The BOA objectives are to provide:
- Treatment services for LLW and MLLW, including reactive metals such as sodium bearing waste;
- BSFR services in accordance with NRC or Agreement State requirements;
- Alternative disposition strategies for any potential wastes that may not require licensed treatment and disposal (e.g., recycle/reuse).
- Low Activity Waste Services
- Ancillary services that may be necessary to establish these services.
Chemical constituents of the DOE materials needing LLW and MLLW treatment services include: TSCA (primarily PCBs and asbestos); RCRA regulated wastes including waste that could be assigned U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) codes for Ignitability (D001), Corrosivity (D002), Reactivity (D003), Toxicity due to contamination with RCRA regulated toxic metals and organic compounds (D004 through D043), F, K, P, and U, lab packs, compressed gases, combustible liquids (non-wastewaters), non-combustible liquids (may be wastewaters, metal bearing inorganic wastes), liquid aqueous and organic RCRA non-wastewaters, slurries, and wastewaters.
BSFR and directed disposal under LAW Services are licensed and or permitted processes approved by the appropriate regulatory agency (NRC or Agreement State) that allow for the survey and release of materials with extremely low levels of radioactive contamination for disposal in specified landfills. The landfills typically will be equivalent to a modern Subtitle D (solid waste) or Subtitle C (hazardous waste) landfill rather than a permitted radioactive waste landfill.
Evaluation, assessment, and execution of alternative disposition strategies for DOE materials may include, for example, recycling and reuse of materials. These processes shall be licensed and/or permitted processes approved by the appropriate regulatory agency (DOE, NRC, EPA, or Agreement State) that allows for the decontamination, survey and release of materials. The release may be for unrestricted use (no longer requiring radiological controls), or restricted requiring some degree of controls owing to low the potential of low levels of radioactivity still contained in the material.
The materials evaluated for alternative disposition strategies may contain chemicals as well as radioactive material. Ancillary Services include, but are not limited to interim storage, transportation services, regulatory report writing, data analysis, assessments, verification services, preparation of presentations, variance requests, waste profiles, and technical oversight of MLLW/LLW activities. These services also may include aiding DOE in the establishment of Authorized Limits for the release of materials that contained radioactivity, and commercial treatment and disposal exemptions.
The Contractor performing services under this BOA is authorized to use the DOE LLW/MLLW Disposal IDIQ contracts to provide turnkey services by transporting DOE materials/waste from the originating site to its treatment/processing facilities then to a waste disposal or storage facility, or a site that reuses or recycles the DOE materials/waste.
The Contractor shall provide an operating commercial treatment facility and maintain current radioactive materials license for its operating facility issued by either the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or an authorized Agreement State. The Contractor’s facilities shall be fully capable and ready to receive, treat, and release the LLW and MLLW waste types described in this PWS, as well as provide other services including BSFR, Alternative Disposition Strategies (Recycle/Reuse), LAW Services, and ancillary services.
