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operations to support reasonably 

foreseeable mission requirements. This 

includes the expansion or modification 

of current facilities and construction of 

new facilities, as well as those projects, 

activities, and facilities described in the 

No Action Alternative. The LLNL SW/ 

SPEIS and the analyses it contains may 

support additional programmatic or 

project decisions in the future. The 

implementation of these decisions and 

the schedules for implementation 

depend on funding levels and allocation 

of the DOE/NNSA budget. 

NNSA’s review of the data and 

methodologies used in accident 

analyses verified that the LLNL SW/ 

SPEIS correctly identifies bounding site 

accidents and estimates their potential 

consequences. This review found a 

small number of minor discrepancies on 

non-bounding site accident scenarios. 

Information concerning these 

discrepancies is available from Thomas 

Grim, the NNSA Document Manager for 

the LLNL SW/SPEIS, at the address and 

phone number included at the 

beginning of this ROD. These 

discrepancies are negligible and the 

LLNL SW/SPEIS adequately evaluates 

the potential impacts of the alternatives. 

NNSA has decided to implement the 

preferred alternative, the Proposed 

Action with the exception of the 

Energetic Materials Processing Center 

Replacement and High Explosives 

Development Center Project. With the 

issuance of this ROD, NNSA will begin 

to expand operations at LLNL critical to 

NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship 

Program. The major decisions are 

increasing the administrative and 

material-at-risk limits for plutonium in 

the Plutonium Facility and increasing 

the administrative and material-at-risk 

limits for tritium in the Tritium Facility. 

NNSA will review and approve the 

appropriate documentation and 

procedures required to implement the 

increase to a 1,400 kilogram 

administrative limit for plutonium and 

the 40 kilograms of fuel-grade 

equivalent plutonium material-at-risk 

limit for two rooms for the Plutonium 

Facility. NNSA will conduct 

experiments at the NIF using 

plutonium, other fissile materials, 

fissionable materials, and lithium 

hydride. These decisions are discussed 

in more detail in the following 

paragraphs. 

NNSA continues to rely on LLNL to 

meet its Stockpile Stewardship Program 

objectives. These objectives include 

campaigns relating to pit manufacturing 

and certification, advanced radiography, 

dynamic materials properties, materials 

shelf life experiments, and enhanced 

surveillance research, which contribute 

to the need for long-term storage of 

plutonium. These campaigns and 

programs require increasing use of 

plutonium. NNSA continues to work on 

a solution for disposal of plutonium, but 

no pathway for disposal of the excess 

plutonium at LLNL currently exists, 

requiring an increase in the plutonium 

administrative limits. A July 2005 report 

issued by the Government 

Accountability Office, Securing U.S. 

Nuclear Materials, discusses some of the 

problems that need to be solved in order 

to develop a disposal path for excess 

plutonium. These problems have not yet 

been resolved and the amount of 

plutonium stored at LLNL will increase 

as NNSA continues to operate the 

Plutonium Facility. Therefore, NNSA 

has decided to increase the 

administrative limit for plutonium to 

1,400 kilograms. The inventory will 

continue to be stored in robust vaults in 

the facility. 

NNSA has decided to increase the 

plutonium material-at-risk limit from 20 

to 40 kilograms of fuel-grade equivalent 

plutonium in each of two rooms of the 

Plutonium Facility. The material-at-risk 

limit for all other rooms would remain 

at 20 kilograms fuel grade equivalent 

plutonium. The increases are needed to 

meet future Stockpile Stewardship 

Program objectives such as the casting 

of plutonium parts. These activities 

support campaigns for advanced 

radiography, pit manufacturing, and 

certification. 

NNSA has decided to increase the 

tritium administrative limit for the 

Tritium Facility from 30 to 35 grams 

and the material-at-risk at a single 

workstation from 3.5 to 30 grams. These 

increases are needed to support future 

planned Stockpile Stewardship Program 

activities such as the high-energy 

density physics target fill and the Test 

Readiness Program. 

NNSA has decided to use plutonium, 

other fissile materials, fissionable 

materials, and lithium hydride in 

experiments at the NIF as evaluated in 

the LLNL SW/SPEIS. This decision is 

based on the need for a variety of 

experiments using fissionable and fissile 

material at the NIF. NIF will perform 

experiments with plutonium or highly 

enriched uranium without ignition to 

study the equation of state of these 

materials. Experiments will be 

conducted to measure fundamental 

nuclear physics properties using 

plutonium or highly enriched uranium 

that require ignition. Experiments will 

be conducted with lithium hydride, 

which is not a special nuclear material, 

with and without ignition. These are 

materials physics and equation of state 

experiments designed to address 

fundamental physical behavior of this 

material and to allow benchmarking of 

physical models of the material. 

Experiments will be performed with 

depleted uranium with ignition. These 

experiments require materials with high 

atomic numbers collocated on the 

ignition target to enhance the 

conversion of laser light to x-rays for 

inertial confinement fusion 

experiments. 

In accordance with the provisions of 

NEPA, its implementing procedures and 

regulations, and DOE’s NEPA 

regulations, I have considered the 

information contained in the LLNL SW/ 

SPEIS and public comments received in 

response to the both the Draft and Final 

LLNL SW/SPEIS. Being fully apprised 

of the environmental consequences of 

the alternatives and other information 

relevant to these decisions, I have 

decided to continue operations at LLNL 

as described in the Proposed Action 

with the exception of the Energetic 

Materials Processing Center 

Replacement and High Explosives 

Development Center Project. This 

decision will help enable the 

Department to maintain the core 

intellectual and technical competencies 

of the United States in nuclear weapons, 

and maintain a safe and reliable nuclear 

weapons stockpile. In making this 

decision, all practicable means to avoid 

or minimize environmental harm from 

implementation of the Proposed Action 

will be adopted. NNSA will consider 

changes in its programmatic needs prior 

to implementing Proposed Action 

projects. The implementation of these 

decisions and the schedules for their 

implementation depend on funding 

levels and allocation of the DOE/NNSA 

budget. Their implementation also 

depends on the results of NNSA’s 

continuing assessment of its mission 

needs and of LLNL’s role in meeting 

those needs. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

22, 2005. 

Linton F. Brooks, 

Administrator, National Nuclear Security 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 05–23457 Filed 11–28–05; 8:45 am] 

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Under Contract Number EP–W–06–

011, CAS of 2540 Olentangy River Rd., 

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will assist EPA by providing technical 

assistance in developing and operating 

the TSCA Chemical Substance 

Inventory. This is a new contract that 

continues the work initiated under 

Contract Number 68–W–00–127. 

In accordance with 40 CFR 2.306(j), 

EPA has determined that under Contract 

Number EP–W–06–011, CAS will 

require access to CBI submitted to EPA 

under sections 5 and 8 of TSCA, to 

perform successfully the duties 

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CAS personnel will be given 

information submitted to EPA under 

sections 5 and 8 of TSCA. Some of the 

information may be claimed or 

determined to be CBI. 

EPA is issuing this notice to inform 

all submitters of information under 

sections 5 and 8 of TSCA, that the 

Agency may provide CAS access to 

these CBI materials on a need-to-know 

basis only. All access to TSCA CBI 

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EPA Headquarters and CAS’ site located 

at 2540 Olentangy River Rd., Columbus, 

OH 43210. 

Clearance for access to TSCA CBI 

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Access begins November 30, 2005. 

CAS personnel have signed nondisclosure agreements and will be 

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List of Subjects 

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Acting Director, Information Management 

Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and 

Toxics. 

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