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1The Nuclear Posture Review is a congressionally 

mandated comprehensive review of U.S. nuclear 

deterrence policy and strategy that the Secretary of 

Defense will conduct in consultation with the 

Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of State. The 

requirement for this review can be found in the 

National Defense Appropriations Act for 2008, 

Public Law 110–181. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Advanced Scientific 

Computing Advisory Committee 

(ASCAC). Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) 

requires that public notice of these 

meetings be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 9 a.m. 

to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 

9 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: American Geophysical 

Union, (AGU), 2000 Florida Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20009–1277. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melea Baker, Office of Advanced 

Scientific Computing Research, SC–21/ 

Germantown Building, U.S. Department 

of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–1290; 

Telephone (301)–903–7486, (E-mail: 

Melea.Baker@science.doe.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Meeting: The purpose 

of this meeting is to provide advice and 

guidance with respect to the advanced 

scientific computing research program. 

Tentative Agenda: Agenda will 

include discussions of the following: 

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 

View from Washington, 

Office of Science Update, 

ASCR Update, 

Computing at the National Science 

Foundation, 

Computational Research Needs in 

Alternative and Renewable Energy, 

SciDAC Update, 

Potential Impact of High-end Capability 

Computing on Four Illustrative Fields 

of Science and Engineering, 

ASCR Recovery Act projects, 

Public Comment. 

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 

ASCAC Committee of Visitors Update, 

Challenges in Climate Change Science 

and the Role of Computing at the 

Extreme Scale, 

Petascale Science Results, 

Public Comment. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. If you would like to 

file a written statement with the 

Committee, you may do so either before 

or after the meeting. If you would like 

to make oral statements regarding any of 

the items on the agenda, you should 

contact Melea Baker via FAX at 301– 

903–4846 or via e-mail 

(Melea.Baker@science.doe.gov). You 

must make your request for an oral 

statement at least 5 business days prior 

to the meeting. Reasonable provision 

will be made to include the scheduled 

oral statements on the agenda. The 

Chairperson of the Committee will 

conduct the meeting to facilitate the 

orderly conduct of business. Public 

comment will follow the 10-minute 

rule. 

Minutes: The minutes of this meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 30 days at the Freedom 

of Information Public Reading Room, 

1E–190, Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, between 9 a.m. 

and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except holidays. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 1, 2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration 

Record of Decision: Site-Wide 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Continued Operation of Los 

Alamos National Laboratory, Los 

Alamos, NM 

AGENCY: National Nuclear Security 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Record of decision. 

SUMMARY: The National Nuclear 

Security Administration (NNSA), a 

separately organized agency within the 

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is 

issuing this Record of Decision (ROD) 

for the continued operation of the Los 

Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 

Los Alamos, New Mexico, pursuant to 

the Final Site-Wide Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Continued 

Operation of Los Alamos National 

Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 

DOE/EIS–0380 (SWEIS) (73 FR 28453, 

May 16, 2008). This ROD is the second 

ROD based on the information and 

analyses contained in the SWEIS and 

other factors, including comments 

received on the SWEIS, costs, technical 

and security considerations, and the 

missions of NNSA. These decision 

factors also include results from the 

analyses in the October 24, 2008, Final 

Complex Transformation Supplemental 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (DOE/EIS–0236–S4, 73 FR 

63460) (Complex Transformation SPEIS) 

and its two RODs (73 FR 77644, 73 FR 

77656, December 19, 2008). NNSA 

issued the first ROD for the continued 

operation of LANL based on the SWEIS 

(73 FR 55833) on September 26, 2008. 

In the LANL SWEIS, NNSA analyzed 

three alternatives for the continued 

operation of LANL: (1) No Action, (2) 

Reduced Operations, and (3) Expanded 

Operations. NNSA identified the 

Expanded Operations Alternative as its 

Preferred Alternative. 

For this second ROD, NNSA 

continues to select the No Action 

Alternative, announced in the 2008 

ROD as its decision for continuing the 

operation of LANL, and has decided to 

implement additional elements of the 

Expanded Operations Alternative. 

