TY - BOOK T1 - Balancing risks and benefits in industrial applications AN - 19965989; 7159549 AB - The paper will attempt to address the need for an effective international cooperation for effective regulatory systems and in particular will concentrate on prerequisites and key factors for an effective national regulatory system -- the role of governments and stakeholder involvement. For that purpose specific recommendations are made. JF - EFFECTIVE NUCLEAR REGULATORY SYSTEMS: FACING SAFETY AND SECURITY CHALLENGES. AU - Bahran, MY Y1 - 2006/02// PY - 2006 DA - Feb 2006 SP - 8 EP - 146 PB - International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100 Vienna A-1400 Austria, [URL:http://www.iaea.org] KW - Risk Abstracts; Health & Safety Science Abstracts KW - Nuclear power plants KW - International cooperation KW - security KW - H 8000:Radiation Safety/Electrical Safety KW - R2 23020:Technological risks UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/19965989?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Risk+Abstracts&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=book&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Bahran%2C+MY&rft.aulast=Bahran&rft.aufirst=MY&rft.date=2006-02-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=139&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=Balancing+risks+and+benefits+in+industrial+applications&rft.title=Balancing+risks+and+benefits+in+industrial+applications&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-12-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: MONTICELLO NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT, MINNESOTA. (TWENTY-SIXTH DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36341551; 11905 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in southern Minnesota is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 26th supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all licenses renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, Nuclear Management Company, LLC, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed, the unit would be shut down on or before expiration of the current license. The power station, which is located within in a 2,150-acre site, with approximately two miles of frontage on the north and south banks of the Mississippi River. The site lies 22 miles southeast of St Cloud and 30 miles northwest of Minneapolis/St. Paul, and the primarily agricultural project study area includes portions of Wright and Sherburne counties. The plant and its ancillary facilities, which occupy approximately 50 acres within the site, consists of primarily of one single-cycle, forced circulation, low-power density boiling water reactor designed by the General Electric Company, which also designed the turbine generator unit and its related systems. Monticello was designed for operation at power levels up to 1,670 megawatts-thermal (MW(t)) and generation levels up to 545 MW-electric (MW(e)). However, an upgrade license amendment was approved in 1998, providing for a current rated thermal output of 1,775 MW(t) and an electrical output of 600 MW(e). The reactor containment structure consists a drywell enclosing the reactor vessel and recirculation pumps, a pressure suppression chamber serving to store a large volume of water, a connecting vent system between the drywell and the suppression chamber , and isolation valves. The reactor is served by a once-through cooling system that withdrawals from and discharges to the Mississippi River. A steam generator is connected to the reactor vessel. The reactor is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. the 44.1-mile Monticello-Coon Creek 345-kilovolt transmission line and the 13.3-mile Monticello-Parker Lake 345-kilovolt transmission line connects the station to the regional power grid. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license, which is the preferred alternative, would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Mississippi River and deliver makeup water back to the reservoir. Release of water to the reservoir from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclide's into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). JF - EPA number: 060034, 312 pages, January 26, 2006 PY - 2006 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 26 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Rivers KW - Safety Analyses KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Minnesota KW - Mississippi River KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36341551?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2006-01-26&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+MONTICELLO+NUCLEAR+GENERATING+PLANT%2C+MINNESOTA.+%28TWENTY-SIXTH+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+MONTICELLO+NUCLEAR+GENERATING+PLANT%2C+MINNESOTA.+%28TWENTY-SIXTH+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-10-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: January 26, 2006 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, NEW JERSEY (TWENTY-EIGHTH FINAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36351505; 12617 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station adjacent to Barnegat Bay in Ocean County of eastern New Jersey is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 28th supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, AmerGen Energy Company, LLC, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed, the unit would be shut down on or before expiration of the current license, which April 9, 2009. The power station, which is located within in a 800-acre site 35 miles north of Atlantic City and 50 miles east of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, consists of one unit boiling-water reactor designed by General Electric and featuring Mark I containment. The unit produces a reactor core power of 1,930 megawatts-thermal, with a net electrical capacity of 640 megawatts-electric that uses a once-through cooling system that withdrawals from and discharges to the Barnegat Bay through the lower reaches of the Forked River. Heated cooling water is discharged to Oyster Creek, which flows back into the Bay. The reactor, which was placed in service in December 1969, is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Power transmission from the facility depends on the local 230-kilovolt transmission system consisting of two transmission lines, extending a total of 25.1 miles. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Barnegat Bay and deliver makeup water back to the bay. Release of water to the bay from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the nearshore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the bay as well. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 06-0335D, Volume 30, Number 3. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 070017, Final EIS--301 pages, Appendices--589 pages, January 19, 2006 PY - 2006 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 28 KW - Boiling Water Reactors KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - South Carolina KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36351505?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2006-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+OYSTER+CREEK+NUCLEAR+GENERATING+STATION%2C+NEW+JERSEY+%28TWENTY-EIGHTH+FINAL+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+OYSTER+CREEK+NUCLEAR+GENERATING+STATION%2C+NEW+JERSEY+%28TWENTY-EIGHTH+FINAL+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2007-11-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2006 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Modulation of language areas with functional MR image-guided magnetic stimulation AN - 17456606; 6654085 AB - Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can interfere with linguistic performance when delivered over language areas. At low frequency (1 Hz), rTMS is assumed to decrease cortical excitability; however, the degree of TMS effect on cortical language areas may depend on the localization of the stimulation coil with respect to the inter-individual anatomo-functional variations. Hence, we aimed at investigating individual brain areas involved in semantic and phonological auditory processes. We hypothesized that active rTMS targeted over Wernicke's area might modify the performance during a language- fragment-detection task. Sentences in native or foreign languages were presented to 12 right-handed male healthy volunteers during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). 3D-functional maps localized the posterior temporal activation (Wernicke) in each subject and MRI anatomical cortical landmarks were used to define Broca's pars opercularis (F3Op). A frameless stereotaxy system was used to guide the TMS coil position over Wernicke's and F3Op areas in each subject. Active and placebo randomized rTMS sessions were applied at 1 Hz, 110% of motor threshold, during the same language-fragment-detection task. Accuracy and response time (RT) were recorded. RT was significantly decreased by active rTMS compared to placebo over Wernicke's area, and was more decreased for native than for foreign languages. No significant RT change was observed for F3Op area. rTMS conditions did not impair participants' accuracy. Thus, low-frequency rTMS over Wernicke's area can speed-up the response to a task tapping on native language perception in healthy volunteers. This individually-guided stimulation study confirms that facilitatory effects are not confined to high-frequency rTMS. JF - NeuroImage AU - Andoh, J AU - Artiges, E AU - Pallier, C AU - Riviere, D AU - Mangin, J F AU - Cachia, A AU - Plaze, M AU - Paillere-Martinot, M L AU - Martinot, J L AD - INSERM-CEA Research Unit ERM 02-05, National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), IFR49, Frederic Joliot hospital department, 4 place Gl. Leclerc, 91401 Orsay, Paris Descartes University, France, jlmartinot@cea.fr Y1 - 2006/01/15/ PY - 2006 DA - 2006 Jan 15 SP - 619 EP - 627 PB - Elsevier Science Ltd., The Boulevard Langford Lane Kidlington Oxford OX5 1GB UK, [mailto:usinfo-f@elsevier.com], [URL:http://www.elsevier.nl] VL - 29 IS - 2 SN - 1053-8119, 1053-8119 KW - CSA Neurosciences Abstracts; Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts KW - Handedness KW - Brain mapping KW - Functional magnetic resonance imaging KW - Wernicke's area KW - Brain KW - Excitability KW - Neuromodulation KW - Transcranial magnetic stimulation KW - Perception KW - Language KW - W 30910:Imaging KW - N3 11048:Neurobiology of language UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17456606?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Abiotechresearch&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=NeuroImage&rft.atitle=Modulation+of+language+areas+with+functional+MR+image-guided+magnetic+stimulation&rft.au=Andoh%2C+J%3BArtiges%2C+E%3BPallier%2C+C%3BRiviere%2C+D%3BMangin%2C+J+F%3BCachia%2C+A%3BPlaze%2C+M%3BPaillere-Martinot%2C+M+L%3BMartinot%2C+J+L&rft.aulast=Andoh&rft.aufirst=J&rft.date=2006-01-15&rft.volume=29&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=619&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=NeuroImage&rft.issn=10538119&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.neuroimage.2005.07.029 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-12-01 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-13 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Language; Wernicke's area; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Brain mapping; Perception; Brain; Excitability; Neuromodulation; Handedness DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.029 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Speciation of 210Po and 210Pb in air particulates determined by sequential extraction. AN - 68989713; 17029667 AB - Speciation of (210)Po and (210)Pb in air particulates of two Syrian phosphate sites with different climate conditions has been studied. The sites are the mines and Tartous port at the Mediterranean Sea. Air filters were collected during September 2000 until February 2002 and extracted chemically using different selective fluids in an attempt to identify the different forms of these two radionuclides. The results have shown that the inorganic and insoluble (210)Po and (210)Pb (attached to silica and soluble in mineral acids) portion was found to be high in both sites and reached a maximum value of 94% and 77% in the mine site and Tartous port site, respectively. In addition, only 24% of (210)Pb in air particulates was found to be associated with organic materials probably produced from the incomplete burning of fuel vehicle and similar activities. Moreover, the (210)Po/(210)Pb activity ratio in air particulates was higher than that in all samples at both sites and varied between 3.85 in November 2000 at Tartous port site and 20 in April 2001 at the mine area. These activity ratios were also higher than the natural levels. The (210)Po/(210)Pb activity ratio was also determined in each portion resulting from the selective extraction and found to be higher than that in most samples. The sources of (210)Po excess in these portions are discussed. Soil suspension, which is common in the dry climate dominant in the area, sea water spray and heating of phosphate ores were considered; polonium is more volatile than the lead compounds at even moderate temperature. Furthermore, variations in the chemical forms of (210)Po and (210)Pb during the year were also investigated. However, the results of this study can also be utilized for dose assessment to phosphate industry workers. JF - Journal of environmental radioactivity AU - Al-Masri, M S AU - Al-Karfan, K AU - Khalili, H AU - Hassan, M AD - Department of Protection and Safety, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, P.O. Box 6091, 17th Nissan Street, Kafer Souseh, Damascus, Syria. msmasri@aec.org.sy Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 103 EP - 112 VL - 91 IS - 1-2 SN - 0265-931X, 0265-931X KW - Air Pollutants, Radioactive KW - 0 KW - Lead Radioisotopes KW - Polonium KW - DQY03U61EJ KW - Index Medicus KW - Syria KW - Climate KW - Air Pollutants, Radioactive -- chemistry KW - Air Pollutants, Radioactive -- analysis KW - Lead Radioisotopes -- analysis KW - Polonium -- analysis KW - Environmental Monitoring -- statistics & numerical data UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/68989713?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Atoxline&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+environmental+radioactivity&rft.atitle=Speciation+of+210Po+and+210Pb+in+air+particulates+determined+by+sequential+extraction.&rft.au=Al-Masri%2C+M+S%3BAl-Karfan%2C+K%3BKhalili%2C+H%3BHassan%2C+M&rft.aulast=Al-Masri&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=91&rft.issue=1-2&rft.spage=103&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Journal+of+environmental+radioactivity&rft.issn=0265931X&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date completed - 2007-02-21 N1 - Date created - 2006-10-24 N1 - Date revised - 2017-02-17 N1 - Last updated - 2017-02-22 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Occupational exposure in Greek industrial radiography laboratories (1996-2003). AN - 68076692; 16143723 AB - More than 40 industrial radiography laboratories are operating in Greece using X-ray or gamma-ray sources and more than 250 workers occupationally exposed to ionising radiation in these facilities are monitored on a regular basis. This study presents the evolution of individual doses received by radiographers during the past years. The mean annual dose (MAD) of all workers as well as of exposed workers is estimated, and correlated to the types of laboratories and practices applied. The MAD of the exposed workers in industrial radiography is compared with the doses of workers in other specialties and with the doses of radiographers in other countries. Furthermore, the study attempts to propose dose constraints for the practices in industrial radiography, according to the BSS European directive and the relevant Greek radiation protection legislation. The proposed value was defined as the dose below which the annual doses of 75% of the exposed radiographers are expected to be included. JF - Radiation protection dosimetry AU - Economides, S AU - Tritakis, P AU - Papadomarkaki, E AU - Carinou, E AU - Hourdakis, C AU - Kamenopoulou, V AU - Dimitriou, P AD - Greek Atomic Energy Commission, P.O. Box 60092, Ag. Paraskevi 15310, Greece. sikonom@eeae.gr Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 260 EP - 264 VL - 118 IS - 3 SN - 0144-8420, 0144-8420 KW - Index Medicus KW - X-Rays KW - Gamma Rays KW - Risk Factors KW - Materials Testing -- statistics & numerical data KW - Humans KW - Greece -- epidemiology KW - Occupational Exposure -- statistics & numerical data KW - Laboratories -- statistics & numerical data KW - Radiation Monitoring -- methods KW - Radiography -- statistics & numerical data KW - Industry -- statistics & numerical data KW - Risk Assessment -- methods KW - Occupational Exposure -- analysis UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/68076692?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Atoxline&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Radiation+protection+dosimetry&rft.atitle=Occupational+exposure+in+Greek+industrial+radiography+laboratories+%281996-2003%29.&rft.au=Economides%2C+S%3BTritakis%2C+P%3BPapadomarkaki%2C+E%3BCarinou%2C+E%3BHourdakis%2C+C%3BKamenopoulou%2C+V%3BDimitriou%2C+P&rft.aulast=Economides&rft.aufirst=S&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=118&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=260&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Radiation+protection+dosimetry&rft.issn=01448420&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date completed - 2006-09-05 N1 - Date created - 2006-06-14 N1 - Date revised - 2017-02-17 N1 - Last updated - 2017-02-22 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Aspects of harmonisation of individual monitoring for external radiation in Europe: conclusions of a EURADOS action. AN - 68023536; 16581923 AB - Following the publication of the EU Council Directive 96/29, EURADOS coordinated two working groups (WGs) for promoting the process of harmonisation on individual monitoring of occupationally exposed persons in Europe. An overview of the major findings of the second WG is presented. Information on the technical and quality standards and on the accreditation and approval procedures has been compiled. The catalogue of dosimetric services has been updated and extended. An overview of national regulations and standards for protection from radon and other natural sources in workplaces has been made, attempting to combine the results from individual monitoring for external, internal and workplace monitoring. A first status description of the active personal dosemeters, including legislative and technical information, and their implementation has been made. The importance of practical factors on the uncertainty in the dose measurement has been estimated. Even if a big progress has been made towards harmonisation, there is still work to be done. JF - Radiation protection dosimetry AU - Kamenopoulou, V AU - van Dijk, J W E AU - Ambrosi, P AU - Bolognese-Milsztajn, T AU - Castellani, C M AU - Currivan, L AU - Falk, R AU - Fantuzzi, E AU - Figel, M AU - Alves, J Garcia AU - Ginjaume, M AU - Janzekovic, H AU - Kluszczynski, D AU - Lopez, M A AU - Luszik-Bhadra, M AU - Olko, P AU - Roed, H AU - Stadtmann, H AU - Vanhavere, F AU - Vartiainen, E AU - Wahl, W AU - Weeks, A AU - Wernli, C AD - GAEC, Greek Atomic Energy Commission, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece. vkamenop@gaec.gr Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 139 EP - 143 VL - 118 IS - 2 SN - 0144-8420, 0144-8420 KW - Index Medicus KW - Radiation Dosage KW - Occupational Exposure -- prevention & control KW - European Union KW - Reference Standards KW - Europe KW - Radiometry -- instrumentation KW - Radiation Monitoring -- standards KW - Radiation Protection -- methods KW - Radiation Monitoring -- methods KW - Radiometry -- methods KW - Radiation Protection -- standards UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/68023536?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Atoxline&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Radiation+protection+dosimetry&rft.atitle=Aspects+of+harmonisation+of+individual+monitoring+for+external+radiation+in+Europe%3A+conclusions+of+a+EURADOS+action.&rft.au=Kamenopoulou%2C+V%3Bvan+Dijk%2C+J+W+E%3BAmbrosi%2C+P%3BBolognese-Milsztajn%2C+T%3BCastellani%2C+C+M%3BCurrivan%2C+L%3BFalk%2C+R%3BFantuzzi%2C+E%3BFigel%2C+M%3BAlves%2C+J+Garcia%3BGinjaume%2C+M%3BJanzekovic%2C+H%3BKluszczynski%2C+D%3BLopez%2C+M+A%3BLuszik-Bhadra%2C+M%3BOlko%2C+P%3BRoed%2C+H%3BStadtmann%2C+H%3BVanhavere%2C+F%3BVartiainen%2C+E%3BWahl%2C+W%3BWeeks%2C+A%3BWernli%2C+C&rft.aulast=Kamenopoulou&rft.aufirst=V&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=118&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=139&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Radiation+protection+dosimetry&rft.issn=01448420&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date completed - 2006-08-18 N1 - Date created - 2006-05-31 N1 - Date revised - 2017-02-17 N1 - Last updated - 2017-02-22 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Distribution of naturally occurring radionuclides in soils of the southern districts of Bangladesh. AN - 67912325; 16105894 AB - The activity concentrations of naturally occurring radioactive materials in soil samples of an elevated radiation background area of nine southern districts of Bangladesh were determined using gamma-ray spectrometry with an aim of evaluating the environmental radioactivity. The outdoor and indoor external effective dose rates and the radiation hazard indices from the soil activity were evaluated with an aim of minimising the harmful effects of ionising radiation to the population of the area concerned. The activity of (137)Cs was measured and observed in some of the locations. JF - Radiation protection dosimetry AU - Chowdhury, M I AU - Kamal, M AU - Alam, M N AU - Yeasmin, Saleha AU - Mostafa, M N AD - Radioactivity Testing and Monitoring Laboratory, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, P.O. Box 1352, Chittagong, Bangladesh. rtl@globalctg.net Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 126 EP - 130 VL - 118 IS - 1 SN - 0144-8420, 0144-8420 KW - Cesium Radioisotopes KW - 0 KW - Radioisotopes KW - Soil Pollutants, Radioactive KW - Index Medicus KW - Cesium Radioisotopes -- analysis KW - Spectrometry, Gamma KW - Bangladesh KW - Radiation Monitoring -- methods KW - Radioisotopes -- analysis KW - Soil Pollutants, Radioactive -- analysis UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/67912325?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Atoxline&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Radiation+protection+dosimetry&rft.atitle=Distribution+of+naturally+occurring+radionuclides+in+soils+of+the+southern+districts+of+Bangladesh.&rft.au=Chowdhury%2C+M+I%3BKamal%2C+M%3BAlam%2C+M+N%3BYeasmin%2C+Saleha%3BMostafa%2C+M+N&rft.aulast=Chowdhury&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=8&rft.issue=9&rft.spage=36&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=International+Education+Studies&rft.issn=19139020&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date completed - 2006-07-13 N1 - Date created - 2006-04-28 N1 - Date revised - 2017-02-17 N1 - Last updated - 2017-02-22 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The impact of information on research and development activities of nuclear scientists in Ghana. AN - 57705295; 200803704 AB - This paper considers the relationship between information use and the professional development of nuclear scientists in Ghana. The assumption is that, frequent use of library and information services results in higher productivity and achievement. Consequently, a national survey of nuclear scientists was conducted using the questionnaire method. The results indicate that information use leads to increase in the volume and quality of work output of nuclear scientists. Evidence is also found to support the claim that information use enhances contributions of scientists to their organizations. Adapted from the source document. JF - Ghana Library Journal AU - Agyeman, E A AU - Kisiedu, C O AD - Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Accra Ghana Y1 - 2006///0, PY - 2006 DA - 0, 2006 SP - 69 EP - 78 PB - University Library, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana VL - 18 IS - 1 SN - 0855-3033, 0855-3033 KW - Ghana KW - Professional development KW - Scientists KW - Information seeking behaviour KW - article KW - 4.14: USERS - OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/57705295?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Alisa&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Ghana+Library+Journal&rft.atitle=The+impact+of+information+on+research+and+development+activities+of+nuclear+scientists+in+Ghana.&rft.au=Agyeman%2C+E+A%3BKisiedu%2C+C+O&rft.aulast=Agyeman&rft.aufirst=E&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=18&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=69&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Ghana+Library+Journal&rft.issn=08553033&rft_id=info:doi/ L2 - http://www.ajol.info/journal_index.php?jid=234&tran=0&ab=glj LA - English DB - Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) N1 - Date revised - 2015-11-01 N1 - Last updated - 2016-09-27 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Information seeking behaviour; Scientists; Professional development; Ghana ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Seasonal trend of potentially toxic trace elements in soils supporting medicinal plants in the eastern region of Ghana AN - 51518782; 2006-090994 JF - Water, Air and Soil Pollution AU - Dampare, S B AU - Ameyaw, Y AU - Adotey, D K AU - Osae, S AU - Serfor-Armah, Y AU - Nyarko, B J B AU - Adomako, D Y1 - 2006/01// PY - 2006 DA - January 2006 SP - 185 EP - 206 PB - Springer, Dordrecht VL - 169 IS - 1-4 SN - 0049-6979, 0049-6979 KW - neutron activation analysis data KW - cobalt KW - copper KW - Mamfe Ghana KW - substrates KW - toxicity KW - trace elements KW - chemical composition KW - heavy metals KW - chromium KW - soils KW - forests KW - Ghana KW - concentration KW - toxic materials KW - cation exchange capacity KW - statistical analysis KW - arsenic KW - pollution KW - West Africa KW - Pepease Ghana KW - metals KW - Africa KW - trace metals KW - seasonal variations KW - regression analysis KW - point sources KW - Abonse Ghana KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51518782?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Water%2C+Air+and+Soil+Pollution&rft.atitle=Seasonal+trend+of+potentially+toxic+trace+elements+in+soils+supporting+medicinal+plants+in+the+eastern+region+of+Ghana&rft.au=Dampare%2C+S+B%3BAmeyaw%2C+Y%3BAdotey%2C+D+K%3BOsae%2C+S%3BSerfor-Armah%2C+Y%3BNyarko%2C+B+J+B%3BAdomako%2C+D&rft.aulast=Dampare&rft.aufirst=S&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=169&rft.issue=1-4&rft.spage=185&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Water%2C+Air+and+Soil+Pollution&rft.issn=00496979&rft_id=info:doi/ L2 - http://www.springerlink.com/(hi4cjunvnzs4hnradzi0ib55)/app/home/journal.asp?referrer=parent&backto=linkingpublicationresults,1:100344,1 LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 44 N1 - Document feature - illus. incl. 6 tables, sketch map N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - WAPLAC N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Abonse Ghana; Africa; arsenic; cation exchange capacity; chemical composition; chromium; cobalt; concentration; copper; forests; Ghana; heavy metals; Mamfe Ghana; metals; neutron activation analysis data; Pepease Ghana; point sources; pollution; regression analysis; seasonal variations; soils; statistical analysis; substrates; toxic materials; toxicity; trace elements; trace metals; West Africa ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Provenance and tectonic setting of late Proterozoic Buem sandstones of southeastern Ghana; evidence from geochemistry and detrital modes AN - 51105900; 2007-094036 AB - The petrography, as well as major and trace element (including rare earth element) compositions of 10 sandstone samples from the late Proterozoic Buem Structural Unit, southeast Ghana, have been investigated to determine their provenance and tectonic setting. The petrographic analysis has revealed that the sandstones are quartz-rich and were primarily derived from granitic and metamorphic basement rocks typical of a craton interior. The major and trace element compositions are comparable to average Proterozoic cratonic sandstones but with slight enrichment in high-field strength elements (i.e., Zr, Hf, Ta, Nb) and slight depletion in ferromagnesian elements (e.g., Cr, Ni, V) with exception of Co which is unusually enriched in the sandstones. The geochemical data suggest that the Buem sandstones are dominated by mature, cratonic detritus deposited on a passive margin. Elemental ratios critical of provenance (La/Sc, Th/Sc, Cr/Th, Eu/Eu*, La/Lu) are similar to sediments derived from weathering of mostly felsic and not mafic rocks. The rather high Eu/Eu* ratios (0.69-1.09) suggest weathering from mostly a granodiorite source rather than a granite source, consistent with a source from old upper continental crust. The granitoids of the Birimian Supergroup and/or the felsic gneisses of Birimian age exposed to the east and southeast of the Buem Formation appear the most likely source rocks. These results, therefore, support earlier studies that infer passive margin setting for the eastern margin of the West African Craton prior to the Pan-African Orogeny. Abstract Copyright (2006) Elsevier, B.V. JF - Journal of African Earth Sciences AU - Osae, S AU - Asiedu, D K AU - Banoeng-Yakubo, B AU - Koeberl, C AU - Dampare, S B Y1 - 2006/01// PY - 2006 DA - January 2006 SP - 85 EP - 96 PB - Elsevier, Oxford VL - 44 IS - 1 SN - 1464-343X, 1464-343X KW - Ghana KW - upper Precambrian KW - Precambrian KW - Pan-African Orogeny KW - sedimentation KW - sandstone KW - Proterozoic KW - detrital sedimentation KW - West Africa KW - provenance KW - sedimentary rocks KW - petrography KW - Africa KW - lithogeochemistry KW - Buem Sandstone KW - geochemistry KW - clastic rocks KW - Neoproterozoic KW - 06A:Sedimentary petrology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51105900?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+African+Earth+Sciences&rft.atitle=Provenance+and+tectonic+setting+of+late+Proterozoic+Buem+sandstones+of+southeastern+Ghana%3B+evidence+from+geochemistry+and+detrital+modes&rft.au=Osae%2C+S%3BAsiedu%2C+D+K%3BBanoeng-Yakubo%2C+B%3BKoeberl%2C+C%3BDampare%2C+S+B&rft.aulast=Osae&rft.aufirst=S&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=44&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=85&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Journal+of+African+Earth+Sciences&rft.issn=1464343X&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.jafrearsci.2005.11.009 L2 - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/1464343X LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2013, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from CAPCAS, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 16 N1 - Document feature - illus. incl. 4 tables, geol. sketch maps N1 - Last updated - 2013-05-16 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Africa; Buem Sandstone; clastic rocks; detrital sedimentation; geochemistry; Ghana; lithogeochemistry; Neoproterozoic; Pan-African Orogeny; petrography; Precambrian; Proterozoic; provenance; sandstone; sedimentary rocks; sedimentation; upper Precambrian; West Africa DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2005.11.009 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Effect of hydroxyl radicals on the interaction between chlorinated volatile organic compounds and beta -pinene under simulated and sunlight irradiation AN - 20839299; 7305744 AB - Experiments are performed in atmospheric simulation chambers. First, reactions are carried out in a rigid ASC under simulated irradiation where different gaseous systems are studied in mixtures (complete system), and separately (simple system). Second, interactions between TCE and beta -pinene are achieved in two flexible ASCs under solar irradiation in presence of artificial nitrogen oxides (NO sub(x)). The interest of these experiences is to simulate the arrival of a mass of industrial air charged with chlorinated VOC on a forest site, "naturally" rich in terpenic compounds. Results have shown that the presence of hydroxyl radicals can generate chlorine radicals, thus, an increase in the rate of degradation of the terpenic compounds. Constants of degradation rates (k sub(OH)) of TCE, MC and beta -pinene are determined. JF - Fresenius Environmental Bulletin AU - Ghauch, A AU - Kaluzny, P AU - Rouviere, A AU - Deveau, P-A AU - Baussand, P AD - Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission, National Council for Scientific Research, PO BOX, 1182-81 Beirut, Lebanon, aghauch@cnrs.edu.lb Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 1244 EP - 1251 VL - 15 IS - 10 SN - 1018-4619, 1018-4619 KW - Pollution Abstracts KW - Byproducts KW - Chlorine KW - Simulation KW - Forests KW - sunlight KW - Nitrogen oxides KW - Lead KW - Hydroxyl radicals KW - Photochemicals KW - Irradiation KW - Volatile organic compounds KW - Ozone KW - P 0000:AIR POLLUTION UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/20839299?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Apollution&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Fresenius+Environmental+Bulletin&rft.atitle=Effect+of+hydroxyl+radicals+on+the+interaction+between+chlorinated+volatile+organic+compounds+and+beta+-pinene+under+simulated+and+sunlight+irradiation&rft.au=Ghauch%2C+A%3BKaluzny%2C+P%3BRouviere%2C+A%3BDeveau%2C+P-A%3BBaussand%2C+P&rft.aulast=Ghauch&rft.aufirst=A&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=15&rft.issue=10&rft.spage=1244&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Fresenius+Environmental+Bulletin&rft.issn=10184619&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2008-08-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-27 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Photochemicals; Irradiation; Byproducts; Forests; Simulation; Chlorine; Nitrogen oxides; sunlight; Lead; Volatile organic compounds; Ozone; Hydroxyl radicals ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Transfer factors of super(137)Cs and super(90)Sr from soil to trees in arid regions AN - 20548638; 7271964 AB - Transfer factors of super(137)Cs and super(90)Sr from contaminated soil (Aridisol) to olive, apricot trees and grape vines were determined under irrigated field conditions for four successive years. The transfer factors (calculated as Bq kg super(-1) dry plant material per Bq kg super(-1) dry soil) of both radionuclides varied among tree parts and were highest in olive and apricot fruits. However, the values for super(90)Sr were much higher than those for super(137)Cs in all plant parts. The geometric mean of the transfer factors in olives, apricots and grapes were 0.007, 0.095 and 0.0023 for super(137)Cs and 0.093, 0.13 and 0.08 for super(90)Sr, respectively, and were negligible in olive oil for both radionuclides. The transfer factors of both radionuclides were similar to, or in the lower limits of, those obtained in other areas of the world. This could be attributed to differences in soil characteristics: higher pH, lower organic matter, high clay content, and higher exchangeable potassium and calcium. JF - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity AU - Al-Oudat, M AU - Asfary, A F AU - Mukhalallti, H AU - Al-Hamwi, A AU - Kanakri, S AD - Department of Protection and Safety, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Damascus - P.O. Box 6091, Syrian Arab Republic, scientific@aec.org.sy Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 78 EP - 88 PB - Elsevier Science Ltd., The Boulevard Langford Lane Kidlington Oxford OX5 1GB UK, [mailto:nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl], [URL:http://www.elsevier.nl] VL - 90 IS - 1 SN - 0265-931X, 0265-931X KW - Pollution Abstracts KW - Cesium-137 KW - Strontium-90 KW - Transfer factor KW - Tree crops KW - Olea KW - Calcium KW - Trees KW - Organic matter KW - fruits KW - Arid environments KW - Potassium KW - Soil contamination KW - Prunus KW - Soil KW - Oil KW - vines KW - Radioisotopes KW - Strontium KW - Radioactivity KW - Vitaceae KW - pH KW - P 8000:RADIATION UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/20548638?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Apollution&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Environmental+Radioactivity&rft.atitle=Transfer+factors+of+super%28137%29Cs+and+super%2890%29Sr+from+soil+to+trees+in+arid+regions&rft.au=Al-Oudat%2C+M%3BAsfary%2C+A+F%3BMukhalallti%2C+H%3BAl-Hamwi%2C+A%3BKanakri%2C+S&rft.aulast=Al-Oudat&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=90&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=78&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Journal+of+Environmental+Radioactivity&rft.issn=0265931X&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.jenvrad.2006.06.005 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2007-03-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-04-01 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Calcium; Trees; Organic matter; Arid environments; fruits; Potassium; Soil contamination; Oil; Soil; vines; Radioisotopes; Strontium; Radioactivity; pH; Olea; Vitaceae; Prunus DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2006.06.005 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Correlation between radon levels and lung cancer mortality rates: experimental and theoretical problems AN - 17416720; 6537831 AB - Radon is a radioactive gas and is present in most earth materials such as soil, stone, air, water and others. Comprehensive and scientifically rigorous studies found a low lung cancer mortality rate in high radon areas. It is opposite to the linear no-threshold hypothesis (LNTH), which is a popular theory in the field of radiation safety. The fact is explained by the theory of energy transfer model that accounts for the competitive processes arising in material during irradiation. JF - International Journal of Low Radiation AU - Nghiep, T D AU - Anh, V T AD - Vietnam Atomic Energy Commission, Institute for Nuclear Science and Techniques, Hanoi, Vietnam, tdnghiep@vaec.gov.vn Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 84 EP - 87 VL - 2 IS - 1-2 SN - 1477-6545, 1477-6545 KW - Health & Safety Science Abstracts; Pollution Abstracts KW - Mortality KW - Radon KW - Lung cancer KW - H 8000:Radiation Safety/Electrical Safety KW - P 8000:RADIATION UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17416720?