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Department of Energy; Yucca
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Commission.
AGENCY:
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Draft supplement to
environmental impact statements;
availability.
ACTION:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment the draft ‘‘Supplement to the
U.S. Department of Energy’s
Environmental Impact Statement for a
Geologic Repository for the Disposal of
Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level
Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain,
Nye County, Nevada,’’ NUREG–2184.
This supplements the U.S. Department
of Energy’s (DOE) 2002 Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) and its 2008
Supplemental EIS for the proposed
repository in accordance with the
findings and scope outlined in the NRC
staff’s 2008 Adoption Determination
Report (ADR) for DOE’s EISs. The scope
of this supplement is limited to the
potential environmental impacts from
the proposed repository on groundwater
and from surface discharges of
groundwater. The NRC staff plans to
hold four public meetings during the
public comment period to present an
overview of the supplement and to
accept public comments on the draft
supplement.
SUMMARY:
Submit comments on the
supplement by October 20, 2015.
Comments received after this date will
be considered if it is practical to do so,
but the NRC is able to assure
consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0051. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
OWFN–12–H08, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christine Pineda, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–6789; email: YMEIS_
Supplement@nrc.gov.
DATES:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–
0051 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0051.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. For the
convenience of the reader, instructions
about obtaining materials referenced in
this document are provided in the
‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2015–
0051 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include
identifying or contact information that
you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission.
The NRC will post all comment
submissions at https://
www.regulations.gov as well as enter the
comment submissions into ADAMS.
The NRC does not routinely edit
comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the NRC, then you should
inform those persons not to include
identifying or contact information that
they do not want to be publicly
disclosed in their comment submission.
Your request should state that the NRC
does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information
before making the comment
submissions available to the public or
entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
This supplement evaluates the
potential environmental impacts on
groundwater and impacts associated
with the discharge of any contaminated
groundwater to the ground surface due
to potential releases from a geologic
repository for spent nuclear fuel and
high-level radioactive waste at Yucca
Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. This
supplements DOE’s 2002 ‘‘Final
Environmental Impact Statement for a
Geologic Repository for the Disposal of
Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level
Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain,
Nye County, Nevada’’ and 2008 ‘‘Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement for a Geologic Repository for
the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and
High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca
Mountain, Nye County, Nevada,’’ in
accordance with the findings and scope
outlined in the NRC staff’s 2008
‘‘Adoption Determination Report for the
U.S. Department of Energy’s
Environmental Impact Statements for
the Proposed Geologic Repository at
Yucca Mountain.’’ The ADR provides
the NRC staff’s conclusion as to whether
it is practicable for the NRC to adopt
DOE’s EISs under the Nuclear Waste
Policy Act of 1982, as amended. The
NRC’s decision on adoption of the EISs
will occur after completion of the
adjudication under part 2, subpart J of
Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR).
The scope of this supplement is
limited to those areas defined in the
ADR, specifically, the potential
environmental impacts from the
proposed repository on groundwater
and from surface discharges of
groundwater. In the ADR, the NRC staff
found that the analysis in DOE’s EISs
does not provide adequate discussion of
the cumulative amounts of radiological
and nonradiological contaminants that
may enter the groundwater over time
and how these contaminants would
behave in the aquifer and surrounding
environments. This supplement
provides the information the NRC staff
identified in its ADR as necessary. The
supplement describes the affected
environment with respect to the
groundwater flow path for potential
contaminant releases from the
repository that could be transported
beyond the regulatory compliance
location through the alluvial aquifer in
Fortymile Wash and the Amargosa
Desert, and to the Furnace Creek/Middle
Basin area of Death Valley. The analysis
in this supplement considers both
radiological and nonradiological
contaminants. Using groundwater
modeling, the NRC staff finds that
contaminants from the repository would
be captured by groundwater withdrawal
along the flow path, such as the current
pumping in the Amargosa Farms area,
or would continue to Death Valley in
the absence of such pumping. Therefore,
this supplement provides a description
of the flow path from the regulatory
compliance location to Death Valley, the
locations of current groundwater
withdrawal, and locations of potential
natural discharge along the groundwater
flow path. The supplement evaluates
the potential radiological and
nonradiological environmental impacts
at these groundwater and surface
discharge locations over a one-million
year period following repository
closure, including potential impacts on
the aquifer environment, soils, ecology,
and public health, as well as the
potential for disproportionate impacts
on minority or low-income populations.
