DOE/EA-2220: Documents Available for Download

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the State of Alaska are proposing to jointly fund a project that is intended to demonstrate and evaluate the feasibility of wind turbinegenerated power in the challenging Alaskan environment. Several sites in Naknek, Unalaska, and Nome, Alaska, underwent an initial evaluation to determine their potential suitability for the proposed wind turbine project. Through an iterative screening process involving Federal, State, and local agency input, one potentially acceptable site in the Nome area was selected for more detailed evaluation in this final environmental assessment (EA). The site being considered is located atop Anvil Mountain (Figure 1). The proposed site is approximately 6 to 8 kilometers (4 to 5 miles) north of the town of Nome, adjacent to a decommissioned U.S. Air Force radar station that was an element of the Alaska Communications System ("White Alice Communication System" [WACS]) and the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the State of Alaska are proposing to jointly fund a project that is intended to demonstrate and evaluate the feasibility of wind turbine generated power in the challenging Alaskan environment. Several sites in Naknek, Unalaska, and Nome, Alaska, underwent an initial evaluation to determine their potential suitability for the proposed wind turbine project. Through an iterative screening process involving Federal, State, and local agency input, one potentially acceptable site in the Nome area was selected for more detailed evaluation in this final environmental assessment (EA). The site being considered is located atop Anvil Mountain (Figure 1). The proposed site is approximately 6 to 8 kilometers (4 to 5 miles) north of the town of Nome, adjacent to a decommissioned U.S. Air Force radar station that was an element of the Alaska Communications System ("White Alice Communication System" [WACS]) and the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line.

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Department of Energy (DOE), is proposing to fund the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) Captive Rearing Initiative for Salmon River Chinook Salmon Program (IDFG Program). The IDFG Program is a small-scale research and production initiative designed to increase numbers of three weak but recoverable populations of spring/summer chinook salmon in the Salmon River drainage. This would increase numbers of spring/summer chinook salmon within the Snake River
Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU), and reduce population fragmentation within the ESU.

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.