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.
