US Department of Energy response to standards for remedial actions at inactive uranium processing sites: Proposed rule
The Title I groundwater standards for inactive uranium mill tailings sites, which were promulgated on January 5, 1983, by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project, were remanded to the EPA on September 3, 1985, by the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court instructed the EPA to compile general groundwater standards for all Title I sites. On September 24, 1987, the EPA published proposed standards (52FR36000-36008) in response to the remand. This report includes an evaluation of the potential effects of the proposed EPA groundwater standards on the UMTRA Project, as well as a discussion of the DOE's position on the proposed standards. The report also contains and appendix which provides supporting information and cost analyses. In order to assess the impacts of the proposed EPA standards, this report summarizes the proposed EPA standards in Section 2.0. The next three sections assess the impacts of the three parts of the EPA standards: Subpart A considers disposal sites; Subpart B is concerned with restoration at processing sites; and Subpart C addresses supplemental standards. Section 6.0 integrates previous sections into a recommendations section. Section 7.0 contains the DOE response to questions posed by the EPA in the preamble to the proposed standards. 6 refs., 5 figs., 3 tabs.
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2008-02-07
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Subject: | nuclear fuel cycle and fuel materials | management of radioactive and non-radioactive wastes from nuclear facilities | ABANDONED SITES | REMEDIAL ACTION | ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS | GROUND WATER | HEALTH HAZARDS | MILL TAILINGS | PUBLIC HEALTH | RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL | REGULATIONS | HAZARDS | HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS | MANAGEMENT | OXYGEN COMPOUNDS | SOLID WASTES | TAILINGS | WASTE DISPOSAL | WASTE MANAGEMENT | WASTES | WATER |
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