This report was prepared by personnel from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Fluor Daniel Hanford, Inc. and its subcontractors and enterprise companies, Bechtel Hanford, Inc., and MACTEC-ERS for the U.S. Department of Energy.

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DOE-RL Letter

Preface

Summary

Helpful Information

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Environmental Compliance Summary

2.1 Stakeholder and Tribal Involvement
2.2 Compliance Status
2.3 Accomplishments and Issues
2.4 Environmental Occurrences

3.0 Facility-Related, Waste Management, and Chemical Inventory Information

3.1 Facility Effluent Monitoring
3.2 Near-Facility Environmental Monitoring
3.3 Vadose Zone Characterization and Monitoring
3.4 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. 191-200)
     4.8 contd (pg. 201-212)
     4.8 contd (pg. 213-223)
     4.8 contd (pg. 224-234)
     4.8 contd (pg. 235-244)
     4.8 contd (pg. 245-256)

5.0 Potential Radiation Doses from 1995 Hanford Operations

6.0 Other Hanford Site Environmental Programs

6.1 Climate and Meteorology
6.2 Ecosystem Monitoring (Plants and Wildlife)
6.3 Cultural Resources
6.4 Community-Operated Environmental Surveillance Program

7.0 Quality Assurance

8.0 References

Appendices
     A - Additional Monitoring Results for 1996
     B - Glossary
     C - Standards and Permits
     D - Dose Calculations
     E - Radionuclides Detected by Gamma Spectroscopy (Gamma Scan)
     F - Threatened and Endangered Species