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Waste Management:
Laws and Regulations
Yucca Mountain Standards
We have included on this page several documents that you may find useful in learning about EPA's Yucca Mountain standards and the basis for them. They include the following kinds of information:
- How are environmental laws and regulations made and implemented?
- Yucca Mountain Regulatory Documents
How are environmental laws and regulations made?
To learn about how environmental laws and regulations are created and implemented, visit the EPA Laws and Regulations Page.
Yucca Mountain Regulatory Documents
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- Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada (PDF), Federal Register Version (35 pp, 266K) About PDF
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Fact sheet: Final Amendments to the
Public Health and Environmental Radiation rotection Standards
for Yucca Mountain, Nevada
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Response to Comments: Amendments to the Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada (PDF) (419 pp, 1.7MB)
- 2005 Proposed Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Federal Register version (PDF), (53 pp, 463K )
- 2001 Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection
Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Final Rule (PDF), Federal
Register version, (63 pp, 734K)
- Background Information
Document (BID) for 40CFR Part 197: Public Health and Environmental
Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada [EPA
402-R-01-005]
- Evaluation
of Potential Economic Impacts of 40 CFR Part 197: Public
Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards
for Yucca Mountain, Nevada (PDF) [EPA 402-R-01-004] (132
pp, 1,408K)
- 2001 Response to Comments
Document (PDF) [EPA 402-R-01-009] (219 pp, 1,105K)
- Energy Policy Act of 1992, Section 801. Nuclear Waste Disposal
- Technical
Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards
