Compliance Recertification Application 2009

Compliance Certification Application (CCA)

Chapter 6: Containment Requirements

View the text of Containment Requirements.

Chapter 6 was cited in the following sections of the CRA-2009:

• Appendix IGP: Individual and Groundwater
• Subsection IGP-2.0: Individual Protection Requirements
• Subsection IGP-2.1: Compliance Assessment of Undisturbed Performance
• Subsection IGP-2.2.1: Transport Pathway
• Subsection IGP-2.2.2: Bounding Analysis
• Appendix MASS: Performance Assessment Modeling Assumptions
• Subsection MASS-3.0: General Assumptions in PA Models
• Subsection MASS-3.1: Darcy’s Law Applied to Fluid Flow Calculated by BRAGFLO, MODFLOW-2000, and DRSPALL
• Subsection MASS-4.1: Disposal System Geometry as Modeled in BRAGFLO
• Subsection MASS-5.0: BRAGFLO Geometry of the Repository
• Subsection MASS-7.0: Repository Fluid Flow
• Subsection MASS-8.0: Gas Generation
• Subsection MASS-13.0: Salado
• Subsection MASS-13.1: High Threshold Pressure for Halite-Rich Salado Rock Units
• Subsection MASS-13.3: The Fracture Model
• Subsection MASS-13.4: Flow in the DRZ
• Subsection MASS-13.5: Actinide Transport in the Salado
• Subsection MASS-14.0: Geologic Units above the Salado
• Subsection MASS-15.0: Flow Through the Culebra
• Subsection MASS-15.2: Dissolved Actinide Transport and Retardation in the Culebra
• Subsection MASS-15.3: Colloidal Actinide Transport and Retardation in the Culebra
• Subsection MASS-15.4: Subsidence Caused by Potash Mining in the Culebra
• Subsection MASS-16.0: Intrusion Borehole
• Subsection MASS-16.1: Cuttings, Cavings, and Spallings Releases during Drilling
• Subsection MASS-16.2: Direct Brine Releases during Drilling
• Subsection MASS-17.0: Climate Change
• Subsection MASS-18.0: Castile Brine Reservoir
• Appendix MgO: Magnesium Oxide as an Engineered Barrier
• Subsection MgO-6.1: Effects of Microbial Respiratory Pathways on the MgO Excess Factor
• Appendix PA: Performance Assessment
• Subsection PA-2.0: Overview and Conceptual Structure of the PA
• Subsection PA-2.1: Overview of Performance Assessment
• Subsection PA-2.1.3: Undisturbed Repository Performance
• Subsection PA-2.1.4: Disturbed Repository Performance
• Subsection PA-2.1.4.1: Cuttings and Cavings
• Subsection PA-2.1.4.6: Groundwater Flow in the Culebra
• Subsection PA-2.1.4.7: Actinide Transport in the Culebra
• Subsection PA-2.1.5: Compliance Demonstration Method
• Subsection PA-2.3.1: Identification and Screening of FEPs
• Subsection PA-2.3.2.2: Disturbed Repository Performance
• Subsection PA-2.3.2.2.1: Disturbed Repository M Scenario
• Subsection PA-2.3.2.2.2: Disturbed Repository E Scenario
• Subsection PA-4.2.8: Option D Panel Closures
• Appendix SCR: Feature, Event, and Process Screening for PA
• Subsection SCR-1.0: Introduction
• Subsection SCR-4.2.1.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.3.1.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.4.1.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.5.3.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.5.3.2.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.2.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.4.3.2: Geochemical Effects of Drilling-Induced Flow–HCN
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.4.3.4: Geochemical Effects of Drilling-Induced Flow-Future
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.5.2.2: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.6.3.2: Hydraulic Effects of Leakage through Injection Boreholes
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.9.3.3: Connections Between the Culebra and Deeper Units
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.9.3.6: Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.9.3.7: Hydraulic Effects of Flow Through Abandoned Boreholes
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.9.3.8: Fluid Flow and Radionuclide Transport in the Culebra
