81 FR 1408 - Public Meeting To Discuss Next Steps Toward Implementing a Consent-Based Siting Process for Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Facilities
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 7 (January 12, 2016)
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 7 (January 12, 2016)
| Page Range | 1408-1409 | |
| FR Document | 2016-00389 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 12, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 1408-1409] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-00389] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Public Meeting To Discuss Next Steps Toward Implementing a Consent-Based Siting Process for Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Facilities AGENCY: Fuel Cycle Technologies, Office of Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) is implementing a consent- based siting process to establish an integrated waste management system to transport, store, and dispose of commercial spent nuclear fuel and high level defense radioactive waste. In a consent-based siting approach, DOE will work with communities, tribal governments and states across the country that express interest in hosting any of the facilities identified as part of an integrated waste management system. DOE is hosting a public meeting on January 20, 2016 to discuss next steps towards implementing a consent-based siting process for nuclear waste storage and disposal facilities. Type of meeting: Open meeting. Date: January 20, 2016. Time: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Location: Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel. 999 9th St NW., Washington, DC 20001. Remote Access and Registration: Attendees are encouraged to pre- register to expedite the check in process. Seating is limited to the room capacity and seats will be available on a first come, first served basis. The meeting will include a conference call phone number and will be webcast live on the Internet. Registration and remote access instructions including technical support contact information will be provided on the DOE Web site prior to the meeting at http://www.energy.gov/consentbasedsiting. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: [email protected] or check the DOE Web site at http://www.energy.gov/consentbasedsiting. [[Page 1409]] Issued in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2016. Andrew Richards, Chief of Staff, Office of Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy. [FR Doc. 2016-00389 Filed 1-11-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450-01-P
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Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// Abstract: The Integrated Dated: January 7, 2016.
www.regulations.gov by selecting the Postsecondary Education Data System Kate Mullan,
Docket ID number or via postal mail, (IPEDS) is a web-based data collection Acting Director, Information Collection
commercial delivery, or hand delivery. system designed to collect basic data Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy
Please note that comments submitted by from all postsecondary institutions in Officer, Office of Management.
fax or email and those submitted after the United States and the other [FR Doc. 2016–00391 Filed 1–11–16; 8:45 am]
the comment period will not be jurisdictions. IPEDS enables The BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
accepted. Written requests for National Center of Education Statistics
information or comments submitted by (NCES) to report on key dimensions of
postal mail or delivery should be postsecondary education such as
addressed to the Director of the enrollments, degrees and other awards DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Information Collection Clearance earned, tuition and fees, average net
Division, U.S. Department of Education, Public Meeting To Discuss Next Steps
price, student financial aid, graduation
400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room Toward Implementing a Consent-
rates, revenues and expenditures,
2E103, Washington, DC 20202–4537. Based Siting Process for Nuclear
faculty salaries, and staff employed. The
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For Waste Storage and Disposal Facilities
IPEDS web-based data collection system
specific questions related to collection
was implemented in 2000–01, and it
activities, please contact Kashka AGENCY: Fuel Cycle Technologies, Office
collects basic data from approximately
Kubzdela, 202–502–7411. of Nuclear Energy, Department of
7,500 postsecondary institutions in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Energy.
United States and the other jurisdictions
Department of Education (ED), in ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting.
that are eligible to participate in title IV
accordance with the Paperwork
Federal financial aid programs. All title
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
IV institutions are required to respond SUMMARY: The U.S Department of
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
to IPEDS (section 490 of the Higher Energy (DOE) is implementing a
public and Federal agencies with an
Education Amendments of 1992; Public consent-based siting process to establish
opportunity to comment on proposed,
Law 102–325). IPEDS allows other (non- an integrated waste management system
revised, and continuing collections of
title IV) institutions to participate on a to transport, store, and dispose of
information. This helps the Department
voluntary basis. About 200 institutions commercial spent nuclear fuel and high
assess the impact of its information
elect to respond. IPEDS data are level defense radioactive waste. In a
collection requirements and minimize
available to the public through the consent-based siting approach, DOE will
the public’s reporting burden. It also
College Navigator and IPEDS Web sites. work with communities, tribal
helps the public understand the
governments and states across the
Department’s information collection ED requested emergency clearance country that express interest in hosting
requirements and provide the requested processing (approved in November any of the facilities identified as part of
data in the desired format. ED is 2015; OMB# 1850–0582 v.17), due to an integrated waste management
soliciting comments on the proposed the Government Accounting Standards system. DOE is hosting a public meeting
information collection request (ICR) that Board’s (GASB) revision of their on January 20, 2016 to discuss next
is described below. The Department of reporting standards that also impacts steps towards implementing a consent-
Education is especially interested in reporting of some of the institutions in based siting process for nuclear waste
public comment addressing the
IPEDS, to revise the 2015–16 IPEDS storage and disposal facilities.
following issues: (1) Is this collection
Finance forms and continue the Type of meeting: Open meeting.
