DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Intent To Establish the Environmental Management Site Specific

Advisory Board

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of intent to establish.

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Pursuant to section 14(a)(2)(A) of the Federal Advisory Committee

Act (Pub. L. 92-463), and in accordance with title 41 of the Code of

Federal Regulations, Sec. 101-6.1015(a), and following consultation

with the Committee Management Secretariat, General Services

Administration, notice is hereby given that the Environmental

Management Site Specific Advisory Board has been established for a two-

year period.

The purpose of the Board is to provide the Assistant Secretary for

Environmental Restoration and Waste Management with advice and

recommendations on environmental management projects and issues such as

risk management, economic development, future land use, and budget

prioritization activities, from the perspectives of affected groups and

State and local Governments. Board membership shall reflect the full

diversity of views in the affected community and region and be composed

primarily of people who are directly affected by site clean-up

activities. Members may include, but will not be limited to, interested

stakeholders from local governments, Indian Tribes, environmental and

civic groups, labor organizations, universities, waste management and

environmental restoration firms, and other interested parties.

Representatives from DOE, the Environmental Protection Agency and state

governments shall be ex-officio members of the board. Selection and

appointment of group members shall be accomplished using procedures

designed to ensure a diverse board membership and a balance of

viewpoints. Consensus recommendations to the Department of Energy from

the Board on pragmatic nationwide resolution of numerous difficult

issues will help achieve the Department's objective of an integrated

environmental restoration program.

Additionally, the establishment of the Site Specific Advisory board

has been determined to be compelled by considerations of health and

safety, essential to the conduct of Department of Energy business, and

to be in the public interest in connection with the performance of

duties imposed on the Department of Energy by law and agreement. The

Board will operate in accordance with the provisions of the Federal

Advisory Committee Act, the Department of Energy Organization Act (Pub.

L. 95-91), and rules and regulations issued in implementation of those

Acts.

Further information regarding this advisory board may be obtained

from Rachel Murphy Samuel at (202) 586-3279.

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 18, 1994.

Marcia L. Morris,

Deputy Advisory Committee, Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 94-12538 Filed 5-20-94; 8:45 am]

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