Texas Administrative Code
Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 336 - RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE RULES
Subchapter G - DECOMMISSIONING STANDARDS
Section 336.623 - Financial Assurance for Control and Maintenance
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) An applicant or licensee required to demonstrate financial assurance for control and maintenance of a site shall maintain financial assurance for control and maintenance upon license issuance and during the decommissioning period. The applicant or licensee shall provide sufficient financial assurance to enable an independent third party, including a governmental custodian of a site, to assume and carry out responsibilities for any necessary control and maintenance of the site. The financial assurance mechanism(s) for control and maintenance shall comply with Chapter 37 of this title (relating to Financial Assurance) including increasing annually the financial assurance amount for inflation or whenever modifications to the control and maintenance activities or changes to the amount being demonstrated causes the amounts for control and maintenance to increase.
(b) Prior to license termination, the licensee shall deposit a sum of cash acceptable to the executive director into the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Control and Maintenance account to assume and carry out responsibilities for any necessary surveillance, monitoring, control, maintenance, and other care of the decommissioned disposal site on a continual basis during the institutional control period. Upon receipt of the deposit, the executive director shall release the existing financial assurance mechanism(s) for control and maintenance. If a deposit is not made into the Control and Maintenance account, the executive director shall draw on the existing financial assurance mechanism(s) and deposit the cash into the Texas Safekeeping Treasury Control and Maintenance account.
