[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 28182]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13127]



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NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD


Board Meeting: Waste Isolation Strategy, Thermal Management 
Strategy, the Engineered Barrier System

    Pursuant to its authority under section 5051 of Public Law 100-203, 
the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987, the Nuclear Waste 
Technical Review Board will hold its summer meeting on July 11-12, 
1995, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The meeting will be held at the Little 
America Hotel, 500 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101; (Tel) 
801-363-6781; (Fax) 801-596-5911. The meeting is open to the public and 
will begin at 8:30 a.m. both days. Presentations during the meeting 
will focus on the Department of Energy's (DOE) advanced conceptual 
design for a potential deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel 
and defense high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada; new 
radionuclide release standards for Yucca Mountain (based on the 
National Academy of Sciences studies); and updates on environmental 
impact statement scoping studies for the DOE's high-level nuclear waste 
program and exploratory facility construction at Yucca Mountain 
(including tunnel boring machine operations). The Board also will hear 
about the annotated outline being developed by the DOE for license 
application to construct a repository, should the Yucca Mountain site 
be found suitable.
    Time will be set aside on the agenda for comments and questions 
from the public. To ensure that everyone wishing to speak is provided 
time to do so, the Board encourages those who have comments to sign the 
Public Comment Register, which will be located at the sign-in table. 
Those signing up are advised that, depending on the number of people 
wishing to speak, a speaking limit may have to be set on the length of 
individual remarks. However, written comments of any length may be 
submitted for the record.
    The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board was created by Congress in 
the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987 to ealuate the 
technical and scientific validity of activities undertaken by the DOE 
in its program to manage the disposal of the nation's spent nuclear 
fuel and defense high-level waste. In that same legislation, Congress 
directed the DOE to characterize a site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for 
its suitability as a potential location for a permanent repository for 
the disposal of that waste.
    Transcripts of the meeting will be available on computer disk or on 
a library-loan basis in paper format from Davonya Barnes, Board staff, 
beginning September 6, 1995. For further information, contact Frank 
Randall, External Affairs, 1100 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 910, Arlington, 
Virginia 22209; (Tel) 703-235-4473; (Fax) 703-235-4495.

    Dated: May 24, 1995.
William Barnard,
Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
[FR Doc. 95-13127 Filed 5-26-95; 8:45 am]
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