Mixed radioactive- and hazardous waste disposal issues. Joint hearing before the Subcommittees on Nuclear Regulation and Environmental Pollution of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth congress, Second Session on S. 892, March 25, 1986
Representatives of the waste disposal industry, environmental agencies and organizations, and nuclear medicine were among the nine witnesses at a hearing held to discuss S. 892, which clarifies the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) responsibility for radioactive materials mixed with solid wastes. The witnesses responded to questions about procedures at commercial waste sites to protect public health and safety and about the long-term potential of alternatives to land disposal. At issue were the overlapping jurisdictions of EPA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the validity of traditional self-management in the waste area. Witnesses described how nuclear medicine and other depends upon one disposal site, and their concern that regulations permit the states to proceed with site planning to handle these wastes. The text of S. 892 and additional statements submitted for the record follow the testimony.
- OSTI ID:
- 5428327
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: S. Prt. 99-649
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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