Environmental radiation protection standards for Yucca Mountain
Conference
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OSTI ID:476619
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been given the responsibility of setting site-specific health and safety standards for the potential repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The same legislation that gave the Agency that responsibility, mandated a study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to provide input into the bases for the EPA standards. The NAS has completed and presented a report to the Agency; this paper summarizes the report`s recommendations and conclusions. Following receipt of the report, the Agency opened a comment period and held public meetings to gather comments; the major issues from the comments are summarized. Based upon the report from NAS and the public comments, EPA has started formulating proposed standards which will be known as 40 CFR Part 197. It is planned for the proposal of 40 CFR Part 197 to occur in the summer of 1996.
- OSTI ID:
- 476619
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960804--Vol.3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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