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<br /> LLNL Environmental Community Letter LLNL Environmental Community Letter
<br /> SITE 300 CLEANUPLIC WM PEISCOMMENT PERIOD The area declared restored is where an underground gasoline LAB CONTROLLING
<br /> JANUARY 1996 T storage tank leaked into the ground a number of years ago.To
<br /> WORKSHOP ® clean up the spill,Lab scientists employed a combination of CONTAMINATED GROUND
<br /> The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence DOE tells us that the public comment period has been extended innovative technologies, including adaptive pumping,vapor WATER AT MAIN SITE
<br /> Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) invite the public to by sixty days,from a closing date of December 21, 1995,to a extraction,and underground steaming and electrical heating.
<br /> attend a Public Workshop to discuss a DOE/LLNL plan to expe- closing date of February 19, 1996 on the Draft Waste With the recent activation of new pipelines and ground water
<br /> dite the environmental cleanup of contaminated soil and ground Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Over a five-year clean-up period,scientists removed over 10,000 extraction wells at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
<br /> water at the Laboratory's Site 300 Experimental Test Site.There (WMPEIS).All comments postmarked by the extended closing gallons of gasoline from ground water and unsaturated sedi- scientists have gained control of a plume of contaminated
<br /> will be no increase in potential risk to the public as a result of date will be considered in preparing the final Programmatic ments. Most of the gasoline was removed in 1993 through vapor ground water that moved beyond the Lab's southwest boundary.
<br /> implementing this plan. Environmental Impact Statement(WMPEIS). extraction during underground steaming and electrical heating
<br /> —a process called Dynamic Underground Stripping. The new facilities are part of a"picket fence"of treatment sta-
<br /> DOE,LLNL,and the regulatory agencies overseeing the site Written comments should be mailed to the following address: tions,pipelines,wells and discharge facilities being erected along
<br /> remediation are speeding up the environmental cleanup of the U.S.Department of Energy The U.S.Environmental Protection Agency,the Regional the Lab's western edge to deal with polluted ground water
<br /> site by reducing the number of regulatory documents to be pre- Waste Management PEIS Comments Water Quality Control Board-San Francisco Bay Region,and beneath the site.The facilities have arrested further westward
<br /> pared.In place of those documents,resources will be focused to P.O.Box 3790 the California Department of Toxic Substances Control recent- migration of contaminated water that moved past Lab boundaries.
<br /> cleanup the site sooner than originally planned.These actions Gaithersburg,Maryland 20885-3790 ly concurred that soil clean-up efforts above the water table at
<br /> will be documented in a revised Appendix A of the Federal the site of the gasoline spill were no longer necessary.Regulators Ground water beneath the Lab is contaminated primarily with
<br /> Facility Agreement for Site 300. Requests for information should be directed to the Center for concluded that the soil remediation effort had met or exceeded the solvents trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene.These
<br /> Environmental Management Information at the toll-free number,
<br /> Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements as stated were used as aircraft cleaners when the site was a World War II
<br /> Site 300 is located about 8 miles west of Tracy,California in a 1-800-736-3282. in the Livermore Site Record of Decision agreed to be the regu- Naval Air Station.
<br /> remote Altamont Hills.DOE/LLNL have been conducted under latory agencies in 1992.Clean-up of contaminated ground water
<br /> continues. The Clean-Up is Going Faster Than Anticipated.Since the
<br /> the Comprehensive Environmental Response,Compensation LA 1 S TI AL I Lab's ground water clean-up project began in 1989, more than
<br /> and Liability Act with oversight provided by the U.S. EVE TI AWARD 200 million gallons of ground water have been treated,and
<br /> Environmental Protection Agency,the California Department E VE more than 200 pounds of solvent removed from the water.
<br /> of Toxic Substances Control,and the California Regional Water The National Award for Radioactive/Hazardous Waste Recycling The Environmental Assessment(EA)for the Mixed Waste There are now five ground water treatment facilities at the Lab,
<br /> Quality Control Board. recognizes Lab efforts that last year resulted in the recycling of Management Facility(MWMF) has been approved by connected to 10 pipelines and 30 extraction wells.
<br /> more than 400 tons of hazardous material and corresponding DOE/OAK.The completion of the National Environmental
<br /> The Public invited attend a Public Workshop to be held on government savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Protection Agreement(NEPA) process allowed for the "The rate of clean-up has exceeded predictions made when the
<br /> January 24> 1996 at 3-S5 pm and 6-bpm at the Tracy Inn,Tracy, award/obligation of the Phase 1 Construction Package (Site work started,and will increase as more facilities are brought on-
<br /> California. The Lab routinely recycles various hazardous materials, includ- Utilities and Improvements)for the Decontamination and line,"said Albert Lamarre,program leader of the Lab's main site
<br /> ing electrical transformers,fluorescent tubes and ballasts,clean- Waste Treatment Facility(DWTF) and Phase 2 (construction ground water clean-up project.
<br /> Any member of the public wishing to review the planned sched- ing fluids, motor oil,gasoline,chemicals and empty containers. of the Mixed Waste Management Facility).The EA for the
<br /> ule changes may do so at the following locations: As an example,the Lab earlier this year recycled 20,000 gallons remaining phases of work should go public early in 1996. For Lamarre said new technologies eventually may be employed on
<br /> LLNL Visitor's Center
<br /> of diesel oil recovered from underground storage tanks. information on the MWMF and DWTF,call (510)424-4026. the project,further reducing clean-up time—originally esti-
<br /> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
<br /> The Lab's unique Chemical Exchange Warehouse(CHEW) mated at 53 years.
<br /> (Enter from Greenville Road off Interstate 580) received special mention in the award.The Warehouse was SITE 300 PROGRESS In January, work will begin on another pipeline to ensure no
<br /> Livermore,California established as a wayle unused chemicals. It collects sur-to recycle Y Site 300's Building 834 Operable Unit now has a signed Interim additional contaminated ground water moves past the Lab's
<br /> Hours: M-Tues.9-4pm,Wed 1-4pm,Thurs-Fri 9-4pm
<br /> Plus,usable chemicals from around the Laboratory and stores Record of Decision and the GSA Feasibility Study is final.The western boundary. Four more treatment facilities and addi-
<br /> them until a new user can be found. Since its inception in 1993, Draft GSA Proposed Plan was submitted to regulatory agencies tional extraction wells are scheduled for construction over the
<br /> Tracy Public Library CHEW has recycled more than 2,450 items and saved the Lab for comment December 15, 1995. next several years to clean water beneath the site and to
<br /> Tr $ p East Eaton Avenue more than 368,000 in chemical and waste disposal costs.
<br /> Tracy,California ensure no additional contaminated ground water migrates
<br /> Tri Valley Citizens Against a Radioactive Environment have anywhere off-site.
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<br /> received a Technical Assistance Grant from the Environmental
<br /> For more information,please call: GASOLINE
<br /> Bert Heffner(510)424-4026 CLE C L �- Protection Agency.The award funds their participation in the
<br /> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300 cleanup.Several meetings and a site tour have been
<br /> Environmental regulatory agencies have declared soil clean-up held,with documents and briefings provided to their technical
<br /> above the water table to be complete at the site of an under- expert and citizen members of the TAG team.
<br /> ground gasoline spill.This is the first formal regulatory closure of
<br /> a non-exavation clean-up activity at the Lab's Livermore site
<br /> since clean-up began in 1988.
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