Building the institutional capacity for managing commercial high-level radioactive waste

Technical Report · Sat May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6743777· OSTI ID:6743777

In July 1981, the Office of Nuclear Waste Management of the Department of Energy contracted with the National Academy of Public Administration for a study of institutional issues associated with the commercial radioactive waste management program. The two major sets of issues which the Academy was asked to investigate were (1) intergovernmental relationships, how federal, state, local and Indian tribal council governments relate to each other in the planning and implementation of a waste management program, and (2) interagency relationships, how the federal agencies with major responsibilities in this public policy arena interact with each other. The objective of the study was to apply the perspectives of public administration to a difficult and controversial question - how to devise and execute an effective waste management program workable within the constraints of the federal system. To carry out this task, the Academy appointed a panel composed of individuals whose background and experience would provide the several types of knowledge essential to the effort. The findings of this panel are presented along with the executive summary. The report consists of a discussion of the search for a radioactive waste management strategy, and an analysis of the two major groups of institutional issues: (1) intergovernmental, the relationship between the three major levels of government; and (2) interagency, the relationships between the major federal agencies having responsibility for the waste management program.

• Research Organization: National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-81NE44146
• OSTI ID: 6743777
• Report Number(s): DOE/NE/44146-T2; ON: DE83001125
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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