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Tunnel inside Yucca Mountain.
Rail road inside Yucca Mountain is used to transport people and equipment.
Contentions:
Lander County, along with Esmeralda, Churchill and Mineral filed joint contentions on December 19, 2008. As " Affected Units of Local
Government" (AULG) and pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, as amended. (42 U.S.c. §10247
et seq.) and pursuant to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Federal Register Notice Vol. 73, No. 205,
dated October 22,2008, "any AULG seeking party status shall be considered a party to this
proceeding, provided that it files at least one admissible contention in accordance with 10 CFR
2.309. An AULG need not address the standing requirements under that section."
Four counties petitions to intervene (due to large file sizes the petition is broken into 6 sections):
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
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About Us
As
one of the designated Affected Units of Local Government (AUG), Lander
County maintains this website to inform citizens about issues related
to the proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository planned 90
miles north of Las Vegas. This website will also continue to update
as activities and decisions happen that concern the potential transportation
of nuclear waste in Lander County and Nevada.
This website contains documents, photos, maps, and
more about the history and current developments concerning the Yucca
Mountain Repository program. If you have any questions or suggestions
please contacts us.
The Lander County repository oversight program office
is located in Austin, Nevada with a smaller office maintained in
Battle Mountain for the Board of County Commissioners. Primary tasks
include: grant administration, financial management, and overall
program implementation, communication and coordination with other
Lander County departments.
Program Oversight Activities
The primary function of oversight activities is to
attend program related meetings, conferences and workshops, monitor
program activities, review studies and other related information
and provide periodic reports to the Lander County Board of County
Commissioners. Oversight functions will be administered by county
staff, elected officials and the planning consultant.
Lander County anticipates coordination with or attendance
at meetings with the following entities:
- Department of Energy
- State of Nevada-Commission on Nuclear Projects
- Tribal and Local Governments
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Western Interstate Energy Board
- Transportation Coordination Group
- Transportation External Coordinating Group
- Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
- Transportation Protocol Working Group
Transportation Routing
One of the rail routes that is currently identified
in the Yucca Mountain EIS travels from the north end of Lander County
continuing south to the Lander County boundary line. Lander County
will monitor and study impacts on the county and it's residents in
the event that this railway is constructed as well as:
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Please visit our new Link which tracks the hearings associated with the department of energy's (DOE) license application (LA).
Department of Energy's Record of Decision and Floodplain Statement of Findings - Nevada Rail Alignment for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada ("ROD") e-filed October 9th, 2008 with the STB in FD 35106.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has formally docketed the Department of Energy’s license application for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev. The agency staff has also recommended that the Commission adopt, with further supplementation, DOE’s Environmental Impact Statement for the repository project.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION [Docket No. 63–001; CLI–08–25] In the Matter of U.S. Department of
Energy (High Level Waste Repository);
Notice of Hearing and Opportunity To
Petition for Leave To Intervene on an
Application for Authority To Construct
a Geologic Repository at a Geologic
Repository Operations Area at Yucca
Mountain
Aerial view of Yucca Mountain.
Yucca Mountain rift.
Tunnel opening in Yucca Mountain.
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