Draft Meeting Agenda
June 9-10, 1999 HLW Committee Meeting
Seattle, Washington
Wednesday, June 9th
1:00 p.m. - Call meeting to order - Co-Chairs Ken Niles (OR) and Captain Allan Turner (CO)
- Introductions
- Review agenda
1:15 p.m. - OCRWM Program Update - TBA (Jay Jones-DOE)
- Update on DOE's Viability Assessment
- Update on Site Characterization activities at Yucca Mountain
- Update on litigation against OCRWM and the status of DOE's proposal to take title to spent nuclear fuel at reactor sites
- Other OCRWM transportation program updates
- Status of funding for transportation activities
- Transmutation R&D
2:30 p.m. - Developments at Yucca Mountain (Bob Halstead, Nevada)
- NRC's "Changes to Requirements for Environmental Review of Nuclear Power Plant Operating Licenses."
3:30 p.m. - Break
3:45 p.m. - PFS interim storage proposal (Connie Nakahara - Utah DEQ)
4:15 p.m. - Staff review of the history of the HLW Committee's efforts
5:15 p.m. - Recess
Thursday, June 10
8:00 a.m. - Continental breakfast
8:30am - Updates
- WIPP (Chris Wentz, NM; Ron Ross, WGA)
- Update on the opening of WIPP
- Lessons learned from initial shipments
- How did DOE and state transportation plans and training actually work?
- Cross-country shipments (TBA)
- Review East Coast shipment to SRS and lessons learned
- Coming Deadlines in Idaho Agreement (TBA)
- TEC/WG (Ken Niles/Chris Wentz)
- Site Specific Advisory Boards' transportation workshops (Ken Niles)
- Sabotage and terrorism risks against spent fuel shipments and the status/adequacy of NRC's safeguards regulations (Bob Halstead)
10:00 a.m. - State Reports on spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste issues not covered in other topics
11:00 a.m. - Break
11:15 a.m. - HLW Committee Business Meeting
1:00 p.m. - Adjourn