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RCED-94-258R 1 (1994-07-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackps0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-257710 July 27, 1994 The Honorable Judy M. Sheldrew Commissioner, Public Service Commission State of Nevada 727 Fairview Drive Carson City, Nevada 89710 Mr. Alex Radin President, Radin & Associates, Inc. 1200 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 We appreciate the opportunity you gave us to comment on your draft statement of work for the independent financial and management evaluation of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project. This evaluation was chartered by the Secretary of Energy as one part of her ongoing review of the DOE program established by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended, to dispose of highly radioactive wastes produced by civilian nuclear power plants and by DOE's nuclear weapons complex. We are primarily concerned that the scope of the evaluation, as chartered, is limited to selected issues pertaining to the Yucca Mountain project. Broader issues are not included within the scope of review; for example, the evaluation is designed to focus on project schedules and funding rather than on the larger issue of whether the disposal program is organized and managed to facilitate the accomplishment of its mission. Although the evaluation could provide useful insights into the project, it would not satisfy our earlier call for reviews of the disposal program by both the Secretary and an independent entity. Because its scope is limited, the evaluation could accept the assumptions of DOE's existing approach to site characterization without considering fundamental changes, if warranted, to the approach. In our view, the proposed emphasis on project schedules and milestones and on the GAORCED-94-258R, Independent Evaluation

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