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


November 13-15, 1996
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Agenda

Wednesday, November 13, 1996

 

Fly to Albuquerque, New Mexico
Take shuttle to Santa Fe

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

Reception in honor of Rep. Bob Light, New Mexico
Kiva B
Working group dinner at Vanessie's

Thursday, November 14, 1996

7:00 a.m.

Breakfast at breakfast bar in hotel lobby

7:30 a.m.

Depart for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Tour

8:30 a.m.

Arrive at LANL Museum
Welcome, museum tour and background presentation

9:30-9:50 a.m.

Welcome to LANL
Karl Braithwaite, Director of Government Relations

9:50-10:00 a.m.

Break

10:00 a.m.

Yucca Mountain Project Update
Julie Canepa, Project Director
Ned Elkins, Deputy Project Director

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Lunch at Central Avenue Grill

1:30 p.m.

Natural Gas and Oil Partnerships presentation
Bob Hanold, Project Manager

2:00 p.m.

Bus tour of LANL
Plutonium facility
Linear Accelerator

3:30 p.m.

Depart for hotel

5:00 p.m.

Arrive back at Hotel Santa Fee

Friday, November 15, 1996

7:30-8:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast
Kiva Room

8:00-8:15 a.m.

Welcome and opening remarks
Senator Dick Hall (Miss.)

8:15-9:00 a.m.

Overview of High-Level Waste Concepts
Representative Howard Kerr (Tenn.)

9:00-9:45 a.m.

Update on DOE activities

  • OCRWM Budget Update and Implications
  • OCRWM Reorganization
  • Yucca Mountain Update
  • Market-Based Transportation Update
  • Interim Storage Update

Dwight Shelor, U.S. Department of Energy

9:45-10:15 a.m.

Point Beach Presentation
Michael Baumann, Wisconsin Electric Power Company

10:15-11:00 a.m.

Current NRC activities (Point Beach, Goodhue County, universal MPC and reorganization)
Dr. William Travers, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Lunch

12:15-1:00 p.m.

Millstone Presentation
Martin Virgilio, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

1:00-1:45 p.m.

Naval Spent Fuel Initiative Presentation
Richard Guida, Department of the Navy

1:45-2:30 p.m.

Comparison of Foreign Disposal Methods
Paula Alford, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

2:30-2:45 p.m.

Update on Congressional Activities
Julie Jordan, Nuclear Energy Institute

2:45-3:00 p.m.

Break

3:00-3:15 p.m.

Update on Mescalero Activities
Rob Burpo, Mescalero Apache

3:15-4:15 p.m.

Roundtable discussion
ASI/AFI Reminder
SEER committee update
  New chair
  Work product
Annual Meeting Session
NCSL HLW Budget for 1997
--Las Vegas Spring meeting
--Tour of Yucca Mountain-TBM at South Portal
Set next agenda

4:15 p.m.

Depart for home

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