In addition, this supplement assesses
the potential for cumulative impacts
that may be associated with other past,
present, or reasonably foreseeable future
actions. The NRC staff finds that all of
the impacts on the resources evaluated
in this supplement would be SMALL.
III. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the
following table are available to
interested persons through one or more
of the following methods, as indicated.
Adams accession
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NRC Staff’s Draft ‘‘Supplement to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada,’’
NUREG–2184 ............................................................................................................................................................................
NRC Staff’s Adoption Determination Report .................................................................................................................................
NRC Federal Register notice of intent to prepare a supplement to a final supplemental environmental impact statement .....
DOE ‘‘Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear
Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada’’ ...............................................................
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IV. Public Meetings
The NRC staff will hold a public
conference call on August 26, 2015,
from 2:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Time. During this call, the NRC staff
will provide information on how to
submit comments on the draft
supplement and answer any questions
related to the public comment process.
The staff will not be accepting
comments on the draft supplement
during this call. The teleconference
number and passcode for this call will
be made available on the NRC’s public
Web site, or you may call 301–415–6789
or email YMEIS_Supplement@nrc.gov.
In addition, the NRC staff plans to
hold the following public meetings
during the public comment period to
present an overview of the supplement
and to accept public comments on the
document.
• September 3, 2015: NRC
Headquarters, One White Flint North,
First Floor Commission Hearing Room,
11555 Rockville Pike, Maryland 20852.
This meeting will start at 3:00 p.m.
Eastern Time and continue until 5:00
p.m.
• September 15, 2015: Embassy
Suites Convention Center, 3600 Paradise
Rd., Las Vegas, Nevada 89169. This
meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. Pacific
Time and continue until 9:00 p.m.
• September 17, 2015: Amargosa
Community Center, 821 E. Amargosa
Farm Road, Amargosa Valley, Nevada
89020. This meeting will start at 7:00
p.m. Pacific Time and continue until
9:00 p.m.
• October 15, 2015: Public meeting
via conference call, from 2:00 p.m.
Eastern Time until 4:00 p.m.
Additionally, at each of the meeting
locations in Nevada, the NRC staff will
host informal discussions during an
open house for one hour prior to the
meeting start time. Open houses will
begin at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
The public meetings will be
transcribed and will include: (1) A
presentation of the contents of the draft
supplement; and (2) the opportunity for
interested government agencies,
organizations, and individuals to
provide comments on the draft
supplement. No oral comments will be
accepted during the open house
sessions prior to the public meetings in
Nevada. To be considered, oral
comments must be presented during the
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transcribed portion of the public
meeting. Written comments can be
submitted to the NRC staff at any time
during the public meetings. Persons
interested in attending or presenting
oral comments at any of the public
meetings are encouraged to pre-register.
Persons may pre-register to attend or
present oral comments by calling 301–
415–6789 or by emailing YMEIS_
Supplement@nrc.gov no later than 3
days prior to the meeting. To provide
oral comments, members of the public
may also register in person at each
meeting. Individual oral comments may
be limited by the time available,
depending on the number of persons
who register. If special equipment or
accommodations are needed to attend or
present information at a public meeting,
the need should be brought to the NRC’s
attention no later than 10 days prior to
the meeting to provide the NRC staff
adequate notice to determine whether
the request can be accommodated. To
maximize public participation, the NRC
headquarters meeting on September 3,
2015, will be Web-streamed via the
NRC’s public Web site. On the meeting
date, interested persons should go to the
NRC’s Live Meeting Webcast page to
participate: https://video.nrc.gov/. The
NRC headquarters meeting will also
feature a moderated teleconference line
so remote attendees will have the
opportunity to present oral comments.
To receive the teleconference number
and passcode for the September 3
meeting or for the October 6 conference
call, call 301–415–6789 or email
YMEIS_Supplement@nrc.gov. Meeting
agendas and participation details will be
available on the NRC’s Public Meeting
Schedule Web site at https://
www.nrc.gov/publicinvolve/publicmeetings/index.cfm no later than 10
days prior to the meetings.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day
of August 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James Rubenstone,
Acting Director, Yucca Mountain Directorate,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards.
