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No. 97-119

August 12, 1997

NOTE TO EDITORS:

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received the attached report from its Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste. The report, in the form of a letter, provides comments on the NRC program to predict risk from igneous activity at the proposed high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Copies of the reports are available through the NRC's Office of Public Affairs, the NRC's Internet Homepage (http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/advisory.html) and the Public Document Room in Washington, D.C. To access the letter on the NRC Internet Homepage use the "Search" function to look for "maturity."