The Department of Energy has restarted its consent-based siting process for identifying sites to store the nation's spent nuclear fuel. On December 1, the DOE published in the Federal Register a request for information that "will be used to further develop DOE's consent-based siting process and overall waste management strategy in an equitable way." In issuing the request for information, the DOE picks up where the Obama administration left off in January 2017, when just days before the new administration was sworn in, the department released a draft consent-based siting process for public comment. The DOE said that comments received from both the 2017 draft process and this current request for information will be used in developing a consent-based process for siting federal interim storage facilities, as well as planning an overall integrated waste management system strategy, and possibly a funding opportunity.
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