ACTION ALERT
The comment period for the DOE's Proposed Changes to the Yucca Mountain Siting Guidelines has been officially extended to MARCH 20, 2000. Although this short time period is an unacceptable remedy for a DOE mistake (they put the wrong address in the original Federal Register Notice), it does give us more time to get comments in.
The DOE has only received 35 sets of comments so far on the 10 CFR 963 proposed rule. Please take some time to send in yours today.
More information about the rule can be found at:
http://www.ymp.gov/timeline/site/10cfr963.htm
including a list of comments already received, the actual proposed rule, and the Federal Register Notice. You can also submit comments via email at this site.
If you want to mail your comments, the correct address is:
Dr. William J. Boyle or Dr. Jane Summerson,
U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management,
Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office,
P.O. Box 30307
North Las Vegas, Nevada 89036-0307
Here is a brief summary of the issue:
The proposed rule basically eliminates "individual disqualifiers" from the Yucca Mountain Siting Guidelines. This means that there is no specific thing which would cause the DOE to say that Yucca Mountain is not suitable as a repository. This elimination of individual disqualifiers violates the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which calls for specific "factors that qualify or disqualify any site from development as a repository, including factors pertaining to the location of valuable natural resources, hydrology, geophysics, seismic activity, *" This proposal is simply an attempt by DOE to change the rules so that they can make Yucca Mountain suitable no matter what.
You can view Public Citizen's comments on 10 CFR 963 at www.citizen.org/cmep (click on Nuclear Waste).
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