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The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) prepared this environmental assessment (EA) to analyze the potential environmental impacts of the proposed offsite transportation of certain low-level radioactive waste (LLW) and mixed (i.e., hazardous and radioactive) low-level radioactive waste (MLLW) from the Savannah River Site (SRS), located near Aiken, South Carolina (Figure 1-1). DOE needs to take action because treatment and disposal capabilities for these wastes do not exist at the site and/or it is more beneficial to DOE to dispose of the waste at another location. DOE proposes to transport five forms of LLW or MLLW (Table 1-1) to offsite commercial and Government facilities for treatment and/or final disposal.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Savannah River Operations Office (SR) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Savannah River Site (SRS) Office prepared this environmental assessment (EA) to analyze the potential environmental impacts of the temporary dry storage of a cask containing Tritium-Producing Burnable Absorber Rods (TPBARs) in the Transfer Bay in K Area, at SRS, located near Aiken, South Carolina.
The purpose of the "Proposed Action" is to control the sugar beet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus (Baker), the only known vector of CTV. Without the control of BLH, the CTV
would threaten well over three billion dollars of susceptible crops and home gardens.
With only a 1% loss from CTV in California, it is estimated that during the period 1974-1976, California suffered annual losses of $9.75 million in commercial crops alone.
A $2.68 million loss in home gardens can be extrapolated from a 1974 value of $268,199,643 using a 1% infection rate (Yokomi, 1979). Without control where required,
BLH is capable of an infection rate of 10-40% or more. Infection rates as high as 80% were observed near Huron, CA in 1977. Were it not for the Program's effective control of BLH and the support of the affected industries, the state and nation would lose a substantial portion of its tomato, sugar beet, melon, bean, squash, pumpkin, cucumber, pepper and spinach crops valued in excess of $1.2 billion annually.
would threaten well over three billion dollars of susceptible crops and home gardens.
With only a 1% loss from CTV in California, it is estimated that during the period 1974-1976, California suffered annual losses of $9.75 million in commercial crops alone.
A $2.68 million loss in home gardens can be extrapolated from a 1974 value of $268,199,643 using a 1% infection rate (Yokomi, 1979). Without control where required,
BLH is capable of an infection rate of 10-40% or more. Infection rates as high as 80% were observed near Huron, CA in 1977. Were it not for the Program's effective control of BLH and the support of the affected industries, the state and nation would lose a substantial portion of its tomato, sugar beet, melon, bean, squash, pumpkin, cucumber, pepper and spinach crops valued in excess of $1.2 billion annually.
This revision sheet documents the changes incorporated into the Palisades-Goshen Transmission Line Reconstruction Project Preliminary Environmental Assessment (EA). With the addition of these changes, the Preliminary EA will not be reprinted and serves as the Final EA.
As part of National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) continued streamlining and consolidation of the Nuclear Weapons Complex, the neutron generator target development and production processes that reside at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM) and Los Alamos National Laboratory need to be consolidated.
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) proposes through a cooperative agreement with Burns & McDonnell Engineering, to partially fund project activities to design, install, and demonstrate an innovative biomass boiler pilot project that would offset a significant percentage of the natural gas consumption used for steam generation at the Frito-Lay manufacturing plant.
The National Nuclear Secuxity Administration (NNSA) prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) (DOEIEA-1381) to analyze the proposed action to relocate the Atlas
pulse power machine from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to the Nevada Test Site (NTS). At the NTS, Atlas would be reassembled in a newly constructed building within a designated Industrial, Research, and Support site in Area 6. After reassembly, Atlas would be commissioned to ensure proper operation and then used to conduct approximately 40 pulsed power experiments per year, with a potential to increase to approximately 100 experiments per year, should the Stockpile Stewardship Program require it. The EA also addresses alternatives to the proposed action and analyzes the noaction alternative wherein the Atlas pulse power machine would remain in Los Alamos, New Mexico and continue to be operated at the LANL site.
pulse power machine from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to the Nevada Test Site (NTS). At the NTS, Atlas would be reassembled in a newly constructed building within a designated Industrial, Research, and Support site in Area 6. After reassembly, Atlas would be commissioned to ensure proper operation and then used to conduct approximately 40 pulsed power experiments per year, with a potential to increase to approximately 100 experiments per year, should the Stockpile Stewardship Program require it. The EA also addresses alternatives to the proposed action and analyzes the noaction alternative wherein the Atlas pulse power machine would remain in Los Alamos, New Mexico and continue to be operated at the LANL site.
The Department of Energy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should implement an Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan for Rock Creek Reserve located in the Buffer Zone at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site for the period 2001-2006 (or until closure) to manage natural resources, as well as to support the Rocky Flats cleanup and closure mission, and compliance with various environmental laws. Full implementation of the plan will also ensure the continued quality of Rock Creek Reserve’s natural resources for the ultimate re-use and land ownership decisions yet to be made.
Implementing the Rock Creek Reserve Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan would not result in detrimental impacts. Minor adverse impacts on wildlife habitat will be mitigated by full implementation of restorative and proactive wildlife management provisions in the Plan. Implementing the Plan would provide beneficial impacts to soil, water, and biological resources, including federallylisted, threatened and endangered species. Implementation would allow the DOE and USFWS to manage the natural resources of Rock Creek Reserve in an effective manner to meet current and future
conservation needs.
Implementing the Rock Creek Reserve Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan would not result in detrimental impacts. Minor adverse impacts on wildlife habitat will be mitigated by full implementation of restorative and proactive wildlife management provisions in the Plan. Implementing the Plan would provide beneficial impacts to soil, water, and biological resources, including federallylisted, threatened and endangered species. Implementation would allow the DOE and USFWS to manage the natural resources of Rock Creek Reserve in an effective manner to meet current and future
conservation needs.
This environmental assessment (EA) evaluates environmental issues associated with a project that will be cost-shared by DOE and private industry under the Innovative Clean Coal Technology Program. The proposed action is a coke oven gas cleaning technology demonstration project proposed to be installed and operated at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Sparrows Point Plant, in Baltimore County, Maryland.
This environmental assessment (EA) evaluates the potential impacts of a proposed demonstration project to be cost-shared by DOE and NOXSO Corporation under the terms of Clean Coal Technology (CCT) Demonstration Program. The project would demonstrate the NOXSO flue gas treatment technology, which is designed to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) emissions from existing coal-fired electric generating units.