PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Commission must, within 6 months after January 15, 1986, make rules and get the technical ability to review petitions asking that specific radioactive waste streams not be regulated because the radioactive parts are in very low amounts. The rules must say what licensed parties must send with a petition, such as details about the waste (where it came from, what it is made of, its form, volume, and mass) and about the radionuclides (which ones, how much, and their half-lives). The Commission must quickly decide if regulation is needed to protect public health, and if not, quickly exempt the waste from regulation.

Title 42, §2021j

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(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.

Such standards and procedures shall provide that, upon receipt of a petition to exempt a specific radioactive waste stream from regulation by the Commission, the Commission shall determine in an expeditious manner whether the concentration or quantity of radionuclides present in such waste stream requires regulation by the Commission in order to protect the public health and safety. Where the Commission determines that regulation of a radioactive waste stream is not necessary to protect the public health and safety, the Commission shall take such steps as may be necessary, in an expeditious manner, to exempt the disposal of such radioactive waste from regulation by the Commission.

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

Summary

Title 42, §2021j

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