Categorical Exclusion Determination
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
December 1, 2016This overarching (OA) environmental checklist (EC) updates and replaces EC INL-05-002, "Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Program." This OA EC addresses ongoing and future research and development (R&D) activities and training exercises and simulations conducted as part of Idaho National Laboratory's (INL's) National Security and Infrastructure Protection Programs through 2017. The National Security and Infrastructure Protection Program at INL provides a program and areas across the INL to conduct a wide variety of training exercises and simulations and R&D related to communications, facility design and management, security, and other activities associated with national security and infrastructure protection. The R&D is bench-scale, small-scale, or pilot-scale in nature and often conducted to demonstrate proof-of-concept.