Consulting Services
Eberline Services' Consulting Group focuses on providing solutions to technical, regulatory, and fiscal challenges its clients face in routine operations and on special projects. The Consulting Group provides a wide range of services for radiological characterization and analysis; hazardous, radioactive, and mixed waste management; and facility environmental, safety, and health management. These services include program development, implementation, and assessment; regulatory analysis, strategy development, permitting, and compliance; and environmental liabilities management through such techniques as pollution prevention and application of best management practices

Our Consulting staff offers specific expertise in:

• Audits and assessments
• Environmental Management Systems (EMSs)
• Health physics
• Nuclear facility safety
• Pollution prevention
• Quality assurance
• Radiological characterization
• Regulatory compliance
• Storm water pollution prevention
• Training
• TRU waste characterization and certification
• Waste management
• Wastewater characterization and management
• Water resources management
• Water and wastewater system vulnerability assessments

Technologies
Our Consulting staff work with our state-of-the-art technologies for in situ gamma spectroscopy waste characterization , facility radiological characterization for decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) support, and volume reduction of radiologically contaminated soil, which have saved our clients millions of dollars in waste characterization and management costs.

PROJECT SUMMARIES

Environmental Services Support for KSL Services, JV, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Eberline Services is the environmental services subcontractor for KSL Services, JV, a joint venture between Kellogg Brown & Root, Shaw Infrastructure, and Los Alamos Technical Associates. KSL is the Site Services Support Subcontractor for Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). KSL maintains an average workforce of 1,300 and provides the craft labor force for LANL. KSL provides engineering support and performs construction projects. In addition, KSL operates and maintains the LANL site utilities, mechanical shops, salvage area, fuel storage areas, paint shops, maintenance shops, motor pool, heavy equipment yards, data disintegrator, asphalt plant, power plants, cooling towers, and sanitary wastewater treatment plant.

Eberline Services provides all environmental services for KSL operations at LANL. Eberline Services provides environmental program staff to implement, maintain, and improve KSL's environmental compliance program. The environmental program is organized by regulatory area to ensure consistency of approach and guidance across all KSL directorates. Program areas include air quality, hazardous and solid waste management, storm water pollution prevention and erosion control, waste minimization and pollution prevention, potable water system compliance, wastewater management and compliance, and environmental management system (EMS) implementation.

An additional component of the program is an environmental laboratory that provides water and wastewater sampling and analytical services to LANL, Los Alamos County, and various small water systems in the area. The environmental laboratory has a vigorous operational sampling program designed to detect potential problems early on and provide data to its clients for early corrective action implementation.

Eberline Services' expertise was key in KSL's successful self-certification of its EMS as compliant with IS0 14001 standards.

Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Management at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Eberline Services has provided 11 uninterrupted years and $55 million of hazardous, mixed, and transuranic (TRU) waste management, characterization, and minimization services to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) LANL. Our scope of work encompasses a broad range of technical waste management services specific to hazardous, toxic, low-level radioactive, low-level mixed, and transuranic wastes. Representative ongoing and completed scopes of work include:

• Onsite waste operations program planning, development, and implementation
• Permitting support (e.g., RCRA, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System [NPDES])
• Plans (e.g., storm water pollution prevention; spill prevention, control, and countermeasures; waste analysis; contingency)
• Onsite staffing including waste management coordinators and waste characterization specialists
• Environmental engineering emphasizing pollution prevention and waste minimization
• Waste operations quality assurance
• Health physics consulting
• Radioactive waste characterization support
• Nuclear facility safety, including safety analysis, technical safety requirements, and Operational Readiness Review (ORR) support
  

Hanford Transuranic Waste Program
Our nationally recognized expertise in TRU waste management has been instrumental in assisting the DOE's Hanford Site develop and update its TRU Program in response to evolving National TRU Program requirements. Our contributions assisted the Hanford TRU project in achieving initial program certification faster than any other DOE site had done in the past. Through our knowledge of and close involvement with the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) hazardous waste facility permit modifications, we have been able to help the Hanford Site anticipate and prepare for impacts to their program brought about by changes in the requirements. Our TRU waste specialists provide onsite support at Hanford, interface with Hanford Site personnel, and augment the Hanford Site TRU Program staff during audits conducted by the Carlsbad Field Office.

Nationwide Transuranic Waste Characterization Services
As one of only two commercial mobile TRU waste characterization vendors, we are partnered with the WIPP's Management and Operating Contractor to develop the TRU waste certification program for the Central Characterization Program. Our TRU waste specialists contributed to the development of a WIPP-compliant TRU waste characterization and certification program for small and large quantity sites. This effort included developing quality assurance and project office waste characterization procedures and interface documents. The procedures will be used to accomplish waste characterization data management, validation, interpretation, and reporting in accordance with the WIPP hazardous waste facility permit. We also reviewed and provided comments on the QAPjP, certification plan, program-specific TRUPACT-II Authorized Methods for Payload Control, TRUPACT-II payload and packaging QA plan, and training and qualification plan.

In support of this program, we deployed to Argonne National Laboratory-East to perform full waste characterization on approximately 450 drums of TRU waste. We support TRU waste characterization operations that include nondestructive examination, nondestructive assay (NDA), headspace gas sampling and analysis, visual examination, and repackaging.

Environmental Protection Support for Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico (JCNNM)
Eberline Services is the environmental program subcontractor on the JCNNM team that provides facility support services to LANL. Under its five-year, $400-million subcontract with LANL, JCNNM is responsible for providing the craft labor force and operating and maintaining the site utilities, mechanical shops, salvage area, fuel storage areas, paint shops, maintenance shops, motor pool, heavy equipment yards and operations, asphalt plant, power plants, cooling towers, and sanitary wastewater treatment plant. We manage JCNNM's environmental program, including scope of work and budget development; work scope prioritization and implementation; guidance to departments to operate in compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations established by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), DOE, and state and local entities; and strategies development and implementation to minimize environmental liabilities. Eberline Services' focus and implementation of pollution prevention and risk management approaches has enabled JCNNM to reduce its hazardous waste generation by 98% in three years and incorporate environmental awareness information into its quarterly general hazards briefings to all employees. Eberline Services also provides technical services to LANL through JCNNM, including assisting generators in reducing and managing their wastes, developing and implementing storm water pollution prevention plans, characterizing hazardous and radioactive (low-level and TRU) wastes, and establishing and monitoring radiological controls.