Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management annual report to Congress

Technical Report · Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/60481· OSTI ID:60481

This is the fifth Annual Report to Congress by the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM). The report covers the activities and expenditures of OCRWM during fiscal year 1987, which ended on September 30, 1987. The activities and accomplishments of OCRWM during fiscal year 1987 are discussed in chapters 1 through 9 of this report. The audited financial statements of the Nuclear Waste Fund are provided in chapter 10. Since the close of the fiscal year, a number of significant events have occurred. Foremost among them was the passage of the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987 (Amendments Act) on December 21, 1987, nearly 3 months after the end of the fiscal year covered by this report. As a result, some of the plans and activities discussed in chapters 1 through 9 are currently undergoing significant change or are being discontinued. Most prominent among the provisions of the Amendments Act is the designation of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the only candidate first repository site to be characterized. Therefore, the site characterization plans for Deaf Smith, Texas, and Hanford, Washington, discussed in chapter 3, will not be issued. The refocusing of the waste management program under the Amendments Act is highlighted in the epilogue, chapter 11. 68 refs., 7 figs., 7 tabs.

• Research Organization: USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM), Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 60481
• Report Number(s): DOE/RW-0189; ON: TI88016123
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Aug 1988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY
05 NUCLEAR FUELS
NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACTS
AMENDMENTS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC POLICY
AMERICAN INDIANS
MISSION ANALYSIS
MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE
PLANNING
PROGRESS REPORT
QUALITY ASSURANCE
SAFETY
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
SITE SELECTION
SPENT FUEL CASKS
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
US DOE
Yucca Mountain Project