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Apollution&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=International+Journal+of+Low+Radiation&rft.atitle=Correlation+between+radon+levels+and+lung+cancer+mortality+rates%3A+experimental+and+theoretical+problems&rft.au=Nghiep%2C+T+D%3BAnh%2C+V+T&rft.aulast=Nghiep&rft.aufirst=T&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=2&rft.issue=1-2&rft.spage=84&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=International+Journal+of+Low+Radiation&rft.issn=14776545&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Mortality; Radon; Lung cancer ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Vertical distribution and inventories of super(137)Cs in the Syrian soils of the eastern Mediterranean region AN - 17223440; 6933026 AB - Vertical distribution and inventories of super(137)Cs have been determined using radiocesium distributions in presumably undistributed soil profiles, collected from 36 sites distributed all over Syria (eastern Mediterranean region). Vertical distributions of super(137)Cs in the collected profiles were found to be strongly correlated with soil type and five groups were identified. Based on these profiles, total super(137)Cs inventory (bomb test and Chernobyl) varied between 320 Bq m super(-2) and 9647 Bq m super(-2). Geographical mapping of super(137)Cs inventories showed that the highest values were found in the coastal, middle and north-east regions of Syria indicating that Chernobyl atmospheric contribution to the total super(137)Cs deposition in the region is predominant. In contrast, the lowest values were found in the south-east region (Syrian Badia), where a relatively uniform distribution was observed, which may only be attributed to the past global nuclear bomb test. The measured inventories were also compared with a mathematical model for estimating bomb derived super(137)Cs reference inventories. JF - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity AU - Al-Masri AD - Department of Protection and Safety, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Damascus, P.O. Box 6091, Syria, msmasri@aec.org.sy Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 187 EP - 198 PB - Elsevier Science Ltd., The Boulevard Langford Lane Kidlington Oxford OX5 1GB UK, [mailto:nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl], [URL:http://www.elsevier.nl] VL - 86 IS - 2 SN - 0265-931X, 0265-931X KW - Pollution Abstracts KW - Cesium-137 KW - Chernobyl KW - Soils KW - Vertical distribution KW - Eastern Mediterranean region KW - Syria KW - Reference inventory KW - Nuclear power plants KW - Mathematical models KW - Radioactive fallout KW - Atomic bombs KW - Radioisotopes KW - Soil contamination KW - Mapping KW - P 8000:RADIATION UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17223440?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Apollution&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Environmental+Radioactivity&rft.atitle=Vertical+distribution+and+inventories+of+super%28137%29Cs+in+the+Syrian+soils+of+the+eastern+Mediterranean+region&rft.au=Al-Masri&rft.aulast=Al-Masri&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=187&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Journal+of+Environmental+Radioactivity&rft.issn=0265931X&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.jenvrad.2005.08.006 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-08-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Nuclear power plants; Mathematical models; Radioactive fallout; Atomic bombs; Radioisotopes; Mapping; Soil contamination; Syria DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2005.08.006 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Speciation of Pb, Cu and Zn determined by sequential extraction for identification of air pollution sources in Syria AN - 17222666; 6929814 AB - Speciation of three trace elements (Zn, Pb, Cu) in air particulates of two Syrian cities (Tartous and Darya) with different climate conditions and industrial emissions has been studied. Air filters were collected during 2000- 2001 and extracted chemically using different selective fluids in an attempt to identify the different forms of trace elements. Approximately 60% of lead in air particulates of both cities was found to be associated with organic materials produced by incomplete burning of vehicles fuels and residential heating; the remaining 40% of lead was as lead oxides and mineral acids soluble compounds. Zinc was found in oxides (28-65%) samples collected in Tartous city, indicating that the Tartous cement factory and phosphate loading cargoes are the main source of emissions. In the Darya filters, zinc associated with organic materials (28-49%) was related to the presence of plastic molding industries and corroding car tires. In addition, copper was also found to be in the form of oxides (19-46%) in both cities in the summer periods, while 13-25% and 35% are associated with organic materials and silicates, respectively. Differences in chemical forms of the studied trace elements in air particulates were found to be related to differences in air pollution sources and differences in human behaviour throughout the year. Therefore, chemical fractionation of trace elements in air particulates using sequential leaching can be used for identification of air pollutions sources in urban and industrial areas. JF - Atmospheric Environment AU - Al-Masri AU - Al-Kharfan, K AU - Al-Shamali, K AD - Department of Protection and Safety, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Damascus, P.O. Box 6091, Syria, msmasri@aec.org.sy Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 753 EP - 761 PB - Elsevier Science B.V., P.O. Box 211 Amsterdam 1000 AE Netherlands, [mailto:nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl], [URL:http://www.elsevier.nl/] VL - 40 IS - 4 SN - 1352-2310, 1352-2310 KW - Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts; Pollution Abstracts KW - Chemical forms KW - Trace elements KW - Air pollution KW - Tartous KW - Darya KW - Syria KW - Leaching KW - Atmospheric pollution and climate KW - Particulate matter in urban air KW - Particulates KW - Pollutant identification KW - Atmospheric pollution by motor vehicles KW - Lead KW - Phosphates KW - Air purification KW - Chemical speciation KW - Zinc KW - Urban atmospheric pollution KW - Trace elements in atmosphere KW - Atmospheric pollution emission KW - Industrial emissions KW - Industrial atmospheric pollution KW - Urban areas KW - M2 551.510.42:Air Pollution (551.510.42) KW - P 0000:AIR POLLUTION UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17222666?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Apollution&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Atmospheric+Environment&rft.atitle=Speciation+of+Pb%2C+Cu+and+Zn+determined+by+sequential+extraction+for+identification+of+air+pollution+sources+in+Syria&rft.au=Al-Masri%3BAl-Kharfan%2C+K%3BAl-Shamali%2C+K&rft.aulast=Al-Masri&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=40&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=753&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Atmospheric+Environment&rft.issn=13522310&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.atmosenv.2005.10.008 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-10-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Leaching; Atmospheric pollution and climate; Trace elements in atmosphere; Urban atmospheric pollution; Particulate matter in urban air; Atmospheric pollution emission; Atmospheric pollution by motor vehicles; Industrial atmospheric pollution; Air pollution; Phosphates; Air purification; Chemical speciation; Zinc; Particulates; Pollutant identification; Industrial emissions; Lead; Trace elements; Urban areas; Syria DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.10.008 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Analysis of the Syrian long-term energy and electricity demand projection using the end-use methodology AN - 17162054; 6819277 AB - A comprehensive analysis of the possible future long-term development of Syrian energy and electricity demand covering the period 1999-2030 is presented. The analysis was conducted using the IAEA's model MAED, which relies upon the end-use approach. This model has been validated during the last two decades through the successful application in many developing countries, even those having partial market economy and energy subsidy. Starting from the base year, final energy consumption distributed by energy forms and consumption sectors, the future energy and electricity demand has been projected according to three different scenarios reflecting the possible future demographic, socio-economic and technological development of the country. These scenarios are constructed to cover a plausible range, in which future evolution factors affecting energy demand are expected to lie. The first is a high economy scenario (HS) representing the reference case, which is characterized by high gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate (average annual about 6%) and moderate improved technologies in the various consumption sectors. The second is an energy efficiency scenario (ES), which is identical to HS in all main parameters except these relating to the efficiency improvement and conservation measures. Here, high technology improvement and more effective conservation measures in all consumption sectors are proposed and the role of solar to substitute fossil energy for heating purposes is considered effectively. The third is a low economy scenario (LS) with low GDP growth rate (average annual about 3.5%) and less technology improvement in the consumption sectors. As a consequence, the improvement in the energy efficiency is low and the influence of conservation measures is less effective. Starting from about 10.5 mtoe final energy in the base year, the analysis shows that the projected energy demand will grow annually at average rates of 5%, 4.5% and 3% for the HS, ES and LS, respectively. Comparing to the HS, the conservation measures and technology improvement in the ES would save ca. 0.8 mtoe in 2010, 2.3 mtoe in 2020 and 5.7 mtoe in 2030. The final electricity demand of about 16.7 TWh in the base year will grow annually at average rates of 5.5%, 5% and 3.4% for the HS, ES and LS, respectively. During the study period 1999-2030 the annual electricity per capita will increase from about 1000 kWh to 2800, 2500 and 1500 kWh for the HS, ES and LS, respectively. The final energy intensity will decrease continuously from about 0.73 kgoe/US$ in the base year to 0.48 kgoe/US$, 0.42 kgoe/US$ and 0.67 kgoe/US$ super(2) for the HS, ES and LS, respectively in the year 2030. These values indicate intensive final energy consumption in Syria compared to developing countries. JF - Energy Policy AU - Hainoun, A AU - Seif-Eldin, M K AU - Almoustafa, S AD - Energy Planning Group, Nuclear Engineering Department, Atomic Energy Commission of Syrian (AECS), P.O. Box 6091, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, ahinoun@aec.org.sy Y1 - 2006 PY - 2006 DA - 2006 SP - 1958 EP - 1970 PB - Elsevier Science Inc., Box 882 New York NY 10159 USA, [mailto:usinfo-f@elsevier.com] VL - 34 IS - 14 SN - 0301-4215, 0301-4215 KW - Sustainability Science Abstracts KW - Final energy demand KW - End-use methodology KW - Development scenarios KW - demography KW - Growth rate KW - market economy KW - energy demand KW - Energy efficiency KW - Syria KW - Energy conservation KW - Socioeconomics KW - Electricity KW - Energy consumption KW - energy policy KW - Economics KW - Conservation KW - subsidies KW - Developing countries KW - M3 1010:Issues in Sustainable Development UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17162054?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Assamodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Energy+Policy&rft.atitle=Analysis+of+the+Syrian+long-term+energy+and+electricity+demand+projection+using+the+end-use+methodology&rft.au=Hainoun%2C+A%3BSeif-Eldin%2C+M+K%3BAlmoustafa%2C+S&rft.aulast=Hainoun&rft.aufirst=A&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=34&rft.issue=14&rft.spage=1958&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Energy+Policy&rft.issn=03014215&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.enpol.2004.12.024 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Growth rate; demography; Energy efficiency; energy demand; market economy; Energy conservation; Socioeconomics; Energy consumption; Electricity; energy policy; Economics; subsidies; Conservation; Developing countries; Syria DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2004.12.024 ER - TY - CPAPER T1 - Radiation Effect of Bitumen Used for Disposal of the Llw Radioactive Waste T2 - 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM 2005) AN - 39875835; 4066401 JF - 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM 2005) AU - Takriti, S Y1 - 2005/12/15/ PY - 2005 DA - 2005 Dec 15 KW - Hazardous wastes KW - Radioactive wastes KW - Radiation KW - Bitumens KW - U 7000:Multidisciplinary UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/39875835?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Acpi&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=conference&rft.jtitle=2005+International+Chemical+Congress+of+Pacific+Basin+Societies+%28PACIFICHEM+2005%29&rft.atitle=Radiation+Effect+of+Bitumen+Used+for+Disposal+of+the+Llw+Radioactive+Waste&rft.au=Takriti%2C+S&rft.aulast=Takriti&rft.aufirst=S&rft.date=2005-12-15&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=2005+International+Chemical+Congress+of+Pacific+Basin+Societies+%28PACIFICHEM+2005%29&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ L2 - http://www.pacifichem.org/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2008-05-21 N1 - Last updated - 2010-05-03 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Versatile Nonlinear Inversion to Interpret Gravity Anomaly Caused by a Simple Geometrical Structure AN - 815539481; 13883504 AB - A geophysical interpretative method is proposed to depth, amplitude coefficient and geometrical shape factor determination of a buried structure from an observed gravity anomaly related to a cylinder or a sphere-like structure.The method is based on nonlinearly constrained mathematical modelling and also on stochastic optimization approaches. The proposed interpretative method first has been tested on theoretical synthetic models with different random errors at a certain depth, where a very close agreement has been observed between assumed and evaluated parameters. Subsequent field data have been considered for which the interpreted results by other methods are available for comparison. The agreement between the obtained results by the proposed technique and by other geophysical methods is good. A statistical analysis has been also carried out to demonstrate the accuracy and the precision of the suggested interpretative method. JF - Pure and Applied Geophysics AU - Tlas, M AU - Asfahani, J AU - Karmeh, H AD - Atomic Energy Commission, P. O. Box 6091, Damascus, Syria Y1 - 2005/12// PY - 2005 DA - Dec 2005 SP - 2557 EP - 2571 PB - Springer-Verlag (Heidelberg), Tiergartenstrasse 17 Heidelberg 69121 Germany VL - 162 IS - 12 SN - 0033-4553, 0033-4553 KW - Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts KW - Shape KW - Precision KW - Statistical Analysis KW - Statistical analysis KW - Model Testing KW - Geophysics KW - Errors KW - Optimization KW - Inversions KW - Model Studies KW - SW 0540:Properties of water KW - M2 551.5:General (551.5) UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/815539481?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Alisa&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Indexer&rft.atitle=The+typography+of+indexes&rft.au=Kinross%2C+Robin&rft.aulast=Kinross&rft.aufirst=Robin&rft.date=1977-10-01&rft.volume=10&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Indexer&rft.issn=00194131&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2010-11-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-19 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Statistical analysis; Inversions; Shape; Precision; Statistical Analysis; Geophysics; Model Testing; Errors; Optimization; Model Studies DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00024-005-2775-7 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Effects of natural drift degradation on in-drift moisture distribution AN - 50445273; 2009-045222 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Manepally, C AU - Fedors, R W AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/12// PY - 2005 DA - December 2005 SP - Abstract H21B EP - 1334 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 86 IS - 52, SUPPL. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - United States KW - hydraulics KW - degradation KW - thermal alteration KW - moisture KW - water vapor KW - radioactive waste KW - size distribution KW - transport KW - packing KW - heterogeneity KW - Yucca Mountain KW - Nevada KW - high-level waste KW - underground storage KW - host rocks KW - grain size KW - Nye County Nevada KW - distribution KW - porosity KW - geometry KW - humidity KW - underground installations KW - waste disposal KW - pore water KW - permeability KW - 30:Engineering geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/50445273?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Effects+of+natural+drift+degradation+on+in-drift+moisture+distribution&rft.au=Manepally%2C+C%3BFedors%2C+R+W%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Manepally&rft.aufirst=C&rft.date=2005-12-01&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=52%2C+SUPPL.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2005 fall meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2009-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - degradation; distribution; geometry; grain size; heterogeneity; high-level waste; host rocks; humidity; hydraulics; moisture; Nevada; Nye County Nevada; packing; permeability; pore water; porosity; radioactive waste; size distribution; thermal alteration; transport; underground installations; underground storage; United States; waste disposal; water vapor; Yucca Mountain ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Assessment of alternative conceptual models using reactive transport modeling with monitoring data AN - 50423393; 2009-055210 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Dai, Z AU - Price, V AU - Heffner, D AU - Hodges, R AU - Temples, T AU - Nicholson, T AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/12// PY - 2005 DA - December 2005 SP - Abstract H13A EP - 1318 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 86 IS - 52, SUPPL. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - chlorinated hydrocarbons KW - biodegradation KW - monitoring KW - pollutants KW - pollution KW - MODFLOW KW - tetrachloroethylene KW - simulation KW - ground water KW - aquifers KW - models KW - organic compounds KW - transport KW - theoretical models KW - reactive transport KW - halogenated hydrocarbons KW - heterogeneity KW - uncertainty KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/50423393?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Assessment+of+alternative+conceptual+models+using+reactive+transport+modeling+with+monitoring+data&rft.au=Dai%2C+Z%3BPrice%2C+V%3BHeffner%2C+D%3BHodges%2C+R%3BTemples%2C+T%3BNicholson%2C+T%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Dai&rft.aufirst=Z&rft.date=2005-12-01&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=52%2C+SUPPL.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2005 fall meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2009-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - aquifers; biodegradation; chlorinated hydrocarbons; ground water; halogenated hydrocarbons; heterogeneity; models; MODFLOW; monitoring; organic compounds; pollutants; pollution; reactive transport; simulation; tetrachloroethylene; theoretical models; transport; uncertainty ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Hydrologic scenario uncertainty in a comprehensive assessment of hydrogeologic uncertainty AN - 50422560; 2009-055212 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Nicholson, T J AU - Meyer, P D AU - Ye, M AU - Neuman, S P AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/12// PY - 2005 DA - December 2005 SP - Abstract H13A EP - 1321 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 86 IS - 52, SUPPL. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - models KW - hydrology KW - maximum likelihood KW - Bayesian analysis KW - statistical analysis KW - theoretical models KW - prediction KW - probability KW - uncertainty KW - land use KW - 21:Hydrogeology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/50422560?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Hydrologic+scenario+uncertainty+in+a+comprehensive+assessment+of+hydrogeologic+uncertainty&rft.au=Nicholson%2C+T+J%3BMeyer%2C+P+D%3BYe%2C+M%3BNeuman%2C+S+P%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Nicholson&rft.aufirst=T&rft.date=2005-12-01&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=52%2C+SUPPL.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2005 fall meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2009-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Bayesian analysis; hydrology; land use; maximum likelihood; models; prediction; probability; statistical analysis; theoretical models; uncertainty ER - TY - CPAPER T1 - Characterization of Fractures at the Nopal I Site and Comparison to Fracture Characteristics of Yucca Mountain, Nevada T2 - 2005 Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Geological Society of America (SLC 2005) AN - 40124880; 4014835 JF - 2005 Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Geological Society of America (SLC 2005) AU - Leslie, B W AU - Smart, K J AU - Pearcy, E C Y1 - 2005/10/16/ PY - 2005 DA - 2005 Oct 16 KW - USA, Nevada KW - USA, Nevada, Yucca Mt. KW - Fractures KW - Mountains KW - Yucca KW - U 5500:Geoscience UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/40124880?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Acpi&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=conference&rft.jtitle=2005+Annual+Meeting+and+Exposition+of+the+Geological+Society+of+America+%28SLC+2005%29&rft.atitle=Characterization+of+Fractures+at+the+Nopal+I+Site+and+Comparison+to+Fracture+Characteristics+of+Yucca+Mountain%2C+Nevada&rft.au=Leslie%2C+B+W%3BSmart%2C+K+J%3BPearcy%2C+E+C&rft.aulast=Leslie&rft.aufirst=B&rft.date=2005-10-16&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=2005+Annual+Meeting+and+Exposition+of+the+Geological+Society+of+America+%28SLC+2005%29&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ L2 - http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2005/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2007-09-05 N1 - Last updated - 2010-05-03 ER - TY - CPAPER T1 - Retrospection of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Efforts on Natural Analogs and the Pena Blanca Uranium District T2 - 2005 Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Geological Society of America (SLC 2005) AN - 40032974; 4015789 JF - 2005 Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Geological Society of America (SLC 2005) AU - Veblen, Linda A AU - Leslie, Bret W Y1 - 2005/10/16/ PY - 2005 DA - 2005 Oct 16 KW - USA KW - Uranium KW - Analogs KW - U 5500:Geoscience UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/40032974?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Acpi&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=conference&rft.jtitle=2005+Annual+Meeting+and+Exposition+of+the+Geological+Society+of+America+%28SLC+2005%29&rft.atitle=Retrospection+of+U.S.+Nuclear+Regulatory+Commission+Efforts+on+Natural+Analogs+and+the+Pena+Blanca+Uranium+District&rft.au=Veblen%2C+Linda+A%3BLeslie%2C+Bret+W&rft.aulast=Veblen&rft.aufirst=Linda&rft.date=2005-10-16&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=2005+Annual+Meeting+and+Exposition+of+the+Geological+Society+of+America+%28SLC+2005%29&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ L2 - http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2005/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2007-09-05 N1 - Last updated - 2010-05-03 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Characterization of fractures at the Nopal I site and comparison to fracture characteristics of Yucca Mountain, Nevada AN - 51572630; 2006-053089 AB - The Nopal I uranium (U) deposit in the Pena Blanca District, Mexico, is a natural analog of some aspects of the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has independently conducted activities at Nopal I to better understand the analogous nature of source term and contaminant transport aspects of the two sites. The U deposit consists of a series of mined horizontal benches, some of which have been cleared to allow detailed mapping. The benches are vertically separated by 10 m (32.8 ft). The vertical walls between benches, and cleared benches, were mapped at a scale of 1:25. Uranium transport through the fractured silicic tuff at the site has been described (Pearcy et al., 1995), however that study focused only on the cleared benches. In general, fracture density on the vertical walls appears to be higher than on the cleared benches. Fracture density (total trace length per unit area) determined in ArcGIS indicates density at Nopal I can be greater than 6 m/m (super 2) within the ore deposit, but is not significantly different than outside the ore deposit. At Yucca Mountain the fracture intensity is much lower at 0.29 m/m (super 2) for the lower lithophysal unit of the Topopah Spring Member. This difference could be due to a longer cutoff length for mapped fractures at Yucca Mountain. At Nopal I fracture density was also calculated by frequency (i.e., number of fractures/m (super 2) ) and it shows a general increase close to the deposit and somewhat higher values within the deposit. The fractal dimension of the fracture pattern on cleared benches, determined using a box-counting method, was 1.8, while at Yucca Mountain the fractal dimension of the Topopah Spring Member is 1.7 (Barton et al., 1993). Fractal dimension of rock blocks at Yucca Mountain range for 2.37-2.69 (La Pointe, 1988), while at Nopal fracture frequency density has a fractal dimension of 2.4 and a fracture length density of 2.6. The frequency of fractures having a mineral coating at Yucca Mountain has been used by the U.S. Department of Energy to support the active fracture model and this approach could be tested using the Nopal data. The NRC staff views expressed herein are preliminary and do not constitute a final judgment or determination of the matters addressed or of the acceptability of a license application for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. JF - Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America AU - Leslie, Bret W AU - Smart, Kevin J AU - Pearcy, English C AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/10// PY - 2005 DA - October 2005 SP - 196 PB - Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO VL - 37 IS - 7 SN - 0016-7592, 0016-7592 KW - United States KW - Nopal I Deposit KW - characterization KW - waste disposal sites KW - mapping KW - Chihuahua Mexico KW - Nye County Nevada KW - radioactive waste KW - models KW - fractures KW - uranium ores KW - Mexico KW - transport KW - natural analogs KW - metal ores KW - Sierra Pena Blanca KW - waste disposal KW - Yucca Mountain KW - fractals KW - Nevada KW - 16:Structural geology KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51572630?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.atitle=Characterization+of+fractures+at+the+Nopal+I+site+and+comparison+to+fracture+characteristics+of+Yucca+Mountain%2C+Nevada&rft.au=Leslie%2C+Bret+W%3BSmart%2C+Kevin+J%3BPearcy%2C+English+C%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Leslie&rft.aufirst=Bret&rft.date=2005-10-01&rft.volume=37&rft.issue=7&rft.spage=196&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.issn=00167592&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - Geological Society of America, 2005 annual meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - PubXState - CO N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - GAAPBC N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - characterization; Chihuahua Mexico; fractals; fractures; mapping; metal ores; Mexico; models; natural analogs; Nevada; Nopal I Deposit; Nye County Nevada; radioactive waste; Sierra Pena Blanca; transport; United States; uranium ores; waste disposal; waste disposal sites; Yucca Mountain ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Retrospection of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission efforts on natural analogs and the Pena Blanca uranium district AN - 51564468; 2006-062233 AB - Disposal of high-level nuclear waste requires a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license. 10 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) 63 (i.e., "Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada") prescribes rules governing the licensing of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposed repository. The licensing regulations are risk-informed and performance-based, and identify the role of natural analogs in supporting models of repository performance. NRC has collected natural analog information from the Pena Blanca District, Chihuahua, Mexico since 1990. NRC independently used that information to better understand the performance of a potential tuff-hosted nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain and to understand limitations of the use of natural analog information. NRC-funded work in the Pena Blanca District has focused on (1) characterization of processes important to oxidative alteration of uraninite, (2) characterization of processes important to subsequent migration of radioelements through silicic tuffs, and (3) modeling the processes which control uraninite alteration and radioelement migration. Field studies included geologic mapping, contact gamma surveys, collection of solid, vegetation, and water samples, and characterization of local hydrology. Laboratory investigations included analyses of mapping data, mineralogy, petrology, rock, plant and water chemistry, stable and radioisotope analyses, and hydraulic characterization of tuffs. These studies (http://www.swri.edu/4org/d20/ghs/PBlanca/index.html) have led to (1) a description of the alteration of uraninite that occurred over long time scales that is comparable to that observed in Yucca Mountain-approximate laboratory experiments of spent fuel degradation; (2) implementation of an alternate source term model for the NRC's performance assessment code; (3) a better understanding of radioelement mobility in fracture transport pathways; and (4) demonstration of episodes of elevated radionuclide mobility, likely related to increased water flow. The NRC staff views expressed herein are preliminary and do not constitute a final judgment or determination of the matters addressed or of the acceptability of a license application for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. JF - Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America AU - Veblen, Linda A AU - Leslie, Bret W AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/10// PY - 2005 DA - October 2005 SP - 269 PB - Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO VL - 37 IS - 7 SN - 0016-7592, 0016-7592 KW - United States KW - alteration KW - volcanic rocks KW - igneous rocks KW - regulations KW - government agencies KW - characterization KW - Chihuahua Mexico KW - radioactive waste KW - evaluation KW - laboratory studies KW - mineral composition KW - oxides KW - tuff KW - Sierra Pena Blanca KW - Yucca Mountain KW - geochemistry KW - Nevada KW - processes KW - U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission KW - high-level waste KW - experimental studies KW - oxidation KW - migration of elements KW - Nye County Nevada KW - models KW - pyroclastics KW - uranium ores KW - Mexico KW - natural analogs KW - metal ores KW - risk assessment KW - waste disposal KW - uraninite KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51564468?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.atitle=Retrospection+of+U.S.+Nuclear+Regulatory+Commission+efforts+on+natural+analogs+and+the+Pena+Blanca+uranium+district&rft.au=Veblen%2C+Linda+A%3BLeslie%2C+Bret+W%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Veblen&rft.aufirst=Linda&rft.date=2005-10-01&rft.volume=37&rft.issue=7&rft.spage=269&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.issn=00167592&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - Geological Society of America, 2005 annual meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - PubXState - CO N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - GAAPBC N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - alteration; characterization; Chihuahua Mexico; evaluation; experimental studies; geochemistry; government agencies; high-level waste; igneous rocks; laboratory studies; metal ores; Mexico; migration of elements; mineral composition; models; natural analogs; Nevada; Nye County Nevada; oxidation; oxides; processes; pyroclastics; radioactive waste; regulations; risk assessment; Sierra Pena Blanca; tuff; U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; United States; uraninite; uranium ores; volcanic rocks; waste disposal; Yucca Mountain ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mobilization of uranium from the Nopal I analog and implications for nuclear waste repository performance AN - 51564120; 2006-062230 AB - An important analog feature of the Nopal I uranium (U) deposit is the fractured silicic tuff host rock. In a zone a few tens of meters horizontally around Nopal I, elevated U concentrations in fracture-filling minerals indicate past mobilization and redeposition. While it is not possible to quantify precisely the mass that was transported and not captured, this secondary U enrichment indicates release and transport. Three classes of fracture fills have been studied: iron-rich, carbonate-rich, and opaliferous. Uranium deposition in iron-rich fractures took place during and after oxidative alteration of pyrite to goethite, hematite, jarosite, and amorphous iron oxyhydroxides. Uranium-series isotope systematics suggest this enrichment took place within the past few hundred thousand years, with more recent partial U removal. The carbonate-rich fracture assemblages reflect two environments. Crystalline calcite (up to 50 ppm U) was deposited earlier than 200 ka, while caliches (up to hundreds of ppm U) are less than 140 ka with an episode of higher U contents at 45-55 ka. Leaching studies show that, in most cases, the silica-mineral residues are coeval with the calcite component. Opals (up to thousands of ppm U) are mostly in U-series secular equilibrium; one exception has an age of 54+ or -2 ka. Studies are underway to better understand the physical and chemical environments of deposition of these various fracture materials. Implications of these observations for better understanding the performance of a potential nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain include (i) estimating the efficacy of fractures in providing transport pathways, (ii) demonstrating episodes of elevated radionuclide mobility, likely related to increased water flow, (iii) comparing lower-bound release rates, based on estimated U deposition rates, with rates in repository performance assessment analyses, and (iv) quantifying the sorptive properties of iron minerals in a natural setting. This is an independent product of the CNWRA and does not necessarily reflect the views or regulatory positions of the NRC. The NRC staff views expressed here are preliminary and do not represent a final judgment or determination of the matters addressed or of the acceptability of a license application for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. JF - Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America AU - Pickett, David A AU - Leslie, Bret AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/10// PY - 2005 DA - October 2005 SP - 268 PB - Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO VL - 37 IS - 7 SN - 0016-7592, 0016-7592 KW - United States KW - alteration KW - sorption KW - isotopes KW - Nopal I Deposit KW - properties KW - Nye County Nevada KW - radioactive waste KW - fractures KW - uranium ores KW - radioactive isotopes KW - mineral composition KW - quantitative analysis KW - metals KW - metal ores KW - uranium KW - mobilization KW - waste disposal KW - Yucca Mountain KW - actinides KW - Nevada KW - 27A:Economic geology, geology of ore deposits KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51564120?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.atitle=Mobilization+of+uranium+from+the+Nopal+I+analog+and+implications+for+nuclear+waste+repository+performance&rft.au=Pickett%2C+David+A%3BLeslie%2C+Bret%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Pickett&rft.aufirst=David&rft.date=2005-10-01&rft.volume=37&rft.issue=7&rft.spage=268&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.issn=00167592&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - Geological Society of America, 2005 annual meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - PubXState - CO N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - GAAPBC N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - actinides; alteration; fractures; isotopes; metal ores; metals; mineral composition; mobilization; Nevada; Nopal I Deposit; Nye County Nevada; properties; quantitative analysis; radioactive isotopes; radioactive waste; sorption; United States; uranium; uranium ores; waste disposal; Yucca Mountain ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Nutritive value of some agricultural wastes as affected by relatively low gamma irradiation levels and chemical treatments AN - 19953572; 6653575 AB - An experiment was carried out to study the changes in the values of in vitro organic matter digestibility (IVOMD) and metabolizable energy (ME) of wheat straw, sunflower seed shell, olive cake wood, date palm seeds and peanut shell after irradiation with various levels of gamma radiation (0, 20, 40, 60 kGy; kiloGray) or after spraying with different amounts of hydrobromic acid (HBr; 47%) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH): 0, 3, 6 ml HBr and 3, 6 g NaOH in 25 ml water/100 g DM. The results indicated that chemical treatments increased the IVOMD and ME values significantly for all samples treated except the date palm seeds. There was no significant effect of irradiation on IVOMD and ME. Combined treatments of irradiation and HBr or NaOH were also found to be ineffective in increasing the IVOMD and ME values. JF - Bioresource Technology AU - Al-Masri, M R AD - Department of Agriculture, Atomic Energy Commission, P.O. Box 6091, Damascus, Syria, scientific@aec.org.sy Y1 - 2005/10// PY - 2005 DA - Oct 2005 SP - 1737 EP - 1741 PB - Elsevier Science Ltd., The Boulevard Langford Lane Kidlington Oxford OX5 1GB UK, [mailto:nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl], [URL:http://www.elsevier.nl] VL - 96 IS - 15 SN - 0960-8524, 0960-8524 KW - Wheat KW - Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts; Pollution Abstracts KW - Waste KW - Nutritive value KW - Chemical, irradiation KW - Arachis hypogaea KW - Olea KW - Nuts KW - Spraying KW - Triticum aestivum KW - Sodium hydroxide KW - Radiation KW - gamma Radiation KW - Straw KW - Seeds KW - Agricultural wastes KW - Organic matter KW - Chemical treatment KW - Waste treatment KW - Gamma radiation KW - Cakes KW - Irradiation KW - Energy KW - Digestibility KW - Shells KW - Helianthus KW - W 30930:Agricultural Applications KW - P 4000:WASTE MANAGEMENT UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/19953572?