[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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