Agenda  
Meeting of the High-Level Waste Committee 
of the Western Interstate Energy Board

The Westin Horton Plaza Hotel

3rd Floor Harbor Room

San Diego, California

January 29-30, 2004

 

casual attire (no ties)

 
 

 

                                                     Thursday, January 29

7:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. States only meeting
WIEB-OCRWM cooperative agreement
     >>Doug Larson (WIEB)
Selection of Committee co-chairs
Report on meeting with DOE Under Secretary Card and OCRWM Director Chu
     >>Ken Niles (OR)
     Follow-up letter to Card from four regional groups
Western governors' policies
     03-16 Private Storage of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel
     02-05 Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste
     04-02 Assessing the Risks of Terrorism and Sabotage Against High-Level Nuclear
                Waste Shipments to a Geologic Repository or Interim Storage Facility 
Framework for HLW Committee's work
     Proposed baseline plan (print .xls file)
     Draft "What if" scenarios
     Route Selection Paper and Draft Recommendation - (3/88)
     Discussion
Identification of current issues of potential interest to the committee (e.g. OCRWM Strategic Plan, TEC rail routing selection paper, any DOE rail record of decision (ROD), NRC package review)
5:00 p.m. Recess
   

                                                     Friday, January 30

8:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. Committee Meeting

Status of repository and Nevada transportation system

     Jozette Booth, OCRWM [pdf presentation] 1.63MB
     Bob Halstead, Nevada [pdf presentation] 1.68 MB
9:30 a.m. NWPA Transportation Program
     Gary Lanthrum, OCRWM [pdf presentation] 3.46 MB
Discussion of HLW Committee priorities [pdf presentation]
OCRWM Transportation Program
     Strategic Plan for the Safe Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste to Yucca Mountain:  A Guide to Stakeholder Interactions

     Excerpt of Testimony by Dr. Chu

     Excerpt of Testimony by Sec. of Energy Spencer Abraham
Background Information
     Nevada presentation to the NWTRB Transportation Committee on January 21, 2004
     Nevada’s comments on NRC’s draft Strategic Plan
     Nevada's Yucca Mountain Lawsuits
     What's wrong with putting Nuclear Waste in Yucca Mountain, Nevada
     Recent positions of other regional cooperative agreement groups
         Midwest Council of State Governments
               Letter to OCRWM
               Full-Scale Cask Testing
               Comprehensive Transportation Plan for Yucca Mountain
12:30 pm Adjourn