Presentation On the UGTA Strategy    To ASME Peer Review Panel

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Slide 11 Funding and Regulatory Agreements

NDEP Environmental Oversight of NTS Programs FY 1991 - NDEP entered into an Agreement in Principal (AIP) for environmental oversight of DOE NTS activities. This included all ongoing program activities as well as review of all historic contamination. In 1996 NDEP entered into FFACO, which was a formal consent order addressing actions necessary to remediate historic contamination.

Slide 12 State Regulatory Authorities

Groundwater Protection & Regulation Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) Nevada Administrative Code (NAC)

Slide 13 Definitions of specific regulatory terms

NRS 445.325 “Contaminant” Definitions: “Contaminant” means any physical, chemical, biological, radiological substance or matter which is added to water.

Slide 14 Regulatory Definitions -- Continued

NRS 445a.400 “Pollutant” Means dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.

Slide 15 Regulatory Definitions -- Continued

NRS 445a.405 “Pollution” “Pollution” means the man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.

Slide 16 Regulatory Definitions -- Continued

NRS 445a.415 “Water of The State” “Water of the state” means all waters situated wholly or partly within or bordering upon This State, Including but Not Limited to: All streams, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, marshes, water courses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, and drainage systems, and all bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial.

Slide 17 Ash Meadows National Wildlive Refuge -- Ash Meadows is a dischared point The Refuge is located

Slide 18 Regulatory Definitions -- Continued

NRS 445a.465 Injection of Fluids Except as authorized by a permit …, It is unlawful for any person to: Discharge from any point source any pollutant into any waters of the State or any treatment works. Inject fluids through a well into any waters of the State.

Slide 19 Regulatory Definitions -- Continued

NRS 445a.465 Injection of Fluids Discharge from a point source a pollutant or inject fluids through a well that could be carried into the water of the State by any means. Allow a pollutant discharged from a point source or fluids injected through a well to remain in a place where the pollutant or fluids could be carried into the waters of the state by any means.

Slide 20 Regulatory Definitions -- Continued

NAC 445a.812 “Aquifer” Aquifer” means a geological formation, group of formations or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount of water to a well or Spring.

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