Notice of Modifications to the Preferred Alternatives for Tank Waste Treatment and Disposal of Off Site Waste in the Draft Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement for the Hanford Site, Richland, WA, 67189-67190 [E9-30173]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Modifications to the
Preferred Alternatives for Tank Waste
Treatment and Disposal of Off Site
Waste in the Draft Tank Closure and
Waste Management Environmental
Impact Statement for the Hanford Site,
Richland, WA
Department of Energy.
Modification of Preferred
Alternatives.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) is modifying its preferred
alternatives for tank waste treatment
and also for disposal of off-site waste in
the Draft Tank Closure and Waste
Management Environmental Impact
Statement for the Hanford Site,
Richland, Washington (Draft EIS, DOE/
EIS–00391), made available for public
comment on October 30, 2009 (74 FR
56194). This Draft EIS has been
prepared in accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) and its implementing
regulations. The public comment period
for the Draft EIS extends to March 19,
2010.
In this Draft EIS, DOE analyzed, as a
reasonable alternative, treating and
sending waste from specific tanks to the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), in
Carlsbad, New Mexico, as mixed
transuranic (TRU) waste. DOE is now
expressing its preference that no
Hanford tank wastes would be shipped
to WIPP. These wastes would be
retrieved and treated in the Waste
Treatment Plant (WTP) being
constructed at Hanford. The State of
Washington Department of Ecology
(Ecology), a cooperating agency on the
EIS, has revised its Foreword to the
Draft EIS in response to this
modification to the preferred alternative
for tank waste. That revision can be
found under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
In addition, consistent with DOE’s
preference regarding receipt at Hanford
of off-site low-level radioactive waste
(LLW) and low-level mixed waste
(MLLW), DOE would not ship GreaterThan-Class-C (GTCC) LLW to Hanford at
least until the WTP is operational (DOE
is analyzing disposal of GTCC LLW in
a separate EIS).
ADDRESSES: The Draft EIS is available
electronically through, and written
comments can be submitted at,
TC&WMEIS@saic.com, or by faxing to
(1–888) 785–2865. Paper copies may be
obtained by request to the EIS website
or by contacting: Mary Beth Burandt,
Document Manager, TC & WM EIS
comments, Office of River Protection,
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P.O. Box 1178, Richland, Washington
99352.
The Draft EIS is also available at
DOE’s NEPA Web site at https://
www.gc.energy.gov/nepa.
Written comments may be mailed to
the document manager at the address
above. Further, DOE will accept oral as
well as written comments on the Draft
EIS during public hearings to be
announced soon in the Federal Register
and local media.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information on the Draft EIS,
contact Ms. Burandt at the address
above or by telephone, at (1–888) 829–
6347. For further information on DOE’s
NEPA process, contact: Carol M.
Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA
Policy and Compliance, Office of
General Counsel, U.S. Department of
Energy, Washington, DC 20585–0103,
Telephone: (202) 586–4600, or leave a
message at (800) 472–2756.
Further information on the Draft EIS
is also available through the Hanford
Web site at: https://www.hanford.gov/
orp.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft
Tank Closure and Waste Management
Environmental Impact Statement has
been prepared in accordance with NEPA
and its implementing regulations. The
Draft EIS analyzes alternatives for
proposed actions in three major areas
related to the cleanup of the Hanford
Site. These are: (1) Retrieving and
treating radioactive waste from 177
underground storage tanks at Hanford
and closure of the 149 single-shell
tanks; (2) decommissioning of the Fast
Flux Test Facility, a nuclear test reactor,
and its auxiliary facilities; and (3)
continued and expanded solid waste
management operations on site,
including the disposal of Hanford’s
LLW and MLLW, and limited volumes
of LLW and MLLW from other DOE
sites. The Draft EIS also analyzes no
action alternatives for each of the three
types of proposed actions as required
under NEPA for use as a basis for
comparison of the alternatives.
