Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff were scheduled to hold a virtual public meeting Tuesday about the long-awaited combined rulemaking covering low-level and Greater-Than-Class-C radioactive waste.
The meeting will stream online with a telephone dial-in option, according to a notice the commission posted on its website. NRC staff once thought they would submit their proposed rule to the commission in November, but that date has slipped until May, according to NRC staff slides for the scheduled meeting, which were posted online Monday.
The proposed rule is supposed to combine a 2015 inquiry from Texas about a rules change for Greater-Than-Class-C (GTCC) with changes to low-level waste covered by Title 10, Part 61 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Among other things, it would strike transuranic waste from a list of wastes not considered low-level and address disposal of depleted uranium from commercial enrichment operations.
Though not unanimously, NRC staff in 2020 again held that states are allowed to accept GTCC for disposal in near-surface facilities like Waste Control Specialists’ disposal site in Andrews County, Texas.
