OCRWM
Annual Report to Congress
Fiscal Year 1996

May, 1997

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Legislative Mandate

From the Director

Program Profile

Summary -- Budget Cuts Narrow Work Scope, But Progress Continues

Chapter One -- Yucca Mountain Toward Convergence Focusing on What Matters: the Strategy for Waste Containment and Isolation The Exploratory Studies Facility: Toward Daylight Core Science: Site Investigations and Analyses Advances in Repository and Waste Package Design Repository Performance Assessment Stakeholder and Public Interactions Environment, Safety, and Health International Cooperation

Chapter Two -- Waste Acceptance, Storage, and Transportation Refocusing Our Approach Developing a Market-Driven Strategy Interim Storage Contingency Planning Preparing to Accept Waste Technical Developments Institutional Activities

Chapter Three -- Program Management Managing Budgetary and Programmatic Impacts Strengthening Management Controls Program Integration Assuring the Quality of Our Work Human Resources Contracting Information Technology

Chapter Four -- Working with External Parties Review, Regulation, and Oversight Working with Stakeholders and Other Parties Cooperative Agreements Public Information and Outreach Scholarship and Fellowship Programs

Chapter Five -- Financial Management Program Funding Long-Range Financial Planning Civilian Radioactive Waste Research and Development Account

APPENDIX A -- Financial Statements

APPENDIX B -- Key Federal Laws and Regulations

APPENDIX C -- Fiscal Year 1996 Meetings with Regulators and Oversight Bodies

APPENDIX D -- OCRWM Publications, Fiscal Year 1996

APPENDIX E -- Selected Publications from Other Organizations, Fiscal Year 1996