Jeff Bingaman: “Section 310 of the current legislation directs the Secretary of Energy to file a permit modification to the Waste…”

“Section 310 of the current legislation directs the Secretary of Energy to file a permit modification to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's, WIPP, Waste Analysis Plan, WAP. Section 310(a) requires that for determining compliance with the Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et. seq., and any other applicable laws, all waste received for storage and disposal shall be limited in confirmation that it contains no ignitable, corrosive or reactive waste through the use of radiography or visual examination of a statistically representative population of waste; and to review of the waste stream profile form to verify that the waste contains no ignitable, corrosive or reactive waste. Section 310(b) requires that compliance shall be monitored exclusively in the WIPP underground rooms through airborne monitoring of volatile inorganic compounds.”