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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

 

Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management; Waste Acceptance 
Issues

AGENCY: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of 
Energy.

ACTION: Notice reopening comment period.

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SUMMARY: On Wednesday, May 25, 1994, the Department of Energy published 
a Notice of Inquiry to elicit the views of affected parties on: (1) The 
Department's preliminary view that it does not have a statutory 
obligation to accept spent nuclear fuel in 1998 in the absence of an 
operational repository or a suitable storage facility constructed under 
the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended; (2) the need for an 
interim, away-from-reactor storage facility prior to repository 
operations; and (3) options for offsetting, through the use of the 
Nuclear Waste Fund, a portion of the financial burden that may be 
incurred by utilities in continuing to store spent nuclear fuel at 
reactor sites beyond 1998 (59 FR 27007). The comment period for this 
Notice of Inquiry closed on September 22, 1994.
    Today's notice announces a reopening of the comment period on the 
waste acceptance issues addressed in the Notice of Inquiry. The 
Department is taking this action in response to a request for an 
extension of the comment period received from Nuclear Information and 
Resource Service, Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy Project, Prairie 
Island Coalition Against Nuclear Storage, Safe Energy Communication 
Council, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and Water Information 
Network.

DATES: Written submission are due on or before December 19, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to Mr. Alan Brownstein, 
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (RW-44), U.S. 
Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 
20585.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. Alan Brownstein at the address above, or by telephone at (202) 586-
7346 or Mr. Robert Waxman of the Office of General Counsel at (202) 
586-6975.

    Issued in Washington, DC, October 13, 1994.
Lake H. Barrett,
Deputy Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.
[FR Doc. 94-25749 Filed 10-17-94; 8:45 am]
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