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In July 2000, DOE directed all its Laboratories to stop releasing certain scrap and salvage materials from their sites. Specifically, any material from radiological areas (RA’s) or radioactive material areas (RMA’s) needed to be held until the DOE developed new guidelines and procedures to handle this material.

This scrap moratorium (or ‘hold’) is still in effect, and it could be several more years before SLAC is permitted to release these materials.

To ensure SLAC’s compliance with this DOE directive, all property or material going to Salvage needs to be surveyed by Occupational Health Physics (OHP). Call OHP (Ext. 4299) once you have filled out the Salvage Form on the Web. On this form, you will list the material to be salvaged and verify, to the best of your knowledge, if the material has been in either an RA or an RMA since July 2000. The form is available on-line from our Business Information System (BIS) website (http://www-bis.slac.stanford.edu/forms/Salvage_Form.pdf).

A final word. Please do not dump any material around the site. Contact Salvage (Ext. 2329) for detailed pickup and/or delivery instructions.