310 CMR, § 43.01
310 CMR 43.01 through 43.09 establishes the Department's purpose and authority and the regulations' general applicability. 310 CMR 43.10 through 43.39 establishes location criteria for identifying a superior site for a low-level radioactive waste facility. The criteria are intended to identify site characteristics which will contribute to the isolation of the waste, minimize the likelihood of exposure to the public or the environment in the event of a release and mitigate the incidental adverse impacts from waste management activities at the site.
310 CMR 43.40 through 43.72 specifies the procedures for selecting a superior site and guidelines for the collection, analysis and presentation of data necessary to evaluate and characterize a potential site at each stage of the site selection process specified by the Massachusetts Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act (M.G.L. c. 111H,§§ 19 through 24). 310 CMR 43.40 through 43.72 is intended to ensure that the characterization of a potential site is based on accurate, verifiable, comprehensive and well documented data and analytical procedures. 310 CMR 43.40 through 43.72 is also intended to ensure that the scope of data collection and site characterization is compatible with the level of decision making to be applied at each stage of the site selection process.
310 CMR, § 43.01