Welcome to Lander County Yucca Mountain Oversight Program

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.

Challenges
Transcripts

Lander County, along with Churchill, Esmeralda, and Mineral Counties 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

January 15th, 2009 - DOE answer to Four Counties

February 24th, 2009 - Four Counties Reply to DOE

February 24th, 2009 - Four Counties Reply to the NRC Staff

The following are the oral arguement transcripts from the three day First Pre-hearing conference to discuss the challenges to the DOE's License Application, and to determine party standing for the hearings.

March 31, 2009

April 1st, 2009

April 2nd, 2009

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.

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:

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