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The U.S. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office (DOE/NV) proposes to issue a General Use Permit to the Nevada Test Site Development Corporation (NTSDC) to develop and lease an industrial park in a portion of Area 22 of Nevada Test Site (NTS). This Environmental Assessment (EA) identifies and discusses the potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
This environmental assessment presents estimated environmental impacts from the construction and operation of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE'S) Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), which is proposed to be built on DOE'S Hanford Site near Richland, Washington. The proposed location is at the south end of the 300 Area near the Columbia River. The EMSL, if constructed, would be a new laboratory facility approximately 18,580 square meters (200,000 square feet) in size.
The United States Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL) prepared this Environmental Assessment (EA) to analyze the potential environmental impacts of providing funding for the proposed Carbon Research Center
(CRC) project to be located at the existing Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) near Wilsonville, Alabama. The PSDF is owned and operated by Southern Company Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Southern Company an electric generation and transmission holding company.
(CRC) project to be located at the existing Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) near Wilsonville, Alabama. The PSDF is owned and operated by Southern Company Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Southern Company an electric generation and transmission holding company.
This environmental assessment evaluates the potential impacts from the construction and operation of a centralized anaerobic digester facility to process municipal wastewater sludge into energy and to utilize landfill gas (LFG) to produce up to 3.18 Megawatts (MW) of renewable electric power, to be located in Auburn, New York.
Based on action by the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has funding available to support a proposal by the Iroquois Bio-energy Company (IBEC), an Indiana limited liability company, to construct a fuel ethanol plant in Jasper County, Indiana (the proposed plant).
The U.S. Department of Energy, in coordination with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, conducted an environmental assessment that analyzed the potential impacts associated with the construction and operation of the proposed Wind Technology Testing Center in the Charlestown section of Boston, Massachusetts.
Bonneville Power Administration proposes to fund Kootenai Tribe of Idaho (KTOI) and Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to add liquid nitrogen and phosphorus to the Kootenai River in Idaho from late June through September for up to five years to replace nutrients lost to the hydrosystem.
The primary focus of the EA is the effect of efficiency standards on air resources. For each of the trial standard levels, total power sector emissions are calculated based on output from NEMSBRS. The EA considers only two pollutants, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), and one emission, carbon (C). Because emissions of SO2 from power plants are capped by clean air legislation, physical emissions of this pollutant from electricity generation will be only minimally affected by possible air conditioner and heat pump standards. The maximum SO2 allowed by law will most likely still be produced, but because SO2 emissions are traded, and if SO2 emissions are lowered due to less power generation, then the cost of SO2 emission credits may decrease slightly. Therefore, the EA does not consider changes in power sector SO2 emissions, although it does report household emissions savings. The only form of carbon tracked by NEMS-BRS is carbon dioxide (CO2), so the carbon discussed in this analysis is only in the form of CO2, but is reported as mass of elemental carbon, in keeping with standard practice.
A primary mission of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is to maintain the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile in a safe, secure, and reliable manner. Aging weapons contain dated and now unavailable technologies. Modernization of these weapon system components is integral to DOE’s responsibility to meet its stockpile stewardship requirements for enhanced performance, and increased safety, security, and reliability in weapons systems. To meet this responsibility, there is a need to modernize key weapon components utilizing microelectronics available only at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM). DOE has identified an increasing need to expand and modernize the existing microelectronics research and development facilities to improve processing capabilities and enhance the security environment surrounding these activities. Because of security, classification, and nonproliferation considerations, some weapon system components cannot be produced by the private sector.
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.