ML19347F366
| ML19347F366 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 05/01/1981 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| ML19347F361 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-10CFR9.7 SECY-81-267, SECY-81-267-ERR, NUDOCS 8105190077 | |
| Download: ML19347F366 (1) | |
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The technical criteria being set forth here as proposed rulemaking ar" a result of the Commission's further effort in regulating geologic disposal of HLW by the Department of Energy (00E).
The rationale for the performance objectives and Environmental Impact Assessment supporting this rulemaking are also available in the Commission's Public Document Room.
In developing these criteria we have not reexamined COE's program-matic choice of disposal technology resulting from its Generic Environmental Impact Statement, inasmuch as the Commission has expressly reserved until a later time possible consideration of matters within the scope of that generic statement (44 FR 70408).
Accordingly, the technical criteria apply only to disposal in geologic repositories and do not address other possible or potential disposal methods.
Similarly, in that DOE's current plans call for disposal at sufficient depth to be in the area termed the saturated zone, these criteria were developed for disposal in saturated media.
Additional or alternative criteria may need to be developed for i
regulating disposal in the nonsaturated or "vadose zone".
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Sections 202(3) and (4) of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended, provide the Commission with licensing and regulatory authority regarding DOE facilities used primarily for the receipt and storage of high-level radioactive wastes resulting from activities licensed under l
the Atomic Energy Act an; certain other long-term HLW storage facilities of the DOE.
Pursuant to that authority, the Commission is developing l
criteria appropriate to regulating geologic disposal of HLW by the DOE.
The requirements and criteria contained in this proposed rule are a result of that effort.
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