DOE extends comment period

Monday, March 6, 2000 | 10:10 a.m.

The U.S. Department of Energy today extended the comment period by 14 days on its proposed siting guidelines for a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.

The DOE said it extended the written comment deadline because an incorrect address for the comments had been published. The agency is asking Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to streamline the guidelines for siting a repository at Yucca. Yucca Mountain is the only site under study by the federal government to store 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste.

The correct address is:

Dr. William Boyle, U.S. Department of Energy Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office, P.O. Box 30307, North Las Vegas, NV 89036-0307

or by e-mail:

10CFR963@notes.ymp.gov

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