ML20043E533
| ML20043E533 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 03/27/1990 |
| From: | Carr NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Bevill HOUSE OF REP., APPROPRIATIONS |
| References | |
| BEVILL-900327, CCS, NUDOCS 9006130096 | |
| Download: ML20043E533 (1) | |
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.MR. BEVILL:
Describe your policy with regard to "below regulatory concern" waste.
CHAIRMAN CARR:
The Commission believes that specific waste streams may pose such small risks to public health and safety that it is appropriate to exempt such waste from further regulatory control. Certain waste streams may already be legally disposed without regord to radioactivity content under NRC regulations (e.g.,
slightly contaminated biomedical wastes as per 10 CFR 20.306).
In response to Public Law 99-240, NRC developed and published, in 1986, a Statement of Policy and Procedures which outlines the criteria for considering rulemaking petitions to exempt certain other waste streams from regulatory control. Specifically, this Statement set forth fourteen criteria which if met would allow expeditious action on a petition to exempt certain waste streams from regulatory control.
These included criteria for individual and collective dose levels, the ability to characterize these waste streams on a national basis, ano demonstration of.
the usefulness of the exemption on a national basis.
The Statement of Policy and Procedures is currently a part of the Code of Federal Regulations at Title 10, Part 2, Appendix B.
Besides this 1986 policy, the Commission is developing a broad policy that would identify the principles and criteria that govern Commission decisions which could exempt radioactive material from some or all regulatory controls.
This policy, the subject of an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on December 12, 1988, is intended to provide a consistent basis for all our decisions that allow radioactive material to be exempt from regulatory control.
Thus, the developing policy, although applicable to Below Regulatory Concerns waste disposals, would also provide the basis for decommissioning decisions involving the release of lands, structures, or recycled materials for unres-tricted use as well as decisions regarding consumer product exemptions. The policy would establiP a consistent risk framework within which exemption decisions can be made w.th assurance thdt human health and the enviroi. ment are protected.
Such a policy would also contribute to focusing limited national resources on those risks with greatest potential impact on public health and safety.
Issuance of this policy is expected in the near future.
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