Re: Liability Limits for Hazardous Waste Brokers

[Art Perez <aperez@ucdavis.edu>]

At 02:12 PM 4/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>I am working on a Request for Proposal [which becomes part of the
>contract when a Proposal based on it is accepted] for Radioactive
>waste brokerage and shipping services.  I started with somebody else's
>contract as a model.  A lawyer reviewing it has asked where the limits
>of $1,000,000/$5,000,000 came from, if they are statutory and if so what
>statute or regulation.  Does anybody out there know?  an answere that
>applies to generic "hazardous cargo" or "hazardous waste" would be
>as good as one specific to radioactive waste and one for any specific
>kind of "hazardous waste" would also be of interest.  I have looked in
>title 40, EPA regulations and title 49, DOT regs.  I'm pretty sure it
>isn't in title 10, NRC.  Anybody out there know of any statutory or 
>regulatory requirements?
> 
>Thanks in advance.
>Peter G. Vernig, VA Medical Center, vernig.peter@forum.va.gov

>
>


Peter,

You might take a look at 40 CFR 265.147 Liability Requirements (a) Coverage
for sudden accidental occurrences.   Hope this helps you.

  
Art Pérez
Environmental Health & Safety
Health Physics
University of California at Davis
Davis, California
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