Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management; Waste Acceptance Issues

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management; Waste Acceptance

Issues

AGENCY: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of

Energy.

ACTION: Notice reopening comment period.

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SUMMARY: On Wednesday, May 25, 1994, the Department of Energy published

a Notice of Inquiry to elicit the views of affected parties on: (1) The

Department's preliminary view that it does not have a statutory

obligation to accept spent nuclear fuel in 1998 in the absence of an

operational repository or a suitable storage facility constructed under

the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended; (2) the need for an

interim, away-from-reactor storage facility prior to repository

operations; and (3) options for offsetting, through the use of the

Nuclear Waste Fund, a portion of the financial burden that may be

incurred by utilities in continuing to store spent nuclear fuel at

reactor sites beyond 1998 (59 FR 27007). The comment period for this

Notice of Inquiry closed on September 22, 1994.

Today's notice announces a reopening of the comment period on the

waste acceptance issues addressed in the Notice of Inquiry. The

Department is taking this action in response to a request for an

extension of the comment period received from Nuclear Information and

Resource Service, Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy Project, Prairie

Island Coalition Against Nuclear Storage, Safe Energy Communication

Council, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and Water Information

Network.

DATES: Written submission are due on or before December 19, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to Mr. Alan Brownstein,

Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (RW-44), U.S.

Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC

20585.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Alan Brownstein at the address above, or by telephone at (202) 586-

7346 or Mr. Robert Waxman of the Office of General Counsel at (202)

586-6975.

Issued in Washington, DC, October 13, 1994.

Lake H. Barrett,

Deputy Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.

[FR Doc. 94-25749 Filed 10-17-94; 8:45 am]

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