ML19344E195
| ML19344E195 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 08/11/1980 |
| From: | Snyder B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Nimaroff F AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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AUG 111980 Ms. Frances A. Nimaroff 2200 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Suite E-1605 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19130
Dear Ms. Nimaroff:
Your letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Middletown regarding the management of nuclear waste was referred to me for response.
The goal of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Management Program is to provide assurance that existing and future nuclear waste from military and civilian activities, including spent fuel from the once-through nuclear power cycle, can be isolated from the biosphere so as to pose no significant threat to public health and safety and the environment. The NRC is responsible for providing the framework of criteria and regulations that will ensure that the disposal methods developed for all types of radioactive waste are consistent with the achievement of this goal of safe, long-term waste disposal.
The NRC's authority to license and regulate the storage and disposal of radio-active wastes is derived from three statutes:
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. To implement this authority and to provide guidance to the U.S.
Department of Energy (00E), the industry, and the public, the NRC is developing new or revised regulations for such storage and disposal. These regulations will require conformance with a fixed set of minimally acceptable performance standards for waste management activities while providing for flexibility in the technological approach.
The DOE's responsibilities concerning radioactive waste disposal are limited to high-level wastes and only those low-level wastes produced as part of DOE's pro-grams. Their responsibility does not include commercially generated low-level wastes.
I am pleased to provide you with this information.
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BernardJ.F Snyder, Program Director Three Mile Island Program Office Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 8 0 0 82 8 0 0 N g