EPA hopes to issue final Yucca rule by end 2006

EPA hopes to issue final Yucca rule by end 2006

Washington (Platts)--2May2006

The Environmental Protection Agency hopes to issue a final Yucca Mountain
standard by the end of calendar year 2006, the director of EPA's Office of
Radiation and Indoor Air, said May 1. Speaking at an international high-level
waste conference in Las Vegas, Elizabeth Cotsworth said the agency is trying
to determine what changes, if any, are needed in its proposed 1-million-year
radiation protection standard for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca
Mountain, Nevada. If changes are made, a new proposed rule would have to be
issued for public comment, she said. EPA received roughly 2,550 public
comments, about 2,350 of which were the result of mass mailings, on the
proposed 1-million-year standard that amount to about 3,000 pages of comments
and 1,000 pages of attachments, she said. The agency, she said, is compiling
the comments in a document to accompany the final standard.

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