[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 5, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 1716]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-01063]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Extension of Public Comment Period, Draft Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement for Disposition of Depleted Uranium 
Oxide Conversion Product Generated from DOE's Inventory of Depleted 
Uranium Hexafluoride

AGENCY: Office of Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy.

ACTION: Extension of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: On December 28, 2018, a Federal Register Notice was issued 
that announced the availability of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 
Office of Environmental Management's Draft Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement for Disposition of Depleted Uranium Oxide Conversion 
Product Generated from DOE's Inventory of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride 
(Draft SEIS) (DOE/EIS-0359-S1; DOE/EIS-0360-S1). The Federal Register 
Notice also announced three web-based public hearings that occurred on 
January 22 to 24, 2019, to obtain public comments. DOE is extending the 
public comment period for the Draft SEIS from February 11, 2019, to 
March 4, 2019.

DATES: DOE extends the public comment period on the notice published at 
83 FR 67250 to March 4, 2019. DOE will consider all comments submitted 
or postmarked by March 4, 2019. Comments submitted to DOE concerning 
the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement prior to this 
announcement do not need to be resubmitted as a result of this 
extension of the comment period.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the Draft Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement (SEIS) may be submitted by mail or email and 
additional information is found on the Depleted Uranium Oxide SEIS 
website:
     Mail: Ms. Jaffet Ferrer-Torres, Document Manager, Office 
of Environmental Management, Department of Energy, EM-4.22, 1000 
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585.
     Email: [email protected].
     DU Oxide SEIS website: http://www.energy.gov/em/disposition-uranium-oxide-conversion-depleted-uranium-hexafluoride.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, please 
contact Ms. Jaffet Ferrer-Torres, DOE Document Manager at the addresses 
listed in ADDRESSES. For information on DOE's NEPA process, please 
contact Mr. William Ostrum, Acting NEPA Compliance Officer, Office of 
Regulatory Compliance, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence 
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585; or email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact 
Statement for Disposition of Depleted Uranium Oxide Conversion Product 
Generated from DOE's Inventory of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride 
evaluates the potential environmental impacts associated with the 
transportation to final disposition of depleted uranium oxide 
conversion product from its depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion 
facilities at the Paducah, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio, sites at 
three alternative offsite low-level radioactive waste disposal 
facilities: the DOE-owned low-level radioactive waste disposal facility 
at the Nevada National Security Site in Nye County, Nevada; the 
EnergySolutions low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in Clive, 
Utah; and the Waste Control Specialists LLC low-level radioactive waste 
disposal facility in Andrews, Texas. The public comment period has been 
extended to March 4, 2019, to respond to requests for an extension of 
the public comment period.

    Issued at Washington, DC, on January 30, 2019.
Elizabeth A. Connell,
Acting Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory 
and Policy Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2019-01063 Filed 2-4-19; 8:45 am]
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