[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 91 (Thursday, May 11, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 25255]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-11594]



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NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD


Panel Meeting on System Safety, Human Factors, and Transportation 
Issues

    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 Transportation & Systems 
will hold a meeting June 14, 1995, in Arlington, Virginia. The meeting, 
which is open to the public, will be held at the Holiday Inn Arlington 
at Ballston (near the Ballston Metro stop on the Orange Line), 4610 
North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203; Tel (703) 243-9800; Fax 
(703) 527-2677.
    The one-day meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. The agenda includes 
discussion of the application of system safety and human factors 
engineering to the Department of Energy's (DOE) civilian radioactive 
waste management program. For example, the Department of Energy (DOE) 
will present a safety analysis of tunnel boring machine operations at 
Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The agenda also includes a review of progress 
in the multipurpose canister (MPC) development effort and updates on 
parts of the DOE's transportation program, including developments in 
truck cask certification.
    As with all the Board's meetings, time will be set aside on the 
agenda for comments and questions from the public. 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 
which will be located at the sign-in table on the day of the meeting. 
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 August 9, 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: May 5, 1995.
William Barnard,
Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
[FR Doc. 95-11594 Filed 5-10-95; 8:45 am]
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