Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701:1 - Radiation Control › Chapter 3701:1-54 - Radiation Generator and Broker Reporting Requirements › Section 3701:1-54-08 - Land disposal - facility requirements

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) The land owner or custodial agency shall
			 conduct an institutional control program to physically control access to the
			 disposal site following transfer of control of the disposal site from the
			 disposal site operator. The institutional control program shall also include,
			 but not be limited to, conducting an environmental monitoring program at the
			 disposal site, periodic surveillance, minor custodial care, and other
			 requirements as determined by the department; and administration of funds to
			 cover the costs for these activities. The period of institutional controls will
			 be determined by the department, but institutional controls may not be relied
			 upon for more than one hundred years following transfer of control of the
			 disposal site to the owner.
(B)
			 The performance objectives for the general requirements of a land disposal
			 facility are to ensure public health and safety. Land disposal facilities shall
			 be sited, designed, operated, closed, and controlled after closure to provide
			 reasonable assurance that the following performance objectives will be met.
(1) Concentrations of radioactive material
			 which may be released to the general environment in ground water, surface
			 water, air, soil, plants, or animals must not result in an annual dose
			 exceeding the equivalent of 0.25 millisievert (twenty-five millirem) to the
			 whole body, 0.75 millisievert (seventy-five millirem) to the thyroid, or 0.25
			 millisievert (twenty-five millirem) to any other organ to any member of the
			 public. Reasonable effort should be made to maintain releases of radioactivity
			 in effluents to the general environment as low as is reasonably achievable.
(2) The design, operation and
			 closure of the land disposal facility shall ensure protection of any individual
			 inadvertently intruding into the disposal site and occupying the site or
			 contacting the waste at any time after institutional controls over the disposal
			 site are removed.
(3) Operations
			 at the land disposal facility shall be conducted in compliance with the
			 standards for radiation protection as set out in Chapter 3701:1-38 of the
			 Administrative Code, except for those releases of radioactivity in effluents
			 from the land disposal facility, which shall be governed by paragraph (B)(1) of
			 this rule. Every reasonable effort should be made to maintain radiation
			 exposures as low as is reasonably achievable.
(4) The disposal facility shall be sited,
			 designed, used, operated, and closed to achieve long-term stability of the
			 disposal site and to eliminate, to the extent practical, the need for ongoing
			 active maintenance of the disposal site after closure so that only
			 surveillance, monitoring, or minor custodial care are required.
(5) The licensee shall develop and implement
			 security measures to protect against and to detect unauthorized access to
			 radioactive material or safety and security systems from external as well as
			 internal threats. The licensee shall perform periodic inspections to ensure
			 that all radioactive material is accounted for and that safety and security
			 systems are operating as designed. The licensee shall report any deficiency
			 involving the radioactive material inventory or a safety and security system to
			 the department.
(6) The
			 radioactive waste and its containers shall be protected from adverse
			 environmental conditions including, but not limited to, temperature changes
			 that could compromise the isolation of the waste from the biosphere.
(7) The licensee shall use standard
			 engineering designs and procedural practices to maintain doses to people, and
			 radionuclide releases to the environment, as low as reasonably achievable.