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Overview
To achieve safe, environmentally protective and useful site closure,
Yankee Atomic intends to meet a wide range of regulatory benchmarks
and to work closely with these regulatory agencies throughout the site
closure process. Each of these regulatory benchmarks is monitored and
assessed by one or more public officials, commissions, regulatory
agencies or similar governmental bodies.
In fact, every step in the site closure process will undergo government
review at either the local,
state or federal
level.
Key elements of the process will be reviewed by federal officials. For
example, the radiological aspects of site closure - including compliance
with the National Environmental Policy Act - are under the overall
jurisdiction of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency will monitor compliance with federal
regulations that govern the safe handling, storage and disposal of
hazardous waste.
Other clean up tasks will also be reviewed by regulatory bodies. For
example, building demolition
and any remediation activities along the shore of Sherman Reservoir
will be under the shared oversight of the Environmental Protection
Agency, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs,
the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the
Conservation Commission of the Town of Rowe. Each agency will focus
on a specific portion of this task.
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