Minnesota Administrative Rules

7855.0620 HISTORICAL AND FORECAST DATA.

Each applicant for a nuclear waste storage or disposal facility shall provide five years of historical data, as well as a forecast of demand through the forecast years. The following information shall be included:

A.

for each material that would be stored in the proposed facility, the amount (in cubic meters) produced nationally and within Minnesota during each of the last five calendar years preceding the year of application;

B.

for each of the last five calendar years preceding the year of application, the year-end capacity (in cubic meters) within Minnesota and within the United States to store the materials listed in response to item A;

C.

an estimate of the amount (in cubic meters) of each material listed in response to item A expected to be produced nationally and within Minnesota during the first six forecast years, the 11th forecast year (the tenth year after the year of application), and the 16th forecast year;

D.

a list of known facilities to be added in the United States during the forecast years, including locations, design capacities (in cubic meters), and in-service dates, for storing the same types of materials that would be stored in the proposed facility;

E.

the expected years during which the material stored in the proposed facility would reach ten percent, 25 percent, 50 percent, and 100 percent of the capacity of the facility;

F.

a discussion of the methodology, statistical techniques, and data bases used in providing the forecast data required by items C and E; and

G.

any major assumptions made in supplying the information required by items A to E, and a discussion of the sensitivity of the information to changes in the assumptions.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 216B.08; 216B.2421; 216B.243; 216C.10

History:

L 1983 c 289 s 115

Published Electronically:

November 14, 2003