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provide full opportunity for public, technical and 

 government agency participation. 



• The President's Fiscal Year 1981 budget for the 

 Department of Energy requests $670 million in budget 

 authority for nuclear waste programs. Other Department 

 and agency requests total $49 million. 



A brief description of the various types of nuclear waste and the 

 quantities buried, stored, and now being produced will be found 

 in the background section of this Fact Sheet. 



OBJECTIVES 



The primary objective for waste management plannning and 



implementation will be that existing and future radioactive waste 



from military and civilian activities U"cl"<3ing commercial spent 



fuel if and when it is to be discarded) should be isolated from 



the biosphere and pose no significant threat to public health and 



safety. 



The following principles will guide our program: 



• The technical program must meet all of the relevant 

 radiological protection criteria, as well as any other 

 applicable regulatory requirements. Although zero 

 release of radionuclides or zero risk from any such 

 release cannot be assured, such risks should fall 

 within pre-establlished standards and, beyond that, be 

 reduced to the lowest level practicable. 



• The responsibility for establishing a nuclear waste 

 management program will not be deferred to future 

 generations . 



• The nuclear waste management program should explicitly 

 include consideration of all aspects of the waste 

 management system including safety, environmental, 

 organizational, and institutional factors. 



• The basic elements of the program should be independent 

 of the size of the nuclear industry and of the reso- 

 lution of specific fuel-cycle or reactor-design issues 

 of the nuclear power industry. 



ELEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT ' S PROGRAM 



1. Relations with State and Local Governments 



• the President has created, by Executive Order, a State 

 Planning Council to advise the Executive Branch and 

 work with the Congress in making and implementing 

 decisions on waste management and disposal. 



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