HUKARI professionals are seasoned experts who provide a full range of Environmental, Waste Management, and Deactivation & Decommissioning (D&D) support services to ensure compliance with regulations, reduced liabilities, and improved operations. In particular, HUKARI experts have been instrumental in the D&D missions for the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS), the Hanford Site, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and the Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP). HUKARI personnel have proven capabilities which meet the demands and complexities of environmental compliance and radioactive hazardous waste management for decommissioning of DOE and Commercial Nuclear Facilities.

Environmental Support Services
Our professionals have developed, negotiated, and maintained comprehensive environmental compliance requirements for hazardous and radioactive waste sites in accordance with state, federal, and local regulatory requirements, and disposal facility waste acceptance criteria through:

  • Assessment of environmental performance
  • Development of programs and management systems
  • Monitoring and auditing of compliance capabilities
  • Implementation of guidance and training requirements

Environmental Regulatory Requirements

  • Environmental Management Systems (DOE 450.1)
  • Clean Water Act (CWA)
  • Clean Air Act (CAA)
  • Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)
  • Hazardous Material Transportation Act (HMTA)
  • Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA)
  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act (CERCLA)
  • Superfund Amendments & Reauthorizations Act (SARA)
  • National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA)
  • Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act
  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)

Waste Management Support Services
HUKARI professionals also have provided programmatic guidance and assistance to line management for implementation of TRU/TRUM, LL/LLM, and hazardous waste management characterization, treatment, packaging, storage, transportation, and disposal through various functions.

  • Waste Management/Operations
  • Waste Generation Guidance / Training
  • Waste Management Planning
  • Waste Characterization & Profiling
  • Waste Treatment & Disposal
  • Waste Data Systems
  • Legacy Waste Management
  • Tech Writing/Records Mgmt.
  • Hazardous Waste Management
  • Waste Minimization
  • Pollution Prevention
  • Certified Waste Commodity Engineering/ Procurement
  • Decommission Planning / Engineering
  • Audits, Assessment, Monitoring, and Oversight
  • Inspection, Certification, & Transportation
  • Quality Assurance/Quality Control

Waste Management Regulatory Requirements

  • Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material (10 CFR 71)
  • Quality Assurance Requirements (10 CRF 830.122)
  • Protection of Environment (40 CFR)
  • Transportation (49 CFR)
  • Nevada Test Site Waste Acceptance Criteria (DOE/NV – 325)
    (and other approved commercial facilities i.e., Envirocare of Utah, Diversified Scientific Services, Inc., etc.)
  • Waste Isolation Pilot Project Waste Acceptance Criteria (DOE/WIPP – 69)
  • Inspecting, Certifying, Licensing Spent Dry Fuel Storage Areas

Accomplishment Highlights
HUKARI personnel are accomplished professionals who have been instrumental in the successful development and administration of environmental waste management compliance projects and programs throughout the DOE Complex.

Waste Management & Operations
  • Executed site decommissioning characterization plan for remote-handled transuranic waste, increasing WIPP shipments more than 220%.
  • Developed & implemented a TRU/TRM waste visual verification process to meet WIPP Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC).
  • Implemented waste acceptance criteria for multiple low-level waste commercial disposal sites.

Environmental Regulatory Compliance, Training, & Information Management
  • Provided programmatic guidance & assistance to line management to implement waste management, storage, & disposal policies, procedures, & instructions.
  • Conducted numerous compliance audits of hazardous waste generation, treatment, storage, & disposal facilities.
  • Managed waste program documentation, records, databases, & files in accordance with WAC quality assurance requirements for tracking & traceability.

Packaging, Procurement, & QA/QC
  • Implemented use of multi-trip, oversized, & commercially available waste packaging containers.
  • Implemented process for forecasting use & procurement of waste packaging commodities.
  • Developed & implemented process for systematic review & evaluation of used waste packaging containers.

Inspection, Certification, & Transportation
  • Developed methodology to perform real-time final waste certification of regulated waste packaging.
  • Conducted more than 130 audits, evaluations, process qualifications, source inspections, & certifications of suppliers, manufacturers, products, & facilities.
  • Successfully completed more than 3,500 low-level waste shipments/ transfers per month to disposal facilities.

D&D
  • Supported development & implementation of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) D&D Manual

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Hukari Technical Services, Inc.
4251 Kipling Street • Suite 580 • Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
P 303-384-9079 • F 303-277-1458