Extension of Public Comment Period and Additional Public Meeting for the Supplemental Yucca Mountain Rail Corridor and Rail Alignment Environmental Impact Statement

Résumé

On October 13, 2006, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published an Amended Notice of Intent (71 FR 60484) to expand the scope of the ongoing "Environmental Impact Statement for the Alignment, Construction and Operation of a Rail Line to a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada" (entitled the Supplemental Yucca Mountain Rail Corridor and Rail Alignment EIS) (DOE/EIS-0250F-S2 and EIS-0369), and announced a 45-day public comment period ending on November 27, 2006. Based on input from the public, DOE is now announcing an additional public meeting in Reno, Nevada. The public comment period also is being extended through December 12, 2006. Additionally, DOE has posted graphical representations of the rail routes at the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Web site http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov under the caption, What's New.