The statutorily required information is set out in Section 114(a)(1)
of the NWPA, which states:
Together with any recommendation of a site under this paragraph,
the Secretary shall make available to the public, and submit to
the President, a comprehensive statement of the basis of such recommendation,
including the following:
(A) a description of the proposed repository, including preliminary
engineering specifications for the facility;
(B) a description of the waste form or packaging proposed for
use at such repository, and an explanation of the relationship
between such waste form or packaging and the geologic medium of
such site;
(C) a discussion of data, obtained in site characterization activities,
relating to the safety of such site;
(D) a final environmental impact statement prepared for the Yucca
Mountain site pursuant to subsection (f) and the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.], together with comments
made concerning such environmental impact statement by the Secretary
of the Interior, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Administrator,
and the Commission, except that the Secretary shall not be required
in any such environmental impact statement to consider the need
for a repository, the alternatives to geological disposal, or alternative
sites to the Yucca Mountain site;
(E) preliminary comments of the Commission concerning the extent
to which the at-depth site characterization analysis and the waste
form proposal for such site seem to be sufficient for inclusion
in any application to be submitted by the Secretary for licensing
of such site as a repository;
(F) the views and comments of the Governor and legislature of
any State, or the governing body of any affected Indian tribe,
as determined by the Secretary, together with the response of the
Secretary to such views;
(G) such other information as the Secretary considers appropriate;
and
(H) any impact report submitted under section 116(c)(2)(B) [42
U.S.C. 10136(c)(2)(B)] by the State of Nevada.
This material is attached to the Recommendation, as follows:
- The description of the repository called for by section 114(a)(1)(A)
is contained in Chapter 2 of the YMS&ER,
Rev. 1.
- The material relating to the waste form called for by section
114(a)(1)(B) is contained in Chapters 3 and 4 of the YMS&ER,
Rev. 1.
- The discussion of site characterization data called for by section
114(a)(1)(C) is contained in Chapter 4 of the YMS&ER,
Rev. 1.
- The EIS-related material called for by section 114(a)(1)(D)
is contained in the Final
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a Geologic Repository
for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive
Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, along
with letters received from the Secretary
of the Interior, the Chair
of the Council on Environmental Quality, the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chairman
of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), transmitting
their respective comments on the final EIS.
- The information called for by section 114(a)(1)(E) is contained
in a letter from NRC Chairman
Meserve to Under Secretary Card, dated November 13, 2001.
- The information called for by section 114(a)(1)(F) is contained
in Section 2 of two separate reports, the Comment
Summary Document (CSD) and the Supplemental Comment
Summary Document (SCSD), and in a separate
document providing responses to comments from the Governor
of Nevada sent to the Department after the public comment periods
on a possible site recommendation closed.
- Section 114(a)(1)(G) provides for the inclusion of other
information as the Secretary considers appropriate. The report, Yucca
Mountain Site Suitability Evaluation (DOE/RW-0549,
February 2002 ), has been included as other information. This
report provides an evaluation of the suitability of the Yucca
Mountain site against Departmental guidelines setting forth
the criteria and methodology to be used in determining the
suitability of the Yucca Mountain site, pursuant to section
113(b)(1)(A)(iv). In addition, impact reports submitted by
the various Nevada counties have
been included as other information to be forwarded to the President.
In transmitting these reports to the President, the Department
is neither deciding on, nor endorsing, any specific impact
assistance requested by the governmental entities in those
reports.
- The State of Nevada submitted an impact
report pursuant to section 114(a)(1)(H). In transmitting
this report to the President, the Department is likewise
neither deciding on, nor endorsing this report.
