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Roberto Rodriguez, 

Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation 

and Policy Development. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30488 Filed 12–20–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Record of Decision for DOE/EIS–0082– 

S–SA–01 Supplement Analysis for 

Defense Waste Processing Facility 

Failed Melter Aboveground Storage 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Record of decision (ROD). 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announces its decision to 

construct an interim aboveground 

storage facility for storage of two 

Defense Waste Processing Facility 

(DWPF) failed melters (Melter Nos. 1 

and 2) in lieu of underground storage 

units. Moving Melter Nos. 1 and 2 from 

the Failed Equipment Storage Vaults 

(FESVs) to aboveground storage will 

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with a higher radiological nature to be 

stored in the FESVs. The potential 

environmental impacts of this decision 

were analyzed in DOE/EIS–0082–S–SA– 

01, ‘‘Supplement Analysis for Defense 

Waste Processing Facility Failed Melter 

Aboveground Storage’’ (the SA). The SA 

found that the proposed change and 

information discussed in this SA are not 

significant and therefore do not require 

a supplement to the Final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (Final 

SEIS) Defense Waste Processing Facility 

(DOE/EIS–0082–S). 

ADDRESSES: This ROD and related 

information are available at the 

University of South Carolina—Aiken, 

Public Reading Room. The documents 

are posted on the DOE NEPA website at 

www.energy.gov/nepa. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tracy Williams, NEPA Document 

Manager/NEPA Compliance Officer, 

U.S. Department of Energy, Savannah 

River Operations Office, ATTN: Tracy 

Williams, P.O. Box A, Building 730–B, 

Aiken, SC 29802–0151, 

Tracy.Williams@srs.gov, (803) 952– 

8278. 

For general information on the DOE 

Office of Environmental Management 

NEPA process, contact: Bill Ostrum, EM 

NEPA Compliance Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585; or email: william.ostrum@

hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On June 1, 1982, DOE decided that 

failed equipment that could not be 

repaired was to be decontaminated, 

packaged, and transferred to the SRS 

burial facilities. However, DOE was 

concerned that melters, and possibly 

other equipment, potentially could not 

be decontaminated to levels that would 

allow them to be handled or even 

repaired without resulting in 

unacceptable radiation doses to 

workers. Therefore, DOE constructed 

two underground vaults in S–Area near 

the DWPF to provide safe interim 

storage of this equipment until a 

permanent disposal facility can be 

identified. Failed equipment is first 

placed into containers (e.g., Melter 

Storage Box) before being put into 

interim storage facilities. 

Currently, two DWPF failed melters 

(Melter Nos. 1 and 2) are stored 

underground in two operational FESVs. 

For analysis, DOE assumed that a total 

of approximately 14 vaults would be 

required for underground storage of 

failed melters and other large equipment 

due to their highly radiological nature. 

The life expectancy of the DWPF 

melters has been extended based on 

current performance. The current 

‘‘Liquid Waste System Plan’’, SRMC– 

LWP–2023–0001, Revision 23–P, March 

2023 assumes one melter changeout, 

which would be Melter No. 3 replaced 

by Melter No. 4. As such, storage for up 

to four melters is projected to be 

required for the life of DWPF, not 

fourteen. Storage for fourteen melters is 

no longer required. Construction of the 

aboveground storage facility should 

provide the required additional failed 

melter storage space for the life 

expectancy of DWPF. Actual radiation 

dose calculations for Melter Nos. 1 and 

2 have been determined to be far lower 

than what was analyzed in the Final 

SEIS. Consequently, the low 

radiological nature of Melter Nos. 1 and 

2 allow for properly constructed 

aboveground storage. Moving Melter 

Nos. 1 and 2 from the FESVs to 

aboveground storage will allow space 

for storage of two melters with a higher 

radiological nature to be stored in the 

FESVs. 

The same design criteria outlined in 

the existing analysis has been applied to 

the design of the aboveground storage 

facility, and the size of the aboveground 

facilities will be like that of the 

underground facilities. 

In accordance with DOE’s NEPA 

implementing regulations, and 

consistent with the NEPA 

Recommendations for the Supplement 

Analysis Process, 2nd Edition, DOE 

prepared the DOE/EIS–0082–S–SA–01, 

‘‘Supplement Analysis for Defense 

Waste Processing Facility Failed Melter 

Aboveground Storage’’, July 2024, to 

evaluate whether the aboveground 

storage of failed melters require 

supplementing the existing EIS or 

preparing a new EIS. 

In the SA, DOE evaluated the impacts 

of this proposed change and new 

information since publication of the 

Final SEIS. This included potential 

change to impacts to geologic resources, 

groundwater, surface water, air 

resources, cultural resources, aesthetics 

and scenic resources, traffic and 

transportation, radiological health 

effects from normal operations, 

nonradiological health effects from 

normal operations, worker radiological 

and nonradiological health, accidents, 

chemical hazards, waste generation, 

decontamination and decommissioning, 

unavoidable adverse impacts, DWPF 

Organic Waste Treatment options, 

greenhouse gasses, noise, land use, 

biological resources, floodplains and 

wetlands, socioeconomic resources and 

existing facilities, and cumulative 

impacts. In all cases, DOE identified no 

or negligible differences in potential 

impacts. DOE concluded that the 

proposed change and information 

discussed in the SA are not significant 

and therefore do not require a 

supplement to Final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement 

Defense Waste Processing Facility 

(DOE/EIS–0082–S). No further NEPA 

documentation is required. 

Decision 

The DOE announces its decision to 

construct an interim aboveground 

storage facility for storage of two DWPF 

failed melters (Melter Nos. 1 and 2) in 

lieu of underground storage units, as 

described in the SA. In the SA, DOE 

concluded that the proposed change and 

information discussed in the SA are not 

significant and therefore do not require 

a supplement to Final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement 

Defense Waste Processing Facility 

(DOE/EIS–0082–S). No further NEPA 

documentation is required. 

Mitigation 

Because the proposed activity 

circumstances are similar in nature to 

the existing potential impacts based on 

this analysis, DOE determined, 

consistent with the FEIS, that no 

additional mitigation measures are 

anticipated. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on December 2, 2024, 

by Candice Trummell, Senior Advisor 

for Environmental Management, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Secretary of Energy. That document 

with the original signature and date is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on December 

18, 2024. 

Jennifer Hartzell, 

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

U.S. Department of Energy. 

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