Financial Assistance Award; Intent To Award a Grant to National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC)

Samenvatting

The Department of Energy announces that pursuant to 10 CFR 600.6(a)(5), it is making a discretionary financial assistance award based on the criteria set forth at 10 CFR 600.7(b)(2)(i)(H) to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), under Cooperative Agreement number DE-FC01-94RW00304. The NARUC will provide administrative support to a Special Intergovernmental Review Panel in its charge to conduct an independent, financial and management evaluation of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Project in Nevada. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (P.L. 97-425), as amended by P.L. 100- 203, December 22, 1987, established the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) within the DOE, and directed the office to investigate a site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, to determine if this site is suitable for the construction of a repository for the disposal of high level nuclear waste. Work on site characterization has been underway for several years. This work has been funded by Congressional appropriations from a Nuclear Waste Fund to which contributions have been made by electric utility ratepayers through electric utilities generating power from nuclear powe