[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, RADIATION: Nevada Test Site Environmental Impact Statement

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Draft analyzes options for Nevada National Security Site

BY KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL (NV)
July 26, 2011

Nevada National Security Site officials released a lengthy draft  
impact statement Monday that analyzes options for guiding activities  
over the next decade at the former Nevada Test Site.

The 1,576-page draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement Nevada  
covers operations by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear  
Security Administration at the site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas,  
and off-site locations.
The agency will accept public comments on the document from Friday  
through Oct. 27.

Among the major issues addressed in the document is the program that  
tracks and characterizes radioactive contamination from full-scale,  
below-ground nuclear weapons tests conducted until they were put on  
hold indefinitely in 1992.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lvrj.com/news/draft-analyzes-options-for-nevada-national- 
security-site-126160868.html?ref=868

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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