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The DOE has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA), DOE/EA-1444, to analyze the potential environmental consequences of a major facilities construction effort at the Morgantown, West Virginia, campus of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Within the existing NETL site, the DOE would construct a new 3-story office building with 48,000 ft2 of usable office space, sufficient to accommodate approximately 135 employees. Existing parking space lost to the proposed new office building would be replaced by construction of a 3-level parking garage plus the addition of one or more new paved parking areas. Several old trailer buildings on the existing NETL site would be retired and removed from the site. The DOE would also purchase five (5) acres of land adjoining the existing NETL site and would construct upon this land a new 9,200 ft2, 1.5- to 2-story building to provide child-care for a
maximum of 142 children. Two residential dwellings on the acquired property would be removed to accommodate the new child-care facility. Within the low-lying part of this land, the DOE would construct a stormwater retention pond. Additionally, the NETL is considering the possibility of moving its employee credit union to the 5-acre parcel.
maximum of 142 children. Two residential dwellings on the acquired property would be removed to accommodate the new child-care facility. Within the low-lying part of this land, the DOE would construct a stormwater retention pond. Additionally, the NETL is considering the possibility of moving its employee credit union to the 5-acre parcel.
East Altamont Energy Center
Construction of New Office Building, Child-Care Facility, Parking Garage, And Storm Water Retention Pond
Proposed National Compact Stellarator Equipment Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, New Jersey
The Department has been assembling and testing heat sources and radioisotope power systems (HSIRPSs), which include radioisotope thennoelectric generators, at the Mound Site in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the past 35 years. After the events of September 11, 2001, a Department-wide review of security identified the need for enhanced security measures at the Mound site to safeguard the materials associated with the Department's HSIRPS assembly and test operations. The Department analyzed a range of options in order to provide for the extra safeguard and security measures. These include either upgrading the safeguard and security infrastructure at the Mound site to enable the program to' remain at its
current location or transferring the operations to a more secure building at the Mound site itself. In addition, the Department considered two other alternative locations, the Pantex Plant in Texas and the Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W) Site in Idaho both of which have enhanced security and safeguards measures in place because of other ongoing programs. In compliance with the requirements of NEP A, the Department prepared an environmental assessment to
consider the potential environmental impacts associated with actions that might be taken with regard to the future location of the HSIRPS operations.
current location or transferring the operations to a more secure building at the Mound site itself. In addition, the Department considered two other alternative locations, the Pantex Plant in Texas and the Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W) Site in Idaho both of which have enhanced security and safeguards measures in place because of other ongoing programs. In compliance with the requirements of NEP A, the Department prepared an environmental assessment to
consider the potential environmental impacts associated with actions that might be taken with regard to the future location of the HSIRPS operations.
The EA addresses the construction and operation of the small-scale, geothermal power plant and the direct use of geothermal fluid exhausted from the geothermal power plant as a heating source for the hatchery. Two system concepts were investigated. The preferred concept involves cascading the spent geothermal fluid from the proposed geothermal power plant to various thermal processes used for fish production. In the second concept, the proposed power plant would not be built, and the fluid from the existing geothermal well would be used for all direct-use operations associated with the project. DOE/NREL will take this opportunity to monitor and evaluate the technical and economic performance of the proposed power plant and the direct-use project. This information will be used to advance the design and use of small-scale geothermal technologies.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has assigned a continuing role to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in carrying out NNSA’s national security mission. It is imperative that LANL continue this enduring responsibility and that NNSA adequately safeguard LANL capabilities. NNSA has identified the need to restrict vehicular access to certain areas within LANL for the purpose of permanently enhancing the physical security environment at LANL. It has also identified the need to change certain traffic flow patterns for the purpose of enhancing physical safety at LANL.The Proposed Action would include the construction of eastern and western bypass roads around the LANL Technical Area (TA) 3 area and the installation of vehicle access controls and related improvements to enhance security along Pajarito Road and in the LANL core area. This Proposed Action would modify the current roadway network and traffic patterns. It would also result in traversing Areas of Environmental Interest identified in the LANL Habitat Management Plan, demolition of part of an historic structure at Building 3-40, and traversing several potential release sites and part of the Los Alamos County landfill.
Proposed Access Control and Traffic Improvements at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Proposed Future Disposition of Certain Cerro Grande Fire Flood and Sediment Retention Structures at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
DOE plans to implement the authorized limits process for determining the acceptability of waste containing low levels of residual radioactive materials on both a surface-contaminated and a volumetric basis in accordance with established DOE requirements for disposal at the C-746-U Landfill. Certain authorized limits are described in DOE Order 5400.5 Chapter IV, Residual Radioactive Materials, and are limits approved by DOE to permit the release of property from DOE control, conssitent with radiation protection standards for general employees, members of the public, and the environment.