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Press Release 96-138, NRC ACNW to Meet Oct 22-23 in Rockville,Md

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Issue date:	10/10/1996
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United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Public Affairs Washington, DC 20555 Phone 301-415-8200 Fax 301-415-2234

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No.96-138 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE I (Thursday, October 10, 1996)

NRC'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR WASTE TO MEET OCTOBER 22-23 IN ROCKVILLE, MD

!. The Nuclear ~ Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on e

Nuclear Waste (ACNW) will meet October 22-23 in Rockville, a Maryland.

! .The meeting, which is open to the public, will begin at 8:30 a.m. each day in Room T-2B3 of the Two White Flint North I. building, at 11545 Rockville Pike.'

During the two-day session, the committee will review an NRC staff draft technical position that will provide criteria for-

, screening on-site burials of radioactive waste permitted by-j' former N'C requirements to determine if further remediation is

required. NRC ataff also will.brief the committee on the l direction-setting issue papers produced as part of the agency's 4

strategic assessment of regulatory activities. The committee also will receive its annual training on government ethics requirements, proposed reports, and consider topics for future consideration.

i (ACNW schedules are subject to change. Anyone planning.to  ;

attend should confirm.the schedule the. day before the meeting by 1

calling (301) 415-5024.) l Although its meetings are open, they are not part of the

NRC's public hearing process. The ACNW.was established in 1988

. to advise the Commission on all aspects of_ nuclear waste

i management. While anyone may attend the meeting, the committee l will consider only oral or written statements arranged in advance and limited to specific matters set forth in a Notice of Meeting published in the December 6, 1995 edition of the Federal

-Register.

(NOTE TO EDITORS: The use of self-contained tape recorders in the meeting s room is permitted during the open portions of.the meeting when a transcript is being kept. The use of still, motion picture and television cameras - the physical installationand presence of which will not interfere with the course of the meeting - will be permitted both before and after the meeting, during any recess, and, at the direc-lon of the committee chairman, while the meeting is in

, session.)

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