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1 CIS H 2717
TITLE: Status of the
Department of Energy Program To Develop a Permanent Geologic Repository at
Yucca Mountain, Nevada
CIS-NO: 2001-H271-7
SOURCE: Committee on Commerce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: June 23, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+165 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01; 1019-B-01
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:106-151
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2001-8231
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-26159-1.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-151. Hearing before the Subcom on Energy and Power
to examine the status of DOE program to construct a permanent geologic
repository for spent nuclear reactor fuel and high-level nuclear waste at
Yucca Mountain, Nev.
Supplementary material (p.
97-100, 103-165) includes correspondence, witnesses' written replies to Subcom
questions, and a submitted statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage at Nev site, DOE program status review
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON
ENERGY AND POWER. HOUSE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;
NUCLEAR REGULATION; GEOLOGY; NEVADA; YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEV.
01-H271-7 TESTIMONY NO: 1 June 23, 2000 p. 8-20
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
GIBBONS,
JIM (Rep, R-Nev)
BERKLEY, SHELLEY (Rep, D-Nev)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Opposition to use of
Yucca Mountain as storage site for nuclear waste (related
articles, p. 12-14).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage at Nev site, DOE program status
review
01-H271-7 TESTIMONY NO: 2
June 23, 2000 p. 20-97, 100-105, 115-165
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
PAPERIELLO, CARL J. (Deputy Executive
Director, Materials, Research, and State Programs, NRC)
ITKIN, IVAN (Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive
Waste Management, DOE)
KNOPMAN, DEBRA S. (Director, Center
for Innovation and the Environment, Progressive Policy Institute; representing
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board)
PAGE, STEPHEN D.
(Director, Office of Radiation, EPA)
CROWLEY, KEVIN D.
(Director, National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management
(BRWM))
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Overview
of NRC regulatory oversight of DOE Yucca Mountain program;
status of DOE Yucca Mountain program; progress in DOE
Yucca Mountain program implementation; update on EPA
groundwater and other environmental protection standards for proposed
Yucca Mountain site.
Inconsistency of
certain EPA proposed draft standards for Yucca Mountain with
recommendations contained in two BRWM reports assessing Yucca
Mountain standards; elaboration on DOE Yucca Mountain
program status, including EPA proposed environmental protection standards.
INSERTION:
-- BRWM, "Comments on Proposed
Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, by
the Board on Radioactive Waste Management" Nov. 26, 1999 (p. 74-91).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage at Nev site,
DOE program status review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL BOARD ON RADIOACTIVE WASTE
MANAGEMENT; NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;
FEDERAL INTERAGENCY RELATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION; WATER SUPPLY AND USE;
NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD
LOAD-DATE: January
31, 2002 
