[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 87 (Friday, May 6, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-10970]
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NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD
Panel on Structural Geology and Geoengineering: Update on the
Status of the ESF
Pursuant to its authority under section 5051 of Public Law 100-230,
the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987, the Nuclear Waste
Technical Review Board's Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering
will hold a meeting on Monday, June 13 and Tuesday, June 14, 1994, in
Las Vegas, Nevada. The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn Crowne
Plaza, 4255 South Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109; tel (702) 369-
4400, fax (702) 369-3770. The meeting, which is open to the public,
will run from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, June 13; then continue on
Tuesday, June 14 at 8 a.m. The meeting on Tuesday should end around
noon.
During the meeting, panel members will hear presentations from the
Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors on improving the
efficiency of underground exploration and construction of the
exploratory studies facility (ESF). Efforts are under way to identify
potential ways to reduce costs and shorten the excavation schedule by
simplifying the design of the underground facility. Additional topics
that will be addressed at the meeting include how the administration's
new funding proposal for the high-level waste management program
(Scenario A) will affect site-suitability issues; how to use the tunnel
boring machine most efficiently during excavation of the five-mile,
portal-to-portal main loop; how thermal loading issues could affect
repository design; and how the proposed plan for 100-year
retrievability, including in Scenario A, could affect the design of the
repository.
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board was created in the 1987
amendments act to evaluate the technical and scientific activities in
the DOE's civilian radioactive waste management program, including site
characterization, storage, and transport. A site at Yucca Mountain,
Nevada, currently is being characterized by the DOE for its suitability
as the possible location of a permanent repository for civilian spent
fuel and defense high-level waste.
Transcripts of the meeting will be available on computer disk or on
a library-loan basis in paper format from Victoria Reich, Board
librarian, beginning July 26, 1994. For further information, contact
Frank Randall, External Affairs, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board,
1100 Wilson Boulevard, suite 910, Arlington, Virginia 22209; (703) 235-
4473.
Dated: May 3, 1994.
William Barnard,
Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
[FR Doc. 94-10970 Filed 5-5-94; 8:45 am]
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