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DOE-RL Letter

Preface

Summary

Report Contributors and Acknowledgments

Helpful Information

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Environmental Compliance Summary

2.1 Stakeholder and Tribal Involvement

2.2 Compliance Status

2.3 Current Issues and Actions

2.4 Environmental Occurrences

3.0 Effluent Monitoring, Waste Management, and Chemical Inventory Information

3.1 Facility Effluent Monitoring

3.2 Near-Facility Environmental Monitoring

3.3 Waste Management and Chemical Inventories

4.0 Environmental Surveillance Information

4.1 Air Surveillance

4.2 Surface Water and Sediment Surveillance

4.3 Hanford Site Drinking Water Surveillance

4.4 Food and Farm Product Surveillance

4.5 Fish and Wildlife Surveillance

4.6 Soil and Vegetation Surveillance

4.7 External Radiation Surveillance

4.8 Ground-Water Protection and Monitoring Program (pg. 177-187)
4.8 contd (pg. 188-198)
4.8 contd (pg. 199-208)
4.8 contd (pg. 209-220)
4.8 contd (pg. 221-234)

5.0 Potential Radiation Doses from 1995 Hanford Operations

6.0 Other Hanford Site Environmental Programs

6.1 Climate and Meteorology

6.2 Wildlife

6.3 Hanford Cultural Resources Laboratory

6.4 Community-Operated Environmental Surveillance Program

7.0 Quality Assurance

8.0 References

Appendix A - Additional Monitoring Results for 1995

Appendix B - Glossary

Appendix C - Standards and Permits

Appendix D - Dose Calculations

Appendix E - Radionuclides Detected by Gamma Spectroscopy (Gamma Scan)

Appendix F - Threatened and Endangered Species

Appendix G - Errata from 1994 Hanford Site Environmental Report