Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 105 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH › Title 105 CMR 120.000 - The Control of Radiation › QUALITY ASSURANCE › Section 120.831 - Environmental Monitoring

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(A) The Operator
				must submit an environmental monitoring plan, of which the preoperational
				environmental monitoring required in
				105 CMR
				120.828 is a component, as part of the
				complete license application. The extent and duration of the Operator
				environmental monitoring program shall take into account the nature of the
				licensed operation. In the case of a low-level radioactive waste disposal
				facility, the Operator environmental monitoring program shall, at a minimum,
				conform to the general guidance provided in U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
				publication,
Environmental Monitoring of Low-Level Radioactive Waste
				Disposal Facility,
NUREG-1388 (published in 1989).
The Operator shall submit with the license application a
				  baseline health study of the site community and any affected community. The
				  study shall be paid for by the Operator and conducted by the Department's
				  Bureau of Environmental Health Assessment following the design requirements for
				  such a study that are currently being used by the Department. A comparison
				  health study shall be conducted every five years and paid for by the
				  Operator.
The environmental monitoring programs for treatment and
				  storage facilities shall be designed for the specific needs of those
				  facilities.
(B) During
				facility development, construction, operation, closure, post-closure
				observation and maintenance, until the facility license is transferred to the
				Board, the Operator shall establish and conduct the Operator environmental
				monitoring program as required by 105 CMR 120.831 and in accordance with the
				environmental monitoring plan approved by the Department as a condition of the
				final license.
(C) Within 30 days
				of the issuance of a facility license, the Department shall, after consultation
				with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Board of Health of each
				site community, establish and conduct a comprehensive environmental monitoring
				program at the facility site which will compliment and validate the Operator
				environmental monitoring program.
(D) The Department environmental monitoring
				program and the Operator environmental monitoring program shall each employ the
				best available monitoring technology to collect and analyze data concerning
				standing and running surface water and drainage; groundwater samples from
				offsite, site boundary and waste management area wells; soil and sedimentation
				samples, air samples, vegetation and wildlife samples, and direct radiation
				measurements offsite, at the site boundary and in the waste management
				area.
(E) Both the Department
				environmental monitoring program and the Operator environmental monitoring
				program shall be designed to:
(1) Establish
				baseline environmental data on the site;
(2) Provide data to allow evaluation of
				facility impacts on public health, safety and the environment, and evaluate the
				need for mitigative measures at the facility;
(3) Provide early warning of the magnitude
				and extent of any migration of radionuclides and/or any hazardous
				chemicals;
(4) Determine compliance
				with applicable regulations, with conditions of the facility license pursuant
				to
				105 CMR
				120.830, and with the terms of the
				comprehensive operating contract; and
(5) Provide reliable environmental data
				throughout development, operation, closure, post-closure observation and
				maintenance and institutional control at the facility.