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be remaining parts of the 2015–16 IPEDS
collection as previously approved Date: January 20, 2016.
processed and used in a timely manner;
(OMB# 1850–0582 v.13–15). As part of Time: 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Eastern
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
the emergency clearance, new screening Time.
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the question was added to the 2015–16 Location: Renaissance Washington,
information to be collected; and (5) how IPEDS Finance survey for institutions to DC Downtown Hotel. 999 9th St NW.,
might the Department minimize the indicate whether they have additional Washington, DC 20001.
burden of this collection on the (or decreased) pension expense, Remote Access and Registration:
respondents, including through the use additional pension liability (or assets), Attendees are encouraged to pre-register
of information technology. Please note or additional deferral to report as a to expedite the check in process. Seating
that written comments received in result of GASB Statement 68. For the is limited to the room capacity and seats
response to this notice will be institutions that answer ‘‘yes’’, four will be available on a first come, first
considered public records. fields have been added to collect the served basis. The meeting will include
Title of Collection: Integrated amounts of the additional (or decreased) a conference call phone number and
Postsecondary Education Data System expense, additional liability (or assets), will be webcast live on the Internet.
(IPEDS) 2015–2016 Pension Liabilities deferred inflows of resources, and Registration and remote access
Update. deferred outflows of resources. This instructions including technical support
OMB Control Number: 1850–0582. submission extends the public comment contact information will be provided on
Type of Review: A revision of an period under regular approval process the DOE Web site prior to the meeting
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existing information collection. (with a 60-day followed by a 30-day at http://www.energy.gov/
Respondents/Affected Public: consentbasedsiting.
public comment periods) on the
Postsecondary Institution.
revisions approved under the
Total Estimated Number of Annual FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Responses: 77,600. emergency clearance process (OMB# consentbasedsiting@hq.doe.gov or check
Total Estimated Number of Annual 1850–0582 v.17). the DOE Web site at http://
Burden Hours: 1,050,870. www.energy.gov/consentbasedsiting.
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Issued in Washington, DC, on January 6, management of these excess uranium Secretary based his conclusion on the
2016. inventories. NNSA down-blends excess Department’s ‘‘Analysis of Potential
Andrew Richards, highly-enriched uranium to high-assay Impacts of Uranium Transfers on the
Chief of Staff, Office of Nuclear Energy, low-enriched uranium—above the Domestic Uranium Mining, Conversion,
Department of Energy. commercial level of 5 wt-% and up to and Enrichment Industries,’’ which is
[FR Doc. 2016–00389 Filed 1–11–16; 8:45 am] about 19.75 wt-% of the isotope U– incorporated into the determination.
BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 235—in support of its nonproliferation The Secretary considered, inter alia, the
objectives and missions. Common requirements of the USEC Privatization
applications of such high-assay Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 2297h et seq.),
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY materials are as fuels for domestic and the nature of uranium markets, and the
foreign research reactors and as target current status of the domestic uranium
National Nuclear Security materials for the production of medical industries, as well as sales of uranium
Administration isotopes. under the Russian HEU Agreement and
This notice involves high-assay LEU the Suspension Agreement.
Excess Uranium Management: transfers of this type to support
Secretarial Determination of No Issued in Washington, DC.
molybdenum-99 producers in such
Adverse Impact on the Domestic applications. These transfers fulfill a Anne M. Harrington,
Uranium Mining, Conversion, and directive in the American Medical Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear
Enrichment Industries Isotope Production Act of 2012 (Pub. L. Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security
Administration.
AGENCY: National Nuclear Security 112–239, Division C, Title XXXI,
Administration, Department of Energy. Subtitle F, 42 U.S.C. 2065) for the Set forth below is the full text of the
Department to establish a program to Secretarial Determination.