Specific projects that will be 

implemented under this ROD are: (1) 

Complete the environmental 

remediation and closure of Technical 

Area 18 (TA–18) Pajarito Site; (2) 

complete the environmental 

remediation and closure of TA–21 (also 

referred to as the Delta Prime or DP 

Site); (3) refurbish the Plutonium 

Facility Complex at TA–55; (4) 

construct and operate a new Radioactive 

Liquid Waste Treatment Facility in TA– 

50 and operate a zero liquid discharge 

facility in TA–52 as an auxiliary action; 

(5) install additional processors and 

equipment to further expand the 

capabilities and operation level of the 

Nicholas C. Metropolis Center for 

Modeling and Simulation in TA–3; and 

(6) construct and operate a new Science 

and Engineering Complex at TA–62. 

These projects and the changes in 

operations associated with them are 

needed to support DOE and NNSA 

missions; to maintain and improve the 

safety and security of existing 

capabilities at LANL; and to further 

LANL intra-site facility consolidation. 

Decisions that NNSA is announcing in 

this ROD will not change the plutonium 

pit production throughput capability at 

LANL (20 plutonium pits per year), nor 

will they influence or be impacted by 

future decisions that may be made based 

on the upcoming Nuclear Posture 

Review.1

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

copies of the SWEIS, the 2008 SWEIS 

ROD or this ROD, or to receive further 

information about other issues regarding 

the Los Alamos Site Office’s National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

compliance program, contact: Mr. 

George J. Rael, Assistant Manager 

Environmental Operations, NEPA 

Compliance Officer, U.S. Department of 

Energy, National Nuclear Security 

Administration, Los Alamos Site Office, 

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2The March 2005 LANL Compliance Order on 

Consent was issued pursuant to the New Mexico 

Hazardous Waste Act and entered into by the State 

of New Mexico, the Department of Energy and its 

Management and Operating Contractor to address 

requirements concerning certain groundwater 

contaminants toxic pollutants and explosive 

compounds. The Consent Order may be viewed at 

http://www.lanl.gov/environment/compliance/ 

consent_order.shtml. 

87544. Mr. Rael may be contacted by 

telephone at (505) 665–5658, or by email at LASO.SWEIS@doeal.gov. For 

information on the DOE NEPA process, 

contact: Ms. Carol M. Borgstrom, 

Director, Office of NEPA Policy and 

Compliance (GC–20), U.S. Department 

of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586– 

4600, or leave a message at (800) 472– 

2756. Additional information regarding 

DOE NEPA activities and access to 

many DOE NEPA documents, including 

those referenced in this ROD, are 

available on the Internet through the 

DOE NEPA Web site at http:// 

www.gc.energy.gov/nepa/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

NNSA prepared this ROD pursuant to 

the regulations of the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) for 

implementing NEPA (40 CFR parts 

1500–1508) and DOE’s NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (10 CFR part 

1021). Decisions presented in this 

second ROD are based on information 

and analysis contained in the SWEIS 

(including a classified appendix that 

assesses the potential environmental 

impacts of a representative set of 

credible intentional destructive acts that 

include terrorism scenarios) (73 FR 

28453, May 16, 2008), comments 

received on the Final SWEIS; NNSA’s 

two December 19, 2008, RODs resulting 

from information and analysis 

contained in the Complex 

Transformation SPEIS (73 FR 77644, 73 

FR 77656); and other factors, including 

costs, technical and security 

considerations, and the missions of 

NNSA. 

LANL is a multidisciplinary, 

multipurpose research institution in 

north-central New Mexico, about 60 

miles (97 kilometers) north-northeast of 

Albuquerque, and about 25 miles (40 

kilometers) northwest of Santa Fe. 

LANL occupies about 25,600 acres 

(10,360 hectares), or approximately 40 

square miles (104 square kilometers). 

About 2,000 structures with 

approximately 8.6 million square feet 

under roof serve to house LANL 

operations and activities, with about 

half the square footage used as 

laboratory or production space, and the 

remaining half used for administrative, 

storage, service, and other purposes. 

LANL is one of three national security 

laboratories within NNSA’s Nuclear 

Security Enterprise. The main role of 

LANL in the fulfillment of NNSA and 

DOE missions is scientific and 

technological work that supports 

nuclear materials handling and 

processing, and weapons component 

fabrication; stockpile management; 

materials and manufacturing 

technologies; nonproliferation 

programs; and waste management 

activities. LANL plays a key role in 

providing stewardship for the nation’s 

nuclear stockpile that includes 

manufacturing some nuclear weapons 

components, such as plutonium pits. In 

addition to weapons component 

manufacturing, LANL performs 

weapons component testing, stockpile 

assurance, component replacement, 

surveillance, and maintenance. 

