[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 14, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57049-57050]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-28649]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management; Site
Recommendation Consideration Process--Announcement of Supplemental
Public Comment Period
AGENCY: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice of a supplemental public comment period on supplemental
information regarding the Yucca Mountain site recommendation
consideration process.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (the Department) announces a
supplemental public comment period regarding the consideration of a
possible recommendation of the Yucca Mountain by the Secretary of
Energy. This supplemental public comment period is being offered to
afford the public an additional opportunity to comment on information
that was not available during the comment period that ended on October
19, 2001.
DATES: The 30 day comment period begins today and closes on December
14, 2001.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to Carol Hanlon, U.S.
Department of Energy, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office (M/S
#205), P.O. Box 364629, North Las Vegas, Nevada, 89036-8629.
Supplementary analyses and updated technical information, in the form
of contractor reports, are available on the Internet at www.ymp.gov or
also can be obtained by calling 1-800-967-3477.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Yucca Mountain Site
Characterization Office, (M/S #025), P.O. Box 364629, North Las Vegas,
Nevada 89036-8629, 1-800-967-3477.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Today the Department announces a 30-day
supplemental comment period regarding possible site recommendation of
Yucca Mountain as a geologic repository.
In a Federal Register Notice of October 5, 2001, (66 FR 51027), the
Secretary indicated that there would be a later public involvement
opportunity closer to the decision time on a possible Yucca Mountain
site recommendation, the scope of which would be focused exclusively on
issues that could not have been raised in the comment period which
ended on October 19, 2001. This notice announces the beginning and
closing of that opportunity for public involvement.
Since the close of the public comment period on October 19, 2001,
the Department has completed preparation of supplemental analyses
addressing, to the extent necessary, changes from the proposed to the
final regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
establishing public health and safety standards for a repository at
Yucca Mountain, 40 CFR part 197, and of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) establishing licensing regulations for
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such a repository, 10 CFR part 63. The EPA issued its final regulations
on June 13, 2001 (66 FR 32074); the NRC finalized its regulations, with
conforming changes to implement the final EPA public health and safety
standards, on November 2, 2001 (66 FR 55732). Following issuance of 10
CFR part 63, the Department finalized its regulation, 10 CFR part 963,
establishing guidelines for the Secretary to determine the suitability
of the Yucca Mountain site. Those final DOE regulations have been
promulgated in a separate part of today's Federal Register.
In addition to the supplemental analyses described above, the
Department's site characterization work has continued since publication
of the Science and Engineering Report (S&ER), and the Preliminary Site
Suitability Evaluation (PSSE). The Department has prepared a report to
reflect this updated technical and scientific information completed
since publication of the S&ER in May 2001.
The supplementary analyses and updated technical information
documents referenced above, in the form of contractor reports, are
available on the Internet at www.ymp.gov or also can be obtained by
calling 1-800-967-3477. These documents are entitled as follows:
(i) Total System Performance Assessment--Analyses for Disposal of
Commercial and DOE Waste Inventories at Yucca Mountain-Input to the
Final Environmental Impact Statement and Site Suitability Evaluation;
Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC (September 17, 2001);
(ii) TSPA Sensitivity Analyses for Final Regulations; Bechtel SAIC
Company, LLC (November 2001); and,
(iii) Technical Update Impact Letter Report; Bechtel SAIC Company,
LLC (November 2001).
Additional information on the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
program may be obtained at the Yucca Mountain web site at www.ymp.gov
or by calling 1-800-967-3477.
Issued in Washington, DC on November 8, 2001.
Lake H. Barrett,
Acting Director.
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