[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3012-3013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-894]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Availability: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste
Management; National Transportation Plan, Revision 0
AGENCY: Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Civilian
Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) is making available its National
Transportation Plan, Revision 0 (DOE/RW-0603, January 2009) for public
review and comment. The National Transportation Plan outlines OCRWM's
current strategy and planning for developing and implementing the
transportation system that will be required to transport spent nuclear
fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) from where the
material is generated or stored to the proposed repository at Yucca
Mountain, Nevada. OCRWM does not expect actual shipments to begin
before 2020, but has started the transportation planning process well
in advance to ensure the concerns and input of State, Tribal and local
officials, as well as other involved and interested parties, are taken
into account. OCRWM's National Transportation Plan will be updated as
appropriate to accommodate changes to the waste management system,
reflect progress in the development and implementation of the
transportation system, and incorporate stakeholder and public comments.
OCRWM also anticipates that detailed implementation plans will be
developed in collaboration with the stakeholder community.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
April 30, 2009.
ADDRESSES: The document is being made available on the OCRWM Web site
at http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov. Persons wishing to receive a print copy
via regular mail should contact: Mr. Frank Moussa, U.S. Department of
Energy, OCRWM Office of Logistics Management, 1000 Independence Avenue,
SW., Washington, DC 20585-0001. Written comments should be submitted
electronically via the Web at http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov, or by regular
mail to Mr. Frank Moussa at the address identified above.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as
amended (NWPA) establishes a process for the siting, construction and
operation of one or more national repositories for permanent disposal
of the Nation's SNF and HLW. Pursuant to the NWPA, Yucca Mountain has
been designated as the site for the Nation's first SNF and HLW
repository, and DOE has submitted an application to the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) for approval to construct the repository.
As part of its obligations under the NWPA, DOE is also responsible for
developing and implementing a system to transport SNF and HLW to the
Yucca Mountain repository.
OCRWM's National Transportation Plan, Revision 0 describes the
elements of the national transportation system that OCRWM is
developing, the phases of that development effort, and how OCRWM will
collaborate with stakeholders in the development and implementation of
that system. This Plan describes the transportation system that will be
needed when the repository is operating at full capacity. The
transportation system will be developed in stages that are consistent
with waste acceptance schedules and the start-up and subsequent
operation of the repository. The transportation infrastructure will
continue to expand until full operating capability is achieved. The
development and operations of the OCRWM transportation system will
build on many decades of safe and secure transportation of SNF in the
United States and abroad.
This Plan will be updated as appropriate to reflect progress in the
development and implementation of the transportation system,
accommodate changes to the waste management system, and incorporate
stakeholder and public comments. OCRWM also anticipates that detailed
implementation plans will be developed in the future in collaboration
with the stakeholder community.
Issued in Washington, DC, on January 12, 2009.
Edward F. Sproat III,
Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, U.S.
Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. E9-894 Filed 1-15-09; 8:45 am]
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