[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 13 (Friday, January 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3494-3495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-873]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Geologic Repository Operations Area Security and Material Control 
and Accounting Requirements; Meeting Cancellation

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Cancellation of Public Meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing this notice 
to announce cancellation of the public meeting scheduled for January 
23, 2008, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and announced in the Federal Register 
December 31, 2007 (72 FR 74352). The purpose of the meeting was to 
solicit public comments on a proposed rule on Geologic Repository 
Operations Area Security and Material Control and Accounting 
Requirements that was published for public comment (72 FR 72522; 
December 20, 2007). This meeting will not be rescheduled. NRC will 
still accept public comments on the proposed rule during the comment 
period; comments may be mailed to the NRC or submitted via fax or e-
mail.

DATES: The meeting cancelled by this notice was scheduled for January 
23, 2008 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting was to have been held in the NRC Hearing 
Facility at the Pacific Enterprise Plaza, Building One, 3250 Pepper 
Lane, Las Vegas, NV 89120.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Merri Horn, telephone (301) 415-8126, 
e-mail, [email protected] of the Office of Federal and State Materials and 
Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public meeting scheduled for January 23, 
2008, for the purpose of obtaining stakeholder comments on the Geologic 
Repository Operations Area Security and Material Control and Accounting 
Requirements Proposed Rule has been cancelled and will not be 
rescheduled. The NRC is cancelling this meeting as we are evaluating 
the implications of NRC's fiscal year 2008 appropriation from Congress 
for NRC's high-level radioactive waste program. The public may still 
submit comments on the proposed rule. The proposed rule is available 
via the Federal eRulemaking Portal http://www.regulations.gov.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of January, 2008.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dennis K. Rathbun,
Director, Division of Intergovernmental Liaison and Rulemaking, Office 
of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs.
[FR Doc. E8-873 Filed 1-17-08; 8:45 am]
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