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No. 01-094 July 31, 2001

NRC LICENSING SUPPORT NETWORK ADVISORY REVIEW PANEL

TO MEET AUGUST 8 IN LAS VEGAS

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission advisory review panel will meet August 8 in Las Vegas to

discuss an Internet-based system, known as the ìLicensing Support Network,î that will contain

information related to a potential hearing on a possible high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca

Mountain, Nevada. The meeting is open to members of the public for observation, and time will be set

aside at the end of the meeting for the public to ask questions or make brief statements regarding the

network. 

The meeting of the Licensing Support Network Advisory Review Panel will be held from 8:30

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 4255 South Paradise Road.

NRC regulations require all potential participants in the license application hearing process for a

potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain to make their documents available in

electronic form through participantsí individual web sites on a Licensing Support Network (LSN). The

documents that will have to be made available on this network will consist of the information that a

party, potential party or interested government participant intends to rely on in the licensing proceeding,

and certain other relevant information. The web sites will be accessible to members of the public. 

The Licensing Support Network Advisory Review Panel was established by the NRC in 1989

(under a slightly different name ) to provide advice to the agency on issues relating to LSN design,

operation, maintenance and compliance monitoring. Members of the panel are representatives from the

NRC; Department of Energy; State of Nevada; Nye, Churchill, Clark, Esmeralda, Eureka, Inyo, Lander,

Lincoln, Mineral and White Pine Counties; the National Congress of American Indians; the Nevada

Nuclear Waste Task Force; the Nuclear Energy Institute; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the

Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. Chairman of the panel is Andrew L. Bates of the NRCís

Office of the Secretary of the Commission. 

A copy of the agenda for the meeting is attached. 

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Licensing Support Network Advisory Review Panel

Open Meeting

August 8, 2001

Meeting Agenda

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks and Introductions

8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Progress Report of the LSN Administrator

9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. LSN Basics and Overview of the Rule, 

Including Most Recent Revisions 

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. LSN Administrator Guidelines & Functional

Requirements

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Guideline 14: Clarification on Updating Documents

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Hardware, Software & Cost Profile for Small

Participant Systems

1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Demo of the Website

2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. NRC Project for Electronic Information Exchange

(EIE) of Adjudicatory Documents

2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. DOE Strategic Approach to Meeting LSN

Requirements

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion Items/Participant Items

4:00 p.m. - Close Public Comments and Questions on LSN-Related

Matters