[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 22]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR197.13]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 197--PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS 
FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart B--Public Health and Environmental Standards for Disposal
 
Sec. 197.13  How is subpart B implemented?

    The NRC implements this subpart B. The DOE must demonstrate to NRC 
that there is a reasonable expectation of compliance with this subpart 
before NRC may issue a license. In the case of the specific numerical 
requirements in

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Sec. 197.20 of this subpart, and if performance assessment is used to 
demonstrate compliance with the specific numerical requirements in 
Secs. 197.25 and 197.30 of this subpart, NRC will determine compliance 
based upon the mean of the distribution of projected doses of DOE's 
performance assessments which project the performance of the Yucca 
Mountain disposal system for 10,000 years after disposal.