Research and development activities at 

LANL include high explosives 

processing, chemical research, nuclear 

physics research, materials science 

research, systems analysis and 

engineering, human genome mapping, 

biotechnology applications, and remote 

sensing technologies. Work at LANL is 

also conducted for other Federal 

agencies such as the Departments of 

Defense and Homeland Security, as well 

as for universities, institutions, and 

private entities. 

The alternatives evaluated in the 

SWEIS span a range of potential 

operations from minimum levels that 

would maintain essential mission 

support capabilities (Reduced 

Operations Alternative), through the 

highest reasonably foreseeable levels 

that could be supported by current 

facilities or new facilities (Expanded 

Operations Alternative). The No Action 

Alternative analyzed in the SWEIS is 

essentially a continuation of current 

operations based on previous NEPA 

analyses and decisions, including the 

1999 LANL SWEIS (DOE/EIS–0238, 

January 1999) and its ROD (64 FR 

50797, September 20, 1999). The 

Reduced Operations and Expanded 

Operations Alternatives analyzed in the 

SWEIS are reductions or expansions of 

the level of operations for the No Action 

Alternative. As a matter of convenience, 

actions associated with implementing 

the March 2005 LANL Compliance 

Order on Consent (Consent Order) with 

the State of New Mexico 2 are only 

analyzed in the Expanded Operations 

Alternative. However, NNSA stated in 

the SWEIS that DOE intends to 

implement actions necessary to comply 

with the Consent Order, regardless of 

decisions it makes on other actions 

analyzed in the LANL SWEIS. 

The 2008 SWEIS ROD announced 

NNSA’s decision to continue to 

implement the No Action Alternative 

with certain elements of the Expanded 

Operations Alternative. These specific 

elements were: (1) Continuing to 

implement actions necessary to comply 

with the Consent Order, which requires 

investigation and remediation of 

environmental contamination at LANL; 

(2) broadening the types and quantities 

of radioactive sealed sources for 

isotopes of Cobalt, Iridium, Californium 

and Radium, (Co-60, Ir-192, Cf-252, Ra226), that LANL will manage and store 

prior to disposal; (3) expanding the 

capabilities and operational level of the 

Nicholas C. Metropolis Center for 

Modeling and Simulation to support the 

Roadrunner super computing platform; 

(4) performing research regarding 

beryllium detection and mitigation 

measures; (5) retrieving and disposing of 

about 3,100 cubic yards of contacthandled and 130 cubic yards of remotehandled legacy transuranic (TRU) waste 

from below-ground storage; (6) 

planning, design, construction, and 

operation of the Waste Management 

Facilities Transition projects to facilitate 

actions required by the Consent Order; 

(7) repairing and replacing mission 

critical cooling system components for 

buildings in Technical Area–55 (TA– 

55); and (8) completing final design of 

a new Radioactive Liquid Waste 

Treatment Facility, and designing and 

constructing the zero liquid discharge 

facility auxiliary component of the new 

treatment facility. 

NNSA has previously announced its 

determination that the Expanded 

Operations Alternative is both its 

Preferred Alternative and the 

Environmentally Preferred Alternative. 

Considering the many aspects of the 

alternatives analyzed in the SWEIS, and 

looking out over the long term, NNSA 

believes that the implementation of 

changes analyzed in the Expanded 

Operations Alternative would allow it to 

best achieve both its mission and 

environmental responsibilities. Under 

this alternative, NNSA would be better 

positioned to minimize the use of 

electricity and water; streamline 

operations through consolidation; 

replace older laboratory and production 

facilities with new buildings that 

incorporate modern safety, security, and 

energy efficiency standards improving 

NNSA’s ability to protect human health; 

reduce the ‘‘footprint’’ of LANL as a 

whole; and allow some areas to return 

to a natural state. 

