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Dated: January 22, 2019. 

Frank Brogan, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Amended Record of Decision for the 

Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste 

Approach at the Hanford Site, 

Washington 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

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SUMMARY: This is an amendment to the 

U.S. Department of Energy’(DOE) 2013 

Record of Decision (ROD) for the Final 

Tank Closure and Waste Management 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Hanford Site, Richland, Washington 

(DOE/EIS–0391, December 2012) 

(TC&WM EIS) published in the Federal 

Register on December 13, 2013. In the 

TC&WM EIS, DOE analyzed 11 

alternatives for the retrieval, treatment, 

storage, and disposal of tank wastes, 

followed by the closure of the singleshell waste storage tanks (SSTs) at the 

Hanford Site. The six other alternatives 

analyzed in the TC&WM EIS concerned 

waste management and Fast Flux Test 

Facility decommissioning, which are 

not the subject of this ROD. DOE 

prepared a supplement analysis (DOE/ 

EIS–0391–SA–02; SA) which evaluated 

the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste 

(DFLAW) approach to operations of the 

Waste Treatment and Immobilization 

Plant (WTP), which would pre-treat and 

send low-activity waste (LAW) from the 

tank farms to the LAW Facility. This 

amended ROD addresses those portions 

of the DFLAW functions and facilities 

that were not addressed by the 2013 

TC&WM EIS ROD. 

ADDRESSES: For copies of this amended 

ROD, the original 2013 ROD, SAs (DOE/ 

EIS–0391–SA–01 and –02), the TC&WM 

EIS, or any related NEPA documents, 

please contact Ms. Mary Beth Burandt, 

NEPA Document Manager, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of River 

Protection, P.O. Box 1178, Richland, 

Washington 99352; telephone: (509) 

372–8828; or email, mary_e_burandt@

orp.doe.gov. This amended ROD, the 

original ROD, the SA, and the TC&WM 

EIS are also available on DOE’s NEPA 

website at http://www.energy.gov/nepa 

and the Hanford website at http://

www.hanford.gov/index.cfm?page=1117

&. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information about the TC&WM 

EIS, contact Ms. Burandt, as listed in 

ADDRESSES. For general information on 

the DOE Office of Environmental 

Management’s NEPA process, contact 

Mr. Bill Ostrum, Office of 

Environmental Management, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Washington, DC 

20585–0103; telephone: (202) 586–2513, 

or leave a message at (800) 472–2756; or 

email, askNEPA@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In the 2013 TC&WM EIS ROD, DOE 

selected Tank Closure Alternative 2B 

(Expanded WTP Vitrification; Landfill 

Closure) and announced that it would: 

(1) Retrieve 99 percent of the waste from 

the SSTs; (2) treat tank waste, including 

pretreatment of tank waste with 

separation into LAW and high-level 

radioactive waste (HLW); and (3) 

dispose of the vitrified LAW and 

secondary waste and construct 

immobilized HLW (IHLW) interim 

storage modules to store the IHLW prior 

to disposal. (See 78 FR 75913, December 

13, 2013, for a complete list of the 

activities covered in the 2013 ROD.) The 

WTP, as analyzed in the TC&WM EIS, 

was assumed to have all primary and 

supporting facilities available at startup. 

The tank waste was designed to be sent 

to the WTP Pretreatment Facility, where 

it would be separated into HLW and 

LAW. The process would then send 

each of these waste streams to the HLW 

Facility and the LAW Facility, 

respectively, for further treatment. 

Due to technical issues with the WTP 

Pretreatment Facility and HLW Facility, 

only the LAW Facility, analytical 

laboratory and balance of facilities are 

near completion. The three facilities 

that are near completion could begin 

treating tank waste no later than 2023. 

DOE has developed a sequenced 

approach to utilize the available 

facilities to treat LAW before treating 

HLW. This is referred to as DFLAW. The 

sequenced approach involves using ion 

exchange (IX) columns to remove the 

cesium from the LAW tank waste stream 

prior to sending the waste to the LAW 

Facility for immobilization. The cesiumloaded IX columns would be placed on 

an IX Column Storage Pad until final 

disposition. 

Supplement Analysis for DFLAW and 

the IX Column Storage Pad 

DFLAW will operate in a different 

sequence than that analyzed in TC&WM 

EIS Alternative 2B, which was the 

alternative selected in the 2013 ROD. 

DOE prepared an SA (DOE/EIS–0391– 

SA–02) to determine whether 

supplemental or new NEPA 

documentation was required to address 

the DFLAW approach. The SA provides 

an analysis of the DFLAW approach 

relative to the analysis in the TC&WM 

EIS to determine if there are substantial 

changes to the proposal or if there are 

significant new circumstances or 

information relevant to environmental 

concerns. The SA was prepared in 

accordance with DOE’s NEPA 

implementing procedures at 10 CFR 

1021.314(c) and concluded that the 

DFLAW Proposed Action did not 

represent a substantial change to the 

proposal evaluated in the TC&WM EIS 

or significant new circumstances or 

information relevant to environmental 

concerns that would require preparation 

of a supplemental EIS. DOE determined 

that no further NEPA analysis was 

required. 

The 2013 TC&WM EIS ROD addressed 

the functions necessary to implement 

DFLAW (effluent management, solids 

and cesium removal and waste transfers 

between facilities) with the exception of 

the construction and operations of the 

IX Column Storage Pad. The SA 

provides a comparative evaluation of 

the potential impacts associated with 

the IX Column Storage Pad for each of 

the environmental resource areas 

analyzed in the TC&WM EIS. Because 

the footprint of the IX Column Storage 

Pad would be within the previously 

disturbed Industrial-Exclusive Zone that 

includes the tank farms and WTP 

complex, impacts to land use, visual 

resources, noise, air quality, geology and 

soils, and water and ecological 

resources were determined to be 

bounded by or represent a negligible 

increase to those evaluated in the 

TC&WM EIS. The SA identified three 

key areas related to the IX Column 

Storage Pad for further evaluation: (1) 

Public and Occupational Health and 

Safety (Normal Operations), (2) Public 

and Occupational Health and Safety 

(Facility Accidents), and (3) Waste 

Management. In each of these key areas, 

the SA concluded that the potential 

impacts associated with the 

construction and operation of the IX 

Column Storage Pad would be within 

the estimated impacts presented in the 

TC&WM EIS. 

Decision 

DOE/EIS–0391–SA–02 concluded that 

the DFLAW facilities and functions, 

except for the IX Column Storage Pad, 

were addressed in the TC&WM 2013 

ROD. The SA also concluded that the IX 

Column Storage Pad does not represent 

a substantial change to DOE’s proposal 

or significant new circumstances or 

information relevant to environmental 

concerns. There are no additional 

mitigation measures required beyond 

those commitments in the 2013 TC&WM 

EIS ROD. The 2013 TC&WM EIS ROD 

addressed the functions necessary to 

implement DFLAW, with the exception 

of those related to the IX Column 

Storage Pad. DOE’s decision is to amend 

the TC&WM EIS ROD to include 

construction and operation of the IX 

Column Storage Pad to support 

implementation of DFLAW. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 17, 

2019. 

Anne Marie White, 

Assistant Secretary for Environmental 

Management. 

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