DOE/EA-2220: Documents Available for Download

The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-managed reservation occupying about 890 square miles in southeastern Idaho. The INEEL lies within the upper Snake River Plain sagebrush steppe ecosystem. Much of the sagebrush steppe ecosystem throughout the west has been segmented and lost to development and agriculture. The remaining sagebrush steppe ecosystem and the habitat it provides is threatened with irreversible conversion to non-native annual weeds by rangeland management practices in combination with the natural fire process. The sagebrush steppe of the INEEL is now threatened and DOE must evaluate its management role and alternatives available to preserve this important component of the western ecosystem.

DOE will use this EA, and other relevant information, to determine (1) if the current cleanup standard for the radiological cleanup of ETEC facilities and all Area IV land for which DOE is responsible is appropriate for the remaining activity, and (2) whether to decontaminate and decommission the remaining sodium facility and other support facilities. The chemical contamination in soil and groundwater will be addressed under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Facility Investigation process.

Basin Electric Power Cooperative, on behalf of Florida POwer and Light Energy North Dakota Wind, LLC, applied to the Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration to interconenct the Wind Energy Center Edgeley/Kulm Project, a proposed windfarm development in La Moure County, North Dakota, to Western's Edgeley Substation.

The DOE has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA), to analyze the potential impacts of the commercial application of the Low-NOx Burner/Separated Over-Fire Air (LNB/SOFA)
integration system to achieve nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions reduction at Sunflower’s Holcomb Unit No. 1 (Holcomb Station), located near Garden City, in Finney County, Kansas. The Holcomb Station
would be modified in three distinct phases to demonstrate the synergistic effect of layering NOx control technologies.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) conducted an Environmental Assessment (EA) of the In Search of Truth (I’SOT) Canby District Heating Project, Modoc County, California, to evaluate potential environmental impacts of project construction and operations for three years. DOE would provide partial funding, through its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), to I’SOT for the development and field verification of a small-scale, geothermal district heating system. Local district heating projects have the potential for widespread application, but achieving cost effectiveness in small development projects presents a number of challenges. To address these challenges, DOE is supporting the small-scale field verification of innovative geothermal direct-use system concepts to (1) determine and validate the economics, performance, and operational characteristics of local geothermal projects in different regions. and (2) evaluate the ability of such systems to provide distributed heating in order to facilitate their increased application in the xestsm United States.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) needs to restore areas after remedial action. The purpose of this action is to supply raw aggregate material (approximately 1,104,000 bank cubic meters [bcm]) to be used as backfill for restoration projects in the 100-F, 100-H, 100-N, and 100-K Areas of the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington.

DOE proposes to construct the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The Foundry would be a resource for DOE's participation in the National Nanotechnology Initiative.