[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 174 (Friday, September 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55196-55197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-22187]


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DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD


Sunshine Act Meetings

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: 77 FR 48970, August 
15, 2012.

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF MEETING AND HEARING: Session I: 1 
p.m.-5 p.m., October 2, 2012; Session II: 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m., October 2, 
2012.

CHANGES TO OPEN MEETING AND HEARING: The Defense Nuclear Facilities 
Safety Board (Board) published a notice in the Federal Register of 
August 15, 2012, (77 FR 48970), concerning a two-session public meeting 
and hearing on October 2, 2012, at the Knoxville Convention Center, 701 
Henley Street, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902. The Board changes that 
notice as follows: (1) The Board is postponing the hearing session 
concerning nuclear operations at existing Y-12 defense nuclear 
facilities, the effectiveness of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration's oversight for these activities, and the status of 
site-wide emergency preparedness. That session will be rescheduled as a 
separate open meeting and hearing at a time and place to be determined 
at a later date; (2) The Board will now limit the meeting and hearing 
to receive testimony regarding factors that could affect the timely 
execution and safety of the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) project. 
These factors include the Department of Energy (DOE) project team's 
strategy for identifying and resolving safety issues in a timely 
manner, the potential safety impacts of DOE's decision to accelerate 
the acquisition of select processing capabilities and defer others to a 
later date, and the potential for weaknesses in technology development 
to impact safety; (3) The Board is convening the meeting and hearing 
concerning the UPF project from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. There will be no evening 
Session. The date and place of the meeting and hearing remains 
unchanged. The public hearing portion of this proceeding is authorized 
by 42 U.S.C. 2286b.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Debra Richardson, Deputy General 
Manager, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, 625 Indiana Avenue 
NW.,

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Suite 700, Washington, DC 20004-2901, (800) 788-4016. This is a toll-
free number.

    Dated: September 4, 2012.
Peter S. Winokur,
Chairman.
[FR Doc. 2012-22187 Filed 9-5-12; 4:15 pm]
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