In the Draft EIS, DOE narrowed its
range of preferred alternatives to five
(Section S.7.1 of the Summary and
Section 2.12 of the main volume). Three
of these alternatives contain options for
treating the waste from specific tanks as
mixed TRU waste (approximately 3
million gallons) that would be prepared
as necessary and shipped to WIPP for
disposal. Based on further
consideration, DOE has concluded that
its preference is to manage the waste
from these tanks by treating it through
the WTP currently under construction
as either high-level waste or low-activity
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waste as would be the case with the
other waste to be treated in each
alternative; it would thus not be
shipped to WIPP for disposal. Ecology,
a cooperating agency on this EIS, has
requested the following modification to
its Foreword in response to that change:
Ecology acknowledges that
subsequent to publishing the draft EIS,
DOE has revised its preferred alternative
to propose that waste from specific
Hanford tanks containing what DOE
believes might be mixed TRU waste be
treated at Hanford through the WTP.
This change does not alter Ecology’s
expectations concerning this waste.
Because Ecology has had, and continues
to have, legal and technical concerns
with any Hanford tank waste being
classified as mixed TRU waste, Ecology
has always assumed that the waste
would be treated at Hanford through the
WTP. Ecology expects that the end date
for completing treatment of Hanford’s
tank waste will not be altered by
treating the waste from these specific
tanks through the WTP.
Regarding DOE’s preferred alternative
for waste management, (Section S.7.3 of
the Summary and Section 2.12 of the
main volume) DOE would not send
LLW and MLLW from other DOE sites
to Hanford for disposal (with some
limited specific exceptions) at least
until the WTP is operational, consistent
with DOE’s proposed settlement
agreement with the State of Washington.
Off-site waste would be addressed after
the WTP is operational subject to
appropriate NEPA review. Although the
Draft EIS considers the cumulative
impacts of the potential receipt of GTCC
LLW at Hanford, DOE is preparing a
separate EIS on GTCC LLW disposition.
However, similar to its preference
regarding the importation of LLW and
MLLW, DOE announces that it does not
prefer to import GTCC LLW to Hanford
at least until the WTP is operational.
Issued in Washington, DC, on December
10, 2009.
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Ines R. Triay,
Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Modifications to the Preferred Alternatives for Tank
Waste Treatment and Disposal of Off Site Waste in the Draft Tank
Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement for the
Hanford Site, Richland, WA
AGENCY: Department of Energy.
ACTION: Modification of Preferred Alternatives.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is modifying its preferred
alternatives for tank waste treatment and also for disposal of off-site
waste in the Draft Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental
Impact Statement for the Hanford Site, Richland, Washington (Draft EIS,
DOE/EIS-00391), made available for public comment on October 30, 2009
(74 FR 56194). This Draft EIS has been prepared in accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its implementing
regulations. The public comment period for the Draft EIS extends to
March 19, 2010.
In this Draft EIS, DOE analyzed, as a reasonable alternative,
treating and sending waste from specific tanks to the Waste Isolation
Pilot Plant (WIPP), in Carlsbad, New Mexico, as mixed transuranic (TRU)
waste. DOE is now expressing its preference that no Hanford tank wastes
would be shipped to WIPP. These wastes would be retrieved and treated
in the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) being constructed at Hanford. The
State of Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology), a cooperating
agency on the EIS, has revised its Foreword to the Draft EIS in
response to this modification to the preferred alternative for tank
waste. That revision can be found under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
In addition, consistent with DOE's preference regarding receipt at
Hanford of off-site low-level radioactive waste (LLW) and low-level
mixed waste (MLLW), DOE would not ship Greater-Than-Class-C (GTCC) LLW
to Hanford at least until the WTP is operational (DOE is analyzing
disposal of GTCC LLW in a separate EIS).
