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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ERA) The Municipal Solid Waste Factbook http // www.epa.gov/epawaste/index.htm (accessed November 3, 2010). An electronic reference manual containing information about U.S. household waste management practices including the complete text of EPA s regulations for municipal solid waste landfills. 

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) http //www.iaea.org/Publications/Standards/ index.html (accessed August 25, 2010). The IAEA publishes standards in the areas of nuclear safety, radiation protection, radioactive waste management, transport of radioactive materials, safety of nuclear fuel cycle facilities, and quality assurance. 

Evaluation of the risk index (RI) in Equation 1.1 or 1.2 requires assumptions about allowable risks or doses from waste disposal to be used in defining the different waste classes (see Section 1.4.1). These assumptions should be based on an understanding of differences in the approaches to risk management for radionuclides and hazardous chemicals embodied in current laws and regulations, including the different meanings that have been attached to the terms acceptable and unacceptable commonly used to describe the significance of health risks. 

NCRP notes that the modifying factor in the risk index should be applied independently of the requirement to achieve a negligible risk or dose for exempt waste or an acceptable (barely tolerable) risk or dose for nonexempt waste, in order to provide regulatory flexibility in classifying particular wastes. NCRP believes that such flexibility is highly desirable to promote cost-effective management and disposal of waste, provided it is applied in a transparent manner. 

Risk Index for Multiple Substances That Cause Deterministic Responses. The risk index for mixtures of substances that cause deterministic responses should be expressed in terms of dose, rather than risk, because risk is not proportional to dose and the goal of risk management is to limit doses to less than the threshold in the dose-response relationship (see discussion of Equation 6.2 in Section 6.3). As noted previously, deterministic responses from exposure to radionuclides should not be of concern in classifying waste, in which case only the risk index for chemicals that induce deterministic responses needs to be considered. 

When sourcing/developing a chemical inventory management system, you should look for a program that offers Information indexed directly from the MSDS Interpretive storage, transportation and/or waste classifications... 

EU-COM (2008). Green Paper on the management of bio-waste in the European Union, COM(2008). 811 final, Brussels, 3.12.2008 (http //ec.europa.eu/green-papers/index en.htm)... 

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