[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 105 (Monday, June 2, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 29721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-14387]


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DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD


Sunshine Act Meeting

    Pursuant to the provision of the ``Government in the Sunshine Act'' 
(5 U.S.C. Sec. 552b), notice is hereby given of the Defense Nuclear 
Facilities Safety Board's (Board) meeting described below.

time and date of meeting: 1:30 p.m., June 10, 1997.

place: The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Public Hearing 
Room, 625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20004.

status: Open.

matters to be considered: Status of the Department of Energy's 
Implementation of Board Recommendation 94-1.

contact person for more information: Richard A. Azzaro, Acting General 
Counsel, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, 625 Indiana Avenue, 
NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20004, (800) 788-4016.

supplementary information: The Board issued Recommendation 94-1 on May 
26, 1994 to encourage the Department of Energy to act more quickly to 
place surplus nuclear materials in safe forms for interim storage. When 
production of nuclear weapons ceased in the early 1990's, large 
inventories of plutonium uranium, spent nuclear fuel, and other 
hazardous materials were stored in temporary arrangements awaiting 
processing into weapons components or other disposition. The Board was 
concerned that such materials, some of which are in unstable chemical 
forms, may rupture or leak from their temporary containers, or may 
cause or contribute to a fire. The Board accordingly recommend that the 
Department initiate or accelerate programs to process and repackage 
such materials so that they could be safely stored. The Secretary of 
Energy accepted Recommendation 94-1 in full, and a mutually agreeable 
Implementation Plan was issued in February 1995 and accepted by the 
Board.
    This Public Meeting is for the purpose of examining progress on 
Recommendation 94-1 activities. Department of Energy personnel will 
review the status of key current issues which endanger established 
milestones affecting programs to process uranium and plutonium into 
stable storage forms, package plutonium for interim storage, stabilize 
spent fuel, and maintain the facilities needed to perform these 
activities over the next several years. The largest Recommendation 94-1 
programs are at the Savannah River Site, the Hanford Site, the Rocky 
Flats Environmental Technology Site, and Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, although more other defense nuclear sites are affected to 
some degree.
    The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board reserves its right to 
further schedule and otherwise regulate the course of this meeting, to 
recess, reconvene, postpone or adjourn the meeting, and otherwise 
exercise its authority under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

    Dated: May 28, 1997.
John T. Conway,
Chairman.
[FR Doc. 97-14387 Filed 5-29-97; 10:34 am]
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