Availability of Staff Technical Position on Consideration of Fault Displacement Hazards in Geologic Repository Design

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Availability of Staff Technical Position on Consideration of

Fault Displacement Hazards in Geologic Repository Design

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is announcing the

availability of NUREG-1494, ``Staff Technical Position (STP) on

Consideration of Fault Displacement Hazard in Geologic Repository

Design.''

ADDRESSES: Copies of NUREG-1494, including the staff disposition of

comments, can be purchased from Superintendent of Documents, U.S.

Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 37082, Washington, DC 20013-7082.

Copies are also available from the National Technical Information

Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161. A copy of NUREG-

1494 is also available for public inspection and/or copying at the NRC

Public Document Room, 2120 L Street (Lower Level) NW., Washington, DC

20555.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anne E. Garcia, High-Level Waste and Uranium Recovery Projects Branch,

Division of Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and

Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11545 Rockville Pike, MD

20852. Telephone: (301) 415-6631.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NRC regulations for the disposal of spent

nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in a geologic repository

recognize that prohibit designing the repository against the effects of

such a potentially adverse condition. The STP recognizes the

acceptability of designing the geologic repository to take into account

the attendant effects (e.g., displacement) of faults of regulatory

concern and express the staff's views on what is needed from the U.S.

Department of Energy if it chooses to locate structures, systems, and

components important to safety or important to waste isolation in areas

that contain faults of regulatory concern.

On March 18, 1993, NRC published the ``Notice of Availability'' for

the draft STP in the Federal Register (see 58 FR 14594) and solicited

public comments. As a result, more than 25 comments were received from

four different parties. The NRC staff reviewed these comments and, as a

result, changes and clarifications were incorporated into the STP.

Staff responses to these comments are documented separately as Appendix

C to NUREG-1494.

On March 24, 1994, the NRC staff briefed the Advisory Committee on

Nuclear Waste (ACNW) on the revised STP following the end of the public

comment period. As a result, the ACNW recommended, without additional

comment, that the staff publish the STP in final form.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of July 1994.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Daniel M. Gillen,

Acting Chief, High-Level Waste and Uranium Recovery Projects Branch,

Division of Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and

Safeguards.

[FR Doc. 94-18251 Filed 7-26-94; 8:45 am]

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