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The links on this page provide current information about the Department of Energy decision to use mostly rail for shipping spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste to a repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

• Notice of Filing an Application for a “Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity” to construct and operate a new rail line in Lincoln, Nye and Esmeralda Counties [pdf]
  • Application form [pdf]
  • Exhibits (supporting information)


• Safe Passage: An Overview of Plans for the Railroad to Yucca Mountain
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• Environmental Impact Statement for the Alignment of a Rail Line in the Caliente Corridor



• 2004 Public Scoping Comments on the Rail Alignment EIS
  
  
• 2006 Public Scoping Comments on the Rail Alignment EIS

Federal Register Notices

• Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Alignment, Construction, and Operation of a Rail Line to a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NV [pdf]



• Record of Decision on Mode of Transportation and Nevada Rail Corridor for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NV [pdf]



• Federal Register Notice of Preferred Nevada Rail Corridor [pdf]



• Federal Register Notice of Proposed Withdrawal and Opportunity for Public Meeting; Nevada [pdf]

Further Information

• DOE Says it will Use Rail for Transportation to Yucca Mountain Repository; Selects Proposed Caliente Corridor as Nevada Route [pdf]



• Supplement Analysis for Transportation [pdf]



• Caliente Corridor Land Use and Ownership [Map] [pdf]

Last Reviewed: 03/08