Termination of Review of Department of Energy Petition to EPA for a No-Migration Determination for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

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The Environmental Protection Agency announces that the Office of Solid Waste has terminated its review of the final no-migration petition for the Department of Energy's (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The WIPP is a geological repository intended for the disposal of mixed hazardous and radioactive wastes. The hazardous portion of the waste was originally subject to EPA's land disposal restrictions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). On September 23, 1996 the President signed Public Law 104-201 that, among other things, exempts WIPP from the provisions of the land disposal restrictions. Consequently, EPA has terminated its review of DOE's no- migration petition, effective October 1, 1996.