NNSA published as Volume 3 of the 

SWEIS all comments received on the 


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Draft SWEIS together with NNSA’s 

responses, and discussions of how 

comments resulted in changes to the 

document. The 2008 SWEIS ROD 

included a detailed discussion of the 

comments received on the Final SWEIS, 

and will not be repeated here. In 

response to the concern raised by 

several of the commenters that 

proceeding with an increase in 

plutonium pit production at this time 

would be premature, NNSA agrees that 

making decisions at this time on future 

plutonium pit production levels is 

premature, and will delay making any 

decisions in this area until after the 

completion of the upcoming Nuclear 

Posture Review. Decisions that NNSA is 

announcing in this ROD will not change 

the 20 plutonium pits per year level of 

plutonium pit production throughput 

capability established in the 1999 LANL 

SWEIS ROD. 

On December 19, 2008, NNSA issued 

two RODs based in part on the Complex 

Transformation SPEIS for the continued 

transformation of the nuclear weapons 

complex. One ROD addressed the 

implementation of programmatic 

alternatives involving plutonium, 

uranium, and the assembly and 

disassembly of nuclear weapons (73 FR 

77644). The other announced the 

implementation of project-specific 

alternatives involving tritium research 

and development, flight test operations, 

and major environmental test facilities 

(73 FR 77656). NNSA’s programmatic 

decision to retain and consolidate 

plutonium pit manufacturing and 

research and development work at 

LANL means that special nuclear 

materials and work performed with 

plutonium will be consolidated from 

some of the other NNSA sites to LANL. 

This decision supports the 

transformation of the nuclear weapons 

complex into a smaller, more efficient 

nuclear security enterprise that can 

respond to changing national security 

challenges and ensure the long-term 

safety, security, and reliability of the 

nuclear weapons stockpile. Two of 

NNSA’s project-specific decisions also 

directly affect LANL operations: (1) The 

consolidation of tritium research and 

operations at the Savannah River Site, 

which reduces tritium operations at 

LANL; and (2) the consolidation of 

major environmental test facilities at 

Sandia National Laboratories/New 

Mexico, which closes four facilities at 

LANL. 

Basis for Decision 

In this second ROD, NNSA is 

announcing its decision to continue to 

implement the No Action Alternative 

with the addition of elements from the 

Expanded Operations Alternative of the 

SWEIS. NNSA has also decided that it 

will now implement additional 

elements from the Expanded Operations 

Alternative that complement the actions 

taken under the 2008 SWEIS ROD. 

These additional elements collectively 

include increases in the operation of 

some existing facilities and the 

implementation of a limited number of 

additional new facility projects needed 

to support ongoing stockpile 

stewardship and environmental closure 

and remediation programs; to enhance 

nuclear safety and security; and to 

provide modern features for the 

protection of workers and the 

environment. NNSA will continue to 

undertake intra-site consolidation of 

operations and activities to reduce the 

physical ‘‘footprint’’ of LANL and 

improve efficiency and address the 

LANL Land Transfer requirements of 

Public Law 105–119. NNSA also will 

continue to coordinate with the DOE’s 

Office of Environmental Management to 

execute environmental closure and 

remediation actions including major 

material disposal area (MDA) 

remediation, canyon cleanups and all 

activities necessary to meet Consent 

Order requirements, the LANL Federal 

Facility Compliance Agreement, and 

DOE commitments regarding the use of 

resources provided through the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub. L. 111–5). 

Environmental Impacts Associated 

With Decisions 

In making the decisions announced in 

this ROD, NNSA considered the 

potential impacts for normal operations 

(those operations without accidents or 

intentional destructive acts) as well as 

impacts analyzed in the SWEIS from 

potential accidents and intentional 

destructive acts, including credible 

terrorism scenarios, on workers and 

surrounding populations, as it did in 

developing the 2008 ROD. NNSA also 

evaluated the potential impacts 

associated with the irreversible or 

irretrievable commitments of resources, 

and the relationship between short-term 

uses of the environment and the 

maintenance and enhancement of longterm productivity. These analyses and 

results are described in the Summary 

and Chapters 4 and 5 of the SWEIS. 

Additional project specific analyses are 

included in the Appendices to the 

SWEIS. 