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Abiotechresearch&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-03-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Seeds; Organic matter; Agricultural wastes; Nuts; Spraying; Sodium hydroxide; Nutritive value; Radiation; Cakes; Energy; Digestibility; gamma Radiation; Shells; Straw; Irradiation; Waste treatment; Chemical treatment; Gamma radiation; Triticum aestivum; Olea; Arachis hypogaea; Helianthus DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2004.12.032 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Lycopodium cernuum and Funaria hygrometrica as deposition indicators for radionuclides and trace metals AN - 17185064; 6863387 AB - Levels of super(210)Pb, super(210)Po, super(137)Cs and some trace elements (Cu, Zn and Pb) in two most common mosses (Lycopodium cernuum and Funaria hygrometrica) distributed in the eastern Mediterranean sea region (Syrian coastal mountains series) have been determined. Radiochemical analysis has shown that these plants contain high levels of super(210)Pb, super(210)Po, super(137)Cs. The highest concentration of super(210)Pb, super(210)Po and super(137)Cs were found to be 1450, 1322 and 1140 Bq super( .) kg super(-1) dry wt. in L. cernuum, respectively. F. hygrometrica was found to have higher values of super(210)Pb and super(210)Po concentrations and reached 2392 and 2119 Bq super( .) kg super(-1) dry wt., respectively. Correlation coefficients for radionuclide levels in both plants versus their levels in soil have been determined: No correlation for super(137)Cs for both plants has been observed. This indicates that super(137)Cs in these plants is of atmospheric origin and the plants can be used as deposition indicators. In addition, a correlation with radionuclide levels was found only for super(210)Pb and super(210)Po in F. hygrometrica samples and was mainly related to super(226)Ra content in soil and the existing faults, which are the main source of these radionuclides. On the other hand, lead concentration in L. cernuum was found to be in the range of 5-86.6 ppm, while F. hygrometrica samples were found to contain around 58 ppm. Both plants seem to accumulate lead from the atmosphere where vehicle emissions are the main source of lead in the region. Comparable concentrations of Cu and Zn were found in all plant and soil samples. JF - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry AU - Al-Masri AU - Mamish, S AU - Al-Haleem, MA AU - Al-Shamali, K AD - Department of Protection and Safety, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Damascus, P. O. Box 6091, Syria Y1 - 2005/10// PY - 2005 DA - Oct 2005 SP - 49 EP - 55 PB - Springer-Verlag (Heidelberg), Tiergartenstrasse 17 Heidelberg 69121 Germany, [mailto:subscriptions@springer.de], [URL:http://www.springer.de/] VL - 266 IS - 1 SN - 0236-5731, 0236-5731 KW - Pollution Abstracts KW - Mountains KW - Funaria hygrometrica KW - Lycopodium cernuum KW - Radioisotopes KW - Emissions KW - trace metals KW - Atmosphere KW - MED, Eastern Mediterranean KW - Lead KW - soil KW - Trace elements KW - P 8000:RADIATION UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17185064?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Apollution&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.atitle=American+Joins+Fight+For+Cheap-Fare+Fliers&rft.au=Carey%2C+Susan&rft.aulast=Carey&rft.aufirst=Susan&rft.date=2017-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=A.1&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.issn=00999660&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-12-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Mountains; Emissions; Radioisotopes; trace metals; Atmosphere; Lead; Trace elements; soil; Funaria hygrometrica; Lycopodium cernuum; MED, Eastern Mediterranean DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-005-0867-6 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE PLANT IN PIKETON, OHIO. [Part 1 of 1] T2 - AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE PLANT IN PIKETON, OHIO. AN - 912102258; 11636-5_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license to construct, operate, and decommission the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP), a gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facility located on the Department of Energy (DOE) reservation in Piketon, Ohio is proposed. Piketon lies between Chillicothe and Portsmouth, approximately 70 miles south of Columbus, Ohio. Enrichment is the process of increasing the concentration of the naturally occurring fissionable uranium-235 isotope. Uranium ore usually contains approximately 0.72 weight percent uraniu-235. In order to be useful in a nuclear power plant as fuel for electricity generation, the uranium must typically be enriched up to five weight percent. While the demand for enriched uranium rises, the supplies of enriched uranium currently required in the United States are on the decline. Foreign sources currently provide as much as 86 percent of the nation's enriched uranium needs, including 42 percent from Russia and 44 percent from other countries that produce and export enriched uranium. A supply disruption at the Paducah Plant which is the only plant operating domestically would seriously threaten the country's energy security. The ACP would enrich uranium for use in commercial fuel for power reactors. Feed material would be comprised of non-enriched uranium hexaflouride. The license applicant, USEC Inc., proposes to enrich uranium up to 10 percent by weight of uranius-235. The initial license application would provide for a facility capable of processing 3.5 million separative work units (SWU) per year. Because USEC has indicated the potential for future expansion of the facility to allow for production of 7.0 million SWU per year, the environmental review presented here addresses that volume of production capacity. The license would authorize USEC to possess and use special nuclear material, source material, and byproduct material at the ACP. The new plant would be located within the same site as the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which has been shut down since May 2001. Development of the ACP would involve refurbishment of existing buildings, construction of new facilities, and use of adjacent grounds owned by the DOE and leased by USEC. USEC would utilize centrifuge technology to enrich uranium-235 to 10 weight percent. Depending on the timing of the licensing process and other factors, USEC would start construction of the ACP in 2007, begin commercial centrifuge operations in 2009, and ramp up to 3.5 million SWU design capacity by 201. The license would be granted for a period of 30 years. After the proposed ACP because operational, production of enriched uranium would cease at the gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, Kentucky and be replaced byt he ACP at Piketon. In addition to the proposed action, this draft EIS considers a No Action Alternative. Site preparation and construction costs are estimated at $1.5 billion between 2006 and 2020. Centrifuge manufacturing and assembly are estimated to cost $1.4 billion between 2004 and 2013. Decontamination and decommissioning are estimated to cost $435 million over a period of six years, expected to begin in 2040. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The ACP would provide much of the uramium-235 necessary to generate a large portion of the 393 gigawatts of new generating capacity required to meet the nation's needs by 2020. This would require an installed nuclear-generating capacity increase from 98 gigawatts in 2001 to 103 gigawatts in 2025, which is the equivalent of five nuclear reactors. In addition to advancing national energy security goals, the ACP plant would help accomplish the goals of the June 2002 DOE-USEC Agreement to facilitate the deployment of new cost-effective advanced enrichment technology in the U.S. on an accelerated schedule. USEC would constru8ct and operate a modern, efficient, lest costly enrichment plant to supplement and replace a gaseous diffusion in moderation for more than 50 years. Gas centrifuge technology would represent a more efficient and less energy intensive uranium enrichment technology that the gaseous diffusion technology currently in use. The ACP would provide for significant local employment opportunities and otherwise contribute to the local economy. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Slight impacts would result with respect to land use, historic and cultural resources, visual aesthetics, air quality, geologic and soil resources, water resources, ecological resources, socioeconomics, noise levels, transportation-related radiological hazards, occupational health and safety, and waste management. Approximately 24 acres of vegetation and the associated wildlife habitat would be lost. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.). JF - EPA number: 050365, 610 pages, September 1, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 1 KW - Manufacturing KW - Agency number: NUREG-1834 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cost Assessments KW - Dosimetry KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Impact Assessment Methodology KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Substances KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Safety Analyses KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Ohio KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/912102258?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-09-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=AMERICAN+CENTRIFUGE+PLANT+IN+PIKETON%2C+OHIO.&rft.title=AMERICAN+CENTRIFUGE+PLANT+IN+PIKETON%2C+OHIO.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: September 1, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-21 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Numerical simulation of thermal-mechanical processes observed at the Drift-Scale Heater Test at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA AN - 51678291; 2005-062878 AB - Results from the 4-year-long heating phase of the Drift-Scale Heater Test at the Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA, provide a basis to evaluate conceptual and numerical models used to simulate thermal-mechanical coupled processes expected to occur at the potential geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. The objectives of the evaluation were to investigate coupled processes associated with (i) temperature effects on mechanical deformation and (ii) effect of thermal-mechanical processes on rock-mass permeability. Two-dimensional numerical models were built to perform the thermal-mechanical analyses. Thermal-mechanical simulations were predicated on a continuum representation of a deformation-permeability relationship based on fracture normal stress. The estimated trend of permeability responses using a normal stress-based deformation-permeability relationship compared reasonably to that measured in the coupled thermal-mechanical analyses. Abstract Copyright (2005) Elsevier, B.V. JF - International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences (1997) AU - Hsiung, S M AU - Chowdhury, A H AU - Nataraja, M S Y1 - 2005/09// PY - 2005 DA - September 2005 SP - 652 EP - 666 PB - Pergamon, Oxford-New York VL - 42 IS - 5-6 SN - 1365-1609, 1365-1609 KW - United States KW - rock masses KW - shear strength KW - numerical models KW - engineering properties KW - stress KW - tensile strength KW - deformation KW - simulation KW - Nye County Nevada KW - rock mechanics KW - radioactive waste KW - Nevada Test Site KW - fractures KW - thermomechanical properties KW - waste disposal KW - dilation KW - Yucca Mountain KW - underground disposal KW - permeability KW - Nevada KW - 30:Engineering geology KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51678291?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ L2 - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13651609 LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2015, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from CAPCAS, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands N1 - Date revised - 2005-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 18 N1 - Document feature - illus. incl. 8 tables N1 - Last updated - 2015-10-15 N1 - CODEN - IJRMA2 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - deformation; dilation; engineering properties; fractures; Nevada; Nevada Test Site; numerical models; Nye County Nevada; permeability; radioactive waste; rock masses; rock mechanics; shear strength; simulation; stress; tensile strength; thermomechanical properties; underground disposal; United States; waste disposal; Yucca Mountain DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2005.03.006 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The effect of gamma irradiation and grinding on the microbial load of dried licorice roots (Glycyrrhiza glabra L.), and quality characteristics of their extract AN - 20552566; 9230788 AB - Ground roots of licorice with 3 particle sizes (fine particles <0.35 mm, medium: 0.35-8.0 mm, and coarse particles ?8.0 mm diameter) were exposed to 5, 10, 15 and 20 kGy of gamma radiation from a super(60)Co source. Microbial population of ground roots and the characteristics of their extracts (concentrations of glycyrrhizinic acid, total and inorganic dissolved solids), mineral ions (Ca super(++) and K super(+)), pH and EC values were evaluated after irradiation. The results showed thatmicrobial count of fine particles of ground licorice roots were 10 super(6) g super(-1), that of coarse ones 10 super(5) g super(-1). The extract produced from coarse particles of ground roots had lower total and inorganic dissolved solids, mineral ions (Ca super(++) and K super(+)), pH and EC values compared with those produced from fine particular ones. All sizes of licorice roots treated with gamma irradiation had significantly (P<0.05) lower microorganism counts than untreated (control) ones. The dose needed to reduce the microbial load to less than 10 bacteria per gram was 15 kGy for the fine particle and 10 kGy for the coarse ground root. Gamma irradiation decreased glycyrrhizinic acid concentrations in the extracts produced from coarse particle licorice roots. JF - Acta Alimentaria AU - Al-Bachir, M AU - Zeinou, R AD - Radiation Technology Department, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria P.O. Box 6091, Damascus. Syria Y1 - 2005/09// PY - 2005 DA - Sep 2005 SP - 287 EP - 294 PB - Akademiai Kiado Rt. VL - 34 IS - 3 SN - 0139-3006, 0139-3006 KW - Microbiology Abstracts B: Bacteriology; Microbiology Abstracts A: Industrial & Applied Microbiology KW - grinding KW - gamma irradiation KW - licorice KW - quality characteristics KW - microbial load KW - extract KW - Particle size KW - Ions KW - Glycyrrhiza glabra KW - Calcium KW - Radiation KW - gamma Radiation KW - Microorganisms KW - Roots KW - Potassium KW - pH effects KW - Minerals KW - A 01400:Soil Microbes KW - J 02300:Methods UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/20552566?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Amicrobiologyb&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Acta+Alimentaria&rft.atitle=The+effect+of+gamma+irradiation+and+grinding+on+the+microbial+load+of+dried+licorice+roots+%28Glycyrrhiza+glabra+L.%29%2C+and+quality+characteristics+of+their+extract&rft.au=Al-Bachir%2C+M%3BZeinou%2C+R&rft.aulast=Al-Bachir&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2005-09-01&rft.volume=34&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=287&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Acta+Alimentaria&rft.issn=01393006&rft_id=info:doi/10.1556%2FAAlim.34.2005.3.11 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2009-05-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-30 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Particle size; Ions; Calcium; Radiation; Microorganisms; gamma Radiation; Potassium; Roots; Minerals; pH effects; Glycyrrhiza glabra DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/AAlim.34.2005.3.11 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Martian megaflood-triggered chaos formation, revealing groundwater depth, cryosphere thickness, and crustal heat flux AN - 19702371; 6674939 AB - Ravi Vallis is an outflow channel complex that emerged from Aromatum Chaos, a region of collapsed ground in Xanthe Terra, Mars. I propose that the megaflood that carved Ravi Vallis incised the crust more than 700 m, penetrated the cryosphere, and triggered the release of groundwater and genesis of secondary chaos zones in the deepest parts of the channel system. Discharge rates of 4 x 10 super(6) to 5 x 10 super(7) m super(3) s super(-1) are estimated for early overland flooding. Assuming bank-full flow would yield unrealistic discharge rates of >3 x 10 super(8) m super(3) s super(-1). Waning stage flooding in an inner channel had a discharge rate on the order of 1 x 10 super(6) m super(3) s super(-1). The cryosphere thickness and groundwater depth are estimated as the sum of the channel incision depth and the thickness of residual cryosphere beneath the channel floor that could be disrupted by high artesian pressure. The surface elevation (-1231 m) of a transient water body in Aromatum Chaos would have controlled the maximum potentiometric heads in confined aquifers to the east. Where Iamuna Chaos was spawned, the floor of Ravi Vallis would have experienced upward hydraulic pressures of <=2.4 MPa, enough to rupture a basaltic rock layer <=255 m thick. At the time of the flood the cryosphere thickness and groundwater depth would have been 700 to 1000 m at this location on the equator, indicating a relatively cold, long-term climate trend similar to that of present-day Mars. The crustal heat flux likely exceeded 50 mW m super(-2) at Iamuna Chaos. If deep lakes existed at that time in the ancestral Valles Marineris, their ice covers are estimated to have been less than 3 km thick. The fluvial incision and groundwater breakout model described here can fully account for the inception of Iamuna Chaos, Oxia Chaos, and a smaller unnamed chaos. Therefore a locally enhanced crustal heat flux was not required to initiate the formation of these chaotes. JF - Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets AU - Coleman, Neil M AD - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, USA Y1 - 2005/09// PY - 2005 DA - Sep 2005 PB - American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20009 USA, [mailto:service@agu.org], [URL:http://www.agu.org] VL - 110 IS - E12 SN - 2169-9097, 2169-9097 KW - Aqualine Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts; Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts KW - Citation No. E12S20 KW - groundwater KW - Mars KW - Ravi Vallis. KW - 0799 Cryosphere: General or miscellaneous 1825 Hydrology: Geomorphology: fluvial (1625) 1829 Hydrology: Groundwater hydrology 5418 Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Heat flow 6225 Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects: Mars. KW - Confined aquifers KW - Mars surface KW - Lakes KW - Cryosphere KW - Floods KW - Mars floods KW - Heat flux KW - Ice Cover KW - Climates KW - Groundwater flow KW - Climatic trends KW - Mars lakes KW - Channels KW - Heat KW - Ice on Mars KW - Elevation KW - Chaos KW - Flooding KW - Mars climate KW - Groundwater KW - Fluctuations KW - AQ 00001:Water Resources and Supplies KW - M2 523.4:Planets (523.4) KW - SW 6050:Rock mechanics and geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/19702371?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Aaqualine&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Geophysical+Research.+Planets&rft.atitle=Martian+megaflood-triggered+chaos+formation%2C+revealing+groundwater+depth%2C+cryosphere+thickness%2C+and+crustal+heat+flux&rft.au=Coleman%2C+Neil+M&rft.aulast=Coleman&rft.aufirst=Neil&rft.date=2005-09-01&rft.volume=110&rft.issue=E12&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Journal+of+Geophysical+Research.+Planets&rft.issn=21699097&rft_id=info:doi/10.1029%2F2005JE002419 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-10-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-10-15 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Heat flux; Groundwater flow; Mars lakes; Confined aquifers; Climatic trends; Mars; Mars surface; Cryosphere; Floods; Ice on Mars; Chaos; Mars floods; Mars climate; Channels; Lakes; Ice Cover; Heat; Elevation; Climates; Flooding; Groundwater; Fluctuations DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005JE002419 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The use of radiation surveys to estimate the radiation effective dose to visitors of hospitalized patients - A theoretical study AN - 17416515; 6537763 AB - Members of the public visiting hospitalized patients undergoing nuclear medicine procedures or brachytherapy are exposed to radiation emanating from the patient. The radiation protection staff at the hospital is responsible for ensuring that the doses to these visitors are kept as low as is reasonably achievable and are maintained below applicable regulatory limits. These limits are normally expressed in terms of the effective dose to the visitor. Direct measurement of the effective dose, however, is not feasible, and the use of a quantity that provides a reasonable estimate, referred to as a surrogate, is required. This study used Monte Carlo radiation transport calculations to examine the feasibility of using bedside survey results, in units of roentgens per hour, as a surrogate for estimating the effective dose to a person who may be present at the survey location. The Monte Carlo code used in this work was MCNP Version 5. In these calculations, both the patient and the visitor were modeled using modified Medical Internal Radiation Dose anthropomorphic phantoms. Radioactive material that emitted monoenergetic photons was located in several of the patient's organs in turn, and the bedside exposure rates and the effective doses at the same location were calculated. The calculations were repeated for several visitor locations, both at bedside along the length of the bed, and at increasing distances from the bed. The ratios of the exposure rates to the effective dose rates at each location gave an indication of the utility of the exposure rate measurements in providing a reasonable estimate of the effective dose. The results indicated that the survey data provided estimates of the effective dose within recommended accuracy for many exposure situations, but underestimated the effective dose to the visitor for other situations, especially locations close to bedside and for lower energy radiations. Use of appropriate correction factors based on this work could improve the utility of the survey data for the underestimated situations, and the exposure rate data could still be used to estimate the dose to a visitor within recommended accuracy, provided the estimated dose does not approach too closely to the applicable limit. JF - Health Physics AU - Sherbini, S S AU - DeCicco, JE AD - Mail Stop T8F5, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11545 Rockville, MD 20852, USA, sxs2@nrc.gov Y1 - 2005/09// PY - 2005 DA - Sep 2005 SP - 216 EP - 223 VL - 89 IS - 3 SN - 0017-9078, 0017-9078 KW - Health & Safety Science Abstracts KW - Radiation KW - Dose-response effects KW - Public health KW - Hospitals KW - H 8000:Radiation Safety/Electrical Safety UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17416515?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ahealthsafetyabstracts&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Health+Physics&rft.atitle=The+use+of+radiation+surveys+to+estimate+the+radiation+effective+dose+to+visitors+of+hospitalized+patients+-+A+theoretical+study&rft.au=Sherbini%2C+S+S%3BDeCicco%2C+JE&rft.aulast=Sherbini&rft.aufirst=S&rft.date=2005-09-01&rft.volume=89&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=216&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Health+Physics&rft.issn=00179078&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Radiation; Dose-response effects; Hospitals; Public health ER - TY - RPRT T1 - AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE PLANT IN PIKETON, OHIO. AN - 16358632; 11636 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license to construct, operate, and decommission the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP), a gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facility located on the Department of Energy (DOE) reservation in Piketon, Ohio is proposed. Piketon lies between Chillicothe and Portsmouth, approximately 70 miles south of Columbus, Ohio. Enrichment is the process of increasing the concentration of the naturally occurring fissionable uranium-235 isotope. Uranium ore usually contains approximately 0.72 weight percent uraniu-235. In order to be useful in a nuclear power plant as fuel for electricity generation, the uranium must typically be enriched up to five weight percent. While the demand for enriched uranium rises, the supplies of enriched uranium currently required in the United States are on the decline. Foreign sources currently provide as much as 86 percent of the nation's enriched uranium needs, including 42 percent from Russia and 44 percent from other countries that produce and export enriched uranium. A supply disruption at the Paducah Plant which is the only plant operating domestically would seriously threaten the country's energy security. The ACP would enrich uranium for use in commercial fuel for power reactors. Feed material would be comprised of non-enriched uranium hexaflouride. The license applicant, USEC Inc., proposes to enrich uranium up to 10 percent by weight of uranius-235. The initial license application would provide for a facility capable of processing 3.5 million separative work units (SWU) per year. Because USEC has indicated the potential for future expansion of the facility to allow for production of 7.0 million SWU per year, the environmental review presented here addresses that volume of production capacity. The license would authorize USEC to possess and use special nuclear material, source material, and byproduct material at the ACP. The new plant would be located within the same site as the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which has been shut down since May 2001. Development of the ACP would involve refurbishment of existing buildings, construction of new facilities, and use of adjacent grounds owned by the DOE and leased by USEC. USEC would utilize centrifuge technology to enrich uranium-235 to 10 weight percent. Depending on the timing of the licensing process and other factors, USEC would start construction of the ACP in 2007, begin commercial centrifuge operations in 2009, and ramp up to 3.5 million SWU design capacity by 201. The license would be granted for a period of 30 years. After the proposed ACP because operational, production of enriched uranium would cease at the gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, Kentucky and be replaced byt he ACP at Piketon. In addition to the proposed action, this draft EIS considers a No Action Alternative. Site preparation and construction costs are estimated at $1.5 billion between 2006 and 2020. Centrifuge manufacturing and assembly are estimated to cost $1.4 billion between 2004 and 2013. Decontamination and decommissioning are estimated to cost $435 million over a period of six years, expected to begin in 2040. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The ACP would provide much of the uramium-235 necessary to generate a large portion of the 393 gigawatts of new generating capacity required to meet the nation's needs by 2020. This would require an installed nuclear-generating capacity increase from 98 gigawatts in 2001 to 103 gigawatts in 2025, which is the equivalent of five nuclear reactors. In addition to advancing national energy security goals, the ACP plant would help accomplish the goals of the June 2002 DOE-USEC Agreement to facilitate the deployment of new cost-effective advanced enrichment technology in the U.S. on an accelerated schedule. USEC would constru8ct and operate a modern, efficient, lest costly enrichment plant to supplement and replace a gaseous diffusion in moderation for more than 50 years. Gas centrifuge technology would represent a more efficient and less energy intensive uranium enrichment technology that the gaseous diffusion technology currently in use. The ACP would provide for significant local employment opportunities and otherwise contribute to the local economy. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Slight impacts would result with respect to land use, historic and cultural resources, visual aesthetics, air quality, geologic and soil resources, water resources, ecological resources, socioeconomics, noise levels, transportation-related radiological hazards, occupational health and safety, and waste management. Approximately 24 acres of vegetation and the associated wildlife habitat would be lost. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.). JF - EPA number: 050365, 610 pages, September 1, 2005 PY - 2005 KW - Manufacturing KW - Agency number: NUREG-1834 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cost Assessments KW - Dosimetry KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Impact Assessment Methodology KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Substances KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Safety Analyses KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Ohio KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/16358632?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=Scott&rft.date=2017-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=A.12&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.issn=09219986&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: September 1, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2, BRUNSWICH COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA (TWENTIEFIFTH DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36421143; 11633 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating licenses for the Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2, near the mouth of Cape Fear River in Brunswick County, North Carolina is proposed. is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 25th supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the operating licenses are renewed, State regulatory agencies and the applicant would decide whether the plant would continue to operate based on factors such as the need for power or other matters within the state's jurisdiction or the purview of the owners. If the licenses are not renewed, the plant must shut down at or before the expiration dates of the current operation licenses, which are September 8, 2016 and December 27, 2014 for units 1 and 2, respectively. The plant is situated on 1,200 acres of land within a site boundary encompassing 962 acres. The protected area is surrounded by a perimeter fence contains two reactor buildings and the turbine, control, radioactive waste, and diesel generator buildings. Major administrative and support facilities cover 130 acres. The units have been operating since 1974 (Unit 2) and 1976 (Unit 1). Each unit uses a boiling water reactor and a steam-driven turbine generator manufactured by General Electric, a once-through cooling system that withdrawals from the Cape Fear River Estuary and discharges water into the Atlantic Ocean via a six-mile canal leading to Caswell Beach, a closed-cycle cooling water system, and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel. As originally installed each unit was rated at 2,436 megawatts (MW)-thermal, with a corresponding electrical output of approximately 821 MW-electric. In 1996, the utility obtained the permission to increase the output of each of the units to 2,558 MW-thermal. Currently, each unit has a core thermal level of 2,923 MW-thermal, with Unit 1 capable of providing 958 MW-electric and Unit 2 capable of providing 951 MW-electric. Each reactor is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Eight transmission lines, extending a total of 388 miles, connect the station to the regional power grid. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Cape Fear River Estuary and deliver makeup water back to the Atlantic Ocean. Release of water to the reservoir from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. 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Preparation date: August 31, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: POINT BEACH NUCLEAR PLANTS UNITS 1 AND 2, MANITOWOC COUNTY, WISCONSIN (TWENTY-THIRD FINAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 16347579; 11615 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 23rd supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, the Nuclear Management Company, LLC, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this final supplement to the final EIS. If the licenses are renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating licenses are not renewed, the units would be shut down on or before expiration of the current license, which is October 5, 2010, for Unit 1 and March 8, 2013, for Unit 2. The power station, which is located within in a 1,260-acre site, 1,050 acres of which are used for agricultural purposes. Each of the units uses a pressurized light-water reactor designed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, that uses a once-through cooling system, which withdrawals from and discharges to Lake Michigan, and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel. Each unit is rated at 1,540 megawatts (MW)-thermal, with a corresponding net electrical output of approximately 518 MW-electric. Units 1 and 2, which were placed in service in December 1970 and October 1972, respectively, are housed in vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structures with steel liners. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Four 345-kilovolt transmission lines, extending nine to 46.5 miles, connect the station to the regional power grid. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from Lake Michigan and deliver makeup water back to the lake. Release of water to the reservoir from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the nearshore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft supplemental EIS, see 05-0301D, Volume 29, Number 3. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. 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Preparation date: August 16, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36441361; 11666 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36441361?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2017-01-12&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=B.2&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.issn=09219986&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 41 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36386278; 050490F-050313_0041 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 41 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36386278?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.atitle=Business+News%3A+Airlines+Set+Cheaper+Fare+Options&rft.au=Carey%2C+Susan&rft.aulast=Carey&rft.aufirst=Susan&rft.date=2017-02-22&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=B.3&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.issn=00999660&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 87 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36381025; 050490F-050313_0087 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 87 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36381025?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 45 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36380728; 050490F-050313_0045 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 45 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36380728?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 60 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36380305; 050490F-050313_0060 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 60 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36380305?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 12 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36380171; 050490F-050313_0012 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 12 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36380171?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 10 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36380004; 050490F-050313_0010 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 10 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36380004?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 47 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379983; 050490F-050313_0047 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 47 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379983?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 55 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379827; 050490F-050313_0055 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 55 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379827?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=A.9&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.issn=00999660&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 91 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379791; 050490F-050313_0091 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 91 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379791?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Anonymous&rft.aulast=Anonymous&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2017-01-23&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.issn=00999660&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 61 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379781; 050490F-050313_0061 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 61 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379781?