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# Links to Web Sites with High-Level Waste Information

See the Licensing Support Network (LSN) Library for discovery materials associated with the currently-suspended adjudicatory proceeding regarding construction authorization for the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level waste repository.

The following non-NRC Web sites also contain information related to high level waste disposal:
        - Federal Agencies
        - Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
        - Affected Units of Local Government (AULG)
        - Indian Tribes with "Affected" Status
        - Other Entities and Useful Tools

## Federal Agencies

        - Department of Energy (DOE) Web site for Yucca Mountain Project
        - Environmental Protection Agency Yucca Mountain Page
        - Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

## Federally Funded Research and Development Centers

        - Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses  - The Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses was established in 1987 as a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to resolve technical and regulatory issues related to a geologic repository for high- level nuclear waste

## Affected Units of Local Government (AULG)

        - Clark County (Las Vegas) Nuclear Waste Division
        - Churchill County Nevada Nuclear Waste Oversight
        - Esmeralda County Nevada Repository Oversight Program
        - Eureka County Nevada - Nuclear Waste Page
        - Inyo County California Yucca Mountain Repository Assessment Office
        - Mineral County Nevada Yucca Mountain Oversight Program
        - Nye County Nuclear Waste Repository Project Office
        - State of Nevada
        - White Pine County Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office

## Indian Tribes with "Affected" Status

        - Timbisha Shoshone Tribe

## Other Entities and Useful Tools

        - Nuclear Energy Institute Nuclear Waste Disposal
        - Yucca Mountain Interactive Maps  - Interactive topographic, geological and geophysical maps, satellite images, and information on wells, borings and springs in the Yucca Mountain region

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Tuesday, September 12, 2023

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