[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30573-30574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-14634]
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DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD
Sunshine Act Meeting
FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: Published June 2,
1997, Docket No. 97-14387.
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF MEETING: 1:30 p.m., June 10,
1997.
Place: The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Public Hearing
Room, 625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20004.
Status: Open.
Change in the Meeting: The meeting has been rescheduled to begin at
9:00 a.m. on June 10, 1997.
Matters to be Considered: Status of the Department of Energy's
Implementation of Board Recommendation 94-1.
Contact Person for More Information: Richard A. Azzaro, Acting General
Counsel, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, 625 Indiana Avenue,
NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20004, (800) 788-4016. This is a toll-
free number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Board issued Recommendation 94-1 on May
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26, 1994 to encourage the Department of Energy to act more quickly to
place surplus nuclear materials in safe forms for interim storage. When
production of nuclear weapons ceased in the early 1990's, large
inventories of plutonium, uranium, spent nuclear fuel, and other
hazardous materials were stored in temporary arrangements awaiting
processing into weapons components or other disposition. The Board was
concerned that such materials, some of which are in unstable chemical
forms, may rupture or leak from their temporary containers, or may
cause or contribute to a fire. The Board accordingly recommended that
the Department initiate or accelerate programs to process and repackage
such materials so that they could be safely stored. The Secretary of
Energy accepted Recommendation 94-1 in full, and a mutually agreeable
Implementation Plan was issued in February 1995 and accepted by the
Board.
This Public Meeting is for the purpose of examining progress on
Recommendation 94-1 activities. Department of Energy personnel will
review the status of key current issues which endanger established
milestones affecting programs to process uranium and plutonium into
stable forms, package plutonium for interim storage, stabilize spent
fuel, and maintain the facilities needed to perform these activities
over the next several years. The largest Recommendation 94-1 programs
are at the Savannah River Site, the Hanford Site, the Rocky Flats
Environmental Technology Site, and Los Alamos National Laboratory,
although most other defense nuclear sites are affected to some degree.
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board reserves its right to
further schedule and otherwise regulate the course of this meeting, to
recess, reconvene, postpone or adjourn the meeting, and otherwise
exercise its authority under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
Dated: May 30, 1997.
John T. Conway,
Chairman.
[FR Doc. 97-14634 Filed 5-30-97; 8:45 am]
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