Session 1. Underground laboratories: Experience and objectives, An overview of strategies for in-situ investigations for radioactive waste disposal, United States Department of Energy strategy for in-situ testing at candidate repository sites Session 2. Reviews of experiments in the major rock types, Session 3. Design and instrumentation for in situ experiments in granite and basalt, Session4. Design and instrumentation for in situ experiments in clay Session 5. Design and instrumentation of in situ experiments in salt Session 6. Oveviews and conclusions