Agenda Date: February 25, 1998
Item Number:

Docket:   UR-980080
   
Company Name: Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Site

  Review the Commission's rules in Chapter 480-92 of the   Washington 
Administrative Code concerning Operators of   Low-Level Radioactive Waste 
Disposal Sites    

Staff:   Sondra Walsh, Policy Research Specialist
   Lori Kanz, Consumer Program Specialist
   Gene Eckhardt, Assistant Director Water and Transportation
   Ann Rendahl, Assistant Attorney General
   Bob Wallis, Review Judge
Docket UR-980080
February 25, 1998
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   Mary Sprouffske, Rules Coordinator


Recommendation:

Direct the Secretary to file a preproposal statement of inquiry in Docket 
UR-980080 to initiate review of the Commission’s rules in Chapter 480-92 of the 
Washington Administrative Code concerning Operators of Low-Level Radioactive 
Waste Disposal Sites.

Discussion:

The objective of  this rulemaking is to review rules governing the WUTC’s 
regulation of low level radioactive waste site operators in compliance with 
Executive Order 97-02 to determine whether:

 1. The rules comply with authorizing statutes;
 2. The current rules are obsolete, duplicative, or need to be repealed;
 3. The rules provide the results that they were originally intended to 
achieve; and
 4. The rules are written and organized in a clear and concise manner, in 
order      that they may be readily understood by those to whom they apply.

Staff will schedule public meetings and workshops with broad notice to 
interested persons, inviting US Ecology Inc., its customers, and other 
interested parties to participate in the rulemaking process.