HLW residue at Idaho DOE lab can be reclassified

Washington (Platts)--11Oct2004

High-level waste (HLW) residue in tanks at a DOE lab in Idaho can be
reclassified as low-level waste and left in place under provisions in the
defense authorization bill for fiscal 2005 that was sent to President George
W. Bush over the weekend to be signed into law. The bill extends the
reclassification of HLW residue at the Idaho National Engineering &
Environmental Laboratory after an agreement was reached with Idaho Gov. Dirk
Kempthorne. An earlier version of the measure cited the Savannah River Site in
South Carolina as the sole site where the reclassification could occur. "This
bill now lays out a process for using the standards of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission--and the regulatory control of the state of Idaho--to force DOE
into the cleanup that we intended to extract from them all along," Sen. Larry
Craig (R-Idaho) said Oct. 8. Defense HLW in tanks at DOE's Hanford site in
Washington state will not be reclassified under the bill.

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