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Welcome
to the CSG Midwestern Radioactive Materials
Transportation Committee Update.
Below are links and summaries of several
important happenings from the last few weeks. Please
don't hesitate to contact Lisa (920/458-5910) with any
questions or for more information about any of these
issues. |
 Spring
Meeting Countdown
All the plans are set for next week's
meeting of the Midwestern Radioactive Materials
Transportation Committee in Indianapolis.
Committee members from nine states will be in
attendance, along with a number of speakers and staff
from the regional groups. With program briefings
from three DOE offices and the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, coupled with special presentations from the
Nuclear Energy Institute and EnergySolutions, the agenda
for the meeting is sure to be full of "take-aways" for
the state attendees. Briefing materials went out
by mail last Friday (June 6) to all meeting
registrants. Since there won't be any spare copies
available on-site, all attendees are asked to treat
their briefing packet just like they would their
American Express card: don't leave home without
it.
If anyone has any questions about the
meeting, please call Lisa at
920/458-5910.
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 Better LA-ter than
Never
As
featured in a committee newsflash on June 3, DOE's
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM)
finally made good on a promise to submit a license
application (aka "LA") for building the
repository. Actually, OCRWM did better than
expected by getting the LA in almost four weeks earlier
than planned, albeit much later than anticipated decades
ago when OCRWM started down this path. This
particular ball is now bouncing around on the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission's (NRC) court, where it is
expected to stay for three or four years before the NRC
lobs it back to OCRWM either in the form of a license to
construct the repository or ... not.
Hoping to save the NRC a whole lot of time, the
state of Nevada has already filed a petition to the NRC
to reject the application on the grounds that it is
"unauthorized and substantially incomplete." No
reaction yet from the NRC regarding the state's
contentions.
For DOE's press
release, click here.
For the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission's press release, click here.
For a press release from
Nevada's Congressional delegation, click here.
For Nevada's petition to the
NRC, click here.
And for the Nuclear Energy
Institute's press release, click here. |
 TEC
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As reported
previously (April
1), DOE's Transportation External Coordination
Working Group (TEC/WG) may soon undergo a significant
transformation. Overwhelming feedback from the
winter meeting in February revealed that most
participants feel the TEC has enormous potential that
isn't being tapped. In response, DOE has proposed
a restructuring of the TEC topic groups, which are the
issue-specific work horses of the TEC. DOE has
also proposed reestablishing a planning committee to
assist in planning future TEC meetings.
The
regional staff have evaluated DOE's proposals and have
prepared some preliminary feedback, which the regional
committees are now reviewing. The Midwestern
states will discuss these TEC "future directions and
priorities" at the upcoming meeting in
Indianapolis. Following the meeting, the regional
staff will consolidate all the state feedback and pass
the regions' recommendations on to DOE.
The
marked-up TEC documents are in the briefing packets for
the meeting. For those who aren't attending the
meeting or who just want a sneak peek, call Lisa and
she'll send you a
copy.
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Thanks for
reading! Next week's meeting will
cause a one-week delay in getting the next edition of
this newsletter out. Look for the next issue in
three weeks.
Sincerely,
Lisa
Janairo
The Midwestern Radioactive Materials
Transportation Project is supported by cooperative
agreements with the U.S. Department of Energy
(#DE-FC30-07CC00031 and DE-FC28-04RW12282). Any
opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations
expressed in this newsletter, however, are those of the
author and do not necessarily reflect the views of
DOE. | | |
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