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APPENDIX B - CONGRESSIONAL MANDATE FOR THIS REPORT
APPENDIX B - CONGRESSIONAL MANDATE FOR THIS REPORT
Pages 135-144
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Fri. May 20' ~ 993 Energy Policy Act of ~ 992 (P.~.
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20418 Dear Dr. Fri: YUCCA MOUNTAIN STANDARDS United State' Anne COMMI11EE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES We, DC 2051~6150 May 20, 1993 Thank you for the invitation to participate in the initial meeting of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards to share my views with the committee about its charge.
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4. Bennett hnston Chairman 2
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consistent with the finclings ant! recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences, promulgate, by rule, public health and safety standards for protection of the public from releases from radioactive materials stored or disposed of in the repository at the Yucca Mountain site.
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will provide a reasonable standard for protection of the health and safety of the general public; whether it is reasonable to assume that a system for post-closure oversight of the repository can be developed, baser} upon active institutional controls, that will prevent an unreasonable risk of breaching the repository's engineered or geologic barriers or increasing the exposure of individual members of the public to radiation beyond allowable limits; and (C) whether it is possible to make scientifically supportable predictions of the probability that the repository's engineered or geologic barriers will be breaches]
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-- Following repository closure, the Secretary of Energy shall continue to oversee the Yucca Mountain site to prevent any activity at the site that poses an unreasonable risk of ( 1 ) breaching the repository's engineered!
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The provisions acloptec} by the Conferees in section 80 ~ require the Administrator to promulgate health-based stanriards for protection of the public from releases of radioactive materials from a repository at Yucca Mountain, based upon and consistent with the findings and recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences. These standards shall prescribe the maximum annual dose equivalent to individual members of the public from releases to the accessible environment from radioactive materials stored or disposed of in the repository.
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In carrying out the study, the National Academy of Sciences is asked to address three questions: whether a health-basec] standard based upon doses to individual members of the public from releases to the accessible environment will provicle a reasonable standard for protection of the health and safety of the general public; whether it is reasonable to assume that a system for post-closure oversight of the repository can be developeci, based upon active institutional controls, that will prevent an unreasonable risk to breaching the repository barriers or increasing the exposure of individual members of the public to radiation beyond allowable limits; and whether it is possible to make scientifically supportable predictions of the probability that the repository's engineered} or geologic barriers will be breached as a result of human intrusion over a period of 10,000 years.
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In modifying its technical requirements and criteria, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is directed to assume, to the extent consistent with the findings and recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences, that civilization will continue to exist and that post-closure oversight of the repository will continue, and to include in its technical requirements and criteria, engineered barriers to prevent human intrusion.
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