Subpart W Rulemaking Activity
NESHAP Subpart W is a radon emission standard for operating uranium mill tailings. In accordance with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, EPA formed a workgroup to review the standard. On May 2, 2014, EPA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with proposed revisions to Subpart W. On July 21, 2014, EPA issued a Federal Register Notice extending the comment period. View the Federal Register notice extending the comment period to October 29, 2014 (PDF)(2 pp, 212.73 K, About PDF). On January 17, 2017 EPA officially issued a final rule that revised Subpart W.
View the official rule in the Federal Register (82 FR 5142, January 17, 2017) Note: The effective date of this action was deferred to March 21, 2017.
View a fact sheet on the 2017 revisions to Subpart W (2 pp, 114 K, About PDF).
On this page:
- Supporting and Background Documents
- Enforcement
- Applications
- EPA-hosted Quarterly Conference Calls
- Non-Privileged Records
- Uranium Location Database
Supporting and Background Documents
View Subpart W Rulemaking Activity: Documents to view items pertaining to the proposed rulemaking, public comment period and other support documents.
View Subpart W Rulemaking History to view older Federal Register notices related to Subpart W.
Enforcement
View Section 114 Letters/Responses related to Subpart W rulemaking. These documents are EPA requests (with responses as they were received) for facility information from uranium recovery facilities.
Applications
EPA-hosted Quarterly Conference Calls
EPA hosted quarterly conference calls with interested stakeholders during the rulemaking process. The final stakeholder conference call was held January 5, 2017.
View and download 2017 conference call minutes.
View and download 2016 conference call minutes.
View and download 2015 conference call minutes.
View and download 2014 conference call minutes.
View and download 2013 conference call minutes.
View and download 2012 conference call minutes.
View and download 2011 conference call minutes.
View and download 2010 conference call minutes.
View and download 2009 conference call minutes.
Non-Privileged Records
To view non-privileged records regarding the Subpart W review, select a link below. These non-privileged records are provided in accordance with the settlement agreement in the Subpart W Rulemaking Activity: Documents web page.
View and download 2017 Subpart W non-privileged records.
View and download 2016 Subpart W non-privileged records.
View and download 2015 Subpart W non-privileged records.
View and download 2014 Subpart W non-privileged records.
View and download 2013 Subpart W non-privileged records.
View and download 2012 Subpart W non-privileged records.
View and download 2011 Subpart W non-privileged records.
View and download 2010 Subpart W non-privileged records.
View and download 2009 Subpart W non-privileged records.
View and download Subpart W appointments with incomplete date information.
Uranium Location Database
EPA worked with the multi-agency Colorado Plateau Data Coordination Group Steering Committee to create the Uranium Location Database. EPA coordinated this effort with federal, state, and tribal agencies in other parts of the western United States. The database identifies and shows the location of active, inactive and suspected uranium mine and mill locations in fourteen western states, as well as mines which principally produced other minerals, but were known to have uranium in the ore.