Principles of Agreement Among States on Expectations Regarding Preparations for Shipments of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste | July 2005
In February of 2005, the four state regional groups presented the “Principles of Agreement Among States on Expectations Regarding Preparations for OCRWM Shipments” which identified the states’ expectations for a fully functioning transportation program for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). The ten Principles included such expectations as the provision of financial…
Read MoreHigh-Level Radioactive Waste Committee comments on the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management’s Draft Statement of Work for a Transportation Integration Contractor | October 2002
The HLRWC submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on its Draft Statement of Work for a Transportation Integration Contractor, which set forth proposed responsibilities for this contractor to assist DOE with the transportation of commercial spent nuclear fuel to the would-be geological repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Among other things, the HLRWC’s…
Read MoreLetter of consensus between the WIEB High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee, the Council of State Governments’ Northeastern High-Level Radioactive Waste Transportation Task Force, the Southern States Energy Board’s Transuranic Waste Transportation Working Group and Advisory Committee on Radioactive Materials Transportation, and the Council of State Governments’ Midwestern High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee, to the U.S. Department of Energy | March 1998
At the Second Joint Meeting of the Regional Radioactive Waste Transportation Committees on December 9-10, 1997, in Las Vegas, Nevada, five of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) regional cooperative-agreement groups – representing over 40 states – reached consensus on three key issues related to DOE’s transport of radioactive materials. This letter of consensus encapsulated…
Read MoreHigh-Level Radioactive Waste Committee comments on the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management’s (OCRWM) draft Request for Proposals for the Acquisition of Waste Acceptance and Transportation Services for OCRWM | February 1998
The HLRWC submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on its draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Acquisition of Waste Acceptance and Transportation Services for the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (Draft RFP Number DE-RP01-98W00320, November 24, 1997). This draft RFP was DOE’s second attempt to refine its “regional servicing contractor”…
Read MoreHigh-Level Radioactive Waste Committee comments on the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management’s (OCRWM) draft Request for Proposals for the Acquisition of Waste Acceptance and Transportation Services for OCRWM | May 1997
The HLRWC submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on its draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Acquisition of Waste Acceptance and Transportation Services for the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (Draft RFP Number DE-RP01-97RW00320, December 27, 1996). This draft RFP was DOE’s first attempt at describing its “regional servicing contractor”…
Read MoreHigh-Level Radioactive Waste Committee comments on the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management’s Notice of Waste Acceptance, Storage, and Transportation Services | June 1996
The HLRWC submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on its Notice of Waste Acceptance, Storage, and Transportation Services (Federal Register Doc 96-13244, Vol. 61, No. 103, May 28, 1996). In this Notice, DOE solicited “expressions of interest and comments related to its proposed approach for carrying out its waste acceptance, transportation and…
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