[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 181 (Friday, September 18, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56501-56502]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-23510]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 63-001-HLW; NRC-2015-0051]


Department of Energy; Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada; 
Correction

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft supplement to environmental impact statements; extension 
of comment period, public meeting, and correction.

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SUMMARY: On August 21, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) requested public comment on NUREG-2184, the NRC staff's draft 
``Supplement to the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Impact 
Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear 
Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, 
Nevada'' (draft supplement). The public comment period was originally 
scheduled to close on October 20, 2015. The NRC staff has decided to 
extend the public comment period to allow more time for members of the 
public to develop and submit their comments. The NRC is also correcting 
its August 21, 2015, notice to correct a meeting date and Web site 
link.

DATES: The due date for comments on the draft supplement is extended. 
Comments should be filed no later than November 20, 2015. Comments 
received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do 
so, but the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for 
comments received on or before this date.
    The correction is effective September 18, 2015.
    The NRC will hold a public meeting via teleconference to accept 
comments on the draft supplement on November 12, 2015, in addition to 
the teleconference being held on October 15, 2015. For additional 
information about this public meeting, see Section III, ``Public 
Meetings,'' of this document.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0051. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
    For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine Pineda, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6789; email: 
YMEIS[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0051 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain 
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0051.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, 
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

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B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0051 in your comment submission.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove 
identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to 
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should 
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

A. Comment Period Extension

    On August 21, 2015 (80 FR 50875), the NRC requested public comments 
on NUREG-2184, the NRC staff's draft ``Supplement to the U.S. 
Department of Energy's Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic 
Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level 
Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada'' (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML15223B243). The supplement evaluates the potential 
environmental impacts on groundwater and impacts associated with the 
discharge of any contaminated groundwater to the ground surface due to 
potential releases from a geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel 
and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. 
This supplements the U.S. Department of Energy's 2002 ``Final 
Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the 
Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at 
Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML032690321), 
and 2008 ``Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for a 
Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-
Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada'' (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML081750191), in accordance with the findings and scope 
outlined in the NRC staff's 2008 ``Adoption Determination Report for 
the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Impact Statements for the 
Proposed Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain'' (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML082420342). The public comment period was originally scheduled to 
close on October 20, 2015. The NRC received requests to extend the 
public comment period (e.g., ADAMS Accession Nos. ML15253A864 and 
ML15253A874) and the NRC staff has decided to extend the public comment 
period on the draft supplement until November 20, 2015, to allow more 
time for members of the public to develop and submit their comments.

B. Corrections

    In the Federal Register on August 21, 2015, in FR Doc. 2015-20638, 
on page 50877, at the bottom of the second column, in the last two 
sentences of the notice, which (1) discuss how to obtain telephone 
numbers to participate in conference calls, and (2) provide the Web 
site link to obtain public meeting document information, correct ``To 
receive the teleconference number and passcode for the September 3 
meeting or for the October 6 conference call, call 301-415-6789 or 
email YMEIS[email protected]. Meeting agendas and participation 
details will be available on the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web site 
at http://www.nrc.gov/publicinvolve/publicmeetings/index.cfm no later 
than 10 days prior to the meetings'' to read ``To receive the 
teleconference number and passcode for the September 3 meeting or for 
the October 15 conference call, call 301-415-6789 or email 
YMEIS[email protected]. Meeting agendas and participation details 
will be available on the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web site at 
http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg no later than 10 days prior to the 
meetings.''

III. Public Meetings

    In addition to the public meetings announced previously, the NRC 
staff will hold another public meeting via teleconference to accept 
comments on the draft supplement on November 12, 2015, from 2:00 p.m. 
until 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The telephone number for this 
teleconference is 888-790-2936 and the passcode is 1715992. The same 
number and passcode should be used for the October 15, 2015, 
teleconference that was previously announced (see meeting information 
at http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg).
    This public teleconference will be transcribed. Persons interested 
in attending or presenting oral comments during this teleconference are 
encouraged to pre-register. Persons may pre-register to attend or 
present oral comments by calling 301-415-6789 or by emailing 
YMEIS[email protected] no later than 3 days prior to the meeting. 
Individual oral comments may be limited by the time available, 
depending on the number of persons who register. If special equipment 
or accommodations are needed to attend or present information at a 
public meeting, the need should be brought to the NRC's attention no 
later than 10 days prior to the meeting to provide the NRC staff 
adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated. 
The teleconference agenda and participation details will be available 
on the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web site at http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg no later than 10 days prior to the meeting.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of September 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christine Pineda,
Senior Project Manager, Yucca Mountain Directorate, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-23510 Filed 9-17-15; 8:45 am]
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