Decisions 

Operations at LANL provide a wide 

range of scientific and technological 

capabilities for NNSA’s National 

Nuclear Security Enterprise (Nuclear 

Weapons Complex). NNSA’s decisions 

are based on its current and anticipated 

mission responsibilities and its need to 

continue to operate LANL in a manner 

that allows NNSA to efficiently and 

effectively fulfill its mission 

responsibilities in an environmentally 

protective and fiscally prudent manner. 

The need for the decisions identified in 

this ROD exists regardless of any future 

decisions that may be made about the 

level of plutonium pit production at 

LANL. National security policies and 

related laws require NNSA to maintain 

the Nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, 

as well as its core competencies in 

nuclear weapons. The nuclear facilities 

at LANL are essential to NNSA’s ability 

to execute this core program and to 

support NNSA’s aggressive and farreaching nuclear non-proliferation 

efforts. The changes in operations and 

new projects announced in this ROD are 

needed to fulfill NNSA and DOE 

mission responsibilities and meet 

various requirements that have arisen 

since 1999, and are consistent with 

recent decisions regarding the nuclear 

weapons complex transformation. 

Consistent with the decisions 

announced in the first ROD under the 

SWEIS, NNSA and DOE’s Office of 

Environmental Management will 

continue to implement actions required 

by the March 2005 Consent Order along 

with other activities needed for 

environmental cleanup at LANL: 

(1) Analytical chemistry sample 

processing, waste management activities 

such as waste characterization 

operations and waste processing, storage 

and transportation actions, as well as 

waste disposal at appropriate waste 

disposal facilities located both on-site 

and off-site; (2) the clearing of site 

vegetation; (3) decontamination, 

decommissioning and demolition 

(DD&D) of structures and buildings with 

priority to those that must be removed 

to reach buried contamination; (4) 

exhumation of buried contamination; (5) 

exhumation and transportation of soil 

and rock from on-site borrow pits; (6) 

construction of roads to reach sites with 

heavy equipment, lay-down areas for 

equipment and materials and waste 

storage and staging, and parking sites to 

meet the needs of vehicles involved in 

transporting wastes, equipment and 

materials; and (7) delineation and 

fencing of clean-up sites. 

Environmental cleanup projects that 

will be undertaken and completed 

under this ROD include: 

• Completing the remediation and 

closure of TA–18 Pajarito Site. This 

would include relocating remaining 

operations to existing facilities within 

LANL, performing the DD&D of existing 


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site structures and completing 

remediation of the TA–18 canyonbottom site. 

• Completing the remediation and 

closure of TA–21 Delta Prime (DP) Site 

with an emphasis on DD&D and 

environmental remediation of MDAs. 

This would include the DD&D of the 

TA–21 buildings. Those structures that 

cover or could interfere with activities 

to investigate and remediate MDAs and 

other potential release sites under the 

Consent Order would be given priority. 

Both DP West and DP East facilities will 

undergo DD&D and thorough 

characterization, decontamination, and 

demolition, with waste disposal 

dependent on facility characterization 

information. The underlying waste sites 

can then be properly investigated, 

considered for corrective actions that 

may be required under the Consent 

Order and remediated as appropriate. 

The NNSA has also decided to 

implement the additional projects 

specified in this ROD that involve the 

design, construction and operation of 

new replacement buildings, and the 

renovation of certain existing facilities. 

This decision includes the 

implementation of all associated actions 

needed to facilitate construction or 

renovation projects, including those 

related to the transfer of operations, and 

those necessary for the DD&D of spaces 

vacated by moving existing facilities. 

These projects are part of the vision that 

NNSA has established for the future 

Nuclear Security Enterprise. 

NNSA’s vision for the future remains 

a smaller, safer, more secure and less 

expensive enterprise that leverages the 

scientific and technical capabilities of 

its workforce to meet all our national 

security requirements. The specific 

projects that NNSA has decided to 

implement are: 

• Refurbish the Plutonium Facility 

Complex (PF–4) at TA–55: This 

refurbishment project consists of seven 

subprojects that either replace or 

upgrade obsolete and/or worn-out 

facility components/safety systems or 

address regulatory-driven requirements 

at the PF–4 building in TA–55. 

Replacement and maintenance of 

critical infrastructure and safety systems 

is necessary to ensure the reliability of 

this facility and compliance with safety 

and regulatory requirements. 

