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WIPP should be as well monitored as Area G, the waste disposal site at LANL. There is definitely tritium in the TRU-waste, and it should be monitored. The State of New Mexico should not scrimp on the RCRA guidelines. The State should use the maximum of whatever authority they have to regulate WIPP sampling and surveillance procedures. The DOE should not test their own samples. There should be air monitors in the Waste Handling Building and in the parking lot at the WIPP site. Requirements should be put into the final permit so that all VOCs and all radioactive gases are monitored for; not just the few VOCs now listed in the draft Permit. Monitoring should especially be done at the top of the elevator shafts where everyone, workers and visitors, has to exit if there is an emergency. Scrub alloys contain about 4 different radioactive elements, plus mercury and lead. Their liquid content is listed as wet combustible residues.
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