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 90 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379593; 050490F-050313_0090 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 90 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379593?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 70 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379383; 050490F-050313_0070 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 70 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379383?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 40 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379372; 050490F-050313_0040 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 40 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379372?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 68 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379302; 050490F-050313_0068 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 68 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379302?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 66 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379179; 050490F-050313_0066 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 66 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379179?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 59 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36379036; 050490F-050313_0059 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 59 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36379036?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 56 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378827; 050490F-050313_0056 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 56 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378827?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 5 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378762; 050490F-050313_0005 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 5 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378762?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 63 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378664; 050490F-050313_0063 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 63 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378664?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 50 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378656; 050490F-050313_0050 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 50 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378656?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 54 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378531; 050490F-050313_0054 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 54 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378531?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 86 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378441; 050490F-050313_0086 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 86 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378441?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 7 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378359; 050490F-050313_0007 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 7 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378359?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 52 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378338; 050490F-050313_0052 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 52 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378338?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 24 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378293; 050490F-050313_0024 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 24 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378293?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 18 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378185; 050490F-050313_0018 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 18 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378185?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 49 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378163; 050490F-050313_0049 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 49 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378163?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 23 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36378076; 050490F-050313_0023 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 23 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36378076?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 17 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36377958; 050490F-050313_0017 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 17 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36377958?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 6 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36377879; 050490F-050313_0006 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 6 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36377879?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 30 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36377689; 050490F-050313_0030 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 30 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36377689?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 58 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36375184; 050490F-050313_0058 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 58 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36375184?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 51 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36374981; 050490F-050313_0051 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 51 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374981?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 34 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36374980; 050490F-050313_0034 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 34 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374980?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 46 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36374798; 050490F-050313_0046 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 46 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374798?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 32 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36374779; 050490F-050313_0032 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 32 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374779?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 82 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36374692; 050490F-050313_0082 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 82 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374692?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 42 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36374568; 050490F-050313_0042 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 42 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374568?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 64 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36374365; 050490F-050313_0064 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 64 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374365?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 69 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36374281; 050490F-050313_0069 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 69 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374281?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 67 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36374096; 050490F-050313_0067 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 67 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374096?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 11 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36373948; 050490F-050313_0011 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 11 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36373948?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 53 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36373923; 050490F-050313_0053 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 53 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36373923?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 35 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36373783; 050490F-050313_0035 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 35 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36373783?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 19 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36373492; 050490F-050313_0019 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 19 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36373492?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 25 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36373480; 050490F-050313_0025 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 25 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36373480?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 28 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36373276; 050490F-050313_0028 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 28 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36373276?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 44 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36373103; 050490F-050313_0044 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 44 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36373103?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 22 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36373091; 050490F-050313_0022 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 22 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36373091?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 89 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36371415; 050490F-050313_0089 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 89 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36371415?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 2 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36370904; 050490F-050313_0002 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 2 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36370904?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 93 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36370669; 050490F-050313_0093 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 93 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36370669?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 29 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36370488; 050490F-050313_0029 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 29 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36370488?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 9 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36369697; 050490F-050313_0009 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 9 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36369697?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 36 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36369505; 050490F-050313_0036 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 36 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36369505?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 20 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36369356; 050490F-050313_0020 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 20 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36369356?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 65 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36369220; 050490F-050313_0065 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 65 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36369220?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 88 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36367282; 050490F-050313_0088 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 88 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36367282?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 4 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36366886; 050490F-050313_0004 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 4 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36366886?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 8 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36366821; 050490F-050313_0008 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 8 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36366821?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 14 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36366714; 050490F-050313_0014 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 14 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36366714?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 13 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36366546; 050490F-050313_0013 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 13 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36366546?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 92 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36366445; 050490F-050313_0092 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 92 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36366445?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 79 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36366229; 050490F-050313_0079 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 79 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36366229?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 84 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36366086; 050490F-050313_0084 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 84 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36366086?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 83 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36366084; 050490F-050313_0083 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 83 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36366084?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 75 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36366058; 050490F-050313_0075 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 75 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36366058?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 80 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36365867; 050490F-050313_0080 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 80 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36365867?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 74 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36365832; 050490F-050313_0074 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 74 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36365832?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 3 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36365476; 050490F-050313_0003 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 3 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36365476?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 39 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36365474; 050490F-050313_0039 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 39 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36365474?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 33 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36365260; 050490F-050313_0033 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 33 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36365260?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 16 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36365237; 050490F-050313_0016 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 16 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36365237?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 15 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36364966; 050490F-050313_0015 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 15 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36364966?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 26 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36364749; 050490F-050313_0026 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 26 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36364749?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 94 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36364746; 050490F-050313_0094 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 94 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36364746?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 31 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36364525; 050490F-050313_0031 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 31 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36364525?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 72 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36364418; 050490F-050313_0072 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 72 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36364418?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 71 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36364152; 050490F-050313_0071 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 71 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36364152?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 76 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36363791; 050490F-050313_0076 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 76 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36363791?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 73 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36363510; 050490F-050313_0073 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 73 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36363510?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 81 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36363164; 050490F-050313_0081 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 81 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36363164?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 1 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36362408; 050490F-050313_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 1 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36362408?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 38 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36362036; 050490F-050313_0038 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 38 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36362036?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 78 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36361329; 050490F-050313_0078 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 78 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36361329?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 77 of 94] T2 - REMEDIATON OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36361082; 050490F-050313_0077 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continue leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site, using using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analyzed in this final EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. The preferred alternative would involve off-site disposal of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile, combined with active groundwater remediation at the Moab site. The preferred off-site disposal site location would be the Crescent Junction site, and the preferred mode of transportation of the waste material would be rail. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. five borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-feet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0256D, Volume 29, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00032D, Volume 20, Number 6 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050313, Summary--69 pages, Final EIS--721 pages, July 25, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 77 KW - Hazardous Substances KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355F KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Project Authorization KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36361082?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: July 25, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 (TWENTY-FIRST FINAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). [Part 1 of 1] T2 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 (TWENTY-FIRST FINAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36374783; 050478F-050270_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating licenses for Browns Ferry Nuclear (BFN) Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3 in rural Alabama is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 21st supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, the Tennessee Valley Authority, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the three units in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed units 1, 2, and 3 would be shutdown on or before expiration of the current licenses, the dates of which are December 20, 2013, June 28, 2014, and July 2, 2016 and, respectively. The 840-acre power station site is located on federally owned land abutting the Wheeler Reservoir, 30 miles west of Huntsville, Alabama, characterized by agricultural land uses and recreational uses, including fishing and recreational boaters. Each unit employs a boiling water reactor and a steam-driven turbine generator manufactured by General Electric Corporation. Each unit was licensed for an output of 3,293 megawatts-thermal (MW(t)). Commercial operation for units, 1, 2, and 3, began in 1974, 1975, and 1977 respectively. Unit 1 is inactive; work began in 2002 to bring Unit 1 up to current standards, and operation of the reactor is currently scheduled to resume 2007. All three units were shutdown in 1985 during a review of the TVA nuclear power program. Unit 2 returned to service in 1991, and Unit 3 resumed operation in November 1995. The BNF Plant completed an integrated plant improvement project for units 2 and 3; among improvement made were a five percent uprate in the original licensed thermal power for both units from 3,293to 3,458 MW(t). In June 2004, TVA submitted applications for extended power upates to 120 percent of the original licensed thermal power at each of the three BNF Plant units. These applications, if approved by the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would take effect during the existing license terms, so the impacts of this uprate are considered in this supplemental EIS. All units feature two-loop, closed-cycle, pressurized-water reactors, licensed for a calculated electrical output of approximately 1,065 megawatts-electric (MW(e)). The units employ reactor coolant recalculating loops to the and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel; the cooling system withdraws water from the Wheeler Reservoir and discharges heated water back to the reservoir. The reactor is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Seven 500-kilovolt (kV) connect the 500-kV BNF Plant switchyard to the transmission lines; one line transmits power to the Trinity substation, one line each to the West Point, Maury, and Union (Mississippi) substations, and one line to the Livestone substation. In addition, two 161-kV lines, one connecting the Athens substation and the other to the Trinity substation. All lines use a portion of four transmission line rights-of-way, one to the Maury substation, one to the Trinity substation, one to the Athens substation, and one to the Union substation. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Wheeler Reservoir and deliver makeup water back to the Sound. Release of water to the Sound from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the Sound. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclide into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. Transmission line rights-of-way would continue to displace other land uses for public use. Refusal to renew the license and the subsequent decommissioning of the units could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0296D, Volume 29, Number 3. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on related draft and final Tennessee Valley Authority EISs, see 02-0020D, Volume 26, Number 1, and 02-0248F, Volume 26, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050270, 601 pages, June 24, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 1 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 21 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Wildlife Habitat KW - Wildlife Surveys KW - Alabama KW - Mississippi KW - Wheeler Reservoir KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36374783?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-07-25&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATON+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: June 24, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 (TWENTY-FIRST FINAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 16343560; 11594 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating licenses for Browns Ferry Nuclear (BFN) Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3 in rural Alabama is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 21st supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, the Tennessee Valley Authority, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the three units in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed units 1, 2, and 3 would be shutdown on or before expiration of the current licenses, the dates of which are December 20, 2013, June 28, 2014, and July 2, 2016 and, respectively. The 840-acre power station site is located on federally owned land abutting the Wheeler Reservoir, 30 miles west of Huntsville, Alabama, characterized by agricultural land uses and recreational uses, including fishing and recreational boaters. Each unit employs a boiling water reactor and a steam-driven turbine generator manufactured by General Electric Corporation. Each unit was licensed for an output of 3,293 megawatts-thermal (MW(t)). Commercial operation for units, 1, 2, and 3, began in 1974, 1975, and 1977 respectively. Unit 1 is inactive; work began in 2002 to bring Unit 1 up to current standards, and operation of the reactor is currently scheduled to resume 2007. All three units were shutdown in 1985 during a review of the TVA nuclear power program. Unit 2 returned to service in 1991, and Unit 3 resumed operation in November 1995. The BNF Plant completed an integrated plant improvement project for units 2 and 3; among improvement made were a five percent uprate in the original licensed thermal power for both units from 3,293to 3,458 MW(t). In June 2004, TVA submitted applications for extended power upates to 120 percent of the original licensed thermal power at each of the three BNF Plant units. These applications, if approved by the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would take effect during the existing license terms, so the impacts of this uprate are considered in this supplemental EIS. All units feature two-loop, closed-cycle, pressurized-water reactors, licensed for a calculated electrical output of approximately 1,065 megawatts-electric (MW(e)). The units employ reactor coolant recalculating loops to the and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel; the cooling system withdraws water from the Wheeler Reservoir and discharges heated water back to the reservoir. The reactor is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Seven 500-kilovolt (kV) connect the 500-kV BNF Plant switchyard to the transmission lines; one line transmits power to the Trinity substation, one line each to the West Point, Maury, and Union (Mississippi) substations, and one line to the Livestone substation. In addition, two 161-kV lines, one connecting the Athens substation and the other to the Trinity substation. All lines use a portion of four transmission line rights-of-way, one to the Maury substation, one to the Trinity substation, one to the Athens substation, and one to the Union substation. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Wheeler Reservoir and deliver makeup water back to the Sound. Release of water to the Sound from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the Sound. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclide into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. Transmission line rights-of-way would continue to displace other land uses for public use. Refusal to renew the license and the subsequent decommissioning of the units could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0296D, Volume 29, Number 3. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on related draft and final Tennessee Valley Authority EISs, see 02-0020D, Volume 26, Number 1, and 02-0248F, Volume 26, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050270, 601 pages, June 24, 2005 PY - 2005 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 21 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Wildlife Habitat KW - Wildlife Surveys KW - Alabama KW - Mississippi KW - Wheeler Reservoir KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/16343560?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-06-24&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+BROWNS+FERRY+NUCLEAR+PLANT%2C+UNITS+1%2C+2%2C+AND+3+%28TWENTY-FIRST+FINAL+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+BROWNS+FERRY+NUCLEAR+PLANT%2C+UNITS+1%2C+2%2C+AND+3+%28TWENTY-FIRST+FINAL+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: June 24, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Light water reactor health physics. AN - 67823689; 15891460 AB - In this article an overview of the historical development of light water reactor health physics programs is presented. Operational health physics programs have developed and matured as experience in operating and maintaining light water reactors has been gained. Initial programs grew quickly in both size and complexity with the number and size of nuclear units under construction and in operation. Operational health physics programs evolved to face various challenges confronted by the nuclear industry, increasing the effectiveness of radiological safety measures. Industry improvements in radiological safety performance have resulted in significant decreases in annual collective exposures from a high value of 790 person-rem in 1980 to 117 person-rem per reactor in 2002. Though significant gains have been made, the continued viability of the nuclear power industry is confronted with an aging workforce, as well as the challenges posed by deregulation and the need to maintain operational excellence. JF - Health physics AU - Prince, Robert J AU - Bradley, Scott E AD - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA. RJP4@nrc.gov Y1 - 2005/06// PY - 2005 DA - June 2005 SP - 665 EP - 675 VL - 88 IS - 6 SN - 0017-9078, 0017-9078 KW - Water KW - 059QF0KO0R KW - Index Medicus KW - Radiation Dosage KW - Humans KW - Safety Management -- standards KW - Health Physics -- legislation & jurisprudence KW - Radiation Protection -- legislation & jurisprudence KW - Radiation Injuries -- prevention & control KW - Safety Management -- legislation & jurisprudence KW - Health Physics -- trends KW - Occupational Exposure -- legislation & jurisprudence KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiometry -- standards KW - Radiation Protection -- standards KW - Health Physics -- standards KW - Occupational Exposure -- prevention & control KW - Radiation Protection -- methods KW - Safety Management -- methods KW - Radiometry -- trends KW - Occupational Exposure -- standards KW - Safety Management -- trends KW - Health Physics -- methods KW - Radiometry -- methods KW - Occupational Exposure -- analysis UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/67823689?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Atoxline&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Health+physics&rft.atitle=Light+water+reactor+health+physics.&rft.au=Prince%2C+Robert+J%3BBradley%2C+Scott+E&rft.aulast=Prince&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft.date=2005-06-01&rft.volume=88&rft.issue=6&rft.spage=665&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Health+physics&rft.issn=00179078&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date completed - 2005-06-07 N1 - Date created - 2005-05-13 N1 - Date revised - 2017-02-17 N1 - Last updated - 2017-02-22 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The historical earthquakes of Syria; an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D. AN - 51585284; 2006-039268 AB - The historical sources of large and moderate earthquakes, earthquake catalogues and monographs exist in many depositories in Syria and European centers. They have been studied, and the detailed review and analysis resulted in a catalogue with 181 historical earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D. Numerous original documents in Arabic, Latin, Byzantine and Assyrian allowed us to identify seismic events not mentioned in previous works. In particular, detailed descriptions of damage in Arabic sources provided quantitative information necessary to re-evaluate past seismic events. These large earthquakes (I (sub 0) > or =VIII) caused considerable damage in cities, towns and villages located along the northern section of the Dead Sea fault system. Fewer large events also occurred along the Palmyra, Ar-Rassafeh and the Euphrates faults in Eastern Syria. Descriptions in original sources document foreshocks, aftershocks, fault ruptures, liquefaction, landslides, tsunamis, fires and other damages. We present here an updated historical catalogue of 181 historical earthquakes distributed in 4 categories regarding the originality and other considerations, we also present a table of the parametric catalogue of 36 historical earthquakes (table I) and a table of the complete list of all historical earthquakes (181 events) with the affected locality names and parameters of information quality and completeness (table II) using methods already applied in other regions (Italy, England, Iran, Russia) with a completeness test using EMS-92. This test suggests that the catalogue is relatively complete for magnitudes >6.5. This catalogue may contribute to a comprehensive and unified parametric earthquake catalogue and to a realistic assessment of seismic hazards in Syria and surrounding regions. JF - Annals of Geophysics AU - Sbeinati, Mohamed Reda AU - Darawcheh, Ryad AU - Mouty, Mikhail Y1 - 2005/06// PY - 2005 DA - June 2005 SP - 347 EP - 435 PB - Editrice Compositori, Bologna VL - 48 IS - 3 SN - 1593-5213, 1593-5213 KW - tsunamis KW - Syria KW - magnitude KW - intensity KW - data processing KW - damage KW - distribution KW - Arabian Plate KW - history KW - plate tectonics KW - seismicity KW - Dead Sea KW - data bases KW - seismic networks KW - Asia KW - earthquakes KW - Middle East KW - faults KW - fault zones KW - 19:Seismology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51585284?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Annals+of+Geophysics&rft.atitle=The+historical+earthquakes+of+Syria%3B+an+analysis+of+large+and+moderate+earthquakes+from+1365+B.C.+to+1900+A.D.&rft.au=Sbeinati%2C+Mohamed+Reda%3BDarawcheh%2C+Ryad%3BMouty%2C+Mikhail&rft.aulast=Sbeinati&rft.aufirst=Mohamed&rft.date=2005-06-01&rft.volume=48&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=347&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Annals+of+Geophysics&rft.issn=15935213&rft_id=info:doi/ L2 - http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 232 N1 - Document feature - illus. incl. 3 tables, geol. sketch map N1 - SuppNotes - Includes appendices N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - AGFRAI N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Arabian Plate; Asia; damage; data bases; data processing; Dead Sea; distribution; earthquakes; fault zones; faults; history; intensity; magnitude; Middle East; plate tectonics; seismic networks; seismicity; Syria; tsunamis ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Thermohydraulic design and safety analysis of research reactors AN - 19297897; 7041663 AB - The paper presents briefly the trend of thermal-hydraulic design and a safety analysis of medium and high flux research reactors. This field of deterministic safety analysis is being considered by the IAEA in the framework of a coordinated research project (CRP) initiated in 2002 on the Assessment of Analytical Tools for Different Research Reactor Types. The objective of this project is to establish a forum of international experts in order to integrate the activities for improvement and verification of selected computer codes that can be considered as reference tools in the safety analysis of research reactors, similar to that of power reactors. This undertaking supports the international ambition of improving the safety features and standards of research reactors, which can be useful for countries with long experience with research reactors, and very helpful for countries that have research reactors with low neutron flux and which may be looking to extend them or build other reactors with higher neutron flux. In this regard, the methodological approach on modification, verification and application of advanced computer codes for the safety analysis of research reactors is presented. Furthermore, a semi-empirical correlation for the first design limit regarding the onset of flow instability, for medium and high flux reactors, has been suggested. JF - RESEARCH REACTOR UTILIZATION, SAFETY, DECOMMISSIONING, FUEL AND WASTE MANAGEMENT. AU - Hainoun, A Y1 - 2005/06// PY - 2005 DA - Jun 2005 SP - 12 EP - 216 PB - International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100 Vienna A-1400 Austria, [URL:http://www.iaea.org] KW - Health & Safety Science Abstracts KW - Hydraulics KW - safety engineering KW - Nuclear reactors KW - Conferences KW - Temperature KW - Design KW - International standardization KW - H 8000:Radiation Safety/Electrical Safety UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/19297897?