ACTION: Notice.
make low enriched uranium available, SECRETARIAL DETERMINATION FOR
SUMMARY: On December 18, 2015, the through lease contracts, for irradiation THE SALE OR TRANSFER OF
Secretary of Energy issued a for the production of molybdenum-99 URANIUM
determination (‘‘Secretarial for medical uses. These transfers also
Determination’’) covering the lease of support U.S. nuclear nonproliferation I determine that the lease of up to the
high-assay low enriched uranium for initiatives, by providing a path for equivalent of 500 kgU of 19.75%-assay
medical isotope production projects down-blended highly enriched uranium low enriched uranium per calendar year
through the Department’s Uranium (HEU) and encouraging the use of LEU to support the development and
Lease and Take-Back Program (ULTB). in civil applications in lieu of HEU. establishment of molybdenum-99
The Secretarial Determination covers These transfers are conducted in production capabilities will not have an
transfers of up to 500 kilograms accordance with the Atomic Energy Act adverse material impact on the domestic
uranium (kgU) per year of low enriched of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq., ‘‘AEA’’), uranium mining, conversion, or
uranium (LEU) at up to 19.75 percent as amended, and other applicable law. enrichment industry. I base my
uranium-235 in the two years following Specifically, Title I, Chapters 6 and 14 conclusions on the Department’s
approval of the determination to of the AEA authorize DOE to transfer ‘‘Analysis of Potential Impacts of
support molybdenum-99 production. special nuclear material; LEU is a type Uranium Transfers on the Domestic
For the reasons set forth in the of special nuclear material. The USEC Uranium Mining, Conversion, and
Department’s ‘‘Analysis of Potential Privatization Act (Pub. L. 104–134, 42 Enrichment Industries,’’ which is
Impacts of Uranium Transfers on the U.S.C. 2297h et seq.) places certain incorporated herein. As explained in
Domestic Uranium Mining, Conversion, limitations on DOE’s authority to that document, I have considered, inter
and Enrichment Industries,’’ which is transfer uranium from its excess alia, the requirements of the USEC
incorporated into the Determination, the uranium inventory. Specifically, under Privatization Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C.
Secretary determined that these section 3112(d) of the USEC 2297h et seq.), the nature of uranium
transfers will not have an adverse Privatization Act (42 U.S.C. 2297h– markets, and the current status of the
material impact on the domestic 10(d)), DOE may make certain transfers domestic uranium industries. I have
uranium mining, conversion, or of natural or low-enriched uranium if also taken into account the sales of
enrichment industry. the Secretary determines that the uranium under the Russian HEU
transfers ‘‘will not have an adverse Agreement and the Suspension
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
material impact on the domestic Agreement.
Peter Karcz, ULTB Program Manager,
uranium mining, conversion or Date: December 18, 2015.
U.S. Department of Energy, 1000
enrichment industry, taking into Ernest J. Moniz,
Independence Avenue SW., account the sales of uranium under the
Washington, DC 20585, telephone 202– Secretary of Energy
Russian Highly Enriched Uranium
586–0488, or email peter.karcz@ Agreement and the Suspension Analysis of Potential Impacts of
nnsa.doe.gov. Agreement.’’ Uranium Transfers on the Domestic
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The On December 18, 2015, the Secretary Uranium Mining, Conversion, and
Department of Energy (DOE) holds of Energy issued a determination Enrichment Industries
inventories of uranium in various forms (‘‘Secretarial Determination’’) covering I. Introduction
and quantities—including low-enriched the lease of high-assay low enriched
uranium (LEU) and natural uranium— uranium for medical isotope A. Legal Authority
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that have been declared as excess and production. The Secretarial DOE manages its excess uranium
are not dedicated to U.S. national Determination covers leases of up to the inventory in accordance with the
security missions. Within DOE, the equivalent of 500 kilograms of LEU at Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C.
Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), the Office up to 19.75 percent uranium-235 per 2011 et seq., ‘‘AEA’’), as amended, and
of Environmental Management (EM), year for two years following approval of other applicable law. Specifically, Title
and the National Nuclear Security the determination to support I, Chapters 6 and 14 of the AEA
Administration (NNSA) coordinate the molybdenum-99 producers. The authorize DOE to transfer special
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| Contact | [email protected] or check the DOE Web site at http://www.energy.gov/consentbasedsiting. | |
| FR Citation | 81 FR 1408 |
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