Correspondence

Letter to Senator Frank Murkowski conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

Letter to Representative John Myers conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

Letter to Representative Thomas Bliley conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

Letter to Representative Dan Schaefer conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

Letter to Representative Newt Gingrich conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

Letter to Senator Strom Thurmond conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

Letter to Senator J. Bennett Johnson conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

Letter to Representative Tom Bevill conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storag

Letter to Representative John Dingell conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

Letter to Representative Frank J. Pallone conveying the Board’s concern about a possible change in DOE’s program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

Letter to the Secretary commenting on encouraging progress in DOE’s program reported at the Board’s October 1995 meeting and that based on a tour of the Yucca Mountain excavation, that so far, the rock at the repository level looks “very good.”

Letter to the Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management acknowledging that DOE has made significant progress in developing a clearly defined and coherent waste isolation strategy for Yucca Mountain.

Letter on the National Academy of Sciences’ report, Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, addressing the regulatory time period, acceptable levels of risk, definition of a “critical group,” and negligible incremental risk.

Letter to the Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management providing Board comments on the proposed scope of the environmental impact statement for a repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Letter from the Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management transmitting DOE’s responses to Board recommendations in the Board’s Report to Congress and the Secretary of Energy: January to December 1994.

Letter to Senator Pete V. Domenici, Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development on the Board’s appropriations request for FY 1996 and a provision that allowed a member whose term expired to continue to serve until replaced.

Letter from the Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management transmitting DOE’s response to Board recommendations in the Board’s Report to Congress and the Secretary of Energy: January to December 1993.

Letter to the Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management providing Board points of concern and recommendations related to DOE’s new program approach with an Enclosure: Recommendations for Evaluating Site Suitability.

Letter from the Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management transmitting DOE’s response to the Board’s recommendations in its Letter Report to Congress and the Secretary of Energy, issued on February 24, 1994.

Letter from the Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management transmitting DOE’s response to Board questions sent on May 17, 1994, about DOE’s Scenario A, currently referred to as the Proposed Program Approach.