The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has tion, and several involve regulatory issues that must be identified 48 sites contaminated with radioactivematerial addressed bythe Commission before they can be released that require special attention to ensure timely decommis-for unrestricted use and the applicable licenses termisioninl. While none of these sites represent an immediate hated. This report contains the NRC staff's strategy for threat to public health and safety, they have contamina-addressingthe technical, legal, and policy issues affecting tion that exceeds existing NRC criteria for unrestricted the timely decommissioning of the 48 sites and describes use. All of these sites require some degree of remedia-the status of decommissioning activities at the sites.
Over the century that radioactive materials have been mined, processed, produced, and utilized, many sites across the United States have become contaminated. Such sites include bases and installations of the Department of Defense, weapons production and research facilities of the Department of Energy, properties under the authority of other Federal agencies, privately-owned and governmental facilities that are licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its Agreement States, and sites licensed by or the responsibility of states. This review reports on aspects of work by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and others to identify sites contaminated with radioactive materials. It also describes the principal programs that have been instituted to deal with them.
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