ML19338A887
| ML19338A887 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 04/21/1992 |
| From: | Bernero R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Kline C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| REF-WM-3 GL-81-38, NUDOCS 9204270133 | |
| Download: ML19338A887 (3) | |
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JK/KLINE LETTER /0H10 Ms. Connie Kline 36531 Doeds Landing Drive i
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Dear Ms. Kline:
l Thank you for your timely letter of March 14, 1992, or. your opposition to blanket, extended long-term on site storage of low. level radioactive wastt.
Your letter was received soon af ter the letter from Mr. Kemp Houck, edito
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" Atoms & Wasta.'
As you kno;;, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission encourages, through Generic Letter 8138, licensees who wish to store for longer than five years to l
apply for a 10 CFR Part 30 bypt educt license for storage. This licensing action will help ensure that licensees install safety features which are acequate to protect the public health and safety, and the environment.
i We expect to be issuing a Federal Register notice on a proposed rulemaking on low. level waste storage in the near future. This action is a result of our consideration of the public comments on our storage policy and questions related to storage noticed in the federal Register in December 1990.
In the proposed rule, we will be propcsing that licenees exhaust other reasonable waste management options before storage will be permitted af ter Jansary 1,1996. The use of storage is to be considerea as an option of last resort. We will be seeking public coment oa the proposed rule ud we encourage you to coment.
l I trust that this reply responds to your concern Expressed in your letter.
Please contact Paul Lohaus, Chief of my Low. Level Waste Mar,agement Branch, on (301) SC4 0432, if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
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Robert M. Bernero, Director Office. of Nuclear Materials !afety and Safeguards l
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blanket, extended long-term on-site storage of low-level radioactive waste.
Your letter wd received soon after the letter fron Mr. Kemp Houck, editor of
" Atoms & Waste,"x As you know, the clear Regulatory Commission encourapes, through Generic Letter 81-38, licensees who wish to store tor longer thn five years to apply for a 10 CFR Partx30 byproduct license for storage. This licensing action will help ensure 'that 1icensees install safety features which tre adequate to orotect the public health and safety, and the environment.
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We expect to be issuing a Federal Register Hetice on a proposed rulemaking on low-level waste storage in the% ear future. This action is a result of our consideration of the public comdents on our storage policy and questions related to storage noticed in the Federal Re'gister (FR) in December,1990.
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proposeo rule, we will be proposing \\that licences exhaust other reasonable waste ma ugement options before storhge will be permitted after January 1, 1996. The use of storage is to be con'sidered as an option of last rescrt.
We will be seeking public comment on the a'roposed rule and we encourage you to comment.
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I trust that this reply responds to your concern vy essed in your letter.
Please contact Fall Lohaus, Chief of my Low-Level 6 te Management Branch, on
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.Jt/KilNE LETTER /0HIO l Ms. Connie Kline 38531 Dodds Landing Drive hilloughby Hills, OH 44094
Dear Ms. Kline:
f Thank you for your timely letter of March 14, 1992, on'your oppositien to j
blanket, extended long-term on-site storage of low-level radioactive waste.
Your letter was received soon after the letter from Mr. Keep Houck, editor of
" Atoms & Waste.
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As you know, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission e/ncourages, through Generic Letter 81-38, licensees who wish to store for, longer than five years to apply for a 10 CFR Part 30 byproduct license for storage. This licensing acticn will help ensure that licensees hstEll safety features which are adequate to protect the public health and yafety, and the environment.
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We expect to be issuing a Federal Register Notice on a proposed rulemakir.g on low-level waste storage ia the near futde. This action is a result of our consideration of the public comments cr/ our storage policy and questions related to storage noticed in the Feder;l Register (FR) in December 1990.
In the waste ranagement options before stora/at licenees exhaust other reasonable proposed rule, we will be proposing t ge will be permitted after January 1, 1996. The use of storage is to be gonsidered as an option of lest resort. We will be seeking public coment on the proposed rule and we encourage you to comment.
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1 trust that this reply responds to your concern e wessed in your letter.
Please contact Paul Lchaus, Chi 4f of nty Low-Level ste fianagement Branch, on (301) 504-3432, if you have ari questions.
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Sincerely,
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/I Robert !!. Bernero, Director.
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