Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA)
Ad Hoc Radioactive Materials/Security Committee Meeting
Denver, CO - March 29, 2008
MEETING SUMMARY
Ad Hoc Committee Purpose
Bill Reese, Lieutenant; Idaho State Police, and Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee
The Ad Hoc Committee was formed through a Department of Energy (DOE) cooperative agreement to study technologies to:
- Enhance the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) Level VI Inspection Program for hazardous materials (Hazmat) shipments by truck; and
- Assist with/report on technology developments that may be of use during the federal shipping campaign to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.
The committee met in March 2006 and February 2007 to conduct site visits and receive technology updates.
Overview of Recent Research and Testing for Technologies Applicable to Hazmat Transportation.
John Allen, Vice President of Transportation; Battelle
U.S. agencies responsible for transportation, as well as shipping industry and technology vendors, continue to assess the potential for technology to improve the safety and security of freight and dangerous goods. There is a need for more collaboration between agencies (Departments of Transportation, Energy, Homeland Security, and Defense) on research and field testing related to assessing technologies.
Review of the Database on Commercially-Available Hazmat Technologies
Toni Slavich; Battelle Seattle Research Center
A database of all available Hazmat transportation technologies has not been updated since December 2005. Would like to improve the existing database, which includes 175 products and 117 companies, by reviewing products for applicability, adding/deleting attributes, and updating technologies. This database and market share research will help the committee develop a report on recommendations for technologies to be used in the Yucca Mountain shipping campaign.
Advanced Technology Opportunities
Dennis Paul, President; iQmove
DOE may integrate many commercially-available products and services related to the safe and secure shipment of hazmat. A consortium of companies are working together to offer products that involve common operating environments for sharing information.
TRANSCOM 2000, U.S. DOE Transportation Tracking and Communications System Capabilities
William Mackie, Institutional Affairs Manager; DOE-Carlsbad Field Office
The DOE Office of Environmental Management, which ships transuranic waste from the cleanup of former nuclear weapons sites around the country to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico, uses a system called TRANSCOM 2000 to track those shipments.
TRANSCOM is a secure web application used to monitor unclassified, classified and high visibility DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensee shipments. In addition to transuranic waste, TRANSCOM tracks shipments of spent nuclear fuel and foreign research reactor fuel.
TRANSCOM 2000 has four components for vehicle tracking:
- Vehicle communications system - two way capability that feeds data to the control center;
- Monitoring operations support center - 24/7 operations center for monitoring and support services;
- Monitoring application - software that integrates communications and database functions with web interfaces; and
- System hardware, network security, and backup.
IRRIS Systems
Jon Pollack, Senior Vice President; GeoDecisions
IRRIS was developed for the Department of Defense as an infrastructure management tool to track Hazmat cargo shipments on road, rail and ocean. The system includes a variety of real-time feeds including weather, traffic conditions and camera feeds to alert drivers and assist in routing decisions. The system integrates disparate tracking databases and provides analytical tools such as charts, graphs, and modeling.
Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program
Bill Reese, Lieutenant; Idaho State Police, and Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee
The Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program is about midway through its two-phased, 15-month project to:
- Develop a list of near-term and longer-term technologies that are candidates for use in enhancing the safety and security of hazardous materials transportation, as applied by shippers, carriers, emergency responders, or government regulatory and enforcement agencies.
- Identify emerging technologies that hold the greatest promise of being introduced;
- Identify potential impediments to and opportunities for their development, deployment and maintenance.
The Program will release a final report documenting its entire research effort toward the end of 2008.
Overview of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office's Southeast Transportation Corridor Pilot Program
Dr. Don Ponikvar; SETA Support, Mission Management Division
The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is a jointly-staffed, national office founded in 2005 to improve the nation's capability to detect and report unauthorized attempts to import, possess, store, develop, or transport nuclear or radiological material.
The Southeast Transportation Corridor pilot project, including weigh station detection devices, is being implemented to:
- Develop a regional threat reduction and interdiction architecture;
- Enhance regional communication infrastructure and collaboration for information exchange; and
- Evaluate detection, data sharing, training, and connectivity components.
Review of Future Credentials Products/Services
Daniel Schleifer, Director of Business Development; Core Street, Ltd.
There are two types of personnel credential used - identity credentials such as passports, and transactional credentials such as work cards that authorize a holder to perform certain tasks. The federal government requires its employees and contractors have a "smart" card for physical and logical access to federal facilities and computer systems. There are various types of smart cards that differ based on information provided on the card, ability to transfer or change that information, and verification levels on the card (photo, scanner, etc.). DOE may consider using a specialized smart card for its drivers during the Yucca Mountain shipping campaign.
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