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Health+%26+Safety+Science+Abstracts&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=book&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Hainoun%2C+A&rft.aulast=Hainoun&rft.aufirst=A&rft.date=2005-06-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=205&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=Thermohydraulic+design+and+safety+analysis+of+research+reactors&rft.title=Thermohydraulic+design+and+safety+analysis+of+research+reactors&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-09-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Reactor protection systems: Diverse approaches AN - 19297193; 7041662 AB - Defence in depth design criteria applied to nuclear instrumentation, in particular, to reactor protection systems (RPS), include redundancy, diversity and fail-safe behaviour. Typically, two out of three ('2003'), majority-voting systems meet redundancy criteria. A careful analysis of signal levels and polarity and the use of several techniques, such as lives zeros, bias toward safe state, etc. guarantee the same degree of fail-safe behaviour. Diversity criteria, in general, are met by the whole system using more than one method to protect the integrity of reactor (i.e. rod drop plus boron injection), but not for the single instrumentation chain. Moreover, the increasing information needs of supervision systems encourage the use of digital instrumentation in RPS; if the digital instrumentation has software based implementation, the diversity requirement will be mandatory for the instrumentation of each system. In the paper, three possible configurations of the first protection system (rod drop) are analysed. The first one is the traditional hardware approach, the second one is a software based system, and the last one is a proposed mix system. For all configurations, a redundant system two out of four ('2004') is assumed. Availability and reliability points of view are taken into account. The proposed mix system is explained in full detail. A discussion about programmable logic and its considerations are introduced. A CPLD based system in a research reactor (RA1) and its functionality are explained. JF - RESEARCH REACTOR UTILIZATION, SAFETY, DECOMMISSIONING, FUEL AND WASTE MANAGEMENT. AU - Verrastro, CA AU - Estryk, D S AU - Carballido, J C Y1 - 2005/06// PY - 2005 DA - Jun 2005 SP - 12 EP - 204 PB - International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100 Vienna A-1400 Austria, [URL:http://www.iaea.org] KW - Health & Safety Science Abstracts KW - Computer programs KW - Nuclear reactors KW - safety engineering KW - Conferences KW - Safety systems KW - H 8000:Radiation Safety/Electrical Safety UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/19297193?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Health+%26+Safety+Science+Abstracts&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=book&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Verrastro%2C+CA%3BEstryk%2C+D+S%3BCarballido%2C+J+C&rft.aulast=Verrastro&rft.aufirst=CA&rft.date=2005-06-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=193&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=Reactor+protection+systems%3A+Diverse+approaches&rft.title=Reactor+protection+systems%3A+Diverse+approaches&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-09-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Analysis of an RO plant to remedy the water shortage in the rural area of Damascus AN - 17206062; 6891516 AB - Water situation of the rural area of Damascus has been investigated in details including water resources, consumption, shortage and quality. Due to the shortage of potable water, a suitable RO plant was suggested. Full details of its design including its needed pretreatment are presented. Water production cost methodology has been surveyed and applied for the suggested plant. JF - Desalination AU - Suleiman, S AU - Kroma, F AU - Momjian, J AD - Department of Nuclear Engineering, Atomic Energy Commission, P.O. Box 6091, Damascus, Syria, atomic@aec.org.sy Y1 - 2005/06// PY - 2005 DA - Jun 2005 SP - 281 EP - 289 PB - Elsevier Science B.V., P.O. Box 211 Amsterdam 1000 AE Netherlands, [mailto:nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl], [URL:http://www.elsevier.nl/] VL - 177 IS - 1-3 SN - 0011-9164, 0011-9164 KW - Water Resources Abstracts KW - Reverse osmosis KW - Pretreatment KW - Levelized water production KW - Syria, Damascus KW - Water Costs KW - Potable Water KW - Water Shortage KW - Desalination KW - Remedies KW - Rural Areas KW - Water Resources KW - SW 1010:Saline water conversion UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17206062?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Awaterresources&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Desalination&rft.atitle=Analysis+of+an+RO+plant+to+remedy+the+water+shortage+in+the+rural+area+of+Damascus&rft.au=Suleiman%2C+S%3BKroma%2C+F%3BMomjian%2C+J&rft.aulast=Suleiman&rft.aufirst=S&rft.date=2005-06-01&rft.volume=177&rft.issue=1-3&rft.spage=281&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Desalination&rft.issn=00119164&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.desal.2004.11.024 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-12-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Water Costs; Potable Water; Water Shortage; Remedies; Desalination; Rural Areas; Water Resources; Syria, Damascus DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2004.11.024 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: DONALD C. COOK NUCLEAR PLAND, UNITS NO. 1 AND 2, BERRIEN COUNTY, MICHIGAN (TWENTIETH FINAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). [Part 1 of 1] T2 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: DONALD C. COOK NUCLEAR PLAND, UNITS NO. 1 AND 2, BERRIEN COUNTY, MICHIGAN (TWENTIETH FINAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36367783; 050467F-050185_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, located on the shore of Lake Michigan in Berrien County, Michigan is proposed to extend the licensed lives of the units for an additional 20 years in this 20th supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, Indiana Michigan Power Company, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating licenses are not renewed, the units would be shut down on or before expiration of the current licenses, which will occur on October 25, 2004 for Unit 1 and December 23, 2017 for Unit 2. The power station, which is located within in a 650-acre site on the shores of Lake Michigan, consists of two units, each of which is equipped with a four-loop pressurized water reactor designed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, that uses a once-through cooling system withdrawing and discharging water to the Monticello Reservoir, a closed-cycle cooling water system, and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel. Units 1 and 2 are rated at 3,304 megawatts (MW)-thermal and 3,468 MW-thermal, with corresponding electrical outputs of approximately 1,044 MW-electric and 1,117 MW-electric, respectively. Units 1 and 2 reactors were placed into service in August 1975 and July 1978, respectively, are housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structures with steel liners. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Six 345-kilovolt and one 745-kilovolt transmission lines connect the units to the regional transmission grid; the lines extend an overall length of 227 miles. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Lake Michigan and deliver makeup water back to the lake. Release of water to the reservoir from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the nearshore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. For the abstract of the draft supplemental EIS on the Cook Nuclear Plant, see 05-0142D, Volume 29, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050185, 392 pages, May 5, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 1 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 20 KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Great Lakes KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Lake Michigan KW - Michigan KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36367783?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-09-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=AMERICAN+CENTRIFUGE+PLANT+IN+PIKETON%2C+OHIO.&rft.title=AMERICAN+CENTRIFUGE+PLANT+IN+PIKETON%2C+OHIO.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: May 5, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: DONALD C. COOK NUCLEAR PLAND, UNITS NO. 1 AND 2, BERRIEN COUNTY, MICHIGAN (TWENTIETH FINAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 16347357; 11512 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, located on the shore of Lake Michigan in Berrien County, Michigan is proposed to extend the licensed lives of the units for an additional 20 years in this 20th supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, Indiana Michigan Power Company, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating licenses are not renewed, the units would be shut down on or before expiration of the current licenses, which will occur on October 25, 2004 for Unit 1 and December 23, 2017 for Unit 2. The power station, which is located within in a 650-acre site on the shores of Lake Michigan, consists of two units, each of which is equipped with a four-loop pressurized water reactor designed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, that uses a once-through cooling system withdrawing and discharging water to the Monticello Reservoir, a closed-cycle cooling water system, and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel. Units 1 and 2 are rated at 3,304 megawatts (MW)-thermal and 3,468 MW-thermal, with corresponding electrical outputs of approximately 1,044 MW-electric and 1,117 MW-electric, respectively. Units 1 and 2 reactors were placed into service in August 1975 and July 1978, respectively, are housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structures with steel liners. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Six 345-kilovolt and one 745-kilovolt transmission lines connect the units to the regional transmission grid; the lines extend an overall length of 227 miles. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Lake Michigan and deliver makeup water back to the lake. Release of water to the reservoir from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the nearshore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. For the abstract of the draft supplemental EIS on the Cook Nuclear Plant, see 05-0142D, Volume 29, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050185, 392 pages, May 5, 2005 PY - 2005 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 20 KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Great Lakes KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Lake Michigan KW - Michigan KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/16347357?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-05-05&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+DONALD+C.+COOK+NUCLEAR+PLAND%2C+UNITS+NO.+1+AND+2%2C+BERRIEN+COUNTY%2C+MICHIGAN+%28TWENTIETH+FINAL+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+DONALD+C.+COOK+NUCLEAR+PLAND%2C+UNITS+NO.+1+AND+2%2C+BERRIEN+COUNTY%2C+MICHIGAN+%28TWENTIETH+FINAL+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: May 5, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Gas-phase on-line generation and infrared spectroscopic investigations of polyphosphazenes, (NPX2)3 where X=F, Cl and Br. AN - 67728639; 15820883 AB - Gas-phase infrared spectra of polyphosphazenes (phosphonitrilic halides trimer), (NPX2)3 where X=F, Cl and Br have been recorded. The molecules were generated for the first time by an on-line process using solid (NPCl2)3 as a precursor passed over heated sodium fluoride and potassium bromide at about 550 and 700 degrees C for (NPF2)3 and (NPBr2)3 production, respectively. The products were characterized by the infrared spectra of their vapors. The low-resolution gas-phase Fourier transform infrared spectra reported for the first time show strong bands centered at 1295, 1215 and 1200 cm-1, assigned to nu7(E'), in plane PN stretching mode of (NPX2)3, where X=F, Cl and Br, respectively. JF - Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy AU - Allaf, Abdul W AD - Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 6091, Damascus, Syria. aallaf@aec.org.sy Y1 - 2005/05// PY - 2005 DA - May 2005 SP - 1499 EP - 1503 VL - 61 IS - 7 SN - 1386-1425, 1386-1425 KW - Bromides KW - 0 KW - Gases KW - Organophosphorus Compounds KW - Polymers KW - Potassium Compounds KW - poly(phosphazene) KW - Fluorine KW - 284SYP0193 KW - Chlorine KW - 4R7X1O2820 KW - Sodium Fluoride KW - 8ZYQ1474W7 KW - potassium bromide KW - OSD78555ZM KW - Bromine KW - SBV4XY874G KW - Index Medicus KW - Sodium Fluoride -- chemistry KW - Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared -- methods KW - Dimerization KW - Bromides -- chemistry KW - Temperature KW - Potassium Compounds -- chemistry KW - Models, Chemical KW - Bromine -- chemistry KW - Polymers -- chemistry KW - Organophosphorus Compounds -- chemistry KW - Fluorine -- chemistry KW - Chlorine -- chemistry KW - Spectrophotometry, Infrared -- methods UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/67728639?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Atoxline&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Spectrochimica+acta.+Part+A%2C+Molecular+and+biomolecular+spectroscopy&rft.atitle=Gas-phase+on-line+generation+and+infrared+spectroscopic+investigations+of+polyphosphazenes%2C+%28NPX2%293+where+X%3DF%2C+Cl+and+Br.&rft.au=Allaf%2C+Abdul+W&rft.aulast=Allaf&rft.aufirst=Abdul&rft.date=2005-05-01&rft.volume=61&rft.issue=7&rft.spage=1499&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Spectrochimica+acta.+Part+A%2C+Molecular+and+biomolecular+spectroscopy&rft.issn=13861425&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date completed - 2005-09-08 N1 - Date created - 2005-04-11 N1 - Date revised - 2017-02-17 N1 - Last updated - 2017-02-22 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Natural barriers of the geosphere at Yucca Mountain, Nevada AN - 51465053; 2007-032794 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Arlt, H AU - Kotra, J AU - Mohanty, S AU - Winterle, J AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/05// PY - 2005 DA - May 2005 SP - Abstract H13B EP - 12 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 86 IS - 18, Suppl. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - United States KW - isotopes KW - natural materials KW - unsaturated zone KW - vegetation KW - radioactive waste KW - ground water KW - controls KW - saturated zone KW - radioactive isotopes KW - sediments KW - geosphere KW - Yucca Mountain KW - Nevada KW - disposal barriers KW - soils KW - hydrology KW - high-level waste KW - clastic sediments KW - Nye County Nevada KW - evapotranspiration KW - classification KW - alluvium KW - waste disposal KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51465053?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Natural+barriers+of+the+geosphere+at+Yucca+Mountain%2C+Nevada&rft.au=Arlt%2C+H%3BKotra%2C+J%3BMohanty%2C+S%3BWinterle%2C+J%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Arlt&rft.aufirst=H&rft.date=2005-05-01&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=18%2C+Suppl.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2005 joint assembly N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - alluvium; classification; clastic sediments; controls; disposal barriers; evapotranspiration; geosphere; ground water; high-level waste; hydrology; isotopes; natural materials; Nevada; Nye County Nevada; radioactive isotopes; radioactive waste; saturated zone; sediments; soils; United States; unsaturated zone; vegetation; waste disposal; Yucca Mountain ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Testing an integrated ground-water monitoring strategy for nuclear waste and decommissioning sites AN - 51423303; 2007-064440 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Price, V AU - Dai, Z AU - Heffner, D AU - Temples, T J AU - Nicholson, T J AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/05// PY - 2005 DA - May 2005 SP - Abstract H43C EP - 03 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 86 IS - 18, Suppl. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - monitoring KW - pollutants KW - decommissioning KW - geophysical methods KW - characterization KW - waste disposal sites KW - unsaturated zone KW - pollution KW - preferential flow KW - indicators KW - radioactive waste KW - ground water KW - transport KW - waste disposal KW - water pollution KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51423303?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Testing+an+integrated+ground-water+monitoring+strategy+for+nuclear+waste+and+decommissioning+sites&rft.au=Price%2C+V%3BDai%2C+Z%3BHeffner%2C+D%3BTemples%2C+T+J%3BNicholson%2C+T+J%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Price&rft.aufirst=V&rft.date=2005-05-01&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=18%2C+Suppl.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2005 joint assembly N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - characterization; decommissioning; geophysical methods; ground water; indicators; monitoring; pollutants; pollution; preferential flow; radioactive waste; transport; unsaturated zone; waste disposal; waste disposal sites; water pollution ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Protocol for quantifying a solute mass flux in shallow groundwater AN - 51422966; 2007-064442 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Gish, T J AU - Kung, K S AU - Daughtry, C T AU - Steenhuis, T S AU - Kladivko, E J AU - Nicholson, T J AU - Cady, R E AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/05// PY - 2005 DA - May 2005 SP - Abstract H43C EP - 05 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 86 IS - 18, Suppl. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - solute transport KW - monitoring KW - drainage KW - halogens KW - bromide ion KW - preferential flow KW - bromine KW - irrigation KW - ground water KW - flows KW - fluctuations KW - quantitative analysis KW - leaching KW - 21:Hydrogeology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51422966?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Protocol+for+quantifying+a+solute+mass+flux+in+shallow+groundwater&rft.au=Gish%2C+T+J%3BKung%2C+K+S%3BDaughtry%2C+C+T%3BSteenhuis%2C+T+S%3BKladivko%2C+E+J%3BNicholson%2C+T+J%3BCady%2C+R+E%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Gish&rft.aufirst=T&rft.date=2005-05-01&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=18%2C+Suppl.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2005 joint assembly N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - bromide ion; bromine; drainage; flows; fluctuations; ground water; halogens; irrigation; leaching; monitoring; preferential flow; quantitative analysis; solute transport ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Evaluating conceptual site models with multicomponent reactive transport modeling AN - 51421826; 2007-064441 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Dai, Z AU - Heffner, D AU - Price, V AU - Temples, T J AU - Nicholson, T J AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005/05// PY - 2005 DA - May 2005 SP - Abstract H43C EP - 04 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 86 IS - 18, Suppl. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - chlorinated hydrocarbons KW - numerical models KW - contaminant plumes KW - pollutants KW - pollution KW - MODFLOW KW - tetrachloroethylene KW - preferential flow KW - hydrochemistry KW - ground water KW - aquifers KW - reactivity KW - organic compounds KW - transport KW - theoretical models KW - hydrodynamics KW - halogenated hydrocarbons KW - water pollution KW - geochemistry KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51421826?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Evaluating+conceptual+site+models+with+multicomponent+reactive+transport+modeling&rft.au=Dai%2C+Z%3BHeffner%2C+D%3BPrice%2C+V%3BTemples%2C+T+J%3BNicholson%2C+T+J%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Dai&rft.aufirst=Z&rft.date=2005-05-01&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=18%2C+Suppl.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2005 joint assembly N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - aquifers; chlorinated hydrocarbons; contaminant plumes; geochemistry; ground water; halogenated hydrocarbons; hydrochemistry; hydrodynamics; MODFLOW; numerical models; organic compounds; pollutants; pollution; preferential flow; reactivity; tetrachloroethylene; theoretical models; transport; water pollution ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Evaluation of site response for the surface facilities site at the potential Yucca Mountain repository, Nevada AN - 51091735; 2008-034712 JF - Seismological Research Letters AU - Gonzalez, S H AU - Stamatakos, J A AU - Murphy, K AU - Elgamal, A AU - Ibrahim, A K AU - Anderson, John G AU - von Seggern, David Y1 - 2005/04// PY - 2005 DA - April 2005 SP - 249 EP - 250 PB - Seismological Society of America, El Cerrito, CA VL - 76 IS - 2 SN - 0895-0695, 0895-0695 KW - United States KW - hazardous waste KW - volcanic rocks KW - geophysical surveys KW - Basin and Range Province KW - igneous rocks KW - well-logging KW - waste disposal sites KW - elastic waves KW - Cenozoic KW - seismicity KW - sediments KW - velocity KW - tuff KW - tectonics KW - Yucca Mountain KW - Nevada KW - North America KW - body waves KW - Quaternary KW - clastic sediments KW - geophysical methods KW - Nye County Nevada KW - Miocene KW - seismic methods KW - models KW - pyroclastics KW - Tertiary KW - Neogene KW - Midway Valley KW - ground motion KW - surveys KW - alluvium KW - seismic waves KW - waste disposal KW - earthquakes KW - S-waves KW - design KW - 30:Engineering geology KW - 20:Applied geophysics UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51091735?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Seismological+Research+Letters&rft.atitle=Evaluation+of+site+response+for+the+surface+facilities+site+at+the+potential+Yucca+Mountain+repository%2C+Nevada&rft.au=Gonzalez%2C+S+H%3BStamatakos%2C+J+A%3BMurphy%2C+K%3BElgamal%2C+A%3BIbrahim%2C+A+K%3BAnderson%2C+John+G%3Bvon+Seggern%2C+David&rft.aulast=Gonzalez&rft.aufirst=S&rft.date=2005-04-01&rft.volume=76&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=249&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Seismological+Research+Letters&rft.issn=08950695&rft_id=info:doi/ L2 - http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - Seismological Society of America 2005 annual meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2016, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2008-01-01 N1 - PubXState - CA N1 - Last updated - 2016-10-25 N1 - CODEN - EAQNAT N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - alluvium; Basin and Range Province; body waves; Cenozoic; clastic sediments; design; earthquakes; elastic waves; geophysical methods; geophysical surveys; ground motion; hazardous waste; igneous rocks; Midway Valley; Miocene; models; Neogene; Nevada; North America; Nye County Nevada; pyroclastics; Quaternary; S-waves; sediments; seismic methods; seismic waves; seismicity; surveys; tectonics; Tertiary; tuff; United States; velocity; volcanic rocks; waste disposal; waste disposal sites; well-logging; Yucca Mountain ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: JOSEPH M. FARLEY, UNITS 1 AND 2, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA. (EIGHTEENTH DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36438564; 11455 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, In Houston County, Alabama is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 18th supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, Southern Nuclear Operating Company, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed, the units would be shut down on or before expiration dates of the current licenses, which are June 25, 2017 for Unit 1 and March 31, 2021 for Unit 2. The power station is located within in a 500-acre site in miles on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River in southeastern Alabama, five miles north of Gordon, 17 miles east of Dothan, and 100 miles southeast of Montgomery consists of two units equipped with a nuclear steam supply system, designed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, that uses a pressurized-water reactor, a closed-loop cooling system that withdrawals from to the Chattachoche River; a small portion of the process water may be discharged to the river during periods of low flow. Each unit is rated at 2,775 megawatts (MW)-thermal, with a corresponding electrical output of approximately 910 MW-electric. The reactor which was upgraded in 1997, is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Five transmission lines connect the station to the regional power grid. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Chattahoochee River and deliver makeup water back to the reservoir. Occasional release of water to the river from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the nearshore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0133D, Volume 28, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. 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Preparation date: MARCH 16, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: JOSEPH M. FARLEY, UNITS 1 AND 2, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA. (EIGHTEENTH DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). [Part 1 of 1] T2 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: JOSEPH M. FARLEY, UNITS 1 AND 2, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA. (EIGHTEENTH DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36370014; 040461F-050115_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, In Houston County, Alabama is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 18th supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, Southern Nuclear Operating Company, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed, the units would be shut down on or before expiration dates of the current licenses, which are June 25, 2017 for Unit 1 and March 31, 2021 for Unit 2. The power station is located within in a 500-acre site in miles on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River in southeastern Alabama, five miles north of Gordon, 17 miles east of Dothan, and 100 miles southeast of Montgomery consists of two units equipped with a nuclear steam supply system, designed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, that uses a pressurized-water reactor, a closed-loop cooling system that withdrawals from to the Chattachoche River; a small portion of the process water may be discharged to the river during periods of low flow. Each unit is rated at 2,775 megawatts (MW)-thermal, with a corresponding electrical output of approximately 910 MW-electric. The reactor which was upgraded in 1997, is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Five transmission lines connect the station to the regional power grid. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Chattahoochee River and deliver makeup water back to the reservoir. Occasional release of water to the river from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the nearshore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 05-0133D, Volume 28, Number 2. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050115, 521 pages, MARCH 16, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 1 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 18 KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Alabama KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36370014?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-03-16&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+JOSEPH+M.+FARLEY%2C+UNITS+1+AND+2%2C+HOUSTON+COUNTY%2C+ALABAMA.+%28EIGHTEENTH+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+JOSEPH+M.+FARLEY%2C+UNITS+1+AND+2%2C+HOUSTON+COUNTY%2C+ALABAMA.+%28EIGHTEENTH+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: MARCH 16, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - X-ray fluorescence analysis of geological samples; exploring the effect of sample thickness on the accuracy of results AN - 51512811; 2007-005375 JF - Applied Radiation and Isotopes AU - Al-Merey, R AU - Karajou, H Issa Y1 - 2005/03// PY - 2005 DA - March 2005 SP - 501 EP - 508 PB - Elsevier, Oxford VL - 62 IS - 3 SN - 0969-8043, 0969-8043 KW - laboratory studies KW - sample preparation KW - experimental studies KW - X-ray fluorescence KW - detection limit KW - standard materials KW - X-ray analysis KW - techniques KW - trace elements KW - accuracy KW - measurement KW - 02A:General geochemistry UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51512811?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Applied+Radiation+and+Isotopes&rft.atitle=X-ray+fluorescence+analysis+of+geological+samples%3B+exploring+the+effect+of+sample+thickness+on+the+accuracy+of+results&rft.au=Al-Merey%2C+R%3BKarajou%2C+H+Issa&rft.aulast=Al-Merey&rft.aufirst=R&rft.date=2005-03-01&rft.volume=62&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=501&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Applied+Radiation+and+Isotopes&rft.issn=09698043&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.apradiso.2004.04.020 L2 - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09698043 LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 15 N1 - Document feature - illus. incl. 4 tables N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - accuracy; detection limit; experimental studies; laboratory studies; measurement; sample preparation; standard materials; techniques; trace elements; X-ray analysis; X-ray fluorescence DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.04.020 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Measurements of radioactivity in books and calculations of resultant eye doses to readers. AN - 67364649; 15650592 AB - Natural and fallout radioactivity in some book samples were measured with an HPGe detector coupled with a 4096 channel analyzer in order to estimate the radiation doses to readers' eyes from books. The radiation doses to a population at large due to the presence of radioactivity in the book are not significant. Thus, no radiation hazard occurs from the radioactivity content in the book. The estimated radiation doses to eyes were found to be below the maximum permissible dose to eyes recommended by ICRP. JF - Health physics AU - Imtiaz, M Abid AU - Begum, Aleya AU - Mollah, A S AU - Zaman, M A AD - Nuclear Safety and Radiation Control Division, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, PO Box 158, Ramna, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. abid_imtiaz@msn.com Y1 - 2005/02// PY - 2005 DA - February 2005 SP - 169 EP - 174 VL - 88 IS - 2 SN - 0017-9078, 0017-9078 KW - Index Medicus KW - Radiation Dosage KW - Humans KW - Spectrometry, Gamma KW - Books KW - Radiation Monitoring KW - Eye -- radiation effects KW - Models, Theoretical UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/67364649?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Atoxline&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Health+physics&rft.atitle=Measurements+of+radioactivity+in+books+and+calculations+of+resultant+eye+doses+to+readers.&rft.au=Imtiaz%2C+M+Abid%3BBegum%2C+Aleya%3BMollah%2C+A+S%3BZaman%2C+M+A&rft.aulast=Imtiaz&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2005-02-01&rft.volume=88&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=169&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Health+physics&rft.issn=00179078&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date completed - 2005-02-18 N1 - Date created - 2005-01-14 N1 - Date revised - 2017-02-17 N1 - Last updated - 2017-02-22 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - History of water development in the Amargosa Desert area; a literature review AN - 51504306; 2007-010031 JF - History of water development in the Amargosa Desert area; a literature review AU - Lee, M P AU - Coleman, N M AU - Nicholson, T J Y1 - 2005/02// PY - 2005 DA - February 2005 SP - 66 VL - NUREG-1710,VOL.1 KW - water use KW - United States KW - soils KW - eolian features KW - water supply KW - terrestrial environment KW - arid environment KW - drainage KW - agriculture KW - water balance KW - Nye County Nevada KW - deserts KW - ground water KW - aquifers KW - Amargosa Desert KW - drilling KW - water resources KW - review KW - Nevada KW - land use KW - 21:Hydrogeology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51504306?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/GeoRef&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=book&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Lee%2C+M+P%3BColeman%2C+N+M%3BNicholson%2C+T+J&rft.aulast=Lee&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2005-02-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=2005+Annual+Meeting+and+Exposition+of+the+Geological+Society+of+America+%28SLC+2005%29&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 220 N1 - Availability - U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, United States N1 - Document feature - illus. incl. 6 tables, sketch maps N1 - SuppNotes - Includes appendices N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A review of the history of U.S. radiation protection regulations, recommendations, and standards AN - 17749295; 6159353 AB - Shortly after the discovery of x rays by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen in 1895, and the isolation of the element radium by Pierre and Marie Curie three years later, the fascination with and potential for an array of uses of ionizing radiation in medicine, science, and technology was born. As with any new technology, there was a need to balance both the beneficial and potential detrimental effects of uses of these new technologies for the advancement of humankind. In the early days, radiation hazards were not well understood. Over the decades increasing concerns in the scientific community and lay population demanded that standardized guidance and recommendations be developed for the use of ionizing radiation. Today, U.S. radiation protection standards and recommendations to protect the occupational worker, members of the general public, and the environment are numerous and complex. This review summarizes the history of the development and application of radiation protection standards and regulations to assure the safe use of radiation and radioactive materials. The evolution and roles of international and national scientific recommending and regulatory organizations that shape U.S. radiation protection policy are described and discussed. JF - Health Physics AU - Jones, C G AD - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, Mail Stop T4-D22A, Washington, DC 20555, USA, cgj@nrc.gov Y1 - 2005/02// PY - 2005 DA - Feb 2005 SP - 105 EP - 124 VL - 88 IS - 2 SN - 0017-9078, 0017-9078 KW - Health & Safety Science Abstracts KW - Historical account KW - USA KW - Government regulations KW - Radiation KW - Ionizing radiation KW - Reviews KW - Standards KW - H 8000:Radiation Safety/Electrical Safety UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17749295?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ahealthsafetyabstracts&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Health+Physics&rft.atitle=A+review+of+the+history+of+U.S.+radiation+protection+regulations%2C+recommendations%2C+and+standards&rft.au=Jones%2C+C+G&rft.aulast=Jones&rft.aufirst=C&rft.date=2005-02-01&rft.volume=88&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=105&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Health+Physics&rft.issn=00179078&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2010-05-01 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-14 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Historical account; Government regulations; Radiation; Reviews; Ionizing radiation; Standards; USA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Inelastic analysis of cylindrical steel containment vessels under internal accident conditions AN - 17596299; 6515033 AB - The present paper is concerned with the structural safety assessment of a proposed nuclear steel containment shell during a postulated loss-of-coolant accident scenario. The structural evaluation is performed using a computational second-order refined plastic-hinge method, which is capable of accurately predicting all possible modes of failure in an efficient and computationally less expensive way than the general FEM formulation. A tangent modulus model and a gradual reduction of the inelastic resistance surface are used to take into account directly the structural strength and stability performances in the element formulation. The implemented numerical method provides more reliable safety margins and maintainability, exhibiting a more uniform structural safety level than the linear elastic analysis. A simplified non-linear heat transfer model, developed for symmetrical cross-sections, is used to determine the steel temperature gradient and to establish a link between the thermo and the mechanical analysis. The load resulting from pressure and temperature thermodynamic calculations, obtained for the accident scenario, are considered in the structural quasi-static analysis, so that the structural response can be tracked for the entire duration of the simulated accident. JF - Nuclear Engineering and Design AU - Landesmann, A AU - de Miranda Batista, E AD - Department of Reactors, Brazilian Nuclear Regulatory Commission (CNEN), Gal Severiano Street 90, ZIP 22290-901, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Y1 - 2005/02// PY - 2005 DA - Feb 2005 SP - 541 EP - 555 VL - 235 IS - 5 SN - 0029-5493, 0029-5493 KW - Health & Safety Science Abstracts KW - Thermodynamics KW - Temperature KW - loss of coolant accidents KW - Accidents KW - safety engineering KW - Nuclear reactors KW - Pressure vessels KW - heat transfer KW - Steel KW - Containment KW - H 8000:Radiation Safety/Electrical Safety UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17596299?