Notice2023-24141
Notice of Availability for the Final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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November 3, 2023
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi- autonomous agency within the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE), announces the availability of a Final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Final LLNL SWEIS) (DOE/EIS-0547) in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). NNSA prepared the Final LLNL SWEIS to analyze the potential environmental impacts associated with continuing LLNL operations and foreseeable new and/or modified operations and facilities for approximately the next 15 years. Volume 3 of the Final LLNL SWEIS is a comment response document (CRD), which includes all comments received during the public comment period on the Draft LLNL SWEIS, as well as NNSA's responses to those comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 212 (Friday, November 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75566-75567]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-24141]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
National Nuclear Security Administration
Notice of Availability for the Final Site-Wide Environmental
Impact Statement for Continued Operation of the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
AGENCY: National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-
autonomous agency within the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy
(DOE), announces the availability of a Final Site-Wide Environmental
Impact Statement for Continued Operation of the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory (Final LLNL SWEIS) (DOE/EIS-0547) in compliance
with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). NNSA
prepared the Final LLNL SWEIS to analyze the potential environmental
impacts associated with continuing LLNL operations and foreseeable new
and/or modified operations and facilities for approximately the next 15
years. Volume 3 of the Final LLNL SWEIS is a comment response document
(CRD), which includes all comments received during the public comment
period on the Draft LLNL SWEIS, as well as NNSA's responses to those
comments.
DATES: NNSA will not issue any Record of Decision (ROD) on the proposal
for a minimum of 30 days after the date that the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) publishes its Notice of Availability (NOA) in
the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Requests for additional information related to the Final
LLNL SWEIS should be sent to Mr. Tom Grim, NEPA Document Manager,
National Nuclear Security Administration, 1000 Independence Ave. SW,
Washington, DC 20585; or sent by email to: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3579797b796662707c66755b5b46541b515a501b525a43"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1559595b594642505c46557b7b66743b717a703b727a63">[email protected]</span></a>.
The Final LLNL SWEIS is available for viewing and downloading on
the NNSA NEPA Reading Room website (<a href="http://www.energy.gov/nnsa/nnsa-nepa-reading-room">www.energy.gov/nnsa/nnsa-nepa-reading-room</a>) and the DOE NEPA website (<a href="https://energy.gov/nepa/nepa-documents">https://energy.gov/nepa/nepa-documents</a>). Copies of the Final LLNL SWEIS will also be available at
the Livermore Public Library, 1188 South Livermore Avenue, Livermore,
California, and the Tracy Public Library, 20 East Eaton Avenue, Tracy,
California.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information about this
notice, please contact Mr. Tom Grim, NEPA Document Manager, National
Nuclear Security Administration, 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20585; call 833-778-0508 to leave a message; or email at:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#105c5c5e5c4347555943507e7e63713e747f753e777f66"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9bd7d7d5d7c8ccded2c8dbf5f5e8fab5fff4feb5fcf4ed">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NNSA is responsible for meeting the national
security requirements established by the President and Congress to
maintain and enhance the safety, reliability, and performance of the
U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The continued operation of LLNL is
critical to NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program,
preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons worldwide, and many
other areas that may impact national security and global stability. The
Final LLNL SWEIS analyzes two alternatives: (1) the No-Action
Alternative and (2) the Proposed Action. The Final LLNL SWEIS also
analyzes the new hybrid work environment under both alternatives due to
increases in remote work at LLNL. Under the No-Action Alternative, NNSA
would continue current facility operations throughout LLNL in support
of assigned missions. The No-Action Alternative includes previously
approved construction of new facilities; modernization, upgrade, and
utility projects; and decontamination, decommissioning, and demolition
of excess and aging facilities through 2022.
The Proposed Action includes the scope of the No-Action Alternative
and an increase in current facility operations or enhanced operations
that may require new or modified facilities and that are reasonably
foreseeable over the next 15 years. Continued re-investment in site
infrastructure would allow LLNL to meet mission deliverables and
sustain science, technology, and engineering excellence to respond to
future national security challenges. The Proposed Action includes 75
new projects, totaling 3.3 million square feet, between 2023 and 2035.
This comprises 61 proposed projects, totaling 2.9 million square feet,
at LLNL's main site in Livermore, California and 14 proposed projects,
totaling 385,000 square feet, at LLNL's remote testing site, Site 300,
near Tracy, California. In addition, NNSA proposes 20 types of
modernization, upgrade, and utility projects, each involving several
facilities. Under the Proposed Action, NNSA would also decontaminate,
decommission, and demolish 150 facilities, totaling 1,170,000 square
feet. NNSA is also proposing operational changes that would increase
the tritium emissions limits in the National Ignition Facility
(Building 581) and the Tritium Facility (Building 331), decrease the
administrative limit for fuels-grade-equivalent plutonium in the
Superblock (Building 332), increase the administrative limits for
plutonium-239 at Building 235, and revise the National Ignition
Facility radioactive materials administrative limits to be consistent
with DOE's Facility Hazard Categorization Standard. The Proposed Action
also includes several projects to enhance the resilience of the energy
infrastructure and demonstrate renewable power solutions.
This Final LLNL SWEIS contains revisions and new information based
in part on comments received on the Draft LLNL SWEIS. These revisions
and new information are indicated by sidebars in the margins. Volume 3
of the Final LLNL SWEIS contains summaries of the comments received,
images of the comment documents, and NNSA's responses to the comments.
NNSA considered all comments received on the Draft LLNL SWEIS in
preparing the Final LLNL SWEIS.
NNSA will consider the environmental impact analysis presented in
the Final LLNL SWEIS, along with other information, in making decisions
regarding how operations will be conducted at LLNL, including
construction and operation of new facilities, modification and upgrade
of existing facilities and utilities, operational changes, and/or
decontamination, decommission and demolition of excess and aging
facilities. NNSA will not issue any ROD on the proposal for a minimum
of 30 days after the date that EPA publishes its NOA in the Federal
Register. NNSA will publish any ROD in the Federal Register.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on October 13,
2023, by Jill Hruby, Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and
Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, 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
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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 October 27, 2023.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2023-24141 Filed 11-2-23; 8:45 am]
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