EPA's primary role in waste management is to set public health and environmental radiation protection standards, provide information to assist waste generators, and provide information to the general public.
WIPP Oversight
describes the project and EPA's role in setting radiation
protection standards and in oversight of the U.S. Department
of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a storage facility
in New Mexico for low-level and transuranic radioactive
waste.
Yucca Mtn.
Standards
describes EPA's public health and environmental radiation
protection standards for Yucca Mtn., Nevada, the proposed
U.S. Department of Energy repository for spent fuel and high-level
radioactive waste.
Mixed Waste
provides information about wastes that contain both radioactively
and chemically hazardous materials.
'Low-Activity' Radioactive
Waste
provides information about EPA's request for consideration of safe management options for 'low-activity' radioactive waste.
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