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R If the draft Permit is approved,it will <br /> allow the following changes: <br /> . The Building B833 Container 3& <br /> Storage Area <br /> t <br /> - . <br /> (B883 CSA)would increase liquid ��"� ���" � �� �'�,��r" �z- ��� ��� <br /> waste storage capacity from 3,300 � ' <br /> to 5,500 gallons which is within <br /> the existing design capacity for <br /> B883 CSA. <br /> RIM, 1- . The treatment capacity for the Y <br /> Explosive Waste Treatment . 'rid <br /> �f <br /> t k <br /> Facility(EWTF)Burn Pan would ` + ' <br /> L be reduced from 150 pounds perMs <br /> event or day to 100 pounds per <br /> event or da Y <br /> 1 Aerial Map of LLNL Site 300 <br /> 4 Why a Permit is Necessary <br /> A permit enables DTSC to effectively regulate the California Environmental Quality Act <br /> ' hazardous waste management activities at facilities. —Negative Declaration <br /> _r Permits are developed after DTSC's detailed DTSC evaluated possible environmental impacts <br /> technical review and are intended to ensure that associated with the proposed continued hazardous <br /> facilities operate in a manner that is protective of <br /> z <br /> human health and the environment. and explosive waste operations at this facility. As <br /> required by CEQA,DTSC prepared a draft Negative <br /> g�} <br /> Facility Description Declaration which states that the hazardous and <br /> x LLNL Site 300 was established in 1955 by the explosive waste operations would not have significant <br /> \ Department of Energy and the University of effects on human health and the environment. <br /> ` California as an experimental test site for explosives Enforcement History <br /> testing. LLNL Site 300 is a non-nuclear explosives P DTSC inspects LLNL Site 300 on a regular basis to <br /> and other non-nuclear weapons component test ensure compliance with California laws,regulations, <br /> t facility. LLNL Site 300 operates three permitted and the Permit conditions.The results of those <br /> hazardous and explosives waste facilities. Two inspections during the past five years are listed below: <br /> y � of the facilities,the EWTF and the EWSF are . October 28 and 29,2003,DTSC conducted <br /> ,, dedicated for storage and treatment of explosives a compliance evaluation inspection (CEI) <br /> waste and residue. The third hazardous waste <br /> >1 : and one violation was found:LLNL Site 300 <br /> facility,B883 CSA,is dedicated for storage of failed to have a training plan as part of the Part <br /> a containerized hazardous waste generated from <br /> B Operation Plan for the post-closure unit <br /> various site operations. In addition to accepting Building 829.DTSC issued the violation to <br /> r on-site generated hazardous waste,LLNL Site 300 is the facility in the January 20,2004 Inspection <br /> permitted to accept explosives waste from the LLNL Report,and LLNL responded to the violation <br /> Main Site located in Livermore for storage and in a letter dated March 17,2004. DTSC is in the <br /> treatment at EWSF and EWTF. Wastes approved process of reviewing the facility's response to this <br /> sr> for storage and treatment by this permit DO NOT violation. <br /> E s include radioactive,low level radioactive,or mixed waste. June 16,2005,DTSC conducted a CEI of LLNL <br /> Site 300. As a result of the inspection,two <br /> Class II Violations were cited:failure to use the <br /> s _ original manifest to transport a rejected load,and <br /> incorrectly using a new manifest to ship rejected <br /> hazardous waste from one off-site facility to a <br /> ,y second off-site disposal facility. 7hefacility has <br /> ` � returned to compliance on April 28,2006 <br />