[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3012-3013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-894]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Availability: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste 
Management; National Transportation Plan, Revision 0

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Civilian 
Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) is making available its National 
Transportation Plan, Revision 0 (DOE/RW-0603, January 2009) for public 
review and comment. The National Transportation Plan outlines OCRWM's 
current strategy and planning for developing and implementing the 
transportation system that will be required to transport spent nuclear 
fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) from where the 
material is generated or stored to the proposed repository at Yucca 
Mountain, Nevada. OCRWM does not expect actual shipments to begin 
before 2020, but has started the transportation planning process well 
in advance to ensure the concerns and input of State, Tribal and local 
officials, as well as other involved and interested parties, are taken 
into account. OCRWM's National Transportation Plan will be updated as 
appropriate to accommodate changes to the waste management system, 
reflect progress in the development and implementation of the 
transportation system, and incorporate stakeholder and public comments. 
OCRWM also anticipates that detailed implementation plans will be 
developed in collaboration with the stakeholder community.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
April 30, 2009.

ADDRESSES: The document is being made available on the OCRWM Web site 
at http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov. Persons wishing to receive a print copy 
via regular mail should contact: Mr. Frank Moussa, U.S. Department of 
Energy, OCRWM Office of Logistics Management, 1000 Independence Avenue, 
SW., Washington, DC 20585-0001. Written comments should be submitted 
electronically via the Web at http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov, or by regular 
mail to Mr. Frank Moussa at the address identified above.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as 
amended (NWPA) establishes a process for the siting, construction and 
operation of one or more national repositories for permanent disposal 
of the Nation's SNF and HLW. Pursuant to the NWPA, Yucca Mountain has 
been designated as the site for the Nation's first SNF and HLW 
repository, and DOE has submitted an application to the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC) for approval to construct the repository. 
As part of its obligations under the NWPA, DOE is also responsible for 
developing and implementing a system to transport SNF and HLW to the 
Yucca Mountain repository.
    OCRWM's National Transportation Plan, Revision 0 describes the 
elements of the national transportation system that OCRWM is 
developing, the phases of that development effort, and how OCRWM will 
collaborate with stakeholders in the development and implementation of 
that system. This Plan describes the transportation system that will be 
needed when the repository is operating at full capacity. The 
transportation system will be developed in stages that are consistent 
with waste acceptance schedules and the start-up and subsequent 
operation of the repository. The transportation infrastructure will 
continue to expand until full operating capability is achieved. The 
development and operations of the OCRWM transportation system will 
build on many decades of safe and secure transportation of SNF in the 
United States and abroad.
    This Plan will be updated as appropriate to reflect progress in the 
development and implementation of the transportation system, 
accommodate changes to the waste management system, and incorporate 
stakeholder and public comments. OCRWM also anticipates that detailed 
implementation plans will be developed in the future in collaboration 
with the stakeholder community.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on January 12, 2009.
Edward F. Sproat III,
Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, U.S. 
Department of Energy.
 [FR Doc. E9-894 Filed 1-15-09; 8:45 am]
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