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ahealthsafetyabstracts&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Nuclear+Engineering+and+Design&rft.atitle=Inelastic+analysis+of+cylindrical+steel+containment+vessels+under+internal+accident+conditions&rft.au=Landesmann%2C+A%3Bde+Miranda+Batista%2C+E&rft.aulast=Landesmann&rft.aufirst=A&rft.date=2005-02-01&rft.volume=235&rft.issue=5&rft.spage=541&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Nuclear+Engineering+and+Design&rft.issn=00295493&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.nucengdes.2004.08.035 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2010-05-01 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-14 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Accidents; Nuclear reactors; safety engineering; Thermodynamics; Pressure vessels; Temperature; heat transfer; loss of coolant accidents; Steel; Containment DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2004.08.035 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: POINT BEACH NUCLEAR PLANTS UNITS 1 AND 2, MANITOWOC COUNTY, WISCONSIN (TWENTY-THIRD DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36438324; 11360 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 23rd supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, the Nuclear Management Company, LLC, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the licenses are renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating licenses are not renewed, the units would be shut down on or before expiration of the current license, which is October 5, 2010, for Unit 1 and March 8, 2013, for Unit 2. The power station, which is located within in a 1,260-acre site, 1,050 acres of which are used for agricultural purposes. Each of the units uses a pressurized light-water reactor designed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, that uses a once-through cooling system, which withdrawals from and discharges to Lake Michigan, and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel. Each unit is rated at 1,540 megawatts (MW)-thermal, with a corresponding net electrical output of approximately 518 MW-electric. Units 1 and 2, which were placed in service in December 1970 and October 1972, respectively, are housed in vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structures with steel liners. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Non-radioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Four 345-kilovolt transmission lines, extending nine to 46.5 miles, connect the station to the regional power grid. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from Lake Michigan and deliver makeup water back to the lake. Release of water to the reservoir from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050021, 387 pages, January 23, 2005 PY - 2005 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 23 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Farmlands KW - Great Lakes KW - Lakes KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Lake Michigan KW - Wisconsin KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36438324?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=C&rft.date=2005-12-01&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=52%2C+SUPPL.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: January 23, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: POINT BEACH NUCLEAR PLANTS UNITS 1 AND 2, MANITOWOC COUNTY, WISCONSIN (TWENTY-THIRD DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). [Part 1 of 1] T2 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: POINT BEACH NUCLEAR PLANTS UNITS 1 AND 2, MANITOWOC COUNTY, WISCONSIN (TWENTY-THIRD DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36371459; 040301D-050021_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 23rd supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, the Nuclear Management Company, LLC, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the licenses are renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating licenses are not renewed, the units would be shut down on or before expiration of the current license, which is October 5, 2010, for Unit 1 and March 8, 2013, for Unit 2. The power station, which is located within in a 1,260-acre site, 1,050 acres of which are used for agricultural purposes. Each of the units uses a pressurized light-water reactor designed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, that uses a once-through cooling system, which withdrawals from and discharges to Lake Michigan, and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel. Each unit is rated at 1,540 megawatts (MW)-thermal, with a corresponding net electrical output of approximately 518 MW-electric. Units 1 and 2, which were placed in service in December 1970 and October 1972, respectively, are housed in vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structures with steel liners. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Non-radioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Four 345-kilovolt transmission lines, extending nine to 46.5 miles, connect the station to the regional power grid. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from Lake Michigan and deliver makeup water back to the lake. Release of water to the reservoir from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050021, 387 pages, January 23, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 1 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 23 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Farmlands KW - Great Lakes KW - Lakes KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Lake Michigan KW - Wisconsin KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36371459?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-23&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+POINT+BEACH+NUCLEAR+PLANTS+UNITS+1+AND+2%2C+MANITOWOC+COUNTY%2C+WISCONSIN+%28TWENTY-THIRD+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+POINT+BEACH+NUCLEAR+PLANTS+UNITS+1+AND+2%2C+MANITOWOC+COUNTY%2C+WISCONSIN+%28TWENTY-THIRD+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: January 23, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 5 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874849; 11362-3_0005 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050023, Chapters 1-1 and Appendices A-E--396 pages, Appendices F-L--681 pages, January 19, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 5 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1767 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cultural Resources Surveys KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Hydrologic Assessments KW - Noise Assessments KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Seismic Surveys KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Soils Surveys KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Visual Resources Surveys KW - Waste Management KW - Weapon Systems KW - North Carolina KW - Ohio KW - South Carolina KW - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/905874849?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.title=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 4 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874846; 11362-3_0004 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. 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Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 3 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874843; 11362-3_0003 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050023, Chapters 1-1 and Appendices A-E--396 pages, Appendices F-L--681 pages, January 19, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 3 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1767 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cultural Resources Surveys KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Hydrologic Assessments KW - Noise Assessments KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Seismic Surveys KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Soils Surveys KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Visual Resources Surveys KW - Waste Management KW - Weapon Systems KW - North Carolina KW - Ohio KW - South Carolina KW - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/905874843?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.title=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 2 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874840; 11362-3_0002 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050023, Chapters 1-1 and Appendices A-E--396 pages, Appendices F-L--681 pages, January 19, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 2 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1767 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cultural Resources Surveys KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Hydrologic Assessments KW - Noise Assessments KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Seismic Surveys KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Soils Surveys KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Visual Resources Surveys KW - Waste Management KW - Weapon Systems KW - North Carolina KW - Ohio KW - South Carolina KW - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/905874840?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.title=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 1 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874575; 11362-3_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. 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Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 9 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874570; 11362-3_0009 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050023, Chapters 1-1 and Appendices A-E--396 pages, Appendices F-L--681 pages, January 19, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 9 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1767 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cultural Resources Surveys KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Hydrologic Assessments KW - Noise Assessments KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Seismic Surveys KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Soils Surveys KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Visual Resources Surveys KW - Waste Management KW - Weapon Systems KW - North Carolina KW - Ohio KW - South Carolina KW - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/905874570?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.title=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 8 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874567; 11362-3_0008 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050023, Chapters 1-1 and Appendices A-E--396 pages, Appendices F-L--681 pages, January 19, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 8 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1767 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cultural Resources Surveys KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Hydrologic Assessments KW - Noise Assessments KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Seismic Surveys KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Soils Surveys KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Visual Resources Surveys KW - Waste Management KW - Weapon Systems KW - North Carolina KW - Ohio KW - South Carolina KW - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/905874567?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.title=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 7 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874564; 11362-3_0007 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050023, Chapters 1-1 and Appendices A-E--396 pages, Appendices F-L--681 pages, January 19, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 7 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1767 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cultural Resources Surveys KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Hydrologic Assessments KW - Noise Assessments KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Seismic Surveys KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Soils Surveys KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Visual Resources Surveys KW - Waste Management KW - Weapon Systems KW - North Carolina KW - Ohio KW - South Carolina KW - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/905874564?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.title=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 6 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874563; 11362-3_0006 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050023, Chapters 1-1 and Appendices A-E--396 pages, Appendices F-L--681 pages, January 19, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 6 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1767 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cultural Resources Surveys KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Hydrologic Assessments KW - Noise Assessments KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Seismic Surveys KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Soils Surveys KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Visual Resources Surveys KW - Waste Management KW - Weapon Systems KW - North Carolina KW - Ohio KW - South Carolina KW - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/905874563?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.title=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. [Part 10 of 10] T2 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 905874416; 11362-3_0010 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050023, Chapters 1-1 and Appendices A-E--396 pages, Appendices F-L--681 pages, January 19, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 10 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1767 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cultural Resources Surveys KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Hydrologic Assessments KW - Noise Assessments KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Seismic Surveys KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Soils Surveys KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Visual Resources Surveys KW - Waste Management KW - Weapon Systems KW - North Carolina KW - Ohio KW - South Carolina KW - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/905874416?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=A&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=15&rft.issue=10&rft.spage=1244&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Fresenius+Environmental+Bulletin&rft.issn=10184619&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA. AN - 16341968; 11362 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a license for the construction and operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is proposed. The facility would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surplus plutonium disposition program. The MOX facility would convert 37.5 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The facility would be situated on a 41-acre site in the F-Area of SRS. Feedstock (surplus plutonium dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) would be transported to the SRS to make the MOX fuel. The surplus plutonium is currently stored at seven DOE facilities within the United States. Additionally, depleted uranium hexaflouride would be transported from a DOE site(assumed to be the gaseous diffusion uranium facility in Portsmouth, Ohio) to a commercial fabrication facility (assumed to be the General Electric Company facility in Wilmington, North Carolina) where it would be converted to depleted uranium dioxide and transported to SRS. Once manufactured, the MOX fuel would be transported to mission reactors, where it would be irradiated. It is assumed that one or more reactors would later be authorized by to use MOX fuel. Two other proposed facilities and operations are considered in this final EIS: (1) the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PCDF) and the Waste Solidification Building (WSB), both of which would be located at the SRS. The PDFC would be required to convert 28.2 tons of surplus plutonium from a metal form to plutonium dioxide powder. The WSB would process liquid waste streams from the PDCF and MOX facility. Other waste from the MOX facility, not sent to the WSB, would be transferred to and managed by the SRS. National economic costs for the MOX, PDCF, and WSB facilities and operations are estimated at $3.85 billion. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The MOX program would ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security was converted into proliferation-resistant forms. As a result, the nation would be able to meet it's international commitments and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while contributing to the energy needs of the country. During operations, the MOX, DCF, and WSB would generate 480 direct and 780 indirect jobs, producing an income of $61 million per year. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Though the program would result in increased releases of radiation to the local area, these releases would be negligible. However, in the unlikely event of an accidental release of radioactive material, due to serious breakdowns of the MOX system, would result in large releases of radionuclides into the local area. Similarly, routine transportation of nuclear wastes to the MOX and related facilities would result in negligible releases of radionuclides, but accidental releases could have serious consequences. LEGAL MANDATES: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstract of the draft EIS, see 03-0151D, Volume 27, Number 2. JF - EPA number: 050023, Chapters 1-1 and Appendices A-E--396 pages, Appendices F-L--681 pages, January 19, 2005 PY - 2005 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1767 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cultural Resources Surveys KW - Employment KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Hydrologic Assessments KW - Noise Assessments KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Seismic Surveys KW - Socioeconomic Assessments KW - Soils Surveys KW - Spent Nuclear Fuel KW - Visual Resources Surveys KW - Waste Management KW - Weapon Systems KW - North Carolina KW - Ohio KW - South Carolina KW - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/16341968?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.title=CONSTRUCTION+AND+OPERATION+OF+A+MIXED+OXIDE+FUEL+FABRICATION+FACILITY+AT+THE+SAVANNAH+RIVER+SITE%2C+SOUTH+CAROLINA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Final. Preparation date: January 19, 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Use of contaminated well water, example reference biospheres 1 and 2A AN - 51569021; 2006-058206 AB - The BIOMASS programme's Theme 1 evaluated a number of scenarios, which assisted in the development of practical guidance. A total of four Example Reference Biospheres were fully developed, with the assumptions, data, and models thoroughly documented. These Examples display both the practicality and the transparency available through the use of the Reference Biosphere Methodology. While the methodology is designed to promote transparency and traceability, proper documentation and justification is still the responsibility of the user. The Examples can also be used as generic analyses in some situations. Although it is anticipated that each of the Reference Biospheres explored within BIOMASS Theme 1 should be a useful practical example, the quantitative results of the model calculations are not intended to be understood as prescribed biosphere "conversion factors". In choosing to implement an Example, careful consideration would need to be given to their relevance (including associated data) to the particular assessment context at hand. In general, the more complex the model is, the more limited applicability it has for generic purposes. For example, ERB1A (direct use of well water for drinking) can be used straightforwardly, with minor or no adjustments, at a number of generic sites. Example 2A, however, for which climatic conditions and agricultural practices need to be specified, would need to be implemented for each specific situation. JF - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity AU - Santucci, P AU - Kontic, B AU - Coughtrey, P AU - McKenney, C AU - Smith, G A2 - Linsley, Gordon Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 DA - 2005 SP - 151 EP - 170 PB - Elsevier, Oxford VL - 84 IS - 2 SN - 0265-931X, 0265-931X KW - water quality KW - concentration KW - isotopes KW - pollutants KW - data processing KW - pollution KW - drinking water KW - radioactive waste KW - human ecology KW - ground water KW - models KW - BIOMASS Program KW - radioactive isotopes KW - biosphere KW - geosphere KW - data bases KW - risk assessment KW - waste disposal KW - water wells KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51569021?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Environmental+Radioactivity&rft.atitle=Use+of+contaminated+well+water%2C+example+reference+biospheres+1+and+2A&rft.au=Santucci%2C+P%3BKontic%2C+B%3BCoughtrey%2C+P%3BMcKenney%2C+C%3BSmith%2C+G&rft.aulast=Santucci&rft.aufirst=P&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=84&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=151&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Journal+of+Environmental+Radioactivity&rft.issn=0265931X&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.jenvrad.2003.02.001 L2 - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0265931X LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from CAPCAS, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 3 N1 - Document feature - illus. incl. 7 tables N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - BIOMASS Program; biosphere; concentration; data bases; data processing; drinking water; geosphere; ground water; human ecology; isotopes; models; pollutants; pollution; radioactive isotopes; radioactive waste; risk assessment; waste disposal; water quality; water wells DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2003.02.001 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - In situ delineation of coal seams in dry blast holes with a low gamma-ray activity logging tool AN - 51458768; 2007-035667 JF - Bowen Basin symposium 2005 AU - Asfahani, Jamal AU - Borsaru, Mihai AU - Nichols, Wes A2 - Beeston, J. W. Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 DA - 2005 PB - Geological Society of Australia, Coal Geology Group SN - 0646452916 KW - isotopes KW - well-logging KW - techniques KW - equipment KW - coal seams KW - rock mechanics KW - radioactivity methods KW - sedimentary rocks KW - radioactive isotopes KW - cesium KW - barium KW - ash content KW - coal KW - Ba-133 KW - coal exploration KW - alkaline earth metals KW - gamma-ray methods KW - in situ KW - geophysical methods KW - alkali metals KW - boreholes KW - Cs-137 KW - metals KW - testing KW - backscattering KW - coal deposits KW - 29A:Economic geology, geology of energy sources KW - 20:Applied geophysics UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51458768?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/GeoRef&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=conference&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Asfahani%2C+Jamal%3BBorsaru%2C+Mihai%3BNichols%2C+Wes&rft.aulast=Asfahani&rft.aufirst=Jamal&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=0646452916&rft.btitle=&rft.title=International+Journal+of+Low+Radiation&rft.issn=14776545&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - Bowen Basin symposium 2005 N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. Produced under license from the Commonwealth of Australia as represented by Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 11 N1 - Document feature - illus. N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Major element geochemistry of Proterozoic Prince's Town granitoid from the southern Ashanti volcanic belt, Ghana AN - 51122039; 2006-077492 AB - The Paleoproterozoic metavolcanic rocks of the southern Ashanti greenstone belt of Ghana are intruded by three major suites of granitoids, locally called Prince's Town, Dixcove and Ketan plutons. The Prince's Town pluton is the largest intrusive body in the Axim area, and tends to separate the Axim volcanic branch from the Cape Three Points branch. The pluton consists of granitic to dioritic rocks, which are generally massive but occasionally display alignment of ferromagnesian minerals. The rocks contain mainly plagioclase, K-feldspar, quartz, amphibole, biotite and opaques. The feldspars are mostly sericitized and saussuritized, and alteration of amphibole and biotite to epidote and chlorite is common. Accessory minerals include apatite, sphene and zircon. The geochemical data indicate that the rocks are tonalitic to granodioritic in composition, metaluminous (ASI<1) and have I-type characteristics. The granitoids have the SiO (sub 2) content of 63-70% total iron, as Fe (sub 2) O (sub 3) of 3.10-5.80%; (Na (sub 2) O+K (sub 2) O) content of 5.01-6.96% and Na (sub 2) O/K (sub 2) O ratios from 1.34 to 2.70; and are characterized by Mganging from 53 to 48. The Fe (super *) (= FeO (sub tot) +MgO and modified alkali-lime index (MALI) of the rocks indicate that the Prince's Town pluton is dominantly magnesian and calcic in nature. Higher values in molar CaO/(MgO+FeO (sub tot) ) coupled with low molar Al (sub 2) O (sub 3) /(MgO+FeO (sub tot) ) may suggest their derivation from partial melting of metabasaltic to metatonalitic source, with a possible contribution from metagreywacke, but preclude any contribution from metagreywacke, but preclude any contribution from metapelitic sources. The Birimian metavolcanic rocks are the likely source material candidate for the rocks. CIPW norm calculations yielded a crystallization temperature of approximately 650-685 degrees C and a pressure of 4-7 kb for the rocks, suggesting a lower crustal source. The Prince's Town plutonic rocks also show characteristics of plutons emplaced in a volcanic arc tectonic setting environment. This observation is largely consistent with previous studies conducted on granitoids from other parts of the southern Ashanti greenstone belt c and the belt-type granitoids of Ghana as a whole. JF - Okayama University Earth Science Report AU - Dampare, Samuel AU - Shibata, Tsugio AU - Asiedu, Daniel AU - Osae, Shiloh Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 DA - 2005 SP - 15 EP - 30 PB - Okayama University, Department of Earth Sciences, Okayama VL - 12 IS - 1 SN - 1340-7414, 1340-7414 KW - alteration KW - upper Precambrian KW - Paleoproterozoic KW - igneous rocks KW - granites KW - metamorphic belts KW - Ketan Pluton KW - plutonic rocks KW - mineral composition KW - Dixcove Pluton KW - major elements KW - diorites KW - X-ray fluorescence spectra KW - spectra KW - chemical composition KW - geochemistry KW - plutons KW - Birimian KW - Ghana KW - protoliths KW - Precambrian KW - Ashanti Belt KW - Proterozoic KW - Prince's Town Pluton KW - Axim Ghana KW - West Africa KW - provenance KW - intrusions KW - greenstone belts KW - tonalite KW - magmas KW - petrography KW - crystallization KW - Africa KW - West African Shield KW - volcanic belts KW - 02C:Geochemistry of rocks, soils, and sediments KW - 05A:Igneous and metamorphic petrology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51122039?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Okayama+University+Earth+Science+Report&rft.atitle=Major+element+geochemistry+of+Proterozoic+Prince%27s+Town+granitoid+from+the+southern+Ashanti+volcanic+belt%2C+Ghana&rft.au=Dampare%2C+Samuel%3BShibata%2C+Tsugio%3BAsiedu%2C+Daniel%3BOsae%2C+Shiloh&rft.aulast=Dampare&rft.aufirst=Samuel&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=12&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=15&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Okayama+University+Earth+Science+Report&rft.issn=13407414&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 57 N1 - Document feature - illus. incl. 1 plate, 1 table, geol. sketch maps N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Africa; alteration; Ashanti Belt; Axim Ghana; Birimian; chemical composition; crystallization; diorites; Dixcove Pluton; geochemistry; Ghana; granites; greenstone belts; igneous rocks; intrusions; Ketan Pluton; magmas; major elements; metamorphic belts; mineral composition; Paleoproterozoic; petrography; plutonic rocks; plutons; Precambrian; Prince's Town Pluton; Proterozoic; protoliths; provenance; spectra; tonalite; upper Precambrian; volcanic belts; West Africa; West African Shield; X-ray fluorescence spectra ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Cross-rift and along-rift waveform characterization of test-blasts AN - 50873543; 2006-001384 JF - Annual Meeting - Israel Geological Society AU - Wust-Bloch, G H AU - Leonard, G AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 DA - 2005 SP - 127 PB - Israel Geological Society, Jerusalem VL - 2005 SN - 0334-0694, 0334-0694 KW - seismograms KW - explosions KW - Dead Sea Rift KW - geophysical methods KW - effects KW - waveforms KW - Israel KW - seismic sources KW - seismic methods KW - Jordan KW - tectonics KW - Asia KW - Middle East KW - 19:Seismology KW - 16:Structural geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/50873543?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Annual+Meeting+-+Israel+Geological+Society&rft.atitle=Cross-rift+and+along-rift+waveform+characterization+of+test-blasts&rft.au=Wust-Bloch%2C+G+H%3BLeonard%2C+G%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Wust-Bloch&rft.aufirst=G&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=2005&rft.issue=&rft.spage=127&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Annual+Meeting+-+Israel+Geological+Society&rft.issn=03340694&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - Israel Geological Society annual meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Asia; Dead Sea Rift; effects; explosions; geophysical methods; Israel; Jordan; Middle East; seismic methods; seismic sources; seismograms; tectonics; waveforms ER - TY - RPRT T1 - EARLY SITE PERMIT AT THE EXELON ESP SITE, CLINTON POWER STATION, DEWITT COUNTY, ILLINOIS. AN - 36430965; 11434 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance to Exelon Generation Company, LLC, of an early site permit (ESP) for a location 461-acre tract identified for the siting of one nuclear power unit at the Exelon ESP site, adjacent to the Clinton Power Station (CPS), Unit 1, In DeWitt County, Illinois is proposed. The site is located approximately six miles east of the city of Clinton on a peninsula jutting into Clinton Lake between the Salt Creek North Fork arm and the Salt Creek arm. The ESP would not necessary permit construction and operation of a nuclear facility at the site, though an ESP may refer to a reactor's characteristics or plant parameter envelope (PPE), which is a set of postulated design parameters that bound the characteristics of a reactor or reactors that could be built at a selected site. Alternatively, an ESP application may refer to a detailed reactor design. An ESP is issued to initiate a process to assess whether a proposed site is suitable should the applicant decide to pursue a construction permit or combined construction permit and operation license. Three primary issues must be addressed in an ESP application, namely, site safety, environmental impacts and emergency planning. In the proposal at hand, the ESP applicant requested authorization to perform certain site preparation activities after the ESP is issued. No specific plant design has been chosen by Exelon for the new nuclear unit; rather, a set of bounding parameters, the aforementioned PPE, for the addition of one to eight reactor modules grouped into one facility or unit. The site is evaluated for the construction and operation of various numbers of new reactors and/or modules configured as one operating unit to provide a thermal energy capacity of 6,800 megawatts. The new unit would use either a wet cooling system (natural draft or mechanical draft cooling towers) or a hybrid of wet/dry cooling system. The entire site has been either graded or otherwise developed for the operation of the existing nuclear power plant. Recreation is the only special land use within the vicinity of the site. The anticipated transmission line rights-of-way for the ESP facility would be the existing rights-of-way used to transmit power generated by the CPS. These rights-of-way extend 23 miles to the north and 20 miles to the south of the site. In addition to the proposed Exelon site, six alternative sites located in Illinois are also considered in this daft EIS. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Issuance of the ESP would allow Exelon to more specifically determine the feasibility of constructing and operating additional nuclear facilities at the CPS. Power generated by such facilities would contribute to Exelon's ability to maintain system flexibility and reliability and increase its user market. Construction and operation activities would increase employment rolls and otherwise contribute to the local and regional economies. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Development of the ESP site could affect a significant extent of prime farmland, which constitutes 84 percent of the site. Wildlife habitat would be affected, but less so. Withdrawal and return of water into Lake Clinton would be required. Returned water would be significantly warmer that water withdrawn, resulting in a thermal plume extending outward into the lake and laterally according to the direction of the littoral current, affecting near-shore fish and amphibian habitat. Transmission rights-of-way would continue to displace 700 acres for the northern corridor and 610 acres for the southern corridor. In the event that nuclear facilities were developed on the ESP, the radiological hazards associated with the plant would be increased somewhat. LEGAL MANDATES: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 52.25). JF - EPA number: 050096, ages, 2005 PY - 2005 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1813 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Dosimetry KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Farmlands KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Lakes KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Water Quality KW - Wildlife Habitat KW - Illinois KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Early Site Permits UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36430965?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=90&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=78&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Journal+of+Environmental+Radioactivity&rft.issn=0265931X&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.jenvrad.2006.06.005 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Washington, District of Columbia; NUREG N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2, LAKE ONTARIO, NEW YORK. (TWENTY-FOURTH DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). [Part 1 of 1] T2 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2, LAKE ONTARIO, NEW YORK. (TWENTY-FOURTH DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36383312; 050014D-050414_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, units 1 and 2, Lake Ontario, New York is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 24h supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Nine Mile Point Units 1 and 2 are operated 15 exclusively by the applicant, a subsidiary of Constellation Generation Group, LLC, which in turn is a 16 member of Constellation Energy Group. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed, the units would be shut down on or before expiration of the current license, which are which are August 22, 10 2009 for Unit 1, and October 31, 2026 for Unit 2. The Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station (Nine Mile Point) is located on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario in the Town of Scriba, New York. The station consists of two units. Both units are boiling water reactors (BWRs), which produce steam that turns turbines to generate electricity. The plant obtains cooling water from Lake Ontario. Unit 1 employs once-through cooling. Unit 1 has a power rating of 1850 15 megawatts thermal [MW(t)] and 615 megawatts electric [MW(e)]. Unit 2 has closed-cycle cooling and utilizes a natural-draft cooling tower. Unit 2 has a power rating of 3467 MW(t) and 1144 MW(e). The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. The electricity generated by Nine Mile Point is connected to the grid by three single-circuit 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission lines (see Figure 2-5). Two of these lines connect to Unit 1 's 345-kV Switchyard (Clay Line 8 and Scriba Line 9) and one is connected to Unit 2's 345-kV Switchyard (Scriba Line 23). At the other end, Lines 9 and 23 connect to the grid at the Scriba Substation, located approximately 600 m (2000 ft) southeast of the Unit 1 and 2 Switchyards. Line 8 extends approximately 42 km (26 mi) southeast and connects to the grid at the Clay Substation. The transmission line corridor for Line 8 is approximately 150 m (500 ft) wide and is owned by Niagara Mohawk Co. In addition to the two 345-kV switchyards for outgoing electricity, each unit at Nine Mile Point has a 115-kV switchyard that brings in electricity from offsite sources. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Lake Ontario and deliver makeup water back to the lake. Release of water to the reservoir from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the nearshore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050414, 80 pages, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 1 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 24 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Great Lakes KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Lake Ontario KW - New York KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36383312?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+NINE+MILE+POINT+NUCLEAR+STATION%2C+UNITS+1+AND+2%2C+LAKE+ONTARIO%2C+NEW+YORK.+%28TWENTY-FOURTH+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+NINE+MILE+POINT+NUCLEAR+STATION%2C+UNITS+1+AND+2%2C+LAKE+ONTARIO%2C+NEW+YORK.