Procurement and Contracts Division Oak Ridge Operations, U.S. Department of Energy, P.O. Box 2001, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8758

99 -- REMOVAL AND PROCESSING OF REMOTE HANDLED DUE 062395 POC Contact, Robert E. French, Contracting Officer, (615) 576-4849 Oak Ridge Operations for The United States Department of Energy, is seeking expressions of interest for the removal and processing of remote-handled transuranic waste presently stored at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Th e waste inventory consists of approximately 1,000 cubic meters of sludge in thirteen 50,000-gallon tanks. The thirteen tanks consists of eight tanks in the Melton Valley Storage Tanks facility, and five tanks at the Evaporator Facility in MeltonValley. The total radioactive inventory is estimated to be about 100,000 curies. Samples of supernatant and sludge were collected from six of the Melton Valley Storage Tanks and two of the storage tanks at the Evaporator Facility in 1989. These samples wereanalyzed for major chemical constituents, radionuclides, total organic carbon, metals listed as hazardous under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and general waste characteristics. Copies of a report ORNL/TM-11652 which describes the samplingcampaign and analytical results are available upon request. Contact: Gary Riner, (615) 241-3498, Department of Energy, Post Office Box 2001, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8758, for a copy of the report. Please specify whether IBM or McIntosch. Theacti vities described in ORNL-TM-11652 represents preliminary characterization activities. Sludge removal and processing are required to meet the waste acceptance criteria for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Significantuncer tainties exist with respect to the waste acceptance criteria which may not be finalized for several years and additional characterization will be needed to meet the requirements of the QAPP for chemical and radiological constituents. The scope of thepr oposed work consists of all activities required to characterize the waste, remove the sludge from the tanks, process the sludge to meet the WIPP Waste acceptance criteria, and certify the materials for disposal at the WIPP. Remote-handled waste bydefin ition is waste with radiation readings greater than 200 mrem/hr at contact with the containers or waste. Samples of the sludge from these tanks have had contact dose rates as high as 10 rem/hr. The sludges contain U-233, Cm-244, and/or Cf-252 and area regulated hazardous waste as defined under the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act. Secondary containment is required for all process equipment. At this point, it is undecided if secondary containment will be provided by Martin Marietta EnergySys tems (MMES) Incorporated, or if the firm conducting the removal and processing operations will provide it. This is expected to be a two-phase procurement with Phase One being proof-of process, and Phase Two being the actual processing via aperformance- based contract. Expressions of interest should be directed to Robert E. French, Procurement and Contracts Division, Post Office Box 2001, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8758 by June 30, 1995, and should include: proposed waste form, historical costs forch aracterizing and/or processing any radioactive materials similar to these remote-handled transuranic waste, views regarding secondary containment being provided by the Seller on MMES, proposal for dealing with current uncertainties in waste acceptancecr iteria, and any information regarding similar processing experience. (0146)

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