ML20128R035

Info on Waste Disposal Sites

ML20128R035
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Issue date:	03/19/1985
From:	NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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ML20128R014	List: IA-85-347, Info on Waste Disposal Sites ML20128R009 ML20128R035 NUREG-0383, Response to FOIA Request for Listing of Us Nuclear Power Plants,Waste Disposal Sites & Description of Waste Transport vessels.NUREG-0020 Available at Pdr.Waste Disposal Map Encl. NUREG-0383 Already Provided
References
FOIA-85-347 NUDOCS 8507270102
Download: ML20128R035 (2)

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INFORMATION ON WASTE DISPOSAL SITES There are 20 disposal facilities for low-level wastes in the United States. Of these, 14 are operated by the Department of Energy for Department of Energy-funded programs and six are comercial, although three are no longer in operation (see the attached map). Below is additional information on the six comercial sites.

Under a provision of the Atomic Energy Act enabling qualified states to assume certain regulatory responsibilities from the NRC, all commercial low-level waste disposal sites, except one in Sheffield, Illinois, are licensed by

" Agreement States," and the Sheffield site is no longer accepting waste. Of

) the five state-regulated sites--West Valley, New York; Maxey Flats, Kentucky; i

Beatty, Nevada; Barnwell, South Carolina; and the Hanford facility near Richland, Washington--only the Hanford, Barnwell, and Beatty sites are still in operation. Pursuant to existing law NRC continues to regulate the receipt and disposal of special nuclear material (SNM) at the Barnwell and Hanford sites.

The disposal of comercial low-level radioactive waste is now a state rather than a Federal responsibility, as established by the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1980. States are currently working to develop regional compacts to assure adequate disposal capacity without building sites in every state.

To date, NRC has not licensed any high-level waste disposal sites. The Department of Energy (DOE) has the responsibility for selecting and developing a disposal technology, and constructing, operating, and decomissioning a l disposal facility under NRC license, although wastes used for or part of research and development activities would generally not fall under NRC regulation.

For further information concerning DOE's programs in the high-level waste area, we suggest you contact Mr. Ben C. Rusche, Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, Washington, DC 20585. For more infonnation in the low-level waste area, we suggest you contact Mr. Jeffrey Smiley, Low-Level Waste Program Manager, Division of s Storage and Treatment Projects, Office of Terminal Waste Disposal and Remedial '

Action, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20545.

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