Federal Register - "Ground Water Protection at Uranium In Situ Recovery Facilities"

Title: Ground Water Protection at Uranium In Situ Recovery Facilities Source: Federal Register Data/Action: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Proposed Rule) Date: 1/31/2019 Text Preview: ...between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the NRC. Under section 275b. of the AEA, the EPA is authorized... ...EPA] Administrator is required under this Act or the [Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.] for the processing, possession, transfer, or disposal of [section 11e.(2)] byproduct material''). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The EPA first issued generally applicable standards on October 7, 1983 (48 FR 45926) and updated these standards on November 15, 1993 (58 FR 60340). The EPA... ...EPA informed the NRC that it would undertake its own rulemaking effort to issue generally applicable standards for ISRs. The NRC then deferred its ongoing ISR rulemaking effort, prior to the publication of a proposed rule, in anticipation of the need to conform its implementing regulations to the generally applicable standards to be issued by the EPA. The EPA issued its proposed rule on January 26, 2015 (80 FR 4156). Subsequently, the EPA decided to re-propose the rule and seek additional public comment. The EPA...