A. 
A waste site shall have geological characteristics such that all applicable state and federal emission requirements may be met without the use of dedicated engineered barriers, other than the entrance described in § 121-7B of this chapter.
B. 
There shall be no active or inactive water wells, gas or oil wells, brine wells or other underground storage areas on the waste site.
C. 
Surface features of the waste site shall be designed to direct water drainage away from waste units at velocities and gradients which will not result in erosion. No water shall drain from the waste site to any off-site location or into any aquifer without permission from the Controlling Officer.
D. 
No site shall be located in recharge zones for sources of local drinking water, wetlands, floodplains or habitats of endangered species.
A. 
No radioactive emissions into the outdoor atmosphere from a waste site within Athens Township shall exceed or cause exposures which exceed applicable federal law, the standards adopted pursuant to this chapter or any other law adopted under the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
B. 
The operator of a waste facility shall perform active and passive monitoring which shall detect any releases of radioactive substances into the buffer zone, as well as releases from waste modules, from waste units and from the waste site, for the active institutional control period and provide continuous verification of performance satisfactory to the Controlling Officer.
C. 
The waste facility must be designed and operated to achieve containment for the hazardous life of the waste. Prior to construction, the waste facility design shall be modeled and analyzed to demonstrate that its performance and its interactions with the environment at the waste site are consistent with this chapter. The facility design shall demonstrate that radioactive waste containment can be maintained for any maximum disruptive external event, including a worst-case accident scenario.
D. 
The waste facility design and operation must be upgraded as safer technologies are devised and satisfactorily demonstrated.
A. 
A waste facility shall be designed for zero release of radioactive waste into effluents and shall not permit liquid or gaseous infiltration through any engineered cover, bottom, side or entrance.
B. 
The waste facility shall be an aboveground facility mounded with earth and a cap for tornado protection with a sealed entrance permitting access so that leaking containers can be easily and safely located and removed.
C. 
Neither the containers nor the waste modules are to be covered by any type of fill that would cause loss of integrity of the containers or the waste modules if recovery of the waste is undertaken.
A. 
The waste facility shall only accept waste with those physical and chemical properties for which it is designed and which it is capable of containing for the hazardous life of the waste. All facility records shall be retained for the active institutional control period.
B. 
All classes of waste shall be segregated from each other unless they were mixed as they were generated. Generation practices shall be conducted to minimize mixing. Classes of waste A, B and C, and mixed waste, as defined in 10 CFR 61.55 (1989), shall be contained for their hazardous lives. No waste greater than Class C shall be accepted even though it may have been diluted to a lower level of radioactivity.
C. 
No radioactive materials generated outside the Appalachian Compact states and not designated as waste prior to shipment into Pennsylvania or other Compact states but thereafter declared to be waste shall be disposed of or stored in Athens Township, except as provided by LLRWDA, Section 309.[1] No waste generated outside the United States shall be disposed of or stored in Athens Township, even if the company generating the waste has its corporate headquarters, is incorporated, has offices in or receives such waste at its facilities or through a port of entry in one of these Compact states.
[1]
Editor's Note: See P.S. 35 § 7130.309.
D. 
In the event that radioactive substances from the waste facility contaminate any area outside the waste site, the operator shall clean up all contamination and shall restore all such contaminated areas to their preexisting and noncontaminated state.
E. 
The LLRW facility shall accept waste for no more than 30 years. No additional radioactive waste shall be stored, disposed of or treated anywhere in Athens Township after that thirty-year period.