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title: "40 CFR §197.4"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/section-197.4"

title_number: "40"

volume_number: "27"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "F"

subchapter_subject: "RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAMS"

part_code: "197"

part_subject: "PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA"

subpart_code: "A"

subpart_subject: "Public Health and Environmental Standards for Storage"

section_number: "197.4"

section_subject: "What standard must DOE meet?"

cfr_reference: "40 CFR 197.4"

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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The DOE must ensure that no member of the public in the general environment receives more than an annual committed effective dose equivalent of 150 microsieverts (15 millirems) from the combination of:

(a)Management and storage (as defined in 40 CFR 191.2) of radioactive material that:

(1)Is subject to 40 CFR 191.3(a); and

(2)Occurs outside of the Yucca Mountain repository but within the Yucca Mountain site; and

(b)Storage (as defined in § 197.2) of radioactive material inside the Yucca Mountain repository.

§197.4 - What standard must DOE meet?