• Construct and operate a new 

Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment 

Facility, (RLWTF), at TA–50 together 

with the operation of a zero liquid 

discharge facility at TA–52 as an 

auxiliary action: These actions replace/ 

restore an existing capability at LANL 

for processing radioactive liquid wastes. 

The existing RLWTF at TA–50 is the 

only facility available at LANL to treat 

a broad range of transuranic and lowlevel radioactive liquid wastes. It is an 

aging facility (over 40 years old) that has 

exceeded its design life. 

• Install additional processors and 

equipment as necessary to further 

expand the capabilities and operation 

level of the Nicholas C. Metropolis 

Center for Modeling and Simulation at 

TA–3: These actions will be undertaken 

to support future operations up to the 

level of operations analyzed in the 

SWEIS as attainable through the 

consumption of a maximum electric 

power use of 15 megawatts, and a 

maximum potable water use of 51 

million gallons per year. Calculations 

performed at the Nicholas C. Metropolis 

Center support the continued 

certification of the nuclear weapons 

stockpile without conducting 

underground nuclear tests, and also 

support research on global energy 

challenges and other scientific issues. 

• Construct and operate a new 

Science and Engineering Complex at 

TA–62 (analyzed as the Science 

Complex Option 1 in Appendix G of the 

SWEIS): This action consolidates offices 

and light laboratories currently located 

in several outmoded structures at LANL 

into a new, state-of-the-art facility of 

approximately 400,000 gsf. It would 

support scientific research activities in 

both basic and applied sciences. 

Execution of this project would be 

accompanied by DD&D of excess 

structures at LANL. 

The NNSA will implement changes to 

operational levels at existing facilities 

and install new infrastructure analyzed 

as part of the Expanded Operations 

Alternative that support decisions 

announced in this ROD, the 2008 

SWEIS ROD and the two SPEIS RODs. 

The changes to on-going operational 

levels at existing facilities (and their 

replacement facilities) include: (1) 

Changes and increases to the 

capabilities for waste storage, 

characterization, packaging, and 

labeling at solid and liquid radioactive 

waste and chemical waste management 

and treatment facilities to support the 

processing and disposition of 

transuranic, low-level and mixed lowlevel radioactive waste, and chemical 

waste from site DD&D activities; and (2) 

the performance of site assessments, soil 

remediation, and the enhancement of 

field capabilities to support of 

environmental remediation and risk 

mitigation at LANL. 

Mitigation Measures 

As described in the SWEIS, NNSA 

and LANL operate pursuant to a number 

of Federal laws including 

environmental laws, DOE Orders, and 

Federal, State, and local controls, and 

agreements. Many of these mandate 

actions that serve to mitigate potential 

adverse environmental impacts. A Los 

Alamos Mitigation Action Plan (MAP) 

for the SWEIS RODs has been issued 

and will be reviewed and updated as 

necessary to implement this ROD. As 

discussed in the 2008 ROD, this MAP 

contains a summary of all commitments 

for LANL that are either underway or 

will be initiated. These commitments 

include such actions as continued forest 

management efforts, trail management 

efforts, and implementation of a variety 

of site sampling and monitoring 

measures, as well as additional 

measures to reduce potable water use 

and pollutant emissions and implement 

resource conservation initiatives. 

In addition, with respect to concerns 

raised by the Santa Clara Pueblo, as 

discussed in the 2008 ROD, NNSA will 

continue its efforts to support the 

Pueblo and other tribal entities in 

matters of human health and will 

participate in various intergovernmental 

efforts to protect indigenous practices 

and locations of concern. NNSA will 

conduct government-to-government 

consultations with the Pueblo and other 

tribal entities to incorporate these 

matters into the MAP. 

Issued at Washington, DC, this 29 day of 

June 2009. 

Thomas P. D’Agostino, 

Administrator, National Nuclear Security 

Administration. 

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Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–1399 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 06/29/2009 Through 07/03/2009 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

EIS No. 20090222, Draft EIS, AFS, NM, 

Rinconada Communication Site, 

Designation of Site to Serve Present 

and Future High Power 

Communication Needs and to Permit 

the Development of a Radio 

Transmission Facility within Site, Mt. 

Taylor Ranger District, Cibola 

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