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.10.3.1: Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.13.4.1: Geochemical Effects of Flow Through Abandoned Boreholes
• Subsection SCR-5.2.2.1.3.2: Hydrogeological Effects of Mining
• Subsection SCR-5.2.2.1.4: Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.2.2.2.3.3: Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.5.1.1.3: Anthropogenic Climate Change
• Subsection SCR-6.1.1.2: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-6.2.1.4.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-6.2.2.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-6.3.1.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-6.3.1.2.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-6.3.2.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-6.5.3.1.3.1: Disposal Room
• Subsection SCR-6.5.4.1.4.1: Culebra
• Subsection SCR-6.5.4.1.4.2: Other Geological Units
• Subsection SCR-6.5.4.1.4.3: Sorption on Colloids, Microbes, and Particulate Material
• Appendix SOTERM: Actinide Chemistry Source Term
• Subsection SOTERM-2.1: Ambient Geochemical Conditions
• Section 23: Models and Computer Codes
• Subsection 23.2.3: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Subsection 23.2.4: EPA’s Evaluation of Compliance for the 2004 Recertification
• Subsection 23.3.3: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Subsection 23.6.3: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Subsection 23.9.3: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Subsection 23.9.4: EPA’s Evaluation of Compliance for the 2004 Recertification
• Section 24: Waste Characterization
• Subsection 24.4.2.5: Production of Gas From the Waste (Including Microbial Substrate and Nutrients)
• Section 25: Future States Assumptions
• Subsection 25.3: 1998 Certification Decision
• Subsection 25.5: EPA’s Evaluation of Compliance for the 2004 Recertification
• Subsection 25.5.5: The 2006 Recertification Decision
• Section 32: Scope of Performance Assessments
• Subsection 32.2: Background
• Subsection 32.3.1: 40 CFR § 194.32(a)
• Subsection 32.3.2: 40 CFR § 194.32(b)
• Subsection 32.3.3: 40 CFR § 194.32(c)
• Subsection 32.3.5.2: 40 CFR § 194.32(e)(2)
• Subsection 32.3.5.3: 40 CFR § 194.32(e)(3)
• Section 33: Consideration of Drilling Events in Performance Assessments
• Subsection 33.2: Background
• Subsection 33.3.1: 40 CFR § 194.33(a) DOE Methodology and Conclusions
• Subsection 33.3.1.3: Evaluation of Borehole Properties
• Subsection 33.3.1.4: Future Drilling Events Considered in the Performance Assessment
• Subsection 33.3.3: 40 CFR § 194.33(b) DOE Methodology and Conclusions
• Subsection 33.3.5: 40 CFR § 194.33(b)(2) DOE Methodology and Conclusions
• Subsection 33.3.7: 40 CFR § 194.33(b)(3) DOE Methodology and Conclusions
• Subsection 33.3.10: 40 CFR § 194.33(b)(4) EPA Compliance Review
• Subsection 33.3.12: 40 CFR § 194.33(c)(1) EPA Compliance Review
• Subsection 33.3.13: 40 CFR § 194.33(c)(2) DOE Methodology and Conclusions
• Subsection 33.3.15: 40 CFR § 194.33(d) DOE Methodology and Conclusions
• Subsection 33.4: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Subsection 33.6.2: New Information Related to 40 CFR § 194.33(b)
• Section 34: Results of Performance Assessments
• Subsection 34.2.3: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Subsection 34.2.5: Changes or New Information Since the 2004 Recertification
• Subsection 34.3.3: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Subsection 34.6.3: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Section 44: Engineered Barriers
• Subsection 44.3: 1998 Certification Decision
• Subsection 44.6.1: Engineered Barrier
• Section 45: Consideration of the Presence of Resources
• Subsection 45.4: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Section 54: Scope of Compliance Assessments
• Subsection 54.5: EPA’s Evaluation of Compliance for the 2004 Recertification
• Section 55: Results of Compliance Assessments
• Subsection 55.3.1: 40 CFR § 194.55(a)
• Subsection 55.4: Changes in the CRA-2004