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B-164052 1 (1977-12-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachiu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: X's:>1*1 COMPTIROLLER? GCNIflL CFP HrW JNM STATES 1-164052 7 5 1 7S The Honorable Jack Drooks, Chairman Committee on Govern~ent Operations Hous of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: On June 16, 1977 the General Accounting Office issued a report entitled CleaninI UP thn Remains of Uuclear Facili- ties--A Multibillion Dollar Problem (ED-77-46) (ene. !). As you know, section 236 of the LegSistive Reorganization P:t of 1970 requires the responsible agency to subnit to you within 60 days of report issuance the actions it plans to take in responding to recoemendations we made. The Energy Research and Development Administration sub- matted such comments on August 11, 1977 (ene. II). The comments were not, however, limited to actions on the reconm- rendations Also included wore discussions of some of the material and findings presented in our report. The purpose of this letter is to redress the ERDA discussions with which we disagree 1. Our report stated that ERDA has not paid enough attention to its facilities that are obsolete We made this statement because EPPDA has accumulated hundreds of obsolete contaminated facilities for which no plans existed for their utinate dispcoal. In its letter to you, EIDA connenththat our report gave the imrression that ERDA was neqigent and had no programs or plans in the dccoruissicning area. FRDA went on to mention some of, its decom- missioning experiences and to discuss soEme of its plans for decommissioning its facilities. We agree that ERDA has taken some recent actions Whien we view as ste-s in the right direction. ERDA, over the part few years, has been Yorking on a coenruteriz-o information syster to assbst in its planninn effort Since our report was issued, ERDA has iplcreited this sys- tem at its hanford site which contains some of the tv;-s of inforjation that are needed. Alno ERDA hs ginca engioed several contractors to adopt the system at its other major sites. The K

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