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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Appendix C: The Environmental Protection Agency
Appendix C: The Environmental Protection Agency
Pages 55-58
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For example, the guidance document "Radiation Protection Guidance to Federal Agencies for Occupational Exposure," issued by EPA in 52 CFR 2822, January 27, 1987, established general principles and specifies the numerical primary guides for limiting worker exposure to radiation. EPA, working in coordination with agencies of the governmental Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards (ISCORS)
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EPA's implementing regulations at 40 CFR 122.2, which define the term pollutant, include radioactive materials except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act. Thus EPA currently regulates radionuclides and radiation in discharges and establishes water quality standards.
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The compliance criteria regulations were established by EPA in 40 CFR 194 and the disposal regulations set by EPA in 40 CFR 191 The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 USC 10141 n) , Section 801, required the EPA, based upon and consistent with the findings and recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences, to clevelop regulations on health and safety stanclards for protection of the public from releases from radioactive materials stored or disposed of in the proposed Yucca Mountain radioactive waste disposal site.
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EPA's regulations in 40 CFR 192 apply to remediation of such properties and address emissions of radon, as well as radionuclides, metals, anal other contaminants into surface and groundwater. 58 Interim Report
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