Letter 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 and expressed these principles of consensus to DOE. They focus on the key areas of 1) transportation planning, 2) privatizing transportation services, and 3) route selection.

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