37.14.743    WASTE DISPOSAL: DISPOSAL BY BURIAL IN SOIL

(1) No licensee shall dispose of radioactive material by burial in soil unless:

(a) the total quantity of radioactive material buried at any 1 location and time does not exceed, at the time of burial, 1,000 times the amount specified in Appendix B of this subchapter;

(b) burial is at a minimum of 4 feet; and

(c) successive burials are separated by distances of at least 6 feet and not more than 12 burials are made in any year.

History: Sec. 75-3-201, MCA; IMP, Sec. 75-3-201, 75-3-301, MCA; NEW, 1980 MAR p. 1069, Eff. 3/28/80; TRANS, from DHES, 1996 MAR p. 433; TRANS, from DEQ, 2000 MAR p. 189.