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NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES
High-Level Radioactive Waste Interim Storage & Transportation Working Group Meeting


May 13-15, 1996
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Agenda

Wednesday, May 15, 1996

 

Fly to Knoxville, Tennessee
Arrive at Garden Plaza Hotel

5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Reception
Cash Bar

Thursday, May 16, 1996

7:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

7:45 a.m.

Badging for tour of Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)

8:00 a.m.

Tour TRANSCOM (Transportation, Tracking, and Communication Systems) facility
Ron Pope and Bill Reich

9:00 a.m.

Drive to Melton Valley area

9:15 a.m.

Overview presentation of Radioactive Waste
Management at ORNL
Sharon Robinson

Tour High-Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)
Hal Glovier

Tour Radiochemical Engineering Development Center (REDC)
Bob Wham

10:45 a.m.

Tour ORNL Waste Treatment Facilities
Sharon Robinson

11:15 a.m.

Drive to ORNL cafeteria

11:30 a.m.

Lunch
Overview presentation of DOE's Oak Ridge Program
Jim Hall, DOE-OR Manager

12:30 p.m.

Depart ORNL

12:45 p.m.

Arrive Scientific Ecology Group (SEG)
Eric Vogley

2:15 p.m.

Depart SEG

2:30 p.m.

Drive by TSCA incinerator

2:45 p.m.

Arrive at Manufacturing Sciences Corporation (MSC)
Alan Liby

3:45 p.m.

Depart MSC

4:00 p.m.

Arrive at M4 Environmental Management, Inc.
Gail Reimer

5:00 p.m.

Depart M4; return to Garden Plaza Hotel

Group dinner or dinner on your own

Friday, May 17, 1996

7:30-8:30 a.m.

Continental breakfast
Salon B

8:30-8:40 a.m.

Welcome and opening remarks
Senator Dick Hall (MS)

8:40-9:00 a.m.

NCSL Meetings Update/Status of Nuclear Waste Legislation
NCSL Staff

9:00-9:30 a.m.

Update on DOE activities

  • OCRWM Budget Update and Implications
  • Yucca Mountain Update
  • Interim Storage Update

Jozette Booth, U.S. Department of Energy

9:30-10:00 a.m.

Mescalero/NSP Private Spent Fuel
Storage Project Update
Silas Cochise, Mescalero Apache

10:00-10:15 a.m.

Break

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Presentation on Wyoming Legislation Regarding High-Level Waste Storage
Senator Bob Peck

10:30-10:50 a.m.

Transportation Routing Analysis Geographic Information System (TRAGIS) Presentation
Paul Johnson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:50-11:10 a.m.

Wirerope Tiedown Automated Calculation Demonstration
Larry Shappert, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

11:10-11:40 p.m.

DOE Waste Management Needs Assessment Presentation
Ron Pope, Transportation Technology Group, Oak Ridge

11:40-12:00 noon

An Overview of Oak Ridge Waste Management Association
David Swindle, Oak Ridge Waste Management Association

12:00-1:15 p.m.

Lunch and check-out

1:15-1:45 p.m.

Transportation of Hazardous Materials
Ron Pope, Transportation Technology Group, Oak Ridge

1:45-2:25 p.m.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Presentation on State Involvement in the Transportation of Foreign Spent Fuel
Robert Trojanowski, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

2:25-3:00 p.m.

Northern States Power Prairie Island Siting Update
Jim Alders, Northern State Power

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Roundtable discussion
NCSL Annual Meeting reminder
Set next agenda 

4:00 p.m.

Depart Knoxville for Nashville

6:30 p.m.

Arrive at the Nashville Doubletree
Dinner on your own

Saturday, May 18, 1996

9:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

10:00 a.m.

Tour capitol/state museum

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Tour Bicentennial Mall

5:45 p.m.

Depart for Grand Ole Opry 

8:30 p.m.

Dinner
Return to Doubletree

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