Strategic Plan

  • Routing Methodology, Criteria
  • Mode/Route Identification
    and Analysis
  • State Route Adjustments
  • Cask Testing &
    Aquisition
  • Infrastructure
  • Emergency
    Preparedness
Other Areas
of Interest
  • Overall NWPA Program Direction
  • Financial & Technical Assist to States/Tribes
  • WIPP Model & Effective Coordination with States/Tribes
  • Privatization of Transportation Roles and Responsibilities
  • Full Scale Cask Testing
  • Assessing Terrorism Risks
  • Current/Proposed Legislation
  • RAM Transport Fees Charged by Western States
  • Inspecting & Escorting SNF Shipments
  • Private Fuel Storage, LLC (Utah)
  • Potential Application of
    an Emerging Tool: IRRIS

 

High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee

 

The High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee is composed of nuclear waste transportation experts appointed by the Governors of eleven Western States. The Committee works with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a safe and publicly acceptable system for transporting spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The HLW Committee's primary management directives come from a series of Western Governors' Resolutions dating back to 1985, which express the Governors' goal of "safe and uneventful transport of nuclear waste."


Resolutions:
11-03 The Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel

11-05 Transportation of Radioactive Waste, Radioactive Materials, and Spent Nuclear Fuel


Additionally, the HLW Committee has joined with other State Regional Groups to develop a set of Principles of Agreement on the expectations states have regarding preparations for NWPA shipments.

Western Governors'
letter to Secretary Chu
on DOE-States
relationship

Implications for “Best Practice” in Cross-country Transport of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel
(March 2009)

Information-Assessment Resource for Consultative SNF Transportation
System Design

(March 2009)

OCRWM's Draft National Transportation Plan: Rev. 0 (January 2009)

OCRWM's National Transportation Plan: Pre-Decisional Draft (July 2007)

OCRWM's Draft 180c Policy

OCRWM Budget Prediction Through 2023
(exec summary)

OCRWM Budget Prediction Through 2023
(full text)

LSN User's Guide

TREX User's Guide

DOE’s Schedule for Yucca Mountain

Compact

Bylaws