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Yucca Mountain Project Public Hearings (1989)

AuteurUS DOE
Datummaart 1989
Classificatie 3.01.4.22/01 (VS - AFVAL - YUCCA MOUNTAIN)
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Uit de publicatie:

RESPONSES TO AMARGOSA VALLEY PUBLIC HEARING COMMENTS

MR. GERTZ: Good afternoon and welcome. My name is earl Gertz, and I am 
manager of the Yucca Mountain project office. I will be the Department of Energy’s 
presiding official for today's hearing on the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization 
Plan which describes the U.S. Department of Energy's plans for characterizing 
Yucca Mountain, Nevada to determine its suitability for a nuclear waste repository.

For the record, this hearing is convened at approximately 2:00 p.m. in the Amargosa 
Valley Community Center in the town of Amargosa Valley, Nevada. The hearing 
was noticed in the Federal Register on Friday, December 30th, as well as being 
advertised widely in local newspapers. In addition, notices were sent to our public 
mailing lists, and the news media were notified.

We are here today to receive your comments on the Site Characterization Plan. 
The Department of Energy has prepared this document as a plan to guide detailed 
scientific studies which will be conducted at Yucca Mountain during the next five 
to seven years.

The SCP is a living document; it will be updated and modified as more is learned 
about the geologic, hydrologic and climatological conditions at the site. These 
changes will be compiled into SCP Progress Reports which will be issued 
semiannually to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, State of Nevada, and to 
the public. The first SCP Progress Report is due to be published this summer.

In addition to the comments that you make this afternoon and tonight, written 
comments on DOE's site characterization plans may be made at any time during 
the site characterization process, which is expected to last the next five to seven 
years. These comments may be sent to the Yucca Mountain Project Office, U.S. 
Department of Energy, Post Office Box 98518, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89193-8518.

Both oral and written comments will receive the same consideration. At about 
the same time the SCP Progress Reports are issued, DOE will issue comment 
response packages. These will contain responses to the comments on the SCP that 
you make this afternoon and tonight, and any written SCP comments that are 
submitted. This includes comments made by the public, by the State of Nevada, 
by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other interested parties.

Originally, April 15th was the deadline set for the close of the initial SCP comment 
period. At the request of Governor Miller, that deadline has now been extended to 
June 1st. Let me emphasize, however, that comments on DOE's site characterization 
studies or activities received after June 1st will be considered by DOE and receive 
responses at a later date.

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