[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 24]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR197.1]



[Page 62]

 

                   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 A_Public Health and Environmental Standards for Storage

 

Sec.  197.1  What does subpart A cover?









     Subpart A_Public Health and Environmental Standards for Storage



Sec.

197.1 What does subpart A cover?

197.2 What definitions apply in subpart A?

197.3 How is subpart A implemented?

197.4 What standard must DOE meet?

197.5 When will this part take effect?



    Subpart B_Public Health and Environmental Standards for Disposal



197.11 What does subpart B cover?

197.12 What definitions apply in subpart B?

197.13 How is subpart B implemented?

197.14 What is a reasonable expectation?

197.15 How must DOE take into account the changes that will occur during 

          the 10,000 years after disposal?



                     Individual-Protection Standard



197.20 What standard must DOE meet?

197.21 Who is the reasonably maximally exposed individual?



                        Human-Intrusion Standard



197.25 What standard must DOE meet?

197.26 What are the circumstances of the human intrusion?



                    Ground Water Protection Standards



197.30 What standards must DOE meet?

197.31 What is a representative volume?



                          Additional Provisions



197.35 What other projections must DOE make?

197.36 Are there limits on what DOE must consider in the performance 

          assessments?

197.37 Can EPA amend this rule?

197.38 Are the Individual Protection and Ground Water Protection 

          Standards Severable?



    Authority: Sec. 801, Pub. L. 102-486, 106 Stat. 2921, 42 U.S.C. 

10141 n.



    Source: 66 FR 32132, June 13, 2001, unless otherwise noted.







    This subpart covers the storage of radioactive material by DOE in 

the Yucca Mountain repository and on the Yucca Mountain site.