Section 601.10  Purpose and Scope

a)         This Part establishes procedures, criteria, performance objectives, and terms and conditions upon which the Illinois Emergency Management Agency – Division of Nuclear Safety (Agency) issues licenses for a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.  Disposal of waste by an individual licensee is set forth in 32 Ill. Adm. Code 340.  The requirements of this Part are in addition to, and not in substitution for, the requirements of 32 Ill. Adm. Code Chapter II, Subchapters b and d.

b)         This Part does not apply to disposal of licensed material as provided for in 32 Ill. Adm. Code 340.

c)         This Part is intended to reflect the best available management technologies which are economically reasonable, technologically feasible, and environmentally sound for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste, as required by Section 6 of the Illinois Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act [420 ILCS 20/6].

d)         The use of shallow land burial of low-level radioactive waste at a disposal facility is prohibited.