ADDRESSES: The Draft EIS is available electronically through, and
written comments can be submitted at, TC&WMEIS@saic.com, or by faxing
to (1-888) 785-2865. Paper copies may be obtained by request to the EIS
website or by contacting: Mary Beth Burandt, Document Manager, TC & WM
EIS comments, Office of River Protection, P.O. Box 1178, Richland,
Washington 99352.
The Draft EIS is also available at DOE's NEPA Web site at https://www.gc.energy.gov/nepa.
Written comments may be mailed to the document manager at the
address above. Further, DOE will accept oral as well as written
comments on the Draft EIS during public hearings to be announced soon
in the Federal Register and local media.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information on the Draft
EIS, contact Ms. Burandt at the address above or by telephone, at (1-
888) 829-6347. For further information on DOE's NEPA process, contact:
Carol M. Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance,
Office of General Counsel, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
20585-0103, Telephone: (202) 586-4600, or leave a message at (800) 472-
2756.
Further information on the Draft EIS is also available through the
Hanford Web site at: https://www.hanford.gov/orp.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft Tank Closure and Waste Management
Environmental Impact Statement has been prepared in accordance with
NEPA and its implementing regulations. The Draft EIS analyzes
alternatives for proposed actions in three major areas related to the
cleanup of the Hanford Site. These are: (1) Retrieving and treating
radioactive waste from 177 underground storage tanks at Hanford and
closure of the 149 single-shell tanks; (2) decommissioning of the Fast
Flux Test Facility, a nuclear test reactor, and its auxiliary
facilities; and (3) continued and expanded solid waste management
operations on site, including the disposal of Hanford's LLW and MLLW,
and limited volumes of LLW and MLLW from other DOE sites. The Draft EIS
also analyzes no action alternatives for each of the three types of
proposed actions as required under NEPA for use as a basis for
comparison of the alternatives.
In the Draft EIS, DOE narrowed its range of preferred alternatives
to five (Section S.7.1 of the Summary and Section 2.12 of the main
volume). Three of these alternatives contain options for treating the
waste from specific tanks as mixed TRU waste (approximately 3 million
gallons) that would be prepared as necessary and shipped to WIPP for
disposal. Based on further consideration, DOE has concluded that its
preference is to manage the waste from these tanks by treating it
through the WTP currently under construction as either high-level waste
or low-activity
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waste as would be the case with the other waste to be treated in each
alternative; it would thus not be shipped to WIPP for disposal.
Ecology, a cooperating agency on this EIS, has requested the following
modification to its Foreword in response to that change:
Ecology acknowledges that subsequent to publishing the draft EIS,
DOE has revised its preferred alternative to propose that waste from
specific Hanford tanks containing what DOE believes might be mixed TRU
waste be treated at Hanford through the WTP. This change does not alter
Ecology's expectations concerning this waste. Because Ecology has had,
and continues to have, legal and technical concerns with any Hanford
tank waste being classified as mixed TRU waste, Ecology has always
assumed that the waste would be treated at Hanford through the WTP.
Ecology expects that the end date for completing treatment of Hanford's
tank waste will not be altered by treating the waste from these
specific tanks through the WTP.
Regarding DOE's preferred alternative for waste management,
(Section S.7.3 of the Summary and Section 2.12 of the main volume) DOE
would not send LLW and MLLW from other DOE sites to Hanford for
disposal (with some limited specific exceptions) at least until the WTP
is operational, consistent with DOE's proposed settlement agreement
with the State of Washington. Off-site waste would be addressed after
the WTP is operational subject to appropriate NEPA review. Although the
Draft EIS considers the cumulative impacts of the potential receipt of
GTCC LLW at Hanford, DOE is preparing a separate EIS on GTCC LLW
disposition. However, similar to its preference regarding the
importation of LLW and MLLW, DOE announces that it does not prefer to
import GTCC LLW to Hanford at least until the WTP is operational.
Issued in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2009.
In[eacute]s R. Triay,
Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management.
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