DOE/EA-2220: Documents Available for Download

The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) has completed an Environmental Assessment (EA) [DOE/EA-1488] that evaluates the processing of uranium-233 (233U) stored at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and other small quantities of similar material currently stored at other DOE sites in order to render it suitable for safe, long-term, economical storage. Based on the results of the analysis reported in the EA, DOE has determined that the proposed action is not a major federal action that would significantly affect the quality of the human environment within the meaning of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969.

The proposed Federal action is to provide funding, through a cooperative agreement with the University of Kentucky Research Foundation (UKRF), Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), for the design, construction, and operation of an advanced coal ash beneficiation processing plant at Kentucky Utilities (KU) Ghent Power Station in Carroll County, Kentucky.

The U.S. Department of Energy has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) to analyze the potential environmental consequences of providing cost-shared funding support for the design, construction, and demonstration of an integrated multi-pollutant control system at AES's Greenidge Station in Dresden, New York. The results of the analyses provided in the EA are summarized in this Finding of No Significant Impact.

This Environmental Assessment examines the potential environmental impacts of the Department of Energy's decision to support the Changing World Technologies' Thermal Conversion Process project in unincorporated Weld County, Colorado, including construction and operation of the plant, as well as a No Action Alternative.

Nevada Power Company (Nevada Power) proposes to build a 48- mile, 500-kilovolt (kV) transmission line between the Harry Allen Substation, northeast of Las Vegas Nevada, and the Mead Substation, southeast of Las Vegas (Proposed Action). Based on the EA, BLM, and Western errata, Western has determined that the proposed transmission line would not result in any significant environmental impacts, and the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) will not be required.

The Proposed Action (the No Burn Alternative) would consist of implementing a Wildfire Hazard Reduction and Forest Health Improvement Program at LANL that would not use fire as a
treatment measure. This ecosystem-based management program would initially be composed of a series of individual, small-scale projects using mechanical and manual thinning methods that
would be conducted over about 10 years with ongoing, long-term maintenance projects conducted thereafter. These carefully planned initial projects would be conducted to bring the forests at LANL to the desired end-state for wildfire risk followed by an on-going maintenance program to maintain the forests in this desired state with enhancements to improve overall forest health. An estimated 35 percent, approximately 10,000 ac (4,000 ha), of LANL would be treated under this program using forest thinning and the construction of access roads and fuel breaks as treatment measures. Wood materials generated by the treatment measures would be either donated or salvaged; waste wood materials (slash1) would primarily be disposed of through chipping and used as mulch on-site.