+%28TWENTY-FOURTH+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - EARLY SITE PERMIT AT THE EXELON ESP SITE, CLINTON POWER STATION, DEWITT COUNTY, ILLINOIS. [Part 1 of 1] T2 - EARLY SITE PERMIT AT THE EXELON ESP SITE, CLINTON POWER STATION, DEWITT COUNTY, ILLINOIS. AN - 36371778; 050313D-050096_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance to Exelon Generation Company, LLC, of an early site permit (ESP) for a location 461-acre tract identified for the siting of one nuclear power unit at the Exelon ESP site, adjacent to the Clinton Power Station (CPS), Unit 1, In DeWitt County, Illinois is proposed. The site is located approximately six miles east of the city of Clinton on a peninsula jutting into Clinton Lake between the Salt Creek North Fork arm and the Salt Creek arm. The ESP would not necessary permit construction and operation of a nuclear facility at the site, though an ESP may refer to a reactor's characteristics or plant parameter envelope (PPE), which is a set of postulated design parameters that bound the characteristics of a reactor or reactors that could be built at a selected site. Alternatively, an ESP application may refer to a detailed reactor design. An ESP is issued to initiate a process to assess whether a proposed site is suitable should the applicant decide to pursue a construction permit or combined construction permit and operation license. Three primary issues must be addressed in an ESP application, namely, site safety, environmental impacts and emergency planning. In the proposal at hand, the ESP applicant requested authorization to perform certain site preparation activities after the ESP is issued. No specific plant design has been chosen by Exelon for the new nuclear unit; rather, a set of bounding parameters, the aforementioned PPE, for the addition of one to eight reactor modules grouped into one facility or unit. The site is evaluated for the construction and operation of various numbers of new reactors and/or modules configured as one operating unit to provide a thermal energy capacity of 6,800 megawatts. The new unit would use either a wet cooling system (natural draft or mechanical draft cooling towers) or a hybrid of wet/dry cooling system. The entire site has been either graded or otherwise developed for the operation of the existing nuclear power plant. Recreation is the only special land use within the vicinity of the site. The anticipated transmission line rights-of-way for the ESP facility would be the existing rights-of-way used to transmit power generated by the CPS. These rights-of-way extend 23 miles to the north and 20 miles to the south of the site. In addition to the proposed Exelon site, six alternative sites located in Illinois are also considered in this daft EIS. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Issuance of the ESP would allow Exelon to more specifically determine the feasibility of constructing and operating additional nuclear facilities at the CPS. Power generated by such facilities would contribute to Exelon's ability to maintain system flexibility and reliability and increase its user market. Construction and operation activities would increase employment rolls and otherwise contribute to the local and regional economies. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Development of the ESP site could affect a significant extent of prime farmland, which constitutes 84 percent of the site. Wildlife habitat would be affected, but less so. Withdrawal and return of water into Lake Clinton would be required. Returned water would be significantly warmer that water withdrawn, resulting in a thermal plume extending outward into the lake and laterally according to the direction of the littoral current, affecting near-shore fish and amphibian habitat. Transmission rights-of-way would continue to displace 700 acres for the northern corridor and 610 acres for the southern corridor. In the event that nuclear facilities were developed on the ESP, the radiological hazards associated with the plant would be increased somewhat. LEGAL MANDATES: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 52.25). JF - EPA number: 050096, ages, 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 1 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1813 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Dosimetry KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Farmlands KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Lakes KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Water Quality KW - Wildlife Habitat KW - Illinois KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Early Site Permits UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36371778?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=EARLY+SITE+PERMIT+AT+THE+EXELON+ESP+SITE%2C+CLINTON+POWER+STATION%2C+DEWITT+COUNTY%2C+ILLINOIS.&rft.title=EARLY+SITE+PERMIT+AT+THE+EXELON+ESP+SITE%2C+CLINTON+POWER+STATION%2C+DEWITT+COUNTY%2C+ILLINOIS.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Washington, District of Columbia; NUREG N1 - Date revised - 2006-06-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Results from a user-centred critical incidents study for guiding future implementation of augmented reality in automotive maintenance AN - 17740942; 6132400 AB - This exploratory study was carried out in the early phases of an R & D project for the implementation of an augmented reality-based (AR- based) job aid for automotive service technicians (ASTs). Prior to the study, key stakeholder groups had little clarity on the actual goal of the future system. Strong emphasis was placed on providing technicians with step-by-step guidance during repairs to new models of vehicles. AR was also assumed to be useful as a visualization aid for inaccessible vehicle parts. An ergonomic study was proposed to help clarify the high-level end users' requirements. The study, on 11 mechanics, was done using the critical incident technique. The incidents were collected through interviews. The results showed that the major difficulty in ASTs' activity was diagnosing electronic components on new models of vehicles. Other critical factors appeared in technicians' verbal reports, e.g. physical and organisational difficulties. The visualization of inaccessible vehicle parts, which was stakeholders' primary concern, only seemed problematic in one case. On the basis of these results, we discuss the applicability of AR to ASTs' work as well as a few perspectives of the study.Relevance to industry There exist a number of job aids for ASTs, each of which has its advantages and disadvantages. This paper focuses on the advantages of AR to assist ASTs' activity. We also report an empirical study on ASTs' major difficulties with new models of vehicles. JF - International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics AU - Anastassova, M AU - Burkhardt, J-M AU - Megard, C AU - Ehanno, P AD - Control and Man Machine Interface Laboratory, French Atomic Energy Commission, CEA LIST/DTSI/SCRI/LCI, 18, route du Panorama, BP 6, 92265 Fontenay-aux-Roses, Cedex, France, anastassovam@zoe.cea.fr Y1 - 2005/01// PY - 2005 DA - Jan 2005 SP - 67 EP - 77 PB - Elsevier Science B.V., P.O. Box 211 Amsterdam 1000 AE Netherlands, [mailto:nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl], [URL:http://www.elsevier.nl/] VL - 35 IS - 1 SN - 0169-8141, 0169-8141 KW - Health & Safety Science Abstracts KW - Automotive industry KW - Working conditions KW - Maintenance KW - Ergonomics KW - Occupational health KW - H 10000:Ergonomics/Human Factors UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17740942?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ahealthsafetyabstracts&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=International+Journal+of+Industrial+Ergonomics&rft.atitle=Results+from+a+user-centred+critical+incidents+study+for+guiding+future+implementation+of+augmented+reality+in+automotive+maintenance&rft.au=Anastassova%2C+M%3BBurkhardt%2C+J-M%3BMegard%2C+C%3BEhanno%2C+P&rft.aulast=Anastassova&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=91&rft.issue=1-2&rft.spage=103&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Journal+of+environmental+radioactivity&rft.issn=0265931X&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-11-01 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-13 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Ergonomics; Maintenance; Automotive industry; Occupational health; Working conditions DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ergon.2004.08.005 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Nuclear desalination and electricity production for islands AN - 17408614; 6525610 AB - Nuclear desalination is an established and commercially proven technology that is now available and has the potential of further improvement. The technology of a small-sized reactor for desalination and electricity production will be an economically viable option and will also be suitable for islands with geographic, climatic, ecological and hydrological specifics. The operating experiences and achieved safety should benefit the early stage of a national nuclear power programme in developing countries. JF - International Journal of Nuclear Desalination AU - Nghiep, Tran Dai AD - Institute for Nuclear Science and Techniques, Vietnam Atomic Energy Commission, 59 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam, tdnghiep@vaec.gov.vn Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 DA - 2005 SP - 396 EP - 399 PB - Inderscience Publishers, PO Box 735 Olney Bucks MK46 5WB UK, [mailto:ijnd@inderscience.com], [URL:http://www.inderscience.com] VL - 1 IS - 4 SN - 1476-914X, 1476-914X KW - Aqualine Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts KW - Article No. 7010 KW - nuclear desalination KW - small-sized reactors KW - nuclear power plants KW - islands KW - energy transfer model KW - electricity production KW - electricity generation KW - developing countries KW - Vietnam KW - nuclear energy KW - seawater desalination KW - Safety KW - Desalination KW - Developing Countries KW - Stages KW - Benefits KW - SW 1010:Saline water conversion KW - AQ 00004:Water Treatment UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17408614?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Aaqualine&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=International+Journal+of+Nuclear+Desalination&rft.atitle=Nuclear+desalination+and+electricity+production+for+islands&rft.au=Nghiep%2C+Tran+Dai&rft.aulast=Nghiep&rft.aufirst=Tran&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=1&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=396&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=International+Journal+of+Nuclear+Desalination&rft.issn=1476914X&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Safety; Desalination; Developing Countries; Stages; Benefits ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Hydrochemical and Isotopic Study of Submarine Fresh Water Along the Coast in Lebanon AN - 17376772; 6499366 AB - A The karstic aquifer system and the submarine springs on the Lebanese coast have been studied using chemical and isotopic methods to determine the sources for coastal and submarine springs. Chemical analysis shows that most submarine springs are derived from a Cenomanian-Turonian aquifer with a large influence of the bedrock type including calcite and dolomite. Different physical and chemical characteristics are obtained for some submarine samples located on the southern coast that show high sulfate content. Isotopic data for d super(18)O/ d super(2)H shows that coastal freshwaters are closer to the Mediterranean Meteoric Water Line than the submarine springs. Submarine samples located in the south were located below the Global Meteoric Water Line, indicating differences from the coastal freshwater sources. The calculated percentage of freshwater in the submarine samples ranges from 10 to 96%, with the highest percentage for a spring in the Chekka region. Tritium values of submarine samples (ranging from 0.75 to 3.77 TU) are found to be comparable to the coastal freshwater samples (0.69 to 4.83 TU). Spring waters are divided into two distinct sources: young meteoric water supplies coastal freshwater and the submarine sample in the Chekka region, and older water supplies the submarine springs. JF - Journal of Environmental Hydrology AU - Saad, Zeinab AU - Kazpard, Veronique AU - Slim, Kamal AU - Mroueh, Moustafa AD - Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission CNRS, P.O.Box 11-8281, Riad El-Solh 1107 2260, Beirut, Lebanon, z.saad@cnrs.edu.lb Y1 - 2005///0, PY - 2005 DA - 0, 2005 PB - International Association for Environmental Hydrology, P.O. Box 35324 San Antonio TX 78235-5324 USA, [mailto:hydroweg@mail.org] VL - 13 KW - ASFA 2: Ocean Technology Policy & Non-Living Resources; Water Resources Abstracts KW - Sulfates KW - Aquifers KW - Lebanon KW - Water Supply KW - Chemical Analysis KW - Water resources KW - Karst KW - Freshwater KW - Submarine springs KW - Spring Water KW - Ground water KW - Hydrology KW - Bedrock KW - Coasts KW - Calcite KW - Submarine Springs KW - Tritium KW - Dolomite KW - Aquifer Systems KW - Meteoric Water KW - Oxygen isotope ratio KW - Chemical analysis KW - Q2 09127:General papers on resources KW - SW 0840:Groundwater UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17376772?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Awaterresources&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Environmental+Hydrology&rft.atitle=A+Hydrochemical+and+Isotopic+Study+of+Submarine+Fresh+Water+Along+the+Coast+in+Lebanon&rft.au=Saad%2C+Zeinab%3BKazpard%2C+Veronique%3BSlim%2C+Kamal%3BMroueh%2C+Moustafa&rft.aulast=Saad&rft.aufirst=Zeinab&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=13&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Journal+of+Environmental+Hydrology&rft.issn=1058-3912&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-03-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Article No. 8 N1 - Last updated - 2016-05-27 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Submarine springs; Tritium; Dolomite; Ground water; Hydrology; Water resources; Oxygen isotope ratio; Chemical analysis; Aquifers; Sulfates; Chemical Analysis; Calcite; Water Supply; Karst; Submarine Springs; Meteoric Water; Spring Water; Aquifer Systems; Bedrock; Coasts; Lebanon; Freshwater ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Investigation of sulfate and nitrate formation on mineral dust particles by receptor modeling AN - 17233773; 6929643 AB - The formation of sulfate and nitrate by heterogeneous reactions of gaseous precursors on mineral dust particles was investigated using positive matrix factorization (PMF) of coarse PM sub(10) (particulate diameters from 2.2 to 10 mu m) collected at urban (Hanoi) and rural (Lucnam) sites in northern Vietnam. Air samples were analyzed for ionic and elemental components using ion chromatography and proton induced X-ray emission methods. PMF revealed six similar sources/types of coarse PM sub(10) at the two sites, namely soil dust containing nitrate and sulfate, coal fly ash from distant and local sources, soil dust containing organic matter and ammonium sulfate and marine aerosol. Traffic (road) dust was found only at the urban site. From the PMF factor models, the yields of [image], [image] and [image] can be estimated and their possible chemical forms in different particulate types can be suggested. The yields of nitrate and sulfate formation on mineral dust particles increase with the [Ca]/[Si] ratio, which is greater in soil dust than in coal fly ash. Nitrate is bound to Ca-richest soil dust particles. Ammonium was found in dust particles containing soil organic matter, which also hold the largest amount of sulfate. The comparison of urban and rural receptor models provided synergy for the source identification and insights into the properties of mineral dust particles relevant to their interactions with acidic gases in ambient air. JF - Atmospheric Environment AU - Hien, P D AU - Bac, V T AU - Thinh, NTH AD - Vietnam Atomic Energy Commission, 59 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hanoi, Vietnam, pdhien@gmail.com Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 DA - 2005 SP - 7231 EP - 7239 PB - Elsevier Science B.V., P.O. Box 211 Amsterdam 1000 AE Netherlands, [mailto:nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl], [URL:http://www.elsevier.nl/] VL - 39 IS - 38 SN - 1352-2310, 1352-2310 KW - Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts; Pollution Abstracts KW - PIXE KW - Ion chromatography KW - Positive matrix factorization KW - Sulfate KW - Nitrate KW - Alkalinity KW - Sulfates KW - Ammonium KW - Atmospheric pollution models KW - Nitrates KW - Chromatography KW - Nitrates formation KW - Organic matter KW - Sulfate formation KW - Fly ash KW - Particulate matter in urban air KW - Particulates KW - Coal KW - Dust particles KW - Dust KW - Vietnam KW - X-ray emissions KW - Marine aerosols KW - Urban atmospheric pollution KW - Vietnam, Hanoi KW - Minerals KW - M2 551.510.42:Air Pollution (551.510.42) KW - P 0000:AIR POLLUTION UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17233773?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Apollution&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Atmospheric+Environment&rft.atitle=Investigation+of+sulfate+and+nitrate+formation+on+mineral+dust+particles+by+receptor+modeling&rft.au=Hien%2C+P+D%3BBac%2C+V+T%3BThinh%2C+NTH&rft.aulast=Hien&rft.aufirst=P&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=39&rft.issue=38&rft.spage=7231&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Atmospheric+Environment&rft.issn=13522310&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.atmosenv.2005.09.003 LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-10-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Atmospheric pollution models; Nitrates formation; Chromatography; X-ray emissions; Marine aerosols; Sulfate formation; Urban atmospheric pollution; Particulate matter in urban air; Dust particles; Sulfates; Ammonium; Nitrates; Organic matter; Fly ash; Coal; Particulates; Minerals; Dust; Vietnam, Hanoi; Vietnam DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.09.003 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Effects of chlorinated volatile organic compounds on the degradation of biogenic alkenes in presence of ozone in an atmospheric simulation chamber AN - 17137578; 6782285 AB - Aerosol smog chamber studies are performed in the dark, so to elucidate the chemical and physical processes that can occur in forester's atmosphere that forms fine particles of matter. Estimation, through an atmospheric simulation chamber, of the role that ozone plays on air masses containing chlorinated compounds above forests is necessary. In this sense, we are interested in the disappearance of alpha - and beta -pinene, the decomposition of ozone, and the formation of aerosols and carbonyl compounds during the experiments. They have demonstrated that the presence of CH sub(2)Cl sub(2) and CHCl = CCl sub(2) does not significantly influence the rate of degradation of alpha -pinene which, in turn, is governed by the reactivity of ozone. In addition, an increase of the number of aerosols has been registered, however, only when they are in presence of chlorinated compounds under not humidified atmosphere. On the other side, the beta -pinene decay is strongly affected by CHCl = CCl sub(2) and moisture. As one conclusion of the above-described experiments, we found that CHCl = CCl sub(2) and moisture are two factors promoting the production of carbonyl volatile organic compounds. JF - Fresenius Environmental Bulletin AU - Ghauch, A AU - Kaluzny, P AU - Deveau, P-A AU - Baussand, P AD - Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission, National Council for Scientific Research, PO BOX 1182-81, Beirut, Lebanon, aghauch@cnrs.edu.lb Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 DA - 2005 SP - 1058 EP - 1065 VL - 14 IS - 11 SN - 1018-4619, 1018-4619 KW - Pollution Abstracts KW - Aerosols KW - Forests KW - Simulation KW - Particulates KW - Decomposition KW - Atmosphere KW - air masses KW - alkenes KW - Smog KW - Decay KW - carbonyl compounds KW - Volatile organic compounds KW - Ozone KW - P 0000:AIR POLLUTION UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/17137578?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Apollution&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Fresenius+Environmental+Bulletin&rft.atitle=Effects+of+chlorinated+volatile+organic+compounds+on+the+degradation+of+biogenic+alkenes+in+presence+of+ozone+in+an+atmospheric+simulation+chamber&rft.au=Ghauch%2C+A%3BKaluzny%2C+P%3BDeveau%2C+P-A%3BBaussand%2C+P&rft.aulast=Ghauch&rft.aufirst=A&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=14&rft.issue=11&rft.spage=1058&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Fresenius+Environmental+Bulletin&rft.issn=10184619&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2006-12-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-25 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Aerosols; Simulation; Forests; Particulates; Atmosphere; Decomposition; air masses; alkenes; Decay; Smog; carbonyl compounds; Volatile organic compounds; Ozone ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2, LAKE ONTARIO, NEW YORK. (TWENTY-FOURTH DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 16354823; 11765 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating license for the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, units 1 and 2, Lake Ontario, New York is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 24h supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Nine Mile Point Units 1 and 2 are operated 15 exclusively by the applicant, a subsidiary of Constellation Generation Group, LLC, which in turn is a 16 member of Constellation Energy Group. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the unit in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed, the units would be shut down on or before expiration of the current license, which are which are August 22, 10 2009 for Unit 1, and October 31, 2026 for Unit 2. The Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station (Nine Mile Point) is located on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario in the Town of Scriba, New York. The station consists of two units. Both units are boiling water reactors (BWRs), which produce steam that turns turbines to generate electricity. The plant obtains cooling water from Lake Ontario. Unit 1 employs once-through cooling. Unit 1 has a power rating of 1850 15 megawatts thermal [MW(t)] and 615 megawatts electric [MW(e)]. Unit 2 has closed-cycle cooling and utilizes a natural-draft cooling tower. Unit 2 has a power rating of 3467 MW(t) and 1144 MW(e). The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. The electricity generated by Nine Mile Point is connected to the grid by three single-circuit 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission lines (see Figure 2-5). Two of these lines connect to Unit 1 's 345-kV Switchyard (Clay Line 8 and Scriba Line 9) and one is connected to Unit 2's 345-kV Switchyard (Scriba Line 23). At the other end, Lines 9 and 23 connect to the grid at the Scriba Substation, located approximately 600 m (2000 ft) southeast of the Unit 1 and 2 Switchyards. Line 8 extends approximately 42 km (26 mi) southeast and connects to the grid at the Clay Substation. The transmission line corridor for Line 8 is approximately 150 m (500 ft) wide and is owned by Niagara Mohawk Co. In addition to the two 345-kV switchyards for outgoing electricity, each unit at Nine Mile Point has a 115-kV switchyard that brings in electricity from offsite sources. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. Refusal to renew the license and subsequent decommissioning of the plant could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Lake Ontario and deliver makeup water back to the lake. Release of water to the reservoir from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the nearshore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the lake. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 050414, 80 pages, 2005 PY - 2005 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 24 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Great Lakes KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Lake Ontario KW - New York KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/16354823?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=118&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=126&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Radiation+protection+dosimetry&rft.issn=01448420&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: 2005 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Nuclear desalination: harnessing the seas for development of coastal areas of Pakistan AN - 16194884; 6525615 AB - Pakistan has a population of 140 million with more than 30% of the population living in cities and towns. Karachi, the major port city of the country, is the most densely populated with a population crossing the 11 million mark. The city receives 435 MGD of drinking water from the River Indus and other sources. However, the net demand for the year 2000 was 594 MGD thus there is a gap of 159 MGD in demand and supply. Statistics show that the water demand in Karachi is increasing at the rate of 100 MGD every five years. The coastal belt of the country extends to 1046 sq. km. Of this, 930 km is from the Karachi to Gwader region in the province of Baluchistan. Most of the coastal areas lie outside the monsoon system of weather and therefore the climate is extremely dry. The annual rainfall in this belt is about 15 cms. Therefore, fresh water availability is a major factor for development of the coastal belt of Pakistan. In the wake of the looming water crisis it is becoming increasingly clear that all available and appropriate technologies, including nuclear and related technologies, have to be used for the sustainable development and management of freshwater resources in Pakistan. One particular approach is the desalination of seawater, and countries are increasing their capacity to harness the seas for tapping fresh water. The prospects of using nuclear energy for seawater desalination on a large scale are attractive since desalination is an energy intensive process. Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) is planning to actively participate in the activities of IAEA in the field of nuclear desalination by offering one of its nuclear power plants for coupling a demonstration nuclear desalination plant. Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP), which is the country's first nuclear plant has been successfully operating for the last 30 years. This plant is proposed to be used as a potential site for installation of a demonstration nuclear desalination plant. KANUPP is already operating a Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) plant to meet its operating requirements, contributing to its ultimate heat sink. The experience gained in the installation and commissioning of the RO plant will be very useful for the proposed nuclear desalination plant. The objective of this paper is to present the work done by PAEC in preparing the engineering feasibility for coupling a 1MGD demonstration nuclear desalination plant with KANUPP. The paper discusses in detail the criteria for selection of the most appropriate thermal desalting process, capacity of the plant and the coupling arrangement with the existing power plant without disturbing the normal operation of KANUPP. JF - International Journal of Nuclear Desalination AU - Ayub, Muhammad Saleem AU - Butt, Waqar Murtaza AD - Karachi Nuclear Power Plant, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, PO Box 3183, Karachi, Pakistan, knpc@khi.comsats.net.pk Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 DA - 2005 SP - 477 EP - 485 PB - Inderscience Publishers, PO Box 735 Olney Bucks MK46 5WB UK, [mailto:ijnd@inderscience.com], [URL:http://www.inderscience.com] VL - 1 IS - 4 SN - 1476-914X, 1476-914X KW - Sustainability Science Abstracts; Aqualine Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts KW - Article No. 7018 KW - Pakistan KW - coastal areas development KW - nuclear desalination KW - nuclear energy KW - seawater desalination KW - reverse osmosis KW - thermal desalting. KW - Feasibility studies KW - Statistics KW - Reverse osmosis KW - Rainfall KW - Desalination plants KW - Sustainable development KW - Engineering KW - water demand KW - Nuclear Energy KW - Rivers KW - Weather KW - ISW, Pakistan, Baluchistan KW - Desalination Plants KW - Reverse Osmosis KW - Coastal zone KW - port installations KW - Heat KW - towns KW - Nuclear energy KW - Monsoons KW - water availability KW - Seawater KW - Sinks KW - Powerplants KW - commissions KW - Drinking Water KW - Nuclear Powerplants KW - Planning KW - Power plants KW - Water Treatment KW - Urban areas KW - Water Demand KW - Installation KW - ISW, Pakistan, Sindh, Karachi KW - Nuclear power plants KW - appropriate technology KW - Capacity KW - Drinking water KW - M3 1010:Issues in Sustainable Development KW - SW 1010:Saline water conversion KW - AQ 00004:Water Treatment UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/16194884?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Aaqualine&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=International+Journal+of+Nuclear+Desalination&rft.atitle=Nuclear+desalination%3A+harnessing+the+seas+for+development+of+coastal+areas+of+Pakistan&rft.au=Ayub%2C+Muhammad+Saleem%3BButt%2C+Waqar+Murtaza&rft.aulast=Ayub&rft.aufirst=Muhammad&rft.date=2005-01-01&rft.volume=1&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=477&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=International+Journal+of+Nuclear+Desalination&rft.issn=1476914X&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date revised - 2005-12-01 N1 - Last updated - 2015-03-24 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Feasibility studies; Weather; Reverse osmosis; water availability; Desalination plants; Seawater; Rainfall; Sustainable development; commissions; Nuclear power plants; Coastal zone; appropriate technology; port installations; towns; Power plants; Nuclear energy; water demand; Drinking water; Urban areas; Monsoons; Rivers; Statistics; Water Demand; Sinks; Desalination Plants; Reverse Osmosis; Installation; Powerplants; Engineering; Drinking Water; Heat; Nuclear Powerplants; Planning; Water Treatment; Capacity; Nuclear Energy; ISW, Pakistan, Sindh, Karachi; Pakistan; ISW, Pakistan, Baluchistan ER - TY - RPRT T1 - EARLY SITE PERMIT AT THE NORTH ANNA SITE, LAKE ANNA, VIRGINIA. AN - 36436199; 11308 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a early site permit (EPA) for the North Anna Power Station (NAPS), on Lake Anna, Virginia is proposed in this preliminary EIS. Approval of the permits would also allow the applicant, Nuclear North Anna, LLC (Dominion), to develop a site within the existing North Anna Power Station as suitable for the construction and operation of new nuclear power generating facilities and issue an EPS for the proposed site at NAPS. The proposed action does not constitute any decision or approval to construct or operate one or more nuts; these matters would be concerned only upon the filing of applications for a construction permit and operating license. No alternative land use has been identified. This EIS include Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff analysis considering and weighing the environmental impacts of construction and operation of two new nuclear units at he North Anna ESP, or at alternative sites. It also includes the staff's preliminary recommendation, which is to issue the ESP. The preliminary report recommendation is based on the Environmental Report, submitted by Dominion, as revised; consultation with federal state, and tribal, and local agencies; the staff's independent review; and the assessments summarized in this draft EIS, including the potential mitigation measures identified. The staff has also concluded that there are no environmentally preferable or obviously superior site. Three primary issues, namely site safety, environmental impacts, and emergency planning, must be addressed in the ESP application. Issues addressed also include land use, meteorology and air quality, site geology, hydrology, water use, water quality, terrestrial and aquatic ecology, socioeconomics, historical and cultural resources, environmental justice, site layout and plant parameter envelope, plant water use, cooling system, radioactive and nonradioactive waste management, radiological and nonradiological health impacts, fuel cycle, transportation, of nuclear fuels and radioactive wastes, and decommissioning, and use of light-water reactors vs. gas-cooled creators. Alternative sites considered include the Savannah Riversite and the Portsmouth ESP site. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The newly sites nuclear reactors would provide electric power, to be transmitted to the power regional grid services by Dominion and used by residential, commercial, and industrial users. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The staff has preliminarily concluded that the site preparation and preliminary construction activities allowed by regulatory law would not result in any significant adverse environmental impact that cannot be redressed. The sites access corridors could be affected by clearing, grading Long-term disturbance of 128 acres, with an additional 67.9 acres to be disturbed on a short-term basis. Cooling system water would be withdrawn from and returned to Lake Anna, resulting in lake drawdown and a thermal plume, both of which would affect the aquatic ecosystem and the recreational value of the lake, respectively, as well as lakeside visual and olfactory aesthetics, Plant structures, particularly cooling towers. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). JF - EPA number: 040569, 383 pages, December 7, 2004 PY - 2004 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-11981 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cooling Systems KW - Fish KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Indian Reservations KW - Lakes KW - Minorities KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Precipitation (Meteorology) KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Recreation Resources KW - Regulations KW - Reservoirs KW - Safety KW - Site Planning KW - Transmission Lines KW - Transportation KW - Turbines KW - Vegetation KW - Visual Resources KW - Water Quality KW - Lake Anna KW - Virginia KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36436199?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2004-12-07&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=EARLY+SITE+PERMIT+AT+THE+NORTH+ANNA+SITE%2C+LAKE+ANNA%2C+VIRGINIA.&rft.title=EARLY+SITE+PERMIT+AT+THE+NORTH+ANNA+SITE%2C+LAKE+ANNA%2C+VIRGINIA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NUREG N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: December 7, 2004 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - EARLY SITE PERMIT AT THE NORTH ANNA SITE, LAKE ANNA, VIRGINIA. [Part 1 of 1] T2 - EARLY SITE PERMIT AT THE NORTH ANNA SITE, LAKE ANNA, VIRGINIA. AN - 36367642; 11308-040569_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The issuance of a early site permit (EPA) for the North Anna Power Station (NAPS), on Lake Anna, Virginia is proposed in this preliminary EIS. Approval of the permits would also allow the applicant, Nuclear North Anna, LLC (Dominion), to develop a site within the existing North Anna Power Station as suitable for the construction and operation of new nuclear power generating facilities and issue an EPS for the proposed site at NAPS. The proposed action does not constitute any decision or approval to construct or operate one or more nuts; these matters would be concerned only upon the filing of applications for a construction permit and operating license. No alternative land use has been identified. This EIS include Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff analysis considering and weighing the environmental impacts of construction and operation of two new nuclear units at he North Anna ESP, or at alternative sites. It also includes the staff's preliminary recommendation, which is to issue the ESP. The preliminary report recommendation is based on the Environmental Report, submitted by Dominion, as revised; consultation with federal state, and tribal, and local agencies; the staff's independent review; and the assessments summarized in this draft EIS, including the potential mitigation measures identified. The staff has also concluded that there are no environmentally preferable or obviously superior site. Three primary issues, namely site safety, environmental impacts, and emergency planning, must be addressed in the ESP application. Issues addressed also include land use, meteorology and air quality, site geology, hydrology, water use, water quality, terrestrial and aquatic ecology, socioeconomics, historical and cultural resources, environmental justice, site layout and plant parameter envelope, plant water use, cooling system, radioactive and nonradioactive waste management, radiological and nonradiological health impacts, fuel cycle, transportation, of nuclear fuels and radioactive wastes, and decommissioning, and use of light-water reactors vs. gas-cooled creators. Alternative sites considered include the Savannah Riversite and the Portsmouth ESP site. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The newly sites nuclear reactors would provide electric power, to be transmitted to the power regional grid services by Dominion and used by residential, commercial, and industrial users. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The staff has preliminarily concluded that the site preparation and preliminary construction activities allowed by regulatory law would not result in any significant adverse environmental impact that cannot be redressed. The sites access corridors could be affected by clearing, grading Long-term disturbance of 128 acres, with an additional 67.9 acres to be disturbed on a short-term basis. Cooling system water would be withdrawn from and returned to Lake Anna, resulting in lake drawdown and a thermal plume, both of which would affect the aquatic ecosystem and the recreational value of the lake, respectively, as well as lakeside visual and olfactory aesthetics, Plant structures, particularly cooling towers. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). JF - EPA number: 040569, 383 pages, December 7, 2004 PY - 2004 VL - 1 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-11981 KW - Air Quality Assessments KW - Cooling Systems KW - Fish KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Indian Reservations KW - Lakes KW - Minorities KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Fuels KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Precipitation (Meteorology) KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Recreation Resources KW - Regulations KW - Reservoirs KW - Safety KW - Site Planning KW - Transmission Lines KW - Transportation KW - Turbines KW - Vegetation KW - Visual Resources KW - Water Quality KW - Lake Anna KW - Virginia KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36367642?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2004-12-07&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=EARLY+SITE+PERMIT+AT+THE+NORTH+ANNA+SITE%2C+LAKE+ANNA%2C+VIRGINIA.&rft.title=EARLY+SITE+PERMIT+AT+THE+NORTH+ANNA+SITE%2C+LAKE+ANNA%2C+VIRGINIA.