Letter to Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham, advising the Secretary that the Board was preparing its comments for the Secretary and Congress on the technical and scientific validity of DOE work supporting a site recommendation.
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Material on this page includes letters from the Board to the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) concerning issues raised at Board meetings, and letters from the DOE responding to the Board’s concerns. Also included are some letters from Board responses to Members of Congress, stakeholder groups, and members of the public.
Correspondence
Letter to the Board from Representative Joe Barton, Chairman Subcommittee on Energy and Power, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, transmitting two questions about the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site.
Letter to Dr. Jared Cohen from Representative John Shimkus, House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Committee on Energy and Commerce on a question related to the site recommendation of a repository at Yucca Mountain.
Letter to the Board from Nevada Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign transmitting questions about the U.S. Department of Energy’s possible site recommendation.
Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, providing responses to four key examples in the Board’s October 17, 2000, letter on possible gaps in data and analyses.
Letter to Lake Barrett, Acting Director of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, following up on the Board’s September 2001 meeting in Las Vegas and DOE’s November 20, 2001, response to the Board letter.
Letter to Lake Barrett thanking him for his letters to each Board member requesting their comments on the Yucca Mountain Preliminary Site Suitability Evaluation and noting the inappropriateness for individual member responses.
Letter from Lake Barrett, Acting Director of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, responding to the Board’s July 17, 2001, letter about the Board’s priority issues and observations on other aspects of DOE’s technical program.
Letter from Lake Barrett, Acting Director of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, with DOE’s response to the Board’s June 11, 2001, letter, addressing multiple lines of evidence.
Letter to Lake Barrett, Acting Director of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, on the Board’s May 8-9, 2001, meeting, and DOE’s response to the Board’s letter.
Letter to Dr. Stephan Brocham, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office, conveying Board’s appreciation for presentations at the Board’s June 20-21, 2001, joint Panel on Performance Assessment and Panel on the Repository meeting on DOE’s Supplemental Science and Performance Analysis.
Letter to Jane R. Summerson, EIS Document Manager, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office, conveying the Board’s comments on DOE’s draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain.
Letter to the Acting Director of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, on the Board’s April 13, 2001, meeting on multiple lines of evidence and DOE’s response to the Board’s letter.
Letter from Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy, to Board member Dr. Norman Christensen thanking him for meeting with the Secretary and noting the value of the Board.
Letter to Senator Harry Reid from Dr. Jared Cohon, Board Chairman, thanking him for the opportunity to update the senator and his staff on the Board’s May 8-9, 2001, meeting and the Board’s funding request for fiscal year 2002.
Letter from Judy Treichel, Executive Director of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, to the members of the Board thanking the Board for providing opportunities for the public to verbally communicate in a formal and accountable way.
Letter from Dr. Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, commenting on fluid inclusion research, the presence or absence of hydrothermal upwelling, and the Board’s conduct of its May 9, 2001, public meeting.
Letter to Lake Barrett, Acting Director of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, on the Board’s January 30-31, 2001, meeting on scientific and technical issues.
Letter to Senator Harry Reid on the Board’s plans to focus on DOE’s technical work in preparation for a potential decision in 2001 on whether to recommend the Yucca Mountain site for repository development.
Letter to Senator Pete Domenici on the Board’s plans to focus on DOE’s technical work in preparation for a potential decision in 2001 on whether to recommend the Yucca Mountain site for repository development.