Compliance Recertification Application 2009

Compliance Certification Application (CCA)

Chapter 2: Site Characterization

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Chapter 2 was cited in the following sections of the CRA-2009:

• Appendix HYDRO: Hydrological Investigations
• Subsection HYDRO-3.0: Drilling of New Wells
• Appendix MASS: Performance Assessment Modeling Assumptions
• Subsection MASS-13.0: Salado
• Subsection MASS-14.0: Geologic Units above the Salado
• Subsection MASS-15.0: Flow Through the Culebra
• Subsection MASS-18.0: Castile Brine Reservoir
• Appendix PA: Performance Assessment
• Subsection PA-2.1.3: Undisturbed Repository Performance
• Subsection PA-2.1.4.5: Long-Term Brine Flow up an Intrusion Borehole
• Subsection PA-2.1.4.6: Groundwater Flow in the Culebra
• Subsection PA-2.1.4.7: Actinide Transport in the Culebra
• Subsection PA-2.1.4.8: Intrusion Scenarios
• Subsection PA-2.3.2.2.2: Disturbed Repository E Scenario
• Appendix SCR: Feature, Event, and Process Screening for PA
• Subsection SCR-4.1.1.2.2: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.1.2.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.1.2.1.4: Tectonic Setting and Site Structural Features
• Subsection SCR-4.1.2.1.5: Tectonics
• Subsection SCR-4.1.3.1.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.1.3.2.3.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.1.3.2.4.6: Seismic Risk in the Region of the WIPP
• Subsection SCR-4.1.4.2.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.1.5.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.1.5.2.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.1.5.2.4: Deep Dissolution
• Subsection SCR-4.2.1.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.2.1.2.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.2.2.5.2.1: 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-4.6.1.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.6.1.2.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-4.8.1.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-5.1.1.1.3: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.1.1.2.4: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.1.2.1.3: Screening Argument
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.3.3.1: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.5.2.2: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.2.1.6.3.3: Effects of Density Changes Resulting from Leakage Through Injection Boreholes
• Subsection SCR-5.2.2.1.3.1: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.2.2.1.4: Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.2.2.2.3.1: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.2.2.2.3.3: Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.3.1.2.4: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.4.1.2.4: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.7.1.1.4: Historical, Current, and Near-Future Human EPs
• Subsection SCR-5.7.2.1.3: Screening Argument
• Section 15: Content of Compliance Recertification Application(s)
• Subsection 15.3: 1998 Certification Decision
• Section 23: Models and Computer Codes
• Subsection 23.3.2: 1998 Certification Decision
• Subsection 23.3.3: Changes in the CRA-2004
• Section 25: Future States Assumptions
• Subsection 25.5: EPA’s Evaluation of Compliance for the 2004 Recertification
• Subsection 25.5.5: The 2006 Recertification Decision
• Section 33: Consideration of Drilling Events in Performance Assessments
• Subsection 33.3.4: 40 CFR § 194.33(b)(1) EPA Compliance Review