[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 187 (Wednesday, September 28, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-23947]


[Federal Register: September 28, 1994]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste Working Group Meeting on 
Groundwater Dating; Meeting

    The ACNW Working Group on Groundwater Dating will hold a meeting on 
October 21, 1994, at the Hotel San Remo, 115 E. Tropicana Avenue, Las 
Vegas, Nevada.
    The entire meeting will be open to public attendance.
    The agenda for the subject meeting shall be as follows:

    Friday, October 21, 1994-8:30 a.m. until the conclusion of 
business
    The purpose of this Working Group meeting on groundwater dating 
is to examine current methods for dating natural groundwater, 
including their underlying assumptions, reliabilities, limitations 
and time scales for application. The Working Group will also assess 
new or emerging methods that may be applicable to the Yucca Mountain 
site; and review current results of dating methods used at Yucca 
Mountain to discern patterns and rates of groundwater flow. In 
addition, the Working Group will compare those results for 
consistency, and review the implications of these results to 
groundwater travel time requirements. The Working Group will bring 
together experts dealing with different aspects of groundwater 
dating including those working on aspects of groundwater issues at 
Yucca Mountain.
    Oral statements may be presented by members of the public with 
the concurrence of the ACNW Working Group Chairman; written 
statements will be accepted and made available to the Working Group. 
Electronic recordings will be permitted only during those portions 
of the meeting that are open to the public, and questions may be 
asked only by members of the Working Group, its consultants, and 
staff. Persons desiring to make oral statements should notify the 
ACNW staff member named below five days prior to the meeting, if 
possible, so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
    During the initial portion of the meeting, the ACNW Working 
Group, along with any of its consultants who may be present, may 
exchange preliminary views regarding matters to be considered during 
the balance of the meeting.
    The ACNW Working Group will then hear presentations by and hold 
discussions with representatives of the NRC staff and their 
consultants, national laboratories, State officials, and other 
interested parties, as appropriate.
    Further information regarding the agenda for this meeting, 
whether the meeting has been cancelled or rescheduled, the 
Chairman's ruling on requests for the opportunity to present oral 
statements and the time allotted therefor can be obtained by a 
prepaid telephone call to the cognizant ACNW staff member, Ms. Lynn 
Deering (telephone 301/415-6887) between 8:15 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. 
(EST). Persons planning to attend this meeting are urged to contact 
the above named individual five days before the scheduled meeting to 
be advised of any changes in schedule, etc., that may have occurred.

    Dated: September 20, 1994.
R.K. Major,
Chief, Nuclear Waste Branch.
[FR Doc. 94-23947 Filed 9-27-94; 8:45 am]
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