Title 40 | CRITERIA FOR THE CERTIFICATION AND RE-CERTIFICATION OF THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT'S COMPLIANCE WITH THE 40 CFR PART 191 DISPOSAL REGULATIONS
part_subject: "CRITERIA FOR THE CERTIFICATION AND RE-CERTIFICATION OF THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT'S COMPLIANCE WITH THE 40 CFR PART 191 DISPOSAL REGULATIONS"
subpart_code: "C"
subpart_subject: "Compliance Certification and Re-certification"
section_number: "194.55"
section_subject: "Results of compliance assessments."
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 194.55"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Parts 190 to 259"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)Compliance assessments shall consider and document uncertainty in the performance of the disposal system.
(b)Probability distributions for uncertain disposal system parameter values used in compliance assessments shall be developed and documented in any compliance application.
(c)Computational techniques which draw random samples from across the entire range of values of each probability distribution developed pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section shall be used to generate a range of:
(1)Estimated committed effective doses received from all pathways pursuant to § 194.51 and § 194.52;
(2)Estimated radionuclide concentrations in USDWs pursuant to § 194.53; and
(3)Estimated dose equivalent received from USDWs pursuant to § 194.52 and § 194.53.
(d)The number of estimates generated pursuant to paragraph (c) of this section shall be large enough such that the maximum estimates of doses and concentrations generated exceed the 99th percentile of the population of estimates with at least a 0.95 probability.
(1)The full range of estimated radiation doses; and
(2)The full range of estimated radionuclide concentrations.
(f)Any compliance application shall document that there is at least a 95 percent level of statistical confidence that the mean and the median of the range of estimated radiation doses and the range of estimated radionuclide concentrations meet the requirements of § 191.15 and part 191, subpart C of this chapter, respectively.