil which is contaminated with plutonium and other radioactive materials. Almost immediately after. these Soil Action Levels were established, members of the communi- ty became concerned because the numbers . were much higher than expected, and based on additional review, were higher than the cleanup levels established for radioactively contaminated soil cleanups in other parts of the world. I c. The Rocky Citizens'Adviso~ . Oversight panel members Bob Kanick, Tom Duvidson, Joe Goldfield, facilitator Board, in a 1996 recommendation, asked hura ill and k~~~M~~~~. that DOE conduct an independent assess- ' ment of the Soil Action Levels. Joining in governments, two from public interest groups, three this request were the cities of Broomfield and Westminster, technicalhcientific experts, and two citizen members. and the office of Congressman David Skaggs. In November During the next two months; the oversight panel will final- 19969 the Department Of Energy agreed to conduct such an . ize the scope of work and hire the contractor who will perform assessment. Shortly thereafter, representatives from CAB, the the evaluation. At this time, the panel would like to complete local governments, and other interested citizens started meeting work on the e;aluation in less than a year, so that the to discuss how such a study might be conducted.