[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 19421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9510]



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NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD


Joint Panel Meeting on Perceived Risks and Socioeconomic Impacts

    Pursuant to its authority under section 5051 of Public Law 100-203, 
the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987, the Nuclear Waste 
Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panel on the Environment & Public 
Health and Panel on Risk & Performance Analysis will hold a joint 
meeting May 23-24, 1995, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The meeting, which is 
open to the public, will be held at the St. Tropez Hotel, 455 East 
Harmon, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109; Tel (702) 369-5400; Fax (702) 369-
1150. The meeting will begin at 1:00 P.M. on Tuesday, May 23, recess at 
approximately 5:00 P.M., and continue on Wednesday, May 24, from 8:30 
A.M. to noon.
    The meeting will consist of a panel discussion by a diverse group 
of social scientists. The topic for discussion is peoples' beliefs 
about the risks associated with a potential high-level radioactive 
waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and how those beliefs might 
result in significant socioeconomic impacts. The Board is looking at 
this issue because socioeconomic impacts are addressed as part of the 
Department of Energy's site-suitability guidelines, 10 CFR 960.
    As with all the Board's meetings, time is set aside on the agenda 
for comments and questions from the public. In order to ensure that 
everyone wishing to speak is offered time to do so, the Board 
encourages those who have comments to sign the Public Comment Register 
located at the sign-in table. Written comments for the record also may 
be submitted to the Board staff at the sign-in table.
    The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board was created by Congress in 
the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987 to evaluate the 
technical and scientific validity of activities undertaken by the DOE 
in its program to manage the disposal of the nation's high-level 
radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. In that same legislation, 
Congress directed the DOE to characterize a site at Yucca Mountain, 
Nevada, for its suitability as a potential location for a permanent 
repository for the disposal of that waste.
    Transcripts of the meeting will be available on computer disk or on 
a library-loan basis in paper format from Davonya Barnes, Board staff, 
beginning July 10, 1995. 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: April 13, 1995.
William Barnard,
Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
[FR Doc. 95-9510 Filed 4-17-95; 8:45 am]
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