Correspondence

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management transmitting DOE’s responses to the Board’s March 3, 1999, letter that addressed topics at the Board’s January 25-27, 1999, meetings.

Letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management thanking DOE for providing briefings, draft reports and other material on DOE’s analysis of alternative repository designs.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s Report to the U.S. Congress and the Secretary of Energy, November 1998.

Letter to Representative Joe Barton from Chairman Dr. Jared Cohon, thanking him for meeting to discuss nuclear waste management issues and enclosing a Board statement to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Letter to DOE commenting on the viability assessment, repository design, site investigations, and the Nye County Early Warning Drilling Program addressed at the Board’s January 25-27, 1999, meetings.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s October 19, 1998, letter on the Board’s June 24, 1998, meeting on alternative waste package and repository designs.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s recommendations in its Report to the Secretary of Energy; 1997 Findings and Recommendations.

Letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management transmitting comments on the Board’s June 24, 1998, meeting on alternative waste package and repository designs and a field trip to Yucca Mountain.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s Second Report of 1997 to the U.S. Congress and the Secretary of Energy.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s April 7, 1998, letter on the Board’s January 20-21, 1998, meeting on thermal testing program and saturated zone modeling.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s January 12, 1998, letter that addressed the Board’s October 1997 meeting, three Board panel meetings, and a field trip.

Letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with the Board’s comments on its January 20-21, 1998, meeting on DOE’s thermal testing program and saturated zone modeling efforts.

Letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with the Board’s comments on one full Board meeting, three panel meetings, and one field trip that occurred between October and December 1997.

Letter from DOE with its response to the Board’s recommendations in its Report to Congress and the Secretary of Energy, issued April 1997, and reporting that DOE had accelerated its planned construction of an east-west cross-drift.

April 15, 1997, Board letter to April Gil, DOE, regarding the Board's comments on the proposed revisions to the Department of Energy's (DOE) General Guidelines for the Recommendation of Sites for Nuclear Waste repositories (10 CFR 960).

Letter to Ms. April V. Gil, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office, providing the Board’s comments on proposed revisions to DOE’s General Guidelines for the Recommendation of Sites for Nuclear Waste repositories (10 CFR 960).

Letter from the Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s recommendations in its Report to the U.S. Congress and the Secretary of Energy; 1995 Findings and Recommendations.

Letter from Representative Tom Bevill, Ranking Member House Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, thanking Chairman John Cantlon for the Board’s letter updating Congress on DOE’s waste management program.

Letter to Secretary of Energy, Hazel O’Leary, advising the Secretary of the Board’s concern on the possible change in program focus from permanent underground disposal to temporary surface storage.

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