Improving the Regulation and Management of Low-Activity Radioactive Wastes Interim Report on Current Regulations, Inventories, and Practices (2003) / Chapter Skim
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2 The Statutory and Regulatory Context for Low-Activity Waste Management
2 The Statutory and Regulatory Context for Low-Activity Waste Management
Pages 13-24
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Weapon component manufacturing along with other uses of materials controlled uncler the wartime program were first regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the McMahon Act. The McMahon Act was intended to ensure the security of nuclear materials rather than to control their racliological hazards.
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Siclebar 2.2 summarizes federal regulations for lowactivity wastes in the commercial sector. Non-AEA wastes, such as TENORM wastes, are subject to EPA radiation protection standards and guidance.
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Among the functions transferred to EPA was the AEA authority to "establish generally applicable environmental standards for the protection of the general environment from radioactive material. As used herein, standards mean limits on radiation exposures or levels, or concentrations or quantities of radioactive material, in the general environment outside the boundaries of locations under the control of persons possessing or using radioactive material." EPA also received the functions of the Federal Radiation Council, including the responsibility to develop and issue radiation protection guidance to all federal agencies.
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Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 The Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) addresses the regulation and control of uranium mill tailings (byproduct material as defined in section 1 le.~2)
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RCRA specifically excludes material regulated under the AEA from its jurisdiction; however, | RCRA is applicable to the hazardous constituents in waste contaminated with both chemically hazardous and radioactive materials, which could include accelerator-produced materials. RCRA hazardous waste program, but EPA leaves implementation of RCRA solid waste provisions almost entirely to the states.2 Radiation protection responsibilities may also be delegates!
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40 CFR Part 266, Standards for the Management of Specific Hazardous Wastes and Specific Types of Hazardous Waste Management Facilities Subpart N of these standards exempts certain mixed waste from RCRA requirements if it satisfies specific criteria. 40 CFR Part 300, National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Plan This regulation implements CERCLA, including the identification of applicable or relevant and appropriate requirements (ARARS)
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To determine which wastes are deemec! to be LLW, DOE uses the exclusionary definition of LLW provided by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA)
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byproduct material and DOE's process for control and release of property from DOE control. Property containing low levels of residual radioactive material may be released for unrestricted (e.g., release for residential use of a property)
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The majority treat the waste in accorclance with general radiation protection requirements. The environmental, radiation protection, and waste disposal methods in most cases are based on EPA and or USNRC regulations or guidance.4 TABLE 2.1 Interstate Compacts for Low-Level Waste Disposal _ .
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If approved, the regulation would be published for states to consider in developing their own approaches to TENORM. SIDEBAR 2.4 EFFECTS OF THE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE POLICY ACT In 1980, Congress enacted the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act, reflecting its declared policy of holding each state responsible for providing capacity for disposal of its low-level radioactive waste either within its own boundaries or through state compacts.
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for a typical shallow land disposal site for LLW (NUREG-0945, Final Environmental Impact Statement on 10 CFR Part 61, "Licensing Requirements for Land Disposal of Radioactive Waste," USNRC November 1982~. ~ this EIS the requirements for licensing LLW disposal were developed by analyzing the potential releases from a large burial site containing typical amounts of various forms of LLW, given imposition of the licensing requirements being considered.
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into the future. This same dose-basis analysis has been adopted by DOE in the Order 435.1gu~dance.
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