Storage Facility
Effective Jul 9, 2004MGL c. 111H, § 4 MGL c. 111H, § 11 MGL c. 111H, § 12Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Board
- (1) The Board hereby finds that there is no requirement for additional storage facility capacity to meet present needs, but that there is a requirement for additional storage facility capacity to meet needs anticipated to arise within the next decade.
- (2) No determination to proceed with centralized storage facility site selection pursuant to M.G.L.
c. 111H, § 17 shall be made unless the Board finds that reliance on future on-site storage of LLRW is not a satisfactory management option due to anticipated expiration of licensee authorization for such storage. In any such determination to proceed with centralized storage facility site selection, the Board shall consider, at a minimum, the following storage facility siting options and choose among those considered:
- (a) Site a centralized short-term storage facility;
- (b) Site a centralized long-term storage facility;
- (c) Site a centralized interim or emergency storage facility.