Texas Radiation Online - WCS Regulatory History


WCS's License (L04971) [amendment-15; 05-18-01]
- Changes since amendment 8 are in red text
WCS's License (L04971) [older version: amendment-08; 02-03-99]
- see amendment behaviour below
Attachment B- Waste Acceptance Criteria [09-02-98]
- (lists isotopes, halflife and storage limits. Also contains material on "exempt" LLRW)
Attachment C- WCS's Description of the Andrews Facility
- One big false advertisement.
Procedures for Approval to Dispose of Exempt Level Radioactive and Mixed Waste [02-22-99]

TNRCC Staff Site Environmental Analysis Review and Final Report
[05-22-97, for license approval]
- This document itself admits "Overall the WCS site suitability appears adequate, however that position can not be professionally defended based on the data we have reviewed."


Special Nuclear Material Exemption June 2001
[Exemption from 10 CFR Part 70, regarding storage limits]
- Proposal to TDH
- Special Nuclear Material (SNM) Exemption Certification
- Attachment 1 - SNM Waste Acceptance Criteria
- Attachment 2 - Pre-acceptance Review of Shipments Containing SNM
- Attachment 3 - Guidelines for Review of SNM Shipments for the Purpose of Meeting the Exemption

11-21-2000 Federal Register -NRC consideration of exemption from certain SNM regulation
11-07-2001 Federal Register notice of NRC consideration
11(e)(2) Uranium Byproduct Disposal Attempts in 1998 and 2001
[As of 2005, WCS is again attempting to get approval to dispose of 11e2 waste]
- 4-7-1998 Memo- TDH meets with WCS officials
- 4-17-1998 Memo- TDH meets with WCS officials again
- Jan, 16 2001, WCS proceeds to attempt approval of 11e(2)/ LLRW another try, 3 years later
-- Environmental Monitoring and Surveillance Plan for Future Disposal of 11e(2)/ LLRW
-- March 6, 2001, TDH responds

DOE preliminary notification of Los Alamos waste stream
- June 14, 2001 - mixed low-level radioactive wastes from Los Alamos
Los Alamos notifies TDH of first shipment
- June 21, 2001 - Mixed Low-level solids, NRC Class AU; approx 10,200 lbs.

WCS argues to dump exempted LLRW into Separate HazMat Licensed area
- December 18, 2000 - WCS argues to TNRCC on feasibility to dump exempt LLRW into hazardous waste area

Notification to TNRCC from TDH-BRC of WCS request 07-13-99
- WCS requests approval to dispose of K061 07-07-99
- attached WCS agreement with hazardous waste division to transfer

WCS license amendment request for PERMACON
"and mixing within a drum, box, or pan". Received Feb 03, 1999 by TDH, BRC
- attachments/ enclosures are not available at the current time.

TNRCC confirmation to TDH-BRC on acceptability of K061 at WCS 01-22-99

WCS requests approval to dispose of K061,etc,.
- received Dec 09, 1998 by TDH, BRC

License amendment request December 30, 1998
- Andrews Site Organizational Chart
- In-Drum Treatment Operations
- Treating Mixed Waste in the PERMACON instructions

License amendment request and correspondence (WCS and TDH)
September 02, 1998



WCS Report to TNRCC: 04-02-98 Spill of K061
- April 09, 1998 - Also has attached report from GPI reporting the spill

WCS's Environmental Service Agreement for Federal Government Clients
page 1 --- page 2 --- page 3



Waste Holdings and Input - Output
WCS On-Site Waste Inventories
July 26 2000 Inventory
July 26 2000 Inventory by Isotope
December 31 1999 Inventory

Input shipment manifests from February 1998:
Source: Tinker Air Force Base c/o ChemTel,
Carrier: Triad Transport Houston, Generator Type: AFB
Manifest #01331403- Front - Back
Manifest #01331404- Front - Back
Manifest #01331407- Front - Back
Manifest #01331408- Front - Back
Manifest #01331409- Front - Back
Manifest #01331412- Front
Source: GPI, Carrier: Norfolk Southern Railway,
Generator Type: Collector
Shipment #WP000456-A - Back
Shipment #WP000456-D - Front - Back
Shipment #WP000456-E - Front - Back
Shipment #WP000456-B - Front - Back
Triad Transport in Oklahoma shipped 0456-B



Notifications to TDH of output shipments
August 31, 2000 Shipment date: 09-08-00; Destination: NSSI Recovery Svcs, Houston Tx; Material: unspecified
October 16, 2000 Shipment date: 10-19-00; Destination: US Ecology, Oak Ridge TN; Material: unspecified
March 29, 2001 Shipment date: 04-09-01; Destination: Savannah River, Aiken SC; Material: unspecified
April 23, 2001 Shipment date: 04-26-01; Destination: Beatty NV and Oak Ridge TN; Material: unspecified**
May 17, 2001 Shipment date: 05-22-01; Destination: Envirocare, Utah; Material: unspecified




Tinker AFB waste designated as federal agency waste
- March 31, 1998, discussion of possible relocation from Andrews if financial coverage becomes an issue
- Tinker AFB waste stream relocation discussion with IT Corporation
- (IT Corp is a contractor for the Army Corp of Engineers)

Letter from Washington Dept of Health reporting shipping violations with material from WCS

Correspondence regarding approval of material from Starmet (Barnwell, SC)
- South Carolina Dept of Health to TNRCC 05-17-99
- South Carolina Dept of Health to Starmet 06-17-99
- Starmet to TDH-BRC 06-21-99

Germantown, Maryland: May 21, 1998
- request for a copy of the license to verify eligibility to dump K061

Alabama Dept of Health to GPI 05-28-98 Re Birmingham Steel Am-241

TDH-BRC letter to WCS discussing NORM waste 06-21-99

Nuclear Regulatory Commission confirmation for TDH-BRC
- March 29, 1996 - "confirmation that a licensee, under U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) or Agreement State regulation, may receive radioactive and mixed waste from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)."