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Hanford Comprehensive Land-Use Plan, Hanford Site, Richland, Washington

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), which received its first shipment of waste in March 1999, was designed and constructed to safely dispose of transuranic (TRU) waste located at generator sites throughout the Department of Energy's weapons complex. The Carlsbad Area Office (Carlsbad) was established to operate WIPP and manage the Nation's TRU waste disposal efforts. To assist the waste disposal efforts, Carlsbad prepared a National TRU Waste Management Plan (Management Plan). The objective of this audit was to determine if the Management Plan was current and consistent with the information provided by the generator sites.

Planned Waste Shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Order authorizing TransAlta Energy Marketing (U.S) Inc to export electric energy to Canada.

Order authorizing TransAlta Energy Marketing (U.S) Inc to export electric energy to Canada.

Proposal to provide financial assistance for a portion of the construction and operation of a 20 million-gallon/yr biomass to ethanol facility

The Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to store immobilized high-level radioactive waste (HLW), at three DOE-owned sites (the Hanford Site in the State of Washington, the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina) and one DOE-managed site (the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York, a project that is managed by DOE under the West Valley Demonstration Project Act, at a site owned by the State of New York).

Department of Energy's Waste Management Program: Storage of High-Level Radioactive Waste (August 1999)

The Memorandum urges agencies to more actively solicit in the future the participation of state, tribal and local governments as “cooperating agencies” in implementing the environmental impact statement process. The Memorandum refers agencies to existing CEQ guidance on the types of actions and expertise that are relevant in dete rmining appropriate cooperating agencies, and encourages agencies to document their expectations, roles, and responsibilities (including funding).