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


Hilton Arlington & Towers
Arlington, Virginia
September 23-24, 1999

Agenda

Wednesday, September 22, 1999

Fly to Washington, DC
Take Metro or Cab to Hotel

 

Thursday, September 23, 1999

7:30-8:00 a.m.

Breakfast

8:00-8:15 p.m.

Welcome
Commissioner Dick Hall - Mississippi Transportation Department
(Former Chair, High-Level Waste Working Group)

Representative Howard Kerr - Acting Chair, Tenn.

Assemblyman Bob Price - Vice Chair, Nev.

8:15-9:00 a.m.

OCRWM Update
Lake Barrett, Acting Director, DOE-OCRWM

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Yucca Mountain EIS Overview
Joe Ziegler, Nuclear Engineer, Management and Technical Services Team

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Surplus Plutonium Disposition Activities at the Department of Energy
Laura Holgate, Director, Office of Materials Disposition-DOE

11:00-Noon

Briefing on Foreign Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel Program Shipping Activities
Tracy Mustin, Program Manager, FRRSNF Acceptance Program-DOE

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Update on Nuclear Regulatory Commission Activities
Wayne Hodges, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Update on MOX Working Group Activities and Nuclear Waste Legislation before Congress
Felix Killar, Nuclear Energy Institute

3:00-3:30 p.m.

Update on Private Fuel Storage Activities
John Vincent, GPU Nuclear

3:30-4:00 p.m.

Update on Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Activities
Karen Severson, External Affairs Director

4:00-4:15 p.m.

Presentation of NCSL's Decommissioning Report and Update on the Keystone Center's Decommissioning Dialogue
Cheryl Runyon, National Conference of State Legislatures

4:15-4:30 p.m.

Report on NCSL's Washington/Oregon Legislative Roundtable on Hanford Cleanup Activities
Linda Sikkema, National Conference of State Legislatures
Representative Howard Kerr, Tenn.

4:30 p.m.

Group Discussion

5:30 p.m.

Group dinner in honor of Commissioner Dick Hall

Friday, September 24, 1999

7:30-8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:00-8:30 a.m.

Review of High-Level Waste Working Group Mission Statement
Representative Howard Kerr, Tennessee

8:30-9:30 a.m.

Brainstorm regarding HLW Working Group Strategic Plan for 2000

9:30-11:00 a.m.

Draft Strategic Plan and Possible Activities for HLW Working Group

11:00 a.m.

Lunch

Return home

 

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