Characterization of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Final Report (2002) / Chapter Skim
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3 Regulatory Context for the Disposal of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste
3 Regulatory Context for the Disposal of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste
Pages 27-33
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, Congress determined that WIPP waste does not need treatment prior to disposal. As a result, the NMED imposed groundwater and air monitoring requirements to ensure that any detectable release remains below specific limits that have been established to protect human health and the environment.
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The purpose of the EPA characterization requirements is to ensure that WIPP remains in compliance with the EPA disposal regulations and limits set forth in the Land Withdrawal Act. Compliance is ensured if the waste inventory in WIPP stays within the waste envelope limits specified in WIPP's performance assessment.
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, which corresponds to 1,756 cubic meters. This limit derives from a transportation requirement forbidding shipment of hazardous waste containing more than ~ percent of free liquids by vo~ume.4 DOE used this requirement as one of the initial assumptions in the performance assessment calculation, which was part of the compliance certification application.
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Those upper and lower limiting values apply to contact-handIed, remote-handIed, and to-be-generated waste from numerous generator sites. Thus, in today's action, EPA certifies that the WIPP will comply with the 40 CFR Part 191 containment requirements to the extent that emplaced waste falls within the waste envelope limits that were shown by the performance assessment, and confirmed by the PAVT, to be compliant with the 40 CFR Part ~ 91 standards" (40 CFR ~ 94~.
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Waste analysis involves identifying or verifying the chemical and physical characteristics of a waste by performing a detailed chemical and physical analysis of a representative sample of the waste or, in certain cases, by applying AK (EPA, 1994J. The characterization plan in the RCRA Permit is aimed at minimizing the possibility of a fire, explosion, or any unplanned sudden or non-sudden release of TRU mixed waste or mixed waste constituents to air, soil, groundwater, or surface water which could threaten human health or the environment (see NMED, 1999a; Module I!
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Records of the negotiation process show that DOE proposed to the regulators some waste characterization requirements that lacked a technical, safely, or legal basis (see Sidebar 3.~. These requirements eventually became part of the EPA Certification and RCRA Permit and are now addressed in the CH-TRU waste characterization plan.
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Regulatory Context for the Disposal of RH-TRU Waste ~3
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