Welcome to Lander County Yucca Mountain Oversight Program

As one of the designated Affected Units of Local Government (AUG), Lander County maintains this website to inform citizens about issues related to the proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository planned 90 miles north of Las Vegas. This website will also continue to update as activities and decisions happen that concern the potential transportation of nuclear waste in Lander County and Nevada.

Challenges
Transcripts

Lander County, along with Churchill, Esmeralda, and Mineral Counties filed joint contentions on December 19, 2008. As " Affected Units of Local Government" (AULG) and in agreement with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and the Federal Register Notice Vol. 73, No. 205, dated October 22,2008, "any AULG seeking party status shall be considered a party to this proceeding, provided that it files at least one admissible contention in accordance with 10 CFR 2.309.

Update 5/11/09

ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING BOARD ADMITS EIGHT PARTIES, 299 CONTENTIONS IN YUCCA MOUNTAIN PROCEEDING

Update - 5/21/09

May 21st, 2009 was the final day for anyone wishing to appeal the rulings of the hearing boards concerning the admission of contentions. The following is what occurred:

DOE did not appeal any contentions which means the four counties (Churchill, Esmeralda, Mineral and Lander) are set as a full party-participant, and the admitted contentions will have full hearings, after discovery is completed.
The NRC staff appealed ten contentions filed by California, NEI and the State of Nevada, but none of the four counties.
Clark County filed an appeal of the denial of one of their contentions.

Summary of four county contentions accepted for hearing

Our Trackhearings link has all the updates related to the ongoing Yucca Mountain High-Level Waste hearings.

All petitions to intervene and the DOE responses can be viewed at trackhearings.com

The following are the oral argument transcripts from the three day First Pre-hearing conference to discuss the challenges to the DOE's License Application, and to determine party standing for the hearings.

March 31, 2009

April 1st, 2009

April 2nd, 2009

This website contains documents, photos, maps, and more about the history and current developments concerning the Yucca Mountain Repository program. If you have any questions or suggestions please contacts us.

The Lander County repository oversight program office is located in Austin, Nevada with a smaller office maintained in Battle Mountain for the Board of County Commissioners. Primary tasks include: grant administration, financial management, and overall program implementation, communication and coordination with other Lander County departments.

The primary function of oversight activities is to attend program related meetings, conferences and workshops, monitor program activities, review studies and other related information and provide periodic reports to the Lander County Board of County Commissioners. Oversight functions will be administered by county staff, elected officials and the planning consultant.

Lander County anticipates coordination with or attendance at meetings with the following entities:

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