Responsibilities of the Vendor

The vendor's on-site activities are limited to picking up containerized wastes from staging areas at each site and marking and placarding the transport vehicles. Vendors will drive transport vehicles on site to be loaded and secured by DOE contractor employees, then drive the loaded vehicles off site to their treatment facility. After the waste is treated, vendors will be required to package and transport all treated and ancillary waste to the disposal site.

The treated waste must meet the land disposal restriction treatment standards and the waste acceptance criteria of a disposal site under DOE contract at the time of disposal. After accepting the waste, if the vendor cannot treat the waste to disposal criteria, the waste will be returned to compliant storage at the site of origin, at no cost to DOE, with all vendor-developed characterization data.

The vendor must also develop a monthly waste treatment progress report, keep all DOE audit checklists up-to-date, maintain documentation for project files, and notify DOE contractors 10 days prior to the start of treatment.

Responsibilities of the DOE Site

The approved Broad Spectrum Treatment BOAs call for the DOE sites to provide the following services:

1. Select all containerized waste awarded for treatment and deliver this waste, in accordance with an agreed-to schedule, to a designated staging area at a DOE site
2. Before the waste is transported to the treatment facility, develop staging areas on the DOE sites where containerized waste will be staged for loading
3. Obtain an exemption to DOE Order 435.1 to allow radioactive waste to be stored, treated, or disposed of at a non-DOE facility
4. Provide National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) documentation, as required
5. Issue delivery orders
6. Provide representative samples to the vendor and notify the vendor of any known procedures that would be of material significance to the proper handling of the wastes
7. Complete waste profile forms if the vendor's treatment facility WAC require them
8. Package and prepare the wastes in accordance with applicable laws
9. At the staging areas, provide all equipment and labor and load all containerized waste on the vendor's transport vehicles
10. After loading the waste, review all marking, labeling, and placarding as required by DOT regulations 49 CFR 172 Subparts D, E, and F
11. Perform health physics surveys and release the waste for off-site transport
12. Provide required characterization data to meet RCRA, TSCA, DOT, and vendor waste profile requirements to ship the wastes off-site
13. Complete shipping papers and manifests for each load of untreated waste being transported to the vendor's treatment facility
14. If desired, participate as members of DOE-ORO's annual audits of the facilities
15. If waste is to be disposed of at the DOE-contracted disposal facility, make funds available to DOE-ORO for payment to the disposal site under the existing contract

If you would like more for information on the DOE-ORO disposal contract, please go to the DOE-ORO Environmental Management Policies & Procedures web site.

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On the next page, you'll find a graphical flowchart showing the waste treatment from waste selection through waste disposal.

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