Local Government Implementation of Long-Term Stewardship at Two DOE Facilities

Pendergrass, John ; Czebiniak, Roman ; Mott, Kelly ; Kirshenberg, Seth ; Eidelman, Audrey ; Lamb, Zachary ; Pencak, Erica ; Sandoz, Wendy

Environmental Law Institute (United States)

关键词: Us Epa;    Implementation;    Land Use;    Production;    Oak Ridge Reservation;   

DOI  :  10.2172/813483
RP-ID  :  DOE/ID/14220
RP-ID  :  FC07-01ID14220
RP-ID  :  813483

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for cleaning up the radioactive and chemical contamination that resulted from the production of nuclear weapons. At more than one hundred sites throughout the country DOE will leave some contamination in place after the cleanup is complete. In order to protect human health and the environment from the remaining contamination DOE, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), state environmental regulatory agencies, local governments, citizens and other entities will need to undertake long-term stewardship of such sites. Long-term stewardship includes a wide range of actions needed to protect human health in the environment for as long as the risk from the contamination remains above acceptable levels, such as barriers, caps, and other engineering controls and land use controls, signs, notices, records, and other institutional controls. In this report the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) examine how local governments, state environmental agencies, and real property professionals implement long-term stewardship at two DOE facilities, Losa Alamos National Laboratory and Oak Ridge Reservation.