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Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is funding ongoing studies, research, and artificial production of coho salmon in the Wenatchee and Methow river basins. BPA analyzed environmental impacts of these activities in the Mid-Columbia Coho Reintroduction Feasibility Project Final EA, completed in April 1999 (DOE/EA-1282). Supplemental Analyses (DOE/EA-1282/SA-01 and -02) were prepared in April 2001 to analyze effects of additional activities proposed for the project, and in October 2001 for the Peshastin Incubation Facility. In March 2002 BPA categorically excluded dredging behind Dam 5 at the Leavenworth Fish Hatchery in connection with the project

Mid-Columbia Coho Reintroduction Feasibility Project

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Disposal Phase

Since 1992, the Department of Energy (Department) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have carried out an analytically-based Stockpile Surveillance Program to help ensure the safety, reliability, and performance of the nuclear weapons in the Nation's stockpile. On a continuing basis, NNSA randomly selects weapons from the active inventory for disassembly, inspection, and testing for defects and problems. Test results serve, in part, as a basis for certifying to the President that there is no need to resume underground nuclear testing. When the surveillance program identifies a suspected problem, NNSA must determine if further testing and analysis is warranted. If so, a Significant Finding Investigation (SFI) is opened. Weapons experts at one of the Department's defense laboratories generally conduct the SFI and are charged with determining the severity of the problem and whether further action is required.

Resolution of Significant Finding Investigation Recommendations

IAEA-TECDOC-1329 Safety Culture in Nuclear Installations, Guidance for use in the Enhancement of Safety Culture

Availability of draft DOE/EIS-0323, which analyzed Sacramento Area Voltage Support.

In August 2002, the Department of Energy (Department) formalized its plan to permanently disable the only domestic facility capable of producing electromagnetically enriched stable isotopes. The Department intended to dismantle the equipment in the facility, called calutrons, and rely on existing isotope inventories, isotopes produced by Russia, or the adaptation of other isotope separation technologies to meet the domestic demand for stable isotopes. This plan was based on the premise that the calutrons were excess to mission needs and not economical.

Calutron Isotope Production Capabilities

The Department of Energy plans to implement a ground water compliance strategy for the Uranium Mill Traillings Remedial Action Project site near Durango, Colorado.