[Federal Register: November 30, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 229)]
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DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD

 
Sunshine Act Meeting

    Pursuant to the provision of the ``Government in the Sunshine Act'' 
(5 U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given of the Defense Nuclear 
Facilities Safety Board's (Board) meeting described below.
    Time and Date of Meeting: 6:00 p.m., December 8, 1999.
    Place: Red Lion Hotel, Richland/Hanford House, McNary Room, 802 
George Washington Way, Richland, WA 99352.
    Status: Open. While the Government in the Sunshine Act does not 
require that the scheduled discussion be conducted in a meeting, the 
Board has determined that an open meeting in this specific case 
furthers the public interests underlying both the Sunshine Act and the 
Board's enabling legislation.
    Matters to be considered: The Board is visiting the Hanford Site as 
a part of its oversight of the Department of Energy's (DOE) safety 
management of its defense nuclear facilities. The Board's enabling 
legislation requires health and safety oversight encompassing design, 
construction, operation and decommissioning activities. The Board's 
Strategic Plan, submitted to the Office of Management and Budget and 
Congress, has identified the facilities and operations at Hanford that 
represent the greatest hazards and has worked with DOE to establish 
action plans to address them. These include emptying the K-basins, 
characterizing and stabilizing high-level tank wastes, stabilizing and 
safely storing or disposing of the weapons program radioactive 
residuals, and clean-up and decommissioning of contaminated facilities.
    The Board will review DOE's progress on these stabilization and 
clean-up activities. The Board wishes to avail itself of the 
opportunity of this visit to learn the public's views on the Hanford 
clean-up program as it exists today, where they believe it should be 
focused in the future, and the reasons for that focus.
    The Board's meeting will provide an opportunity for members of the 
public, DOE, and its contractor employees or their representatives to 
comment on or provide information directly to the Board regarding 
matters affecting health or safety at Hanford, including, but not 
limited to, those subject areas and facilities the Board will review 
during this visit.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Kenneth M. Pusateri, General 
Manager, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, 625 Indiana Avenue, 
NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20004, (800) 788-4016. This is a toll-
free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Requests to speak at the meeting may be 
submitted in writing or by telephone. Commentators should describe the 
nature and scope of their oral presentations. Those who contact the 
Board prior to close of business on December 7, 1999, will be scheduled 
for time slots, beginning at approximately 6:00 p.m. Prior to the 
meeting, the Board will post a schedule for those speakers who have 
contacted the Board. The posting will be made at the entrance to the 
McNary Room at the start of the 6:00 p.m. meeting.

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    Anyone who wishes to comment, provide technical information or data 
may do so in writing, either in lieu of, or in addition to, making an 
oral presentation. Documents will be accepted at the meeting or may be 
sent to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Washington, DC, 
office.
    The Board reserves its right to further schedule and otherwise 
regulate the course of the meeting, to recess, reconvene, postpone or 
adjourn the meeting, conduct further reviews, and otherwise exercise 
its power under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

    Dated: November 26, 1999.
A.J. Eggenberger,
Vice-Chairman.
[FR Doc. 99-31182 Filed 11-26-99; 11:20 am]
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