[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 98 (Monday, May 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 27147]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12481]



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NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD


Panel Meeting on Fracture Flow and Transport in Arid Regions

    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 Hydrogeology & 
Geochemistry will hold a meeting June 26 and 27, 1995. The meeting, 
which is open to the public, will be held at the Holiday Inn Crowne 
Plaza, San Francisco Airport, 600 Airport Boulevard, Burlingame, 
California 94010; (Tel) 415-340-8500; (Fax) 415-340-0599.
    The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. and recess at 6:30 p.m. on 
Monday, June 26, it will reconvene at 8:00 a.m., on Tuesday, June 27, 
and adjourn at approximately 1:00 p.m.
    On the first day, the panel will hear presentations on waste 
isolation in arid regions; focus will be on the common features that 
the control subsurface flow and transport in this type of environment. 
On the second day, the panel will hear what critical data is needed to 
characterize and model flow and transport in fractured unsaturated 
rocks, whether these data can be obtained in a reasonable amount of 
time, and what their limitations might be. A round-table discussion 
then will explore the impact of fast flow pathways on site suitability 
issues, including computations for ground-water travel time and total 
system performance assessment.
    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 each 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 on a 
library-loan basis in paper format from Davonya Barnes, Board staff, 
beginning August 22, 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 17, 1995.
William Barnard,
Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
[FR Doc. 95-12481 Filed 5-19-95; 8:45 am]
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