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Recommends That NRC Continue to Develop Regulations to Implement EPA Mill Tailings Stds for Groundwater Protection. Action Proposed by NMSS cost-effective Way to Carry Out Commission Directive
ML20214N342
Person / Time
Issue date: 06/27/1986
From: Minogue R
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES)
To: Stello V
NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
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ML20210Q655 List:
References
FRN-49FR46425, FRN-51FR24697, RULE-PR-40 AB56-1-48, NUDOCS 8609160249
Download: ML20214N342 (7)


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CONTROL OF NRC RULEMAKING: RES REVIEW OF ONGOING NMSS-SPONSORED RULEMAKING Based on our review of the ongoing NMSS-sponsored rulemaking, " Uranium Mill Tailings Regulations:

Ground Water Protection and Other Issues,"

RES recomends that NRC should continue this specific ongoing rulemaking.

The basis for our recomendation is as follcws:

o The Comission has instructed the staff to continue to develop regulations to implement the EPA mill tailings standards for ground water protection.

o The action proposed by HMSS--to insert the clearly nondiscretionary ground water protection provisions of the EPA standard in Part 40--is a cost-effective way of carrying out the Comission's directive.

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RES reconsnends that NRC should continue this specific ongoing rulemaking.

The basis for our recossendation is as follows:

o The Coner,ission h'as instructed the staff to continue ~to' develop regulations to implement the EPA n.ill tailings standards for ground water protecticn.

o The action proposed by NHSS--to insert the clearly nondiscretionary ground water protection provisions of the EPA standard in Part 40--is a cost-effective way of carrying out the Comissien's directive.

The com lete RES independent review package has been sent to OEDO (Attention:

DEDROGR and to the Directors of IE and NMSS.

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o The Commission has instructed the' staff to continue to develop regulations to implement the EPA mill tailings standards for groundwater protection, The' action proposed by NMSS - to insert the clearly non-discretionary o

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