# Presentation: 244580

## Environmental Stewardship DivisionRemediation Project

- NMED Consent Order Implementation and Update on
- Remediation Milestones
- Dave McInroy
- July 26, 2005
- LA-UR-05-5660

## Definitions

- AOC: Area of Concern
- SWMU: Solid Waste Management Unit
- PRS: Potential Release Site
- Hazardous Waste
- Radionuclide
- Mixed Waste
- RCRA: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- TA: Technical Area
- MDA: Material Disposal Area

## 2124 Potential release sites identified at the Laboratory

Type of Sites: landfills, surface impoundments, septic tanks, drainlines, outfalls, firing sites, storage areas, canyons, soil contamination
Contaminants: chemicals, heavy metals, radioactive constituents, 
	and high explosives

Regulatory primacy transferred from EPA to NMED in 1996

Baseline Validated 2000

Estimated life cycle budget: $ 1.5 Billion

EM Project Completion 2015

**2124 Potential release sites identified at the Laboratory**
***Type of Sites*****: landfills, surface impoundments, septic tanks, drainlines, outfalls, firing sites, storage areas, canyons, soil contamination**
***Contaminants*****: chemicals, heavy metals, radioactive constituents, **
**	****and high explosives**
**Regulatory primacy transferred from EPA to NMED in 1996**
**Baseline Validated 2000**
**Estimated life cycle budget: $ 1.5 Billion**
**EM Project Completion 2015**

**Program History**

**5**

## PRS Completion (1990-2015)

## Purpose and Scope of the Consent Order

- Determine the nature and extent of releases of contaminants from LANL into the environment
- To identify and evaluate alternatives for corrective measures
- To implement such corrective measures
- Provide an enforceable schedule
- Ensure stable funding to implement work
- Add contaminants to be regulated above and beyond RCRA

## The Consent Order Includes	

- Schedule and Requirements for:
- Canyon Watershed Investigations
- Technical Area and MDA Investigations
- SWMU & AOC Specific Investigations
- Correct Action Requirements:
- Accelerated Clean Ups
- Corrective Measures Implementation
- Interim Measures

## The Consent Order Also Includes:

- General Provisions and Requirements
- Drilling and Sampling Methods
- Chemical Analyses
- Well Construction/Abandonment
- Media Specific Clean Up Levels
- Risk Assessment Methodology
- Monitoring Criteria
- Work Plan and Report Formats
- Newly Identified Sites and Releases
- Dispute Resolution

## What is a Consent Order Deliverable?

- Requirement of Consent Order
- Schedule for Delivery to NMED Found in Section 12
- Document
- Plan or Report
- Summarizes a Work Activity
- Part of Administrative Record Supporting Decisions

## Deliverable Score Card 2005	

| DELIVERABLE DOCUMENT | DEADLINE | DELIVERED | COMMENTS |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SWMUs MDA U Investigation Work Plan (IMP) | 11/30/2004 | on time |   |
| MDA A Investigation Work Plan | 1/31/2005 | on time |   |
| SWMU 16-008(a) Investigation Work Plan | 3/31/2005 | early |   |
| General Facility Information | 3/31/2005 | on time | 30 days after Order was signed |
| Interim Facility-wide Groundwater Monitoring Plan | 5/30/2005 | early | 90 days after Order was signed |
| Plan to demonstrate validity of R-25 data | 5/30/2005 | early | 90 days after Order was signed |
| LANL ER Public Involvement Plan FY05 | 5/30/2005 | early |   |
| Pueblo Canyon Aggregate Area Investigation Work Plan | 5/31/2005 | early |   |
| Historical Information Report (Bayo Canyon) | 7/30/2005 | on time  | Extension granted from 6/30 to 7/30 |
| Bayo Canyon Aggregate Area Investigation Work Plan | 7/30/2005 | on time  |   |
| Guaje/Barrancas/ Rendija Canyons Aggregate Area Investigation Work Plan | 7/31/2005 | on time |   |
| SWMU 3-010(a) Investigation Report | 8/15/2005 |   |   |
| Aggregate Areas list: Maps of TA's SWMUs, and AOCs | 8/26/2005 |   | due 180 days after Order signed |
| Groundwater Background Investigation Report | 8/29/2005 | early | delivered 6-30-05 |
| MDA G Investigation Report | 9/8/2005 |   | Originally due 5/1/05 |
| MDA L Investigation Report   | 9/13/2005 |   | Originally due 2/28/05 |
| Middle Mortandad/Ten Site Canyon Aggregate Area Investigation Report | 9/30/2005 |   |   |
| SWMUs 16-021(c), 16-003(k) CMI Plan for Surface/Alluvial Groundwater | 9/30/2005 |   |   |
| 260 Outfall Montly CMS Reports | Monthly | on time |   |
| Monthly WSAL Exceedance Reports | Monthly | on time |   |
| Quarterly FFCA Status Repoert | Quarterly | on time |   |
| Well Completion Report (Regional Wells) | TBD | on time | 5 wells completed to date |
| Well Completion Summary Fact Sheet (Regional Wells) | TBD | on time | 5 wells completed to date |

- Revised 7-29-05

## Summary	

- LANL is committed to working with NMED and meeting the compliance schedule within the Order
- We will continue to be protective of the environment and accelerate work when possible
- We will continue to share information with stake-holders and seek input
- 		** Further information, comments and questions can   be directed to Lorrie Bonds-Lopez at 667-0216 or _[lorriel@lanl.gov](mailto:lorriel@lanl.gov)__ **_