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The Department of Energy (DOE) is revising the Record of Decision (ROD) for its Waste Management Program: Treatment and Storage of Transuranic Waste prepared pursuant to the Waste Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (WM PEIS, DOE/EIS–0200–F, May 1997). This present revision, based on consideration of new information, confirms DOE’s September 6, 2002, decision to ship its transuranic (TRU) waste from the Battelle West Jefferson North Site (West Jefferson Site) in Columbus, Ohio, to the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, for storage, processing, and certification, pending disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Treatment and Storage of Transuranic Waste

The Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration has prepared and Environmental Assessment which analyzes the potential environmental effects of conducting tests, experiments, training, and other similar activities using biological simulants (non-infectious bacteria, fungi, viruses, and similar materials) and controlled releases of various chemicals at the Nevada Test Site.

Activities Using Biological Simulants and Releases of Chemicals at the Nevada Test Site

The MACCS2 code is likely to require completion of quality assurance improvement measures before meeting current SQA standards.

In Fiscal Year 2003, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission devoted approximately $9.3 million of its $23 million information technology budget to the development, operation, and maintenance of its systems. Much of this activity was intended to satisfy the President's Management Agenda initiative to expand electronic government in order to make information and services more accessible to the public and Commission staff through the Internet. In an effort to streamline its operations, in 1999 the Commission deployed its FERC Automated Management Information System (FAMIS) to provide a web-based system for internal document training and workload management. Recently, the Commission launched FERC Online, a $31 million project that consolidated nine separate development initiatives designed to provide a web-based system for managing both public and internal information.

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Disposal Phase

Department of Energy sites rely heavily on radio communications to support or facilitate activities such as site emergency response, maintenance, physical security, and protections. The Oark Ridge Reservation, which consists of the Oak Ridge Operations Office, Oake Ridge National Laboratory, East Tennessee Technology Park, and the Y-12 National Security Complex, is dependent on radio communications to link these co-located but separately managed organizations. The Manager of the Oak Ridge Operations Office has been designated the lead Federal manager for radio communications on the Reservation and provides general direction regarding system plans, certification requests, and frequency authorizations for a variety of radio communications systems.

Management of Oak Ridge Radio Transition Projects

Management of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Information Technology Program