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NRC RIN: 3150-AI92 Publication ID: Spring 2013 
Title: Disposal of Unique Waste Streams [NRC-2011-0012] 
Abstract: 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. The NRC has publishing a second version of preliminary rule language and has revised the regulatory basis document that will support this rulemaking. 
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC)  Priority: Other Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 10 CFR 61   
Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201    42 USC 5841   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Preliminary Proposed Rule Language  05/03/2011  76 FR 24831   
Comment Period End  06/18/2011    
Preliminary Draft Rule Language; Second Request for Comment  12/07/2012  77 FR 72997   
Comment Period End  01/07/2013 
Preliminary Draft Rule Language; Second Request for Comment; Correction  01/08/2013  78 FR 1155   
NPRM  09/00/2013 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: Yes 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Andrew G. Carrera
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards,
Washington, DC 20555-0001
Phone:301 415-1078
Email: andrew.carrera@nrc.gov