Illinois Administrative Code › Title 32 - ENERGY › Part 332 - LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR SOURCE MATERIAL MILLING FACILITIES › Section 332.250 - Technical Criteria - Source Material Milling Operations

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Liquids resulting from any of the mill
			 processes shall not be released into surface streams. In addition, contaminated
			 solutions, other than liquids resulting from any of the mill processes, shall
			 not be released into the environment if the solutions have radionuclide
			 concentrations in excess of those specified in 32 Ill. Adm. Code
			 340.320(b)
			 and (c).
b) Byproduct material shall be chemically and
			 physically treated to immobilize or remove the contaminants.
c) An independent quality assurance program
			 shall be established to assure that specifications of the monitoring program
			 detailed in the license are met. If adverse groundwater impacts or conditions
			 conducive to adverse groundwater impacts occur, action shall be taken to
			 alleviate the impacts or conditions and restore groundwater quality to levels
			 as specified in accordance with Section
			 332.230
			 of this Part.
d) Source material
			 milling operations shall be conducted so that all airborne effluent releases
			 are reduced to levels as low as is reasonably achievable. Emissions controls
			 shall be used. Institutional controls, such as extending the licensed site
			 boundary and exclusion area, may be employed to ensure that offsite dose limits
			 are met, but only after all practicable process and engineering measures have
			 been taken to control emissions at the source. Notwithstanding the existence of
			 individual dose standards, strict control of emissions is necessary to assure
			 that population exposures are reduced to the maximum extent reasonably
			 achievable and to avoid site contamination. During operations and prior to
			 closure, radiation doses from radon emissions from surface impoundments and
			 disposal areas containing byproduct material shall be kept as low as is
			 reasonably achievable. Checks shall be made and logged hourly of all parameters
			 that determine the efficiency of product stack emission control equipment
			 operation. It shall be determined whether conditions are within a range
			 prescribed to ensure that the equipment is operating consistently near peak
			 efficiency. Corrective action must be taken when performance is outside of
			 prescribed ranges. Effluent control devices must be operative at all times
			 during drying and packaging operations and whenever air is exhausting from the
			 product stack. Drying and packaging operations shall terminate when controls
			 are inoperative. When checks indicate the equipment is not operating within the
			 range prescribed for peak efficiency, actions shall be taken to restore
			 parameters to the prescribed range. When this cannot be done without shutdown
			 and repairs, drying and packaging operations shall cease as soon as
			 practicable. Operations shall not be restarted after cessation due to abnormal
			 performance until needed corrective actions have been identified and
			 implemented. All such cessations, corrective actions and restarts shall be
			 reported to the Agency, in writing, within 10 days after the subsequent
			 restart.
e) To control fugitive
			 dust from tailings, all surfaces not covered by standing liquids shall be
			 wetted or chemically stabilized. For licenses initially granted after January
			 1, 1990, management of tailings shall incorporate phased-in surface
			 stabilization and reclamation. To control dusting from diffuse sources,
			 operators shall develop written operating procedures specifying the methods of
			 control that will be used.
f)
			 Byproduct material shall be managed so as to conform to the applicable
			 provisions of 40 CFR 440, Ore Mining and Dressing Point Source Category:
			 Effluent Limitations Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards, subpart
			 C, Uranium, Radium, and Vanadium Ores Subcategory, in effect on July 1, 1995,
			 exclusive of subsequent amendments or editions.
g) Licensees and applicants shall satisfy the
			 requirements of 40 CFR 61, in effect on July 1, 1995, exclusive of subsequent
			 amendments or editions.
h)
			 Inspection of the byproduct material impoundments and disposal areas:
1) The licensee shall conduct daily
			 inspections of any surface impoundment and disposal site and document the
			 results of the inspections. Records of the inspections shall be maintained for
			 5 years in a format allowing for easy access and review by the
			 Agency.
2) The licensee shall
			 notify the Agency within 2 hours by telephone, and then within 48 hours by
			 written report, of any failure of a byproduct material surface impoundment or
			 disposal area that results in a release of byproduct material into unrestricted
			 areas. The licensee shall notify the Agency in writing, immediately, of any
			 condition that was not anticipated in the design of the byproduct material
			 surface impoundment or disposal area and, if not corrected, could cause failure
			 of embankments or other structures containing the byproduct material and the
			 release of byproduct material into unrestricted areas.
3) In cases of failure of the byproduct
			 material impoundment, the report shall be maintained for transfer to the
			 governmental agency to which the title of the facility will be
			 transferred.