ML20058N419
| ML20058N419 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 07/26/1990 |
| From: | Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Geoffrey Miller HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20055H726 | List: |
| References | |
| FRN-53FR49886, RULE-PR-CHP1 CCS, MILLER-900726, NUDOCS 9008140130 | |
| Download: ML20058N419 (2) | |
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CUESTION 1:
A listing of examples of specific practices that the Comission might decide to exempt from some or all f
regulatory controls.
ANSWER.
i The Comission has exempted specific practices on a case-by case basis for i
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over 20 years.
The purpose'of the BRC policy statement is to provide a basis' for consistent exemption decisions.
Examples of practices and materials that the Comission might decide to exempt from some or all regulatory controls are:
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Release for unrestricted public use of individual decommissioned buildings or sites which may h6ve very small but detectable levels of radioactivity. New rules will replace existing guidance and provide release limits based on a consistent level of risk, b.
Distribution of new consumer products which contain small quantities of radioactive material. Smoke detectors and luminous wrist watches are examples of currently authorized products.
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Disposal of slightly contaminated waste.
Currently authorized examples are biomedical wastes containing slightly contaminated scintillation t
fluids and animal tissues from medical research.
The Comission also has petitions pending which request authorization-for disposal of slightly contaminated wastes from medical laboratories and slightly_ contaminated waste oil from nuclear power plants.
Such wastes may still be subject to requirements associated with their nonradiological properties.
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Recycle of slightly contaminated materials. Limited recycling on a
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case by-case basis has been authorized in the past. An example is the recycle of calcium fluoride contaminated with slight amounts of uranium generated in the manufacture of nuclear fuel which is l
subsequently used in a steel production process. The proposed f
application of the-recycled raterial would be considered as part of' the exemption review.
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