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Address Constraints to Technology Implementation
Pages 38-43

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... As pointed out by the Decision Making Committee, an important complication for OST is that the sites and EM offices responsible for overseeing waste management and cleanup activities (e.g., EM-30, EM-40) have a great deal of autonomy in selecting baseline remediation processes and technologies to deploy, consistent with current legally enforceable agreements.
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From page 39...
... In its review of OST's decontamination and decommissioning technology development program, the D&D Committee concluded that the Large Scale Demonstration Project (LSDP) was unable to overcome important institutional barriers to the deployment of new technologies (D&D report, p.
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From page 40...
... , because it requires grinding the material before a leach test, thereby destroying any protective coating put around the material by a treatment process. The report describes this test as bearing "little resemblance to the environmental conditions experienced by disposed waste" (Mixed Waste report, p.
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From page 41...
... For example, the Tanks Committee wrote that (Tanks report, pg. 5~: At present, many public stakeholders at Hanford apparently want DOE to follow the current compliance-driven Hanford baseline approach, and they view investment of significant resources in technology development for alternative scenarios as a diversion from that effort.
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From page 42...
... As long as authority for technology deployment and responsibility for technology development continue to reside in different entities, centralized development of technologies to be deployed throughout He DOE complex will not, in the board's view, be effective. RECOMMENDATIONS Internal to DOE · When contracts allow, agreements should be developed between the sites and OST that, if certain agreed-on conditions are met, then OST-sponsored technology will be implemented at the sisters)
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... . DOE-EM should work to promote consensus among EPA, USNRC, DOE, and the scientific community on waste form testing methods that will generally be acceptable for providing at least a qualitative evaluation of long-term waste performance in disposal environments (Mixed Waste report, p.
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