LAS VEGAS -- The deadline has been extended to Feb. 4 as the draft December 2006 Revised Environmental Assessment for Divine Strake was reposted due to an inadvertent omission of 10 pages.

The comments are being sought for a large-scale, open-air explosive detonation at the Nevada Test Site.

According to the National Nuclear Security Administration, chapters five to seven, including 10 pages of agencies and persons consulted, definition of technical terms and references, were inadvertently omitted from the document, which was released Dec. 22.

As a result of this inadvertent omission, the NNSA has decided to immediately distribute the missing chapters to stakeholders who received hard copies of the document.

In addition, the NNSA has removed the incomplete electronic image of the document from the NNSA Nevada Site Office Web site at www.nv.doe.gov and replaced it with an image of the complete document.

The Nevada NNSA apologizes for any inconvenience this inadvertent error may have caused.

To allow for the originally intended time for stakeholder review of the entire document (inclusive of the remaining pages), the deadline for submission of comments has been extended to close of business on Feb. 7.

Comments can be submitted in a number of ways.

Written comments can be mailed to: NNSA/NSO Divine Strake EA Comments, P.O. Box 98518, Las Vegas 89193-8518; Email: divinestrake@nv.doe.gov; fax (702) 295-0625.

The updated document is also available for review at the NNSA/NSO Public Reading Room at the Frank Rogers Building, 775 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas.