Welcome to the
OCRWM web site. This page identifies
OCRWM's mission and purpose.
Welcome to the U.S. Department of
Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive
Waste Management's web site, where
our goal is to keep stakeholders
informed of activities pertaining
to the Yucca Mountain Project in
Nye County, Nevada.
Our mission at OCRWM is to manage
and dispose of the Nation’s
military and civilian high-level
radioactive waste and spent nuclear
fuel in a manner that protects the
health and safety of the public without
harming the environment.
For more than 25 years, the Department
of Energy dedicated its
resources to gathering and analyzing
information about Yucca Mountain
for Congressional consideration as
the nation’s
first repository for high-level radioactive
waste and spent nuclear fuel. In
2002, Congress approved that Yucca
Mountain be further developed as
an underground repository.
Today, while scientific activity
continues, the program is moving
into its next major phase of designing,
engineering and licensing the Yucca
Mountain Repository. In July 2006,
I announced the new Yucca
Mountain schedule along with four strategic
objectives for the program:
- Submit a high-quality and
docketable license
application to
the NRC no later than June 30, 2008
- Design, staff and train
the OCRWM organization such that
it has the skills and culture needed
to design, license and manage the
construction and operation of the
Yucca
Mountain Project with safety,
quality and cost-effectiveness.
- Address the Federal Government’s
mounting
liability associated with
unmet contractual obligations,
outlined in the Nuclear
Waste Policy Act, to move spent fuel from nuclear
plant sites.
- Develop and begin
implementation of a comprehensive
national spent fuel transportation plan that accommodates state, local
and tribal concerns to the greatest
extent practicable.
Effective progress in the four areas
outlined above is critical to resolving
the nation’s growing need to
safely dispose of high-level radioactive
waste and spent nuclear fuel, and
these areas will be receiving my
full attention during my tenure in
this office.
Please feel free to explore our
website to learn more about Yucca
Mountain, nuclear waste disposal,
our program and our people. Let us
know how we can make it better.
Sincerely,
Ward Sproat
Quarterly Progress Reports to Congress:
October 1 - December 31, 2007
July 1 - September 30, 2007*
April
1 - June 30, 2007
January
1 - March 31, 2007
October
1 - December 31, 2006
July
1 - September 30, 2006
Testimony to Congress:
Statement of Edward F. Sproat III to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, April 10, 2008
Statement of Edward F. Sproat III to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, April 9, 2008
Statement of Edward F. Sproat III to the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, October 31, 2007
Statement of Edward F. Sproat III to the House Committee on the
Budget, Oct. 4, 2007
Statement of Edward F. Sproat III to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, March 28, 2007
Statement of Edward F. Sproat III to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, March 7, 2007
More testimony
*This report includes information about October 2007 activities.
Last reviewed: 04/08
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