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ACTION: Notice of submission to the
Office of Management and Budget;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
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submitted a request for renewal of an
existing collection of information to the
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(OMB) for review. The information
collection is entitled, ‘‘Requests to
Agreement States for Information.’’
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21, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly
to the OMB reviewer at: Vlad Dorjets,
Desk Officer, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs (3150–0029) NEOB–
10202, Office of Management and
Budget, Washington, DC 20503;
telephone: 202–395–7315, email: oira_
submission@omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tremaine Donnell, NRC Clearance
Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001; telephone: 301–415–6258; email:
INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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Submitting Comments
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Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–
0032 when contacting the NRC about
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action by any of the following methods:
• Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0032.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
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ADAMS Public Documents collection at
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‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 63-001-HLW; NRC-2015-0051]
Department of Energy; Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft supplement to environmental impact statements;
availability.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment the draft ``Supplement to the U.S. Department of
Energy's Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for
the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at
Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada,'' NUREG-2184. This supplements the
U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) 2002 Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) and its 2008 Supplemental EIS for the proposed repository in
accordance with the findings and scope outlined in the NRC staff's 2008
Adoption Determination Report (ADR) for DOE's EISs. The scope of this
supplement is limited to the potential environmental impacts from the
proposed repository on groundwater and from surface discharges of
groundwater. The NRC staff plans to hold four public meetings during
the public comment period to present an overview of the supplement and
to accept public comments on the draft supplement.
DATES: Submit comments on the supplement by October 20, 2015. Comments
received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the NRC is able to assure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0051. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine Pineda, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6789; email:
YMEIS_Supplement@nrc.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0051 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0051.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. For
the convenience of the reader, instructions about obtaining materials
referenced in this document are provided in the ``Availability of
Documents'' section.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0051 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
This supplement evaluates the potential environmental impacts on
groundwater and impacts associated with the discharge of any
contaminated groundwater to the ground surface due to potential
releases from a geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-
level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. This
supplements DOE's 2002 ``Final Environmental Impact Statement for a
Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-
Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada'' and
2008 ``Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic
Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level
Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada,'' in
accordance with the findings and scope outlined in the NRC staff's 2008
``Adoption Determination Report for the U.S. Department of Energy's
Environmental Impact Statements for the Proposed Geologic Repository at
Yucca Mountain.'' The ADR provides the NRC staff's conclusion as to
whether it is practicable for the NRC to adopt DOE's EISs under the
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended. The NRC's decision on
adoption of the EISs will occur after completion of the adjudication
under part 2, subpart J of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR).
The scope of this supplement is limited to those areas defined in
the ADR, specifically, the potential environmental impacts from the
proposed repository on groundwater and from surface discharges of
groundwater. In the ADR, the NRC staff found that the analysis in DOE's
EISs does not provide adequate discussion of the cumulative amounts of
radiological and nonradiological contaminants that may enter the
groundwater over time and how these contaminants would behave in the
aquifer and surrounding environments. This supplement provides the
information the NRC staff identified in its ADR as necessary. The
supplement describes the affected environment with respect to the
groundwater flow path for potential contaminant releases from the
repository that could be transported beyond the regulatory compliance
location through the alluvial aquifer in Fortymile Wash and the
Amargosa Desert, and to the Furnace Creek/Middle Basin area of Death
Valley. The analysis in this supplement considers both radiological and
nonradiological contaminants. Using groundwater modeling, the NRC staff
finds that contaminants from the repository would be captured by
groundwater withdrawal along the flow path, such as the current pumping
in the Amargosa Farms area, or would continue to Death Valley in the
absence of such pumping. Therefore, this supplement provides a
description of the flow path from the regulatory compliance location to
Death Valley, the locations of current groundwater withdrawal, and
locations of potential natural discharge along the groundwater flow
path. The supplement evaluates the potential radiological and
nonradiological environmental impacts at these groundwater and surface
discharge locations over a one-million year period following repository
closure, including potential impacts on the aquifer environment, soils,
ecology, and public health, as well as the potential for
disproportionate impacts on minority or low-income populations. In
addition, this supplement assesses the potential for cumulative impacts
that may be associated with other past, present, or reasonably
foreseeable future actions. The NRC staff finds that all of the impacts
on the resources evaluated in this supplement would be SMALL.
III. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through one or more of the following methods, as
indicated.
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NRC Staff's Draft ``Supplement to the U.S. Department ML15223B243
of Energy's Environmental Impact Statement for a
Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent
Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at
Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada,'' NUREG-2184....
NRC Staff's Adoption Determination Report............ ML082420342
NRC Federal Register notice of intent to prepare a ML15058A595
supplement to a final supplemental environmental
impact statement....................................
DOE ``Final Supplemental Environmental Impact ML081750191
Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal
of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive
Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada''.......
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DOE ``Final Environmental Impact Statement for a ML032690321
Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent
Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at
Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada''................
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IV. Public Meetings
The NRC staff will hold a public conference call on August 26,
2015, from 2:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. During this call,
the NRC staff will provide information on how to submit comments on the
draft supplement and answer any questions related to the public comment
process. The staff will not be accepting comments on the draft
supplement during this call. The teleconference number and passcode for
this call will be made available on the NRC's public Web site, or you
may call 301-415-6789 or email YMEIS_Supplement@nrc.gov.
In addition, the NRC staff plans to hold the following public
meetings during the public comment period to present an overview of the
supplement and to accept public comments on the document.
September 3, 2015: NRC Headquarters, One White Flint
North, First Floor Commission Hearing Room, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Maryland 20852. This meeting will start at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time and
continue until 5:00 p.m.
September 15, 2015: Embassy Suites Convention Center, 3600
Paradise Rd., Las Vegas, Nevada 89169. This meeting will start at 7:00
p.m. Pacific Time and continue until 9:00 p.m.
September 17, 2015: Amargosa Community Center, 821 E.
Amargosa Farm Road, Amargosa Valley, Nevada 89020. This meeting will
start at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time and continue until 9:00 p.m.
October 15, 2015: Public meeting via conference call, from
2:00 p.m. Eastern Time until 4:00 p.m.
Additionally, at each of the meeting locations in Nevada, the NRC
staff will host informal discussions during an open house for one hour
prior to the meeting start time. Open houses will begin at 6:00 p.m.
Pacific Time.
The public meetings will be transcribed and will include: (1) A
presentation of the contents of the draft supplement; and (2) the
opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, and
individuals to provide comments on the draft supplement. No oral
comments will be accepted during the open house sessions prior to the
public meetings in Nevada. To be considered, oral comments must be
presented during the transcribed portion of the public meeting. Written
comments can be submitted to the NRC staff at any time during the
public meetings. Persons interested in attending or presenting oral
comments at any of the public meetings are encouraged to pre-register.
Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments by calling
301-415-6789 or by emailing YMEIS_Supplement@nrc.gov no later than 3
days prior to the meeting. To provide oral comments, members of the
public may also register in person at each meeting. Individual oral
comments may be limited by the time available, depending on the number
of persons who register. If special equipment or accommodations are
needed to attend or present information at a public meeting, the need
should be brought to the NRC's attention no later than 10 days prior to
the meeting to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine
whether the request can be accommodated. To maximize public
participation, the NRC headquarters meeting on September 3, 2015, will
be Web-streamed via the NRC's public Web site. On the meeting date,
interested persons should go to the NRC's Live Meeting Webcast page to
participate: https://video.nrc.gov/. The NRC headquarters meeting will
also feature a moderated teleconference line so remote attendees will
have the opportunity to present oral comments. To receive the
teleconference number and passcode for the September 3 meeting or for
the October 6 conference call, call 301-415-6789 or email
YMEIS_Supplement@nrc.gov. Meeting agendas and participation details
will be available on the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web site at
https://www.nrc.gov/publicinvolve/public-meetings/index.cfm no later
than 10 days prior to the meetings.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of August 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James Rubenstone,
Acting Director, Yucca Mountain Directorate, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-20638 Filed 8-20-15; 8:45 am]
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