§2021j — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Within 6 months after January 15, 1986, the Commission must create rules and the technical ability to accept and decide petitions to remove certain radioactive waste streams from its regulation when the amounts of radioactive material are very low. The rules must say what license holders must send with a petition, for example a detailed description of the waste (origin, makeup, form, amount) and data on the radioactive materials (which radionuclides, their concentrations, and half-lives).

Title 42, §2021j

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(a)Not later than 6 months after January 15, 1986, the Commission shall establish standards and procedures, pursuant to existing authority, and develop the technical capability for considering and acting upon petitions to exempt specific radioactive waste streams from regulation by the Commission due to the presence of radionuclides in such waste streams in sufficiently low concentrations or quantities as to be below regulatory concern.

(b)The standards and procedures established by the Commission pursuant to subsection (a) shall set forth all information required to be submitted to the Commission by licensees in support of such petitions, including, but not limited to—

(1)a detailed description of the waste materials, including their origin, chemical composition, physical state, volume, and mass; and

(2)the concentration or contamination levels, half-lives, and identities of the radionuclides present.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act, and not as part of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 which comprises this chapter.

§2021j Radioactive Waste Below Regulatory Concern

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Title 42, §2021j

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