Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico

Federal Register: January 11, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 6)

Notices

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern

New Mexico

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice announces a combined meeting of the Environmental

Monitoring, Surveillance and Remediation Committee and Waste Management

Committee of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board

(EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico (known locally as the Northern New

Mexico Citizens' Advisory Board (NNMCAB). The Federal Advisory

Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.

DATES: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Bradbury Museum, 15th and Central, Los Alamos, New Mexico 85744.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Menice Santistevan, Northern New

Mexico Citizens' Advisory Board (NNMCAB), 1660 Old Pecos Trail, Suite

B, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Phone (505) 995-0393; Fax (505) 989-1752 or E- mail: msantistevan@doeal.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of the Board is to make recommendations to DOE-EM and site management in the areas of environmental restoration, waste management, and related activities.

Purpose of the Environmental Monitoring, Surveillance and

Remediation Committee (EMS&R): The EMS&R Committee provides a citizens' perspective to NNMCAB on current and future environmental remediation activities resulting from historical Los Alamos National Laboratory

(LANL) operations and, in particular, issues pertaining to groundwater, surface water and work required under the New Mexico Environment

Department Order on Consent. The EMS&R Committee will keep abreast of

DOE-EM and site programs and plans. The committee will work with the

NNMCAB to provide assistance in determining priorities and the best use of limited funds and time. Formal recommendations will be proposed when needed and, after consideration and approval by the full NNMCAB, may be sent to DOE-EM for action.

Purpose of the Waste Management Committee: The Waste Management

Committee reviews policies, practices and procedures, existing and proposed, so as to provide recommendations, advice, suggestions and opinions to the NNMCAB regarding the Waste Management Operations at the

Los Alamos site.

Tentative Agenda: 1 p.m. Combined EMS&R and Waste Management Committee Meeting. 2:30 p.m. Adjourn.

Public Participation: The NNMCAB's Environmental Monitoring,

Surveillance and Remediation and Waste Management Committees welcome the attendance of the public at their combined committee meeting and will make every effort to accommodate persons with physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special accommodations due to a disability, please contact Menice Santistevan at least seven days in advance of the meeting at the telephone number listed above.

Written statements may be filed with the Committees either before or after the meeting. Individuals who wish to make oral statements pertaining to agenda items should contact Menice Santistevan at the address or telephone number listed above. Requests must be received five days prior to the meeting and reasonable provision will be made to include the presentation in the agenda. The Deputy Designated Federal

Officer is empowered to conduct the meeting in a fashion that will facilitate the orderly conduct of business. Individuals wishing to make public comments will be provided a maximum of five minutes to present their comments. This notice is being published less than 15 days prior to the meeting date due to programmatic issues that had to be resolved prior to the meeting date.

Minutes: Minutes will be available by writing or calling Menice

Santistevan at the address or phone number listed above. Minutes and other Board documents are on the Internet at: http://www.nnmcab.org/.

Issued at Washington, DC, on January 6, 2010.

Rachel Samuel,

Deputy Committee Management Officer.

FR Doc. 2010-248 Filed 1-8-10; 8:45 am

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