EQUIPMENT REUSE PROCESS: BARTERED SALE OF DOE MOUND USEDCONTAMINATED EQUIPMENT TO A COMMERCIAL COMPANY

摘要

As a closure site, much of the DOE Miamisburg Environmental Management Project’s (MEMP)- commonly known as the Mound Site, equipment is planned for disposal in the near future.However, instead of considering disposal as a first option, Mound has started to consider theadditional benefits to the project from finding a way to re-use some equipment at another facilityor company. For some equipment, cost and schedule savings to DOE as well as the receivingcompanies can result. Thus the concept considered here is to first seek opportunities for thereuse or recycle of equipment, where disposal becomes the last option, and in such a way thatpersonnel and public safety is maintained or improved and cost and/or schedule savings result.The DOE National Metals Recycling Center (NMRC) in Oak Ridge has developed the knowhowand the process to evaluate such opportunities for equipment reuse or recycle. It has alsodeveloped and used typical checklists and commercial terms and conditions to fit manysituations in the DOE complex for equipment transfer and equipment / services barteragreements. It has successfully worked with many entities, including DOE and contractor sitemanagement, community reuse organizations and outside commercial companies, to completeequipment reuse projects at Rocky Flats, Hanford, Oak Ridge, and one small project at Mound.A second reuse project at Mound, just completed, provides an excellent opportunity to evaluateand document the process that NMRC is using in working with the Ohio field office and Moundsite management. The purpose of this Demonstration is to evaluate and document the process