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420 ILCS 20/7

(420 ILCS 20/7) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 241-7)

Sec. 7. Requirements for waste treatment.

The Agency shall promulgate
rules and regulations establishing standards applicable to the treatment
of low-level radioactive wastes disposed of in any facility in Illinois
necessary to protect human health and the environment.  Such rules and
regulations
shall reflect the best available treatment technologies that are
economically
reasonable, technologically feasible and environmentally sound for reducing
the quantity and radioactive quality of such wastes prior to land burial
and shall establish, but need not be limited to, requirements respecting:

(1) the form in which low-level radioactive wastes

may be disposed;

(2) the use of treatment technologies for recycling,

compacting, solidifying or otherwise treating low-level radioactive wastes prior to disposal; and

(3) the use of technologies for the treatment of such

wastes to minimize the radioactive characteristics of the waste disposed of or to reduce the tendency of the waste to migrate in geologic and hydrologic formations.

The Agency shall hold at least one public hearing prior to promulgating
such regulations.

(Source: P.A. 95-777, eff. 8-4-08.)