98-27489. Availability of Staff Recommendations to the Commission: Draft Regulations for Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes at a Proposed Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 198 (Wednesday, October 14, 1998)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 55056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27489]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

10 CFR Part 63


Availability of Staff Recommendations to the Commission: Draft 
Regulations for Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes at a Proposed 
Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Availability of staff recommendations for draft regulations.

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SUMMARY: The NRC is making available NRC staff recommendations for 
draft regulations governing disposal of high-level radioactive wastes 
at a proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The 
Commission is presently reviewing these staff recommendations, and has 
not yet approved publication of the recommended draft regulations as a 
proposed rule. The Commission is making the staff recommendations 
available now to enable all stakeholders to have preliminary access to 
the document. When the Commission has approved a proposed rule, it will 
be published in the Federal Register for formal public comment.

ADDRESSES: A copy of the staff recommendations can be obtained 
electronically at the NRC Technical Conference Forum Website under the 
topic ``Draft Proposed Rule for Disposal of High-Level Radioactive 
Wastes at a Proposed Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada'' at 
http://techconf.linl.gov/cgi-bin/topics or from the NRC's Public 
Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW. (Lower Level), Washington, DC 20555; 
telephone [phone]; fax [phone]. To view the working paper at 
the Website, select ``Draft Proposed Rule for Disposal of High-Level 
Radioactive Waste at a Proposed Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, 
Nevada.''
    Comments may be posted electronically on the NRC Technical 
Conference Forum Website mentioned above. Comments submitted 
electronically can also be viewed at that Website. Comments may also be 
mailed to the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Clark Prichard, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone [phone]; e.mail 
[e-mail].; or Timothy McCartin, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone [phone]; e-mail [e-mail].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 6th day of October, 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Frederick C. Combs,
Acting Director, Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety, 
NMSS.
[FR Doc. 98-27489 Filed 10-13-98; 8:45 am]
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