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


Alexis Park Hotel
June 16-18, 1997
Las Vegas, Nevada

Agenda

Monday, June 16, 1997

 

Fly to Las Vegas

Tuesday, June 17, 1997

 

Tour Yucca Mountain
6:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Bus loads at hotel entrance at 5:45 a.m.

Wednesday, June 18, 1997

8:00-8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast
Athena Room

8:30-8:40a.m.

Welcome and opening remarks
Senator Dick Hall (Miss.)

8:40-9:15 a.m.

Yucca Mountain Presentation
Dr. Russell Dyer, Deputy Project Manager, Yucca Mountain Project

9:15-10:00 a.m.

DOE Update and Presentation on Transportation Privatization
Dwight Shelor, U.S. Department of Energy

10:00-10:30 a.m.

Legislative Education Plan Presentation and Discussion
Linda Murakami-Sikkema, NCSL
Representative Howard Kerr, Tennessee

10:30-11:00 a.m.

National Dialogue on Nuclear Materials and Waste Presentation
Earle Dixon, National Dialogue Planning Committee

11:00-11:30 a.m.

Update on TEC Activities/Update on State Transportation Briefings
Jim Reed, NCSL

11:30-12:00 p.m.

Presentation on Minnesota Nuclear Waste Escrow Account Legislation
Senator Mark Ourada, Minnesota
Michael E. McCarthy, Minnesota Dept. of Public Service

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lunch
Pisces/Pegasus Restaurant in hotel

1:00-1:45 p.m.

Briefing on MOX Working Group Activities & Status of Nuclear Waste Legislation before Congress
Felix Killar, Nuclear Energy Institute

1:45-2:15 p.m.

Update on Private Spent Fuel Storage Activities-New Corporation
Robert Anderson, New Corporation

2:15-2:45 p.m.

Private Fuel Storage LLC
Scott Northard, Northern State Power Company

2:45-3:00 p.m.

Break

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Industry Prespective on Transport of High-Level Waste
Joei Carroll-Maxwell, Tri State Motor Transport Company

3:15-4:15 p.m.

Wrap-up
Last comments on legislative education plan
Annual Meeting reminder
Reminder of next meeting

4:30 p.m.

Tri-State Motor Transport TRANSCOM/QUALCOM Demonstration

5:30p.m.

Closing Reception
Tri-State Motor Transport Company

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