[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: 40CFR197.15]



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

during the next 10,000 years after disposal?



    The DOE should not project changes in society, the biosphere (other 

than climate), human biology, or increases or decreases of human 

knowledge or technology. In all analyses done to demonstrate compliance 

with this part, DOE must assume that all of those factors remain 

constant as they are at the time of license application submission to 

NRC. However, DOE must vary factors related to the geology, hydrology, 

and climate based upon cautious, but reasonable assumptions of the 

changes in these factors that could affect the



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Yucca Mountain disposal system over the next 10,000 years.



                     Individual-Protection Standard