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    <RIN_INFO>
        <RIN>3150-AI92</RIN>
        <PUBLICATION>
            <PUBLICATION_ID>201210</PUBLICATION_ID>
            <PUBLICATION_TITLE>The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions</PUBLICATION_TITLE>
        </PUBLICATION>
        <AGENCY>
            <CODE>3150</CODE>
            <NAME>Nuclear Regulatory Commission</NAME>
            <ACRONYM>NRC</ACRONYM>
        </AGENCY>
        <RULE_TITLE>Disposal of Unique Waste Streams [NRC-2011-0012]</RULE_TITLE>
        <ABSTRACT><![CDATA[The proposed rule would amend the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR part 61 to require new and revised site-specific analyses to ensure that waste streams that are significantly different in terms of radiological characteristics (e.g., half-life) from those considered in the current technical basis can continue to be disposed of safely and still meet the performance objectives.  These changes would revise the existing site-specific analysis for protection of the general population to include a 20,000-year compliance period (i.e., performance assessment); add a new site-specific analysis for the protection of inadvertent intruders that would also include a 20,000-year compliance period and a dose limit (i.e., intruder assessment); add a new long-term-post-20,000 years-analysis for long-lived waste (i.e., long-term analyses); and revise the pre-closure analyses to include updates to the performance assessment, intruder assessment, and long-term analyses.  The proposed rule would also include changes to the regulations to reduce ambiguity, facilitate implementation, and better align the requirements with current health and safety standards.  This rule would affect low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) disposal facilities that are regulated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Agreement States.]]></ABSTRACT>
        <PRIORITY_CATEGORY>Other Significant</PRIORITY_CATEGORY>
        <RIN_STATUS>Previously Published in The Unified Agenda</RIN_STATUS>
        <RULE_STAGE>Proposed Rule Stage</RULE_STAGE>
        <MAJOR>No</MAJOR>
        <UNFUNDED_MANDATE_LIST>
            <UNFUNDED_MANDATE>No</UNFUNDED_MANDATE>
        </UNFUNDED_MANDATE_LIST>
        <CFR_LIST>
            <CFR>10 CFR 61</CFR>
        </CFR_LIST>
        <LEGAL_AUTHORITY_LIST>
            <LEGAL_AUTHORITY>42 USC 2201</LEGAL_AUTHORITY>
            <LEGAL_AUTHORITY>42 USC 5841</LEGAL_AUTHORITY>
        </LEGAL_AUTHORITY_LIST>
        <LEGAL_DLINE_LIST/>
        <RPLAN_ENTRY>Yes</RPLAN_ENTRY>
        <RPLAN_INFO>
            <STMT_OF_NEED><![CDATA[The NRC is proposing to amend its regulations to require low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) disposal facilities to conduct site-specific analyses to demonstrate compliance with the performance objectives.  Although the NRC believes that part 61 is adequate to protect public health and safety, requiring a site-specific analysis to demonstrate compliance with the performance objectives would enhance the safe disposal of LLRW and would provide added assurance that waste streams not considered in the part 61 technical basis comply with the part 61 performance objectives.  Further, these analyses would identify any additional measures that would be prudent to implement, and these amendments would improve the efficiency of the regulations by making changes to reduce ambiguity, facilitate implementation, and better align the requirements with the current and more modern health and safety regulations.  This rulemaking would correct ambiguities and provide added assurance that LLRW disposal continues to meet the performance objectives in part 61.]]></STMT_OF_NEED>
            <LEGAL_BASIS><![CDATA[42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 5841.]]></LEGAL_BASIS>
            <ALTERNATIVES><![CDATA[As an alternative to the rulemaking, the NRC staff considered the "no-action" alternative.  Under this option the NRC would not modify part 61, no long-term analyses would be required, no period of performance would be specified, and no intruder assessment would be required.]]></ALTERNATIVES>
            <COSTS_AND_BENEFITS><![CDATA[The NRC is in the process of preparing a regulatory analysis to support this rulemaking.  The analysis examines the costs and benefits of the alternatives considered by the NRC.  The analysis will be available as part of the rulemaking package.]]></COSTS_AND_BENEFITS>
            <RISKS><![CDATA[Not conducting this rulemaking would allow the ambiguities in the part 61 regulations to continue and would not provide the added assurance that disposal of the waste streams not considered in the part 61 technical basis comply with the part 61 performance objectives.]]></RISKS>
        </RPLAN_INFO>
        <TIMETABLE_LIST>
            <TIMETABLE>
                <TTBL_ACTION>Preliminary Proposed Rule Language</TTBL_ACTION>
                <TTBL_DATE>05/03/2011</TTBL_DATE>
                <FR_CITATION>76 FR 24831</FR_CITATION>
            </TIMETABLE>
            <TIMETABLE>
                <TTBL_ACTION>Comment Period End</TTBL_ACTION>
                <TTBL_DATE>06/18/2011</TTBL_DATE>
            </TIMETABLE>
            <TIMETABLE>
                <TTBL_ACTION>NPRM</TTBL_ACTION>
                <TTBL_DATE>09/00/2013</TTBL_DATE>
            </TIMETABLE>
        </TIMETABLE_LIST>
        <RFA_REQUIRED>No</RFA_REQUIRED>
        <SMALL_ENTITY_LIST>
            <SMALL_ENTITY>No</SMALL_ENTITY>
        </SMALL_ENTITY_LIST>
        <GOVT_LEVEL_LIST>
            <GOVT_LEVEL>None</GOVT_LEVEL>
        </GOVT_LEVEL_LIST>
        <PRINT_PAPER>No</PRINT_PAPER>
        <INTERNATIONAL_INTEREST>No</INTERNATIONAL_INTEREST>
        <AGENCY_CONTACT_LIST>
            <CONTACT>
                <FIRST_NAME>Andrew</FIRST_NAME>
                <LAST_NAME>Carrera</LAST_NAME>
                <MIDDLE_NAME>G.</MIDDLE_NAME>
                <AGENCY>
                    <CODE>3150</CODE>
                    <NAME>Nuclear Regulatory Commission</NAME>
                    <ACRONYM>NRC</ACRONYM>
                </AGENCY>
                <PHONE>301 415-1078</PHONE>
                <EMAIL>andrew.carrera@nrc.gov</EMAIL>
                <MAILING_ADDRESS>
                    <STREET_ADDRESS>Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards,</STREET_ADDRESS>
                    <CITY>Washington</CITY>
                    <STATE>DC</STATE>
                    <ZIP>20555-0001</ZIP>
                </MAILING_ADDRESS>
            </CONTACT>
        </AGENCY_CONTACT_LIST>
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