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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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