ML20125C849

Forwards NRC Regulations on Licensing of Waste Disposal Facility,In Response to 841229 Ltr Re Chem-Nuclear Efforts to Establish Low Level Radwaste Disposal Facility Near Edgemont,Sd.W/O Encl

ML20125C849
Person / Time
Issue date:	01/18/1985
From:	Higginbotham L NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Henderson H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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Dear Mr. Henderson:

Your letter to Mr. Wayne Kerr. Director, NRC's Office of State Programs, expresses concerns regarding Chem-huclear's efforts to establish a low-level radioactive waste oisposal facility near Edgemont, South Dakota.

It appears that the citizens of South Dakota, by voting approval of the referendum, wish to have the final say as to whether or where a low-level radioactive waste disposal site may be attablished. Once that part of the process is decided, the Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC) would apply the criteria in its regulations in evaluating any application for a waste disoosal site and facility.

Before any such facility can be established, the persons proposing to build and operate the facility must perform and document activities designed to demonstrate that the site is suitable for waste disposal. The site and facility so proposed must comply with technical and performance requirements 6, contained in regulations of either the Nuclear Regulatory Comission or a regulating NRC Agreement State. A license is issued by the cognizant regulatory authority to build and operate the facility only on satisfactory findings resulting from a rigorous and complete evaluation of information supplieo by the persons proposing the facility. The licensing process will likely provide opportunity for public hearing of all legal, technical and environmental Issues in contention.

I am enclosing a copy of the NRC regulation which applies to the licensing of a waste disposal factitty such as that which may eventually be proposed for Scuth Dakota. Note that one of the requirements in the regulation is that commercial waste disposal facilities must be sited on land owned by either the Federal or a State government.

hRC's regulatory responsibility requires it to ensure in Its regulatory process that operation of any cuclear facility is conducted in a manner which provides protection of the public health and safety and the environment. Therefore, before any disposal facility 15 built and operated, qu6stions regarding health 0506120'70 000207 MGS II* Ib

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If you have further ques *.1ons, you may call me (301/427-4434) or Mr. Kenneth C.

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