WASTE MANAGEMENT
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Ambient Air Monitoring

Biological Monitoring

Decontamination & Decommissioning

Engineering Support

Environmental  Compliance   

Facilities Management

Health and Safety

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Groundwater Monitoring
Hydrologic Monitoring

Regulatory Training

Reindustrialization

Waste Management

 

 The diverse team of technical and engineering personnel at Commodore Advance Sciences, Inc. (CASI) have a field proven in-depth expertise in every aspect of hazardous, radioactive and mixed waste management including sampling and analysis, waste acceptance criteria, regulatory compliance, tracking systems, system/recovery design, treatment alternatives and coordination of interim and final disposition. CASI' waste specialists have a working knowledge of available treatment, storage and disposal options for hazardous and mixed waste streams and integrate the most cost-effective options into project waste management plans.
 
During planning for remedial action and decontamination and decommissioning projects, CASI' interdisciplinary team integrates waste controls and minimization alternatives and approaches into all work activities minimizing project costs, but most importantly, ensuring compliance and minimizing risk and future liability to our clients.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

SITE RESTORATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT AT ROCKY FLATS ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY SITE (DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY). CASI has provided environmental and waste management support to the RFETS for over 14 years. CASI' tasking at RFETS includes managing the bioassay sample management program, collecting and managing a variety of environmental and waste samples, as well as sample handling, packaging and shipping. In addition, CASI' specialized sampling team is extensively trained to collect samples from most media, including asbestos, paint, explosive and reactive chemicals, and hazardous, radioactive and mixed wastes, often working in highly radioactive and hazardous areas. CASI collects waste samples from wells, sumps, drains, process lines, tanks, drums and pits as well as building foundations and structures for characterization and D&D programs. All members of the team are Certified Asbestos Inspectors and have the necessary training in the Department of Transportation's hazardous material regulations.

WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CONTRACT, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY CARLSBAD AREA OFFICE. CASI had been the technical assistance contractor for the DOE Carlsbad Area Office since 1990. Overall project management support was provided for several major tasks including:
  • NEPA DOCUMENT PREPARATION. CASI managed the preparation of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) including all analyses and documentation related to transportation and transportation risks for shipping transuranic (TRU) waste to the WIPP. A comprehensive public involvement program covering 23 affected states was an integral part of the effort. CASI successfully completed the 12 volume SEIS within a year and a half.
  • CHARACTERIZATION OF TRU WASTES AND WASTE ACCEPTANCE. CASI supported the WIPP Project Integration Office on waste acceptance criteria compliance planning, waste characterization planning, regulatory compliance, and strategic planning. CASI successfully ran these project contracts through December 31, 2000.
WASTE CERTIFICATION SUPPORT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) SURVEILLANCE & MAINTENANCE (S&M) PROGRAM.  The ORNL S&M program generates more than 10,000 cubic feet of radioactive, hazardous and mixed waste per year. CASI' Waste Certification Officer expedites the waste disposal process by certifying waste generated during activities conducted at remedial action sites and D&D facilities. This includes properly segregating, packaging, characterizing and manifesting waste to verify that the waste acceptance criteria are met for the appropriate on-site or off-site storage or disposal facility. 

WASTE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT UNDER THE BECHTEL JACOBS COMPANY LLC M&I CONTRACT IN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE. Under the Facility Management Contract and the Remedial Action Decontamination and Decommissioning Task Order Contract at the East Tennessee Technology Park, CASI is responsible for all waste management activities including preparation of waste management plans, certification of all waste streams generated during performance of the contracts, and coordination of interim and final disposition of the wastes. These wastes include radiologically contaminated wastes, asbestos pipe insulation, hazardous chemicals, PCB spill wastes and mixed wastes. CASI is also providing the design and construction drawings for a reinforced concrete and structural steel loading facility required for loading of spent nuclear fuel and remote handled low level waste shipping casks.
 
GUNITE AND ASSOCIATED TANKS, OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE. CASI characterizes and coordinates the disposal of the radioactive, trausuranic and hazardous debris generated by the removal of an estimated 50,000 gallons of highly radioactive sludge by robotic equipment from old process tanks at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
 
WASTE STORAGE DESIGN/CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR COMMERCIAL COMPANY. CASI is performing the facility assessment, tank and sub-system engineering design, construction, installation and operating procedures for a self-contained storage recovery vessel and associated piping/pumping systems for consolidated waste stream accumulation and interim storage.