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April 1995 Energy Technology Engineering Center cubic meters of low-level mixed waste. A proposed The Public's Role - Proposed Plans received Mixed Waste Management Facility(MWMF)would first - Initial fact sheet distributed The Energy Technology Engineering Center is operated be used to demonstrate technologies for treating organic- Interested members of the public are encouraged to review - Proposed Plans available at repositories by Rockwell International to develop energy technologies liquid mixed waste. If successful,the MWMF would be Jaly 1995 site-related documents and comment on the proposed for the U.S.Department of Energy. The Center is located available to treat the on-site inventory of organic-liquid decisions made by DTSC . Copies of the Site Treatment - CEQA Initial Studies completed in southeastern Ventura County on 2,668 acres at the mixed waste. Plans are available forreview in the information repositories - Proposed decisions made on Plans and western border of the San Fernando Valley. listed on the back page. CEQA documents The Site Treatment Plan proposes to study methods for - Proposed decision documents available The Center currently has 3.47 cubic meters ofmixed waste treating reactive metals and liquid mercury. If the The DOE is currently conducting a 90-day public comment at repositories on site. The Site Treatment Plan for the Center proposes treatment is effective,the facility could continue to treat period on the proposed Plans from April 6 to July 6, 1995. - Site-specific fact sheets distributed to neutralize a small portion(0.1 cubic meters)and ship the these waste streams under authorization obtained from Written comments may be directed to either the DOE - Public comment period on proposed remaining mixed waste offsite for treatment. The Center DTSC. If not, the wastes would be shipped off site for contact or the DTSC contacts listed on the back page. decisions begins has not yet characterized approximately 1.8 cubic meters treatment. October 1995 of waste generated during decontamination and Inaddition,DTSCis alsoconducting CEQAlnitial Studies - Final decisions made on Plans and decommissioning activities. Mare Island Naval Shipyard to determine the potential environmental impacts associated CEQA documents with the proposed Plans. When the Initial Studies are - Final decision fact sheet distributed General Atomics The Mare Island Naval Shipyard is a U.S.Navy facility complete and DTSC has made its proposed decisions on located inthe City ofVallej o. The purpose ofthe shipyard the Plans, DTSC will notify the public using newspaper Sites and Proposed Treatment Plans General Atomics is a nuclear facility located north of San is to repair and overhaul U.S. Navy ships, including notices and site-specific fact sheets. Diego near La Jolla. General Atomics is currently nuclear-powered ships. Mare Island is scheduled to close Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory generating and storing mixed waste resulting from in April, 1996. DTSC will send copies of its proposed decisions and decontamination and decommissioning activities. CEQA documentsto the information repositories for public Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, located in Berkeley, The Site Treatment Plan proposes to ship approximately review. Beginning in July, 1995, DTSC will conduct a California,is operated by the University of California for The Site Treatment Plan for General Atomics proposes to 44.4 cubic meters of mixed waste off site for treatment- formal comment period and the public will be invited to the U.S.Department of Energy. The facility is located at treat 22.2 cubic meters of mixed waste at an on-site No additional mixed waste is expected to be generated at provide written comments on the documents. the northeast perimeter of the University of California wastewater treatment facility. General Atomics would the facility. Berkeley campus,and the facility conducts laboratory and ship 2.7 cubic meters of waste off site for treatment. DTSC will consider public comments before finalizing the research activities. General Atomics has 10.6 cubic meters of waste that is not Sites Not PreDaring Plans decisions on the individual Plans and CEQA documents, yet fully tested to determine its characteristics and expects and will provide a copy of responses to comments to those The Site Treatment Plan for the Lawrence Berkeley to generate approximately 20.8 cubic meters of future Two Californiasites initially included in the Site Treatment who request them. Laboratory proposes on-site pre-treatment ofsome wastes waste from decontamination and decommissioning of Plan process, Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore and shipment ofboththe treated residuals andthe remaining contaminated structures. These future wastes would be and General Electric-Vallecitos in Pleasanton, are not For More Information mixed wastes to an authorized out-of-state facility for handled in the same fashion as the current wastes. submitting proposed Plans for approval. These sites are final treatment. No on-site disposal would occur. The lab not submitting Plans because the sites are not currently Ifyouneed more information orhave any questions regard- would ship wastes currently in storage(6.25 cubic meters) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory generating or storing mixed waste. ing DTSC's review of the proposed Site Treatment Plans, off site for treatment by 1999. The lab would handle any future wastes generated in the same fashion. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,located in Livermore California, conducts research programs on Laboratory for Energy Related Health Research nuclear weapons, magnetic fusion, energy, lasers, Mailing List biomedical and environmental sciences,and applied energy The Laboratory for Energy-Related Health Research is technology. If you didn't receive this fact sheet directly in the mail and wish to receive future fact sheets on this matter,please owned by the University of California,Davis and leased check the appropriate box(es)and mail this form to Bill Albert at the address listed on the back page. by the U.S.Department of Energy. The facility is located The Site Treatment Plan for the Livermore lab estimates a on approximately 15 acres south of the main campus in current, low-level mixed waste inventory of 454 cubic Name: Davis,California. The lab generated mixed waste during meters. The Livermore lab plans to ship 82.5 cubic meters research onpotential health effects ofexposure to radiation. of low-level mixed waste off site for treatment. Address: Research activities ended in 1988. Livermore would treat the remaining low-level mixed City: State: Zip: No mixed waste is presently stored on-site,butthe proposed waste (approximately 367 cubic meters of sludge/salts, Lawrence Berkeley r" Laboratory for Energy- Ei Energy Technology o General Atomics environmental cleanup at the facility will generate mixed soils and aqueous mixed wastes) at the Livermore site ED Laboratory U Related HealthResearch Engineering Center waste of unknown quantity which will be regulated under using existing or new waste treatment facilities. The Lawrence Livermore Mare Island Navel All Sites Remove my name the ongoing Superfund program at this facility. Livermore lab has not yet characterized approximately National Laboratory 0 Shipyard E] from the mailing list -2- -3 -