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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 

Withdrawal of Staff Technical Positions Relating to a High-Level 
Waste Repository

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of draft staff technical positions now considered 
obsolete.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is announcing its 
intention to withdraw from further consideration five (listed below) 
draft staff technical positions (STPs) (currently listed in the 
``Selected NRC Products--High Level Waste Programs'').
    The staff does not intend to finalize these five draft STPs and 
therefore considers them to be obsolete. However, the staff continues 
to have a regulatory interest in these subjects and will rely on 
ongoing or future activities, as necessary, to communicate guidance in 
these areas.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:Anne Garica, Licensing Assistant, 
Repository Licensing and Quality Assurance Project Directorate, 
Division of High-Level Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop 4-
H-3, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone (301) 504-2438.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC staff is withdrawing from further 
consideration the following five draft STPs.

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                Title                                 Date              
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1. Licensing Assessment Methodology     July 1984.                      
 for HLW Geologic Repositories (Draft).                                 
2. ISTP for Nevada Nuclear Waste        September 1984.                 
 Storage Investigations (NNWSI)                                         
 (Draft).                                                               
3. Interpretation and Identification    July 1986.                      
 of the Disturbed Zone (Draft).                                         
4. Groundwater Travel Time (Draft)....  July 1986.                      
5. Guidance for Determination of        February 1988.                  
 Anticipated Processes and Events and                                   
 Unanticipated Processes and Events                                     
 (Draft).                                                               
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    Under current plans, the staff will likely cover several of the 
topics of the draft STPs in its review plan for reviewing a license 
application of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a geologic 
repository (i.e., License Application Review Plan for the Review of a 
License Application for a Geologic Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel 
and High-Level Radioactive Waste, Yucca Mountain Site, Nevada). Other 
topics of the draft STPs may be addressed by NRC rulemaking or 
implementing guidance after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) issues general standards for disposal of High-Level Waste (HLW) 
at the proposed Yucca Mountain repository site. Issuance of those EPA 
standards, expected possibly by late 1995, will trigger NRC's 
obligation to conform its technical criteria and requirements for HLW 
disposal pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102-486). 
In developing any such documents or rulemakings, the staff will take 
into consideration all relevant information including, as appropriate, 
previously received comments on the draft STPs.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of January 1994.
B.J. Youngblood,
Director, Division of High-Level Waste Management, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 94-1325 Filed 1-19-94; 8:45 am]
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