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CHAPTER IV
NUCLEAR MATERIALS ALLOTMENTS
1. GENERAL. One element of the nuclear materials management program is the
distribution of nuclear materials to user programs. A key component of
that activity is the nuclear materials allotment control system.
2. ALLOTMENTS.
a. Terminology. An allotment is the quantity of a nuclear material
allocated annually to a field office for a user project for which
the field office has been assigned program management
responsibility by a Headquarters program. The terms that describe
an allotment are "withdrawals" and "returns". Categorization of
material transactions depends on the type of project involved in
the transaction and whether the transaction is considered by the
shipper or receiver of the nuclear material.
(1) Types of projects are: /4
(a) User Projects. Projects that use nuclear materials for
research and development, production and nonproduction
reactors, and weapon production activities.
(b) Supply Projects. Nonuser projects that produce, process,
or store nuclear materials for distribution to user
projects. "E" and "M" projects are considered supply
projects.
(c) Special Projects. Projects under the program management
control of the Office of Environmental Restoration and
Waste Management, but do not include user projects.
Special project materials are identified with an "I"
project number or other project numbers established by
the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management.
(2) Allotments are categorized as follows:
(a) Withdrawals. Receipt of nuclear material by a user
project from a supply project.
(b) Returns. Removal of nuclear material from a user project
to a supply project.
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"Project Number-Title Index by Programmatic Field Office" identifies user,
supply, and special projects.
b. Issuing Allotments. The Office of Nuclear Weapons Management will
issue nuclear materials allotments (for materials identified in
Figure VIII-2), by project, to each field office before the
beginning of the fiscal year. Allotments will cover one fiscal
year without carryover to the subsequent fiscal year. The Oak
Ridge Operations Office allotments will include foreign and
domestic withdrawals of enriched uranium to be provided by DOE,
rather than the United States Enrichment Corporation. The field
office receiving the allotment should contact the field office that
is to supply the material to arrange for delivery.
c. Allotment Control. Each field office is responsible for
monitoring, controlling, and reporting the status of its
allotments, and for approving all transfers of materials between
projects. (See additional requirement in paragraph d, below.)
d. Transfer Approvals. All withdrawals and transfers of very highly
enriched uranium (94.00% and above U-235) and very low tritium
content heavy water (<0.00005 microcuries tritium/milliliter)
require prior approval by the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management.
Other transfers will be controlled at the project level by the
field offices. From time to time, additional material types or
projects may be added that require approval by the Office of
Nuclear Weapons Management for transfer of materials between
projects. This guidance will be identified in the transmittal of
the annual allotments.
e. Reporting. Each field office shall provide the Office of Nuclear
Weapons Management with semiannual allotment status reports that
compare actual withdrawal and return quantities with quantities
allotted by project. The original allotments and all revisions
issued by the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management for the year
should be shown. The first report, covering the first two quarters
of the fiscal year, is due to the Office of Nuclear Weapons
Management by 6-1. Brief explanations should be provided if
differences of greater than 10 percent are expected for the full
year between allotted quantities and those currently projected for
the year. The full fiscal year report, due to the Office of
Nuclear Weapons Management by 12-1, should explain differences of
greater than 10 percent between actual transactions and allotted
quantities. Attachment IV-1 shows the format to be used for the
allotment status reports.
f. Allotment Revisions.
(1) Withdrawals. Actual withdrawals of nuclear material that
exceed allotted quantities must first be approved by the
Office of Nuclear Weapons Management. Requests for increases
are to be sent to the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management
with a copy to the cognizant Headquarters program. The
requests should contain sufficient details to allow a thorough
evaluation of the proposed change. If the request is approved
by the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management and the
Headquarters program, the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management
will issue a revised allotment to the requesting field office
and provide a copy to the field office supplying the material.
For a decrease to an allotment, notification shall be provided
to the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management, with a copy to
the cognizant Headquarters program. The Office of Nuclear
Weapons Management will issue a revised allotment and notify
the applicable field offices of the change.
(2) Returns. The Office of Nuclear Weapons Management and the
appropriate Headquarters program organization should be
notified if projected returns for the year are expected to
vary from allotted quantities. Explanations of changes should
accompany the notification. The Office of Nuclear Weapons
Management will issue a revised returns allotment and notify
the field office responsible for receiving and/or processing
the return.
(3) Excepted Quantities. If total changes in project withdrawals
or returns allotments for the year are within the following
quantities, allotment revision approval by the Office of
Nuclear Weapons Management is not required.
Excepted Project Quantities
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Material Unit
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Enriched Uranium 2 kg U-235
Normal Uranium 10 MT U
Uranium-233 1 kg U-233
Plutonium 2 kg Pu
Plutonium-238 100 gm Pu-238
Tritium 10 gm Tritium
Heavy Water (D2O) 500 kg D2O (Equiv.)
Neptunium-237 1 kg Np-237