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NUREG N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: December 7, 2004 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 (TWENTY-FIRST DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36436135; 11302 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating licenses for Browns Ferry Nuclear (BFN) Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3 in rural Alabama is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 21st supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, the Tennessee Valley Authority, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the three units in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed units 1, 2, and 3 would be shutdown on or before expiration of the current licenses, the dates of which are December 20, 2013, June 28, 2014, and July 2, 2016 and, respectively. The 840-acre power station site is located on federally owned land abutting the Wheeler Reservoir, 30 miles west of Huntsville, Alabama, characterized by agricultural land uses and recreational uses, including fishing and recreational boaters. Each unit employs a boiling water reactor and a steam-driven turbine generator manufactured by General Electric Corporation. Each unit was licensed for an output of 293M Megawatts-thermal (MW(t)). Commercial operation for units, 1, 2, and 3, began in 1974, 1975, and 1977 respectively. Unit 1 is inactive; work began in 2002 to bring Unit 1 up to current standards, and operation of the reactor is currently scheduled to resume 2007. All three units were shutdown in 1985 during a review of the TVA nuclear power program. Unit 2 returned to service in 1991, and Unit 3 resumed operation in November 1995. The BNF Plant completed an integrated plant improvement project for units 2 and 3; among improvements made were a five percent uprate in the original licensed thermal power for both units from 3,293to 3,458 MW(t). In June 2004, TVA submitted applications for extended power uprates to 120 percent of the original licensed thermal power at each of the three BNF Plant units. These applications, if approved by the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would take effect during the existing license terms, so the impacts of this uprate are considered in this supplemental EIS. All units feature two-loop, closed-cycle, pressurized-water reactors, licensed for a calculated electrical output of approximately 1,065 megawatts-electric (MW(e)). The units employ reactor coolant recirculation loops to the and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel; the cooling system withdraws water from the Wheeler Reservoir and discharges heated water back to the reservoir. The reactor is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Seven 500-kilovolt (kV) connect the 500-kV BNF Plant switchyard to the transmission lines; one line transmits power to the Trinity substation, one line each to the West Point, Maury, and Union (Mississippi) substations, and one line to the Livestone substation. In addition, two 161-kV lines, one connecting to the Athens substation and the other to the Trinity substation. All lines use a portion of four transmission line rights-of-way, one to the Maruy substation, one to the Trinity substation, one to the Athens substation, and one to the Union substation. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Wheeler Reservoir and deliver makeup water back to the Sound. Release of water to the Sound from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the Sound. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. Transmission line rights-of-way would continue to displace other land uses for public use. Refusal to renew the license and the subsequent decommissioning of the units could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 040563, 372 pages, December 3, 2004 PY - 2004 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 21 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Wildlife Habitat KW - Wildlife Surveys KW - Alabama KW - Mississippi KW - Wheeler Reservoir KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36436135?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2004-12-03&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+BROWNS+FERRY+NUCLEAR+PLANT%2C+UNITS+1%2C+2%2C+AND+3+%28TWENTY-FIRST+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+BROWNS+FERRY+NUCLEAR+PLANT%2C+UNITS+1%2C+2%2C+AND+3+%28TWENTY-FIRST+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: December 3, 2004 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 (TWENTY-FIRST DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). [Part 1 of 1] T2 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 (TWENTY-FIRST DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36368650; 11302-040563_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating licenses for Browns Ferry Nuclear (BFN) Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3 in rural Alabama is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 21st supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, the Tennessee Valley Authority, nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the three units in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed units 1, 2, and 3 would be shutdown on or before expiration of the current licenses, the dates of which are December 20, 2013, June 28, 2014, and July 2, 2016 and, respectively. The 840-acre power station site is located on federally owned land abutting the Wheeler Reservoir, 30 miles west of Huntsville, Alabama, characterized by agricultural land uses and recreational uses, including fishing and recreational boaters. Each unit employs a boiling water reactor and a steam-driven turbine generator manufactured by General Electric Corporation. Each unit was licensed for an output of 293M Megawatts-thermal (MW(t)). Commercial operation for units, 1, 2, and 3, began in 1974, 1975, and 1977 respectively. Unit 1 is inactive; work began in 2002 to bring Unit 1 up to current standards, and operation of the reactor is currently scheduled to resume 2007. All three units were shutdown in 1985 during a review of the TVA nuclear power program. Unit 2 returned to service in 1991, and Unit 3 resumed operation in November 1995. The BNF Plant completed an integrated plant improvement project for units 2 and 3; among improvements made were a five percent uprate in the original licensed thermal power for both units from 3,293to 3,458 MW(t). In June 2004, TVA submitted applications for extended power uprates to 120 percent of the original licensed thermal power at each of the three BNF Plant units. These applications, if approved by the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would take effect during the existing license terms, so the impacts of this uprate are considered in this supplemental EIS. All units feature two-loop, closed-cycle, pressurized-water reactors, licensed for a calculated electrical output of approximately 1,065 megawatts-electric (MW(e)). The units employ reactor coolant recirculation loops to the and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel; the cooling system withdraws water from the Wheeler Reservoir and discharges heated water back to the reservoir. The reactor is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Seven 500-kilovolt (kV) connect the 500-kV BNF Plant switchyard to the transmission lines; one line transmits power to the Trinity substation, one line each to the West Point, Maury, and Union (Mississippi) substations, and one line to the Livestone substation. In addition, two 161-kV lines, one connecting to the Athens substation and the other to the Trinity substation. All lines use a portion of four transmission line rights-of-way, one to the Maruy substation, one to the Trinity substation, one to the Athens substation, and one to the Union substation. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from the Wheeler Reservoir and deliver makeup water back to the Sound. Release of water to the Sound from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the Sound. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. Transmission line rights-of-way would continue to displace other land uses for public use. Refusal to renew the license and the subsequent decommissioning of the units could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 040563, 372 pages, December 3, 2004 PY - 2004 VL - 1 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 21 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Wildlife Habitat KW - Wildlife Surveys KW - Alabama KW - Mississippi KW - Wheeler Reservoir KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36368650?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2004-12-03&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+BROWNS+FERRY+NUCLEAR+PLANT%2C+UNITS+1%2C+2%2C+AND+3+%28TWENTY-FIRST+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+BROWNS+FERRY+NUCLEAR+PLANT%2C+UNITS+1%2C+2%2C+AND+3+%28TWENTY-FIRST+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: December 3, 2004 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Testing claims about volcanic disruption of a potential geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada AN - 51688331; 2005-056608 JF - Geophysical Research Letters AU - Coleman, N M AU - Abramson, L R AU - Marsh, B D Y1 - 2004/12// PY - 2004 DA - December 2004 SP - 4 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 31 IS - 24 SN - 0094-8276, 0094-8276 KW - United States KW - volcanic rocks KW - geologic hazards KW - site exploration KW - igneous rocks KW - waste disposal sites KW - stability KW - Nye County Nevada KW - radioactive waste KW - intrusions KW - dikes KW - safety KW - volcanism KW - eruptions KW - basalts KW - volcanoes KW - risk assessment KW - waste disposal KW - Yucca Mountain KW - Nevada KW - 30:Engineering geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51688331?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Geophysical+Research+Letters&rft.atitle=Testing+claims+about+volcanic+disruption+of+a+potential+geologic+repository+at+Yucca+Mountain%2C+Nevada&rft.au=Coleman%2C+N+M%3BAbramson%2C+L+R%3BMarsh%2C+B+D&rft.aulast=Coleman&rft.aufirst=N&rft.date=2004-12-01&rft.volume=31&rft.issue=24&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Geophysical+Research+Letters&rft.issn=00948276&rft_id=info:doi/10.1029%2F2004GL021032 L2 - http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2005-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 19 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Document feature - illus. incl. 2 tables, geol. sketch map N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - GPRLAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - basalts; dikes; eruptions; geologic hazards; igneous rocks; intrusions; Nevada; Nye County Nevada; radioactive waste; risk assessment; safety; site exploration; stability; United States; volcanic rocks; volcanism; volcanoes; waste disposal; waste disposal sites; Yucca Mountain DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004GL021032 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Preparation of in-house reference soil sample containing high levels of naturally occurring radioactive materials from the oil industry AN - 51509459; 2007-007144 JF - Applied Radiation and Isotopes AU - Al-Masri, M S AU - Aba, A AU - Al-Hamwi, A AU - Shakhashiro, A Y1 - 2004/12// PY - 2004 DA - December 2004 SP - 1397 EP - 1402 PB - Elsevier, Oxford VL - 61 IS - 6 SN - 0969-8043, 0969-8043 KW - soils KW - petroleum engineering KW - experimental studies KW - precision KW - geologic hazards KW - isotopes KW - variance analysis KW - Syria KW - statistical analysis KW - lead KW - gamma-ray spectroscopy KW - oil and gas fields KW - laboratory studies KW - sample preparation KW - radioactive isotopes KW - alpha-ray spectroscopy KW - metals KW - standard materials KW - quality control KW - Asia KW - spectroscopy KW - Middle East KW - Pb-210 KW - 02D:Isotope geochemistry KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51509459?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Applied+Radiation+and+Isotopes&rft.atitle=Preparation+of+in-house+reference+soil+sample+containing+high+levels+of+naturally+occurring+radioactive+materials+from+the+oil+industry&rft.au=Al-Masri%2C+M+S%3BAba%2C+A%3BAl-Hamwi%2C+A%3BShakhashiro%2C+A&rft.aulast=Al-Masri&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2004-12-01&rft.volume=61&rft.issue=6&rft.spage=1397&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Applied+Radiation+and+Isotopes&rft.issn=09698043&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.apradiso.2004.04.007 L2 - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09698043 LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - Number of references - 14 N1 - Document feature - 6 tables N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - alpha-ray spectroscopy; Asia; experimental studies; gamma-ray spectroscopy; geologic hazards; isotopes; laboratory studies; lead; metals; Middle East; oil and gas fields; Pb-210; petroleum engineering; precision; quality control; radioactive isotopes; sample preparation; soils; spectroscopy; standard materials; statistical analysis; Syria; variance analysis DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.04.007 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The role of monitoring in risk-informed assessments involving uncertainty AN - 51493408; 2007-016920 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Meyer, P D AU - Nicholson, T J AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2004/12// PY - 2004 DA - December 2004 SP - Abstract H13A EP - 0387 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 85 IS - 47, Suppl. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - programs KW - monitoring KW - pollutants KW - decommissioning KW - statistical analysis KW - pollution KW - decision-making KW - calibration KW - indicators KW - remediation KW - models KW - case studies KW - transport KW - risk assessment KW - probability KW - uncertainty KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51493408?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=The+role+of+monitoring+in+risk-informed+assessments+involving+uncertainty&rft.au=Meyer%2C+P+D%3BNicholson%2C+T+J%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Meyer&rft.aufirst=P&rft.date=2004-12-01&rft.volume=85&rft.issue=47%2C+Suppl.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2004 fall meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - calibration; case studies; decision-making; decommissioning; indicators; models; monitoring; pollutants; pollution; probability; programs; remediation; risk assessment; statistical analysis; transport; uncertainty ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Late Cenozoic and active transpression along the Dead Sea Fault in northwestern Syria AN - 51345977; 2007-119345 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Gomez, F AU - Radwan, Y AU - Al-Najjar, H AU - Layyous, I AU - Darkal, A AU - Darawcheh, R AU - Sbeinati, R AU - Meghraoui, M AU - Al-Ghazzi, R AU - Barazangi, M AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2004/12// PY - 2004 DA - December 2004 SP - Abstract T41F EP - 1291 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 85 IS - 47, Suppl. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - Ghab Valley KW - upper Cenozoic KW - Quaternary KW - lava flows KW - Syria KW - Dead Sea Rift KW - transpression KW - Holocene KW - Arabian Plate KW - Cenozoic KW - Syrian Coastal Ranges KW - plate tectonics KW - neotectonics KW - oblique orientation KW - sediments KW - tectonics KW - Asia KW - Middle East KW - African Plate KW - 16:Structural geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51345977?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Late+Cenozoic+and+active+transpression+along+the+Dead+Sea+Fault+in+northwestern+Syria&rft.au=Gomez%2C+F%3BRadwan%2C+Y%3BAl-Najjar%2C+H%3BLayyous%2C+I%3BDarkal%2C+A%3BDarawcheh%2C+R%3BSbeinati%2C+R%3BMeghraoui%2C+M%3BAl-Ghazzi%2C+R%3BBarazangi%2C+M%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Gomez&rft.aufirst=F&rft.date=2004-12-01&rft.volume=85&rft.issue=47%2C+Suppl.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2004 fall meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2007-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - African Plate; Arabian Plate; Asia; Cenozoic; Dead Sea Rift; Ghab Valley; Holocene; lava flows; Middle East; neotectonics; oblique orientation; plate tectonics; Quaternary; sediments; Syria; Syrian Coastal Ranges; tectonics; transpression; upper Cenozoic ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Model abstraction to assess uncertainty in flow and transport modeling AN - 51085930; 2008-083134 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Pachepsky, Y AU - Guber, A AU - Nicholson, T J AU - Simunek, J AU - van Genuchten, M T AU - Cady, R E AU - Jacques, D AU - Schaap, M AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2004/12// PY - 2004 DA - December 2004 SP - Abstract H14A EP - 06 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 85 IS - 47, Suppl. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - soils KW - functions KW - water balance KW - simulation KW - models KW - transport KW - classification KW - hydrodynamics KW - water content KW - neural networks KW - hydraulic conductivity KW - uncertainty KW - field studies KW - 21:Hydrogeology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51085930?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Model+abstraction+to+assess+uncertainty+in+flow+and+transport+modeling&rft.au=Pachepsky%2C+Y%3BGuber%2C+A%3BNicholson%2C+T+J%3BSimunek%2C+J%3Bvan+Genuchten%2C+M+T%3BCady%2C+R+E%3BJacques%2C+D%3BSchaap%2C+M%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Pachepsky&rft.aufirst=Y&rft.date=2004-12-01&rft.volume=85&rft.issue=47%2C+Suppl.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2004 fall meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2008-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - classification; field studies; functions; hydraulic conductivity; hydrodynamics; models; neural networks; simulation; soils; transport; uncertainty; water balance; water content ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Heat transfer through rockfall AN - 51084509; 2008-081335 JF - Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union AU - Green, R T AU - Pohle, J AU - Prikryl, J AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2004/12// PY - 2004 DA - December 2004 SP - Abstract H22B EP - 04 PB - American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC VL - 85 IS - 47, Suppl. SN - 0096-3941, 0096-3941 KW - aquifer vulnerability KW - rockfalls KW - high-level waste KW - thermal conductivity KW - stress KW - migration of elements KW - convection KW - rock mechanics KW - radioactive waste KW - ventilation KW - heat flow KW - mass movements KW - waste disposal KW - mass transfer KW - underground disposal KW - disposal barriers KW - 30:Engineering geology KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51084509?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.atitle=Heat+transfer+through+rockfall&rft.au=Green%2C+R+T%3BPohle%2C+J%3BPrikryl%2C+J%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=R&rft.date=2004-12-01&rft.volume=85&rft.issue=47%2C+Suppl.&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Eos%2C+Transactions%2C+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.issn=00963941&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - American Geophysical Union 2004 fall meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. N1 - Date revised - 2008-01-01 N1 - PubXState - DC N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - EOSTAJ N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - aquifer vulnerability; convection; disposal barriers; heat flow; high-level waste; mass movements; mass transfer; migration of elements; radioactive waste; rock mechanics; rockfalls; stress; thermal conductivity; underground disposal; ventilation; waste disposal ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: MILLSTONE POWER STATION, UNITS 2, AND 3, WATFORD, CONNECTICUT. (TWENTY-SECOND DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36437928; 11300 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating licenses for Millstone Power Station Waterford, New York is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 22nd supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the two units in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed, units 2 and 3 would be shut down on or before expiration of the current licenses, the dates of which are July 2015 and November 2025, respectively. The 525-acre power station site is located between the Niantic and Thames on the north shore of the Long Island Sound, approximately 40 miles east of New Haven and 40 miles southeast of Hartford. Unit 1, a boiling water reaction, was permanently shutdown in 1995. The facility is in long-term storage awaiting decontamination and dismantlement as part of station decommissioning. Millstine Unit 2 is a two-loop, closed-cycle, pressurized-water reactor, with a calculated electrical output of approximately 870 megawatts electric (MW(e)), while Millstone Unit 3 is a four-loop, closed-cycle, pressurized water reactor, with a calculated electrical output of 1,154 MW(e). The units employ once-through cooling systems that withdraws from and discharges into the Long Island Sound, a closed-cycle cooling water system, and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel. The reactor is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Five transmission lines, extending nine, four, 32, 61, and 71 miles, connect the station to the regional power grid. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from Long Island Sound and deliver makeup water back to the Sound. Release of water to the Sound from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the Sound. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. Transmission line rights-of-way would continue to displace approximately 4,133 acres of land for public use. Refusal to renew the license and the subsequent decommissioning of the units could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 040561, 526 and maps, December 2004 PY - 2004 KW - Energy KW - Agency number: NUREG-1437 Supp. 22 KW - Cooling Systems KW - Electric Generators KW - Electric Power KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Nuclear Facilities KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Regulations KW - Transmission Lines KW - Turbines KW - Wildlife Habitat KW - Wildlife Surveys KW - New York KW - Long Island Sound KW - Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Licensing KW - Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, NPDES Permits KW - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensing UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36437928?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2004-12-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+MILLSTONE+POWER+STATION%2C+UNITS+2%2C+AND+3%2C+WATFORD%2C+CONNECTICUT.+%28TWENTY-SECOND+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.title=GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+FOR+LICENSE+RENEWAL+OF+NUCLEAR+PLANTS%3A+MILLSTONE+POWER+STATION%2C+UNITS+2%2C+AND+3%2C+WATFORD%2C+CONNECTICUT.+%28TWENTY-SECOND+DRAFT+SUPPLEMENT+TO+THE+FINAL+GENERIC+ENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACT+STATEMENT+OF+MAY+1996%29.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, District of Columbia; NRC N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: December 2004 N1 - Last updated - 2014-01-30 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: MILLSTONE POWER STATION, UNITS 2, AND 3, WATFORD, CONNECTICUT. (TWENTY-SECOND DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). [Part 1 of 1] T2 - GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS: MILLSTONE POWER STATION, UNITS 2, AND 3, WATFORD, CONNECTICUT. (TWENTY-SECOND DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO THE FINAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF MAY 1996). AN - 36368794; 11300-040561_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The renewal of the operating licenses for Millstone Power Station Waterford, New York is proposed to extend the licensed plant life for an additional 20 years in this 22nd supplement to the final generic EIS of May 1996 on promulgation of rules for all license renewals. The final EIS of 1996 identified 92 environmental issues and reached generic conclusions relating to environmental impacts for 69 of these issues that apply to all plants or to plants with specific design or site characteristics. Neither the applicant, Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., nor staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified new information for any of the 69 issues. Additional plant-specific review is required for the remaining 23 issues, and these are addressed with respect to the two units in this supplement to the final EIS. If the license is renewed, federal and state agencies and the owners of the plant would go on to decide whether the plant should continue to operate; the decision would be based on factors such as the need for power. If the operating license is not renewed, units 2 and 3 would be shut down on or before expiration of the current licenses, the dates of which are July 2015 and November 2025, respectively. The 525-acre power station site is located between the Niantic and Thames on the north shore of the Long Island Sound, approximately 40 miles east of New Haven and 40 miles southeast of Hartford. Unit 1, a boiling water reaction, was permanently shutdown in 1995. The facility is in long-term storage awaiting decontamination and dismantlement as part of station decommissioning. Millstine Unit 2 is a two-loop, closed-cycle, pressurized-water reactor, with a calculated electrical output of approximately 870 megawatts electric (MW(e)), while Millstone Unit 3 is a four-loop, closed-cycle, pressurized water reactor, with a calculated electrical output of 1,154 MW(e). The units employ once-through cooling systems that withdraws from and discharges into the Long Island Sound, a closed-cycle cooling water system, and a steam generator connected to the reactor vessel. The reactor is housed in a vertical, cylindrical, reinforced concrete containment structure with a steel liner. The facility uses liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive waste management systems to collect and process wastes that are byproducts of operations. Nonradioactive wastes are collected and disposed of or recycled based on waste type. Five transmission lines, extending nine, four, 32, 61, and 71 miles, connect the station to the regional power grid. POSITIVE IMPACTS: Renewal of the license would allow the applicant to meet the needs of its regional energy purchasers. The plant site would continue to provide a number of diverse wildlife habitat types, and plant operation would continue to benefit certain fish and other aquatic species. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: Operation of the units would continue to withdraw process water from Long Island Sound and deliver makeup water back to the Sound. Release of water to the Sound from the cooling system would continue to result in a thermal plume affecting the near shore aquatic ecosystem. The auxiliary service water system would continue to withdraw water from the Sound. Diesel generators and boilers at the site would continue to release hydrocarbon and other criteria and related pollutants into the atmosphere. The unit would continue to release radionuclides into the surrounding area, but dose levels would be well within federal standards. Accidental releases, though highly unlikely, could result in radiation levels in excess of federal standards. Transmission line rights-of-way would continue to displace approximately 4,133 acres of land for public use. Refusal to renew the license and the subsequent decommissioning of the units could have greater impacts than license renewal and continuation of plant operation due to potential radiological impacts from releases during plant closure and transportation and disposal of the associated nuclear fuel. LEGAL MANDATES: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 CFR, Part 54). PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on promulgation of rules for license renewals, see 91-0281D, Volume 15, Number 5 and 96-0226F, Volume 20, Number 3, respectively. 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S4S 7J7, Canada; URL: www.ghgt7.ca N1 - Last updated - 2010-05-03 ER - TY - CPAPER T1 - Cost effectiveness of electricity generation options including costs of carbon dioxide disposal in Pakistan AN - 39946063; 3893547 AU - Athar, G R AU - Ullah AU - Mumtaz, A Y1 - 2004/11/19/ PY - 2004 DA - 2004 Nov 19 KW - CPI, Conference Papers Index KW - U 4300:Environmental Science UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/39946063?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Acpi&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=conference&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=Cost+effectiveness+of+electricity+generation+options+including+costs+of+carbon+dioxide+disposal+in+Pakistan&rft.au=Athar%2C+G+R%3BUllah%3BMumtaz%2C+A&rft.aulast=Athar&rft.aufirst=G&rft.date=2004-11-19&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - SuppNotes - Availability: GHGT-7, Suite 150, 10 Research Drive, Regina, SK. S4S 7J7, Canada; URL: www.ghgt7.ca N1 - Last updated - 2010-05-03 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATION OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36436904; 11241 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continued leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analysed in this draft EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. No preferred alternative has been selected. Annual costs of onsite disposal are estimated at $20.7 million, while annual offsite disposal estimates range from $41.3 million to $52.5 million for truck transport, $49 million for rail transport, and $49.4 million to $58.2 million for slurry transport. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. Borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-weet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00111D, Volume 20, Number 2 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 040520, Summary--52 pages, Draft EIS--721 pages, Appendices--411 pages, November 4, 2004 PY - 2004 KW - Wastes KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355D KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Compliance KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36436904?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Digests&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2004-11-04&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATION+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATION+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: November 4, 2004 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATION OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 3 of 3] T2 - REMEDIATION OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36367969; 11241-040520_0003 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continued leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analysed in this draft EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. No preferred alternative has been selected. Annual costs of onsite disposal are estimated at $20.7 million, while annual offsite disposal estimates range from $41.3 million to $52.5 million for truck transport, $49 million for rail transport, and $49.4 million to $58.2 million for slurry transport. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. Borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-weet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00111D, Volume 20, Number 2 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 040520, Summary--52 pages, Draft EIS--721 pages, Appendices--411 pages, November 4, 2004 PY - 2004 VL - 3 KW - Wastes KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355D KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Compliance KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36367969?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2004-11-04&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATION+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATION+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: November 4, 2004 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATION OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 2 of 3] T2 - REMEDIATION OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36365715; 11241-040520_0002 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continued leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analysed in this draft EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. No preferred alternative has been selected. Annual costs of onsite disposal are estimated at $20.7 million, while annual offsite disposal estimates range from $41.3 million to $52.5 million for truck transport, $49 million for rail transport, and $49.4 million to $58.2 million for slurry transport. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. Borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-weet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00111D, Volume 20, Number 2 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 040520, Summary--52 pages, Draft EIS--721 pages, Appendices--411 pages, November 4, 2004 PY - 2004 VL - 2 KW - Wastes KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355D KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Compliance KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36365715?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2004-11-04&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATION+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATION+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: November 4, 2004 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - REMEDIATION OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. [Part 1 of 3] T2 - REMEDIATION OF THE MOAB URANIUM MILL TAILINGS, GRAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, UTAH. AN - 36363472; 11241-040520_0001 AB - PURPOSE: The implementation of remediation of uranium tailings on the Moab mill site in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah is proposed. The 439-acre site lies three miles northwest of the city of Moab on the west bank of the Colorado River at its confluence with Moab Wash. The site is a former uranium-ore processing facility that was owned and operated by the Uranium Reduction Company and later Atlas Minerals Corporation. The mill ceased operations in 1984 and has been dismantled, excepting one building that is currently used for vehicle maintenance and could be used as office space during remediation. In 1996, Atlas submitted a reclamation plan and an application for an amendment to its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to allow for the reclamation of the site, the plan for which was described in a final EIS of March 1999. The EIS did not address groundwater standards compliance or remediation in properties in the vicinity of the site, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expressed concerns regarding the impacts of contaminants reaching the Colorado River, particularly effects on four endangered species of fish and critical habitat. In 1998, the Service had concluded that continued leaching of existing concentrations of ammonia and other constituents into the river would jeopardize razorback sucker and Colorado pike minnow. The currently proposed project would undertake to remediate 11.9 million tons of contaminated materials located in a 130-acre unlined pile that occupies the western portion of the site as well as 39,700 tons located on nearby properties and develop and implement a groundwater compliance strategy for the site using the Final EIS for the Uranium Mill Tailings Action Ground Water Project (DOE\EIS-0198) of October 1996. The surface remediation alternatives analysed in this draft EIS include onsite disposal of contaminated materials and offsite disposal at one of three alternative locations in Utah using one or more transportation options, specifically, truck, rail, and slurry pipeline. The EIS also considers a No Action Alternative. No preferred alternative has been selected. Annual costs of onsite disposal are estimated at $20.7 million, while annual offsite disposal estimates range from $41.3 million to $52.5 million for truck transport, $49 million for rail transport, and $49.4 million to $58.2 million for slurry transport. POSITIVE IMPACTS: The remediation program would address materials at the Moab site and in its vicinity that contain that exceed federal water pollutant concentration standards, affecting river fish habitat and presenting a human health hazard. The remediation project would contribute significantly to the local economy, including creation of up to 778 direct and indirect jobs during the first (peak) year of activity. Borrow materials would be needed to construct a disposal cell cover and to reclaim some site surface areas after completion of remediation under all action alternatives; impacts to 10 potential borrow areas are assessed. NEGATIVE IMPACTS: The 100- and 500-year flood events could inundate part of one of the disposal sites under consideration, resulting in the release of additional contamination into groundwater and surface flows. Potential wetland areas could be threatened at one disposal site. Transportation of tailings by slurry pipeline would involve provision of a crossing of the Colorado River, the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and a number or perennial and intermittent streams. Truck or rail transport modes would require annual withdrawals of 235 to 240 acre-feet of water from the river, while use of the slurry pipeline would require 730 acre-weet of annual withdrawals. Fifty acres of wildlife habitat would be temporarily lost at the Moab site, and up to 435 acres of undisturbed rangeland and the associated forage would be dedicated to the disposal cell under offsite disposal alternatives. Archaeological resources would probably be adversely impacted under any action alternative. LEGAL MANDATES: Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398) and Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) PRIOR REFERENCES: For the abstracts of the draft and final programmatic EISs on the groundwater project, see 95-0247D, Volume 19, Number 3 and 96-0540F, Volume 20, Number 6, respectively. For the abstracts of the draft and final EISs on Moab site reclamation, see 96-00111D, Volume 20, Number 2 and 99-0212F, Volume 23, Number 3, respectively. JF - EPA number: 040520, Summary--52 pages, Draft EIS--721 pages, Appendices--411 pages, November 4, 2004 PY - 2004 VL - 1 KW - Wastes KW - Agency number: DOE/EIS-0355D KW - Archaeological Sites KW - Biologic Assessments KW - Borrow Pits KW - Crushing and Grinding KW - Disposal KW - Employment KW - Endangered Species (Animals) KW - Fish KW - Flood Hazards KW - Floodplains KW - Grazing KW - Health Hazard Analyses KW - Health Hazards KW - Pipelines KW - Radiation Hazards KW - Radioactive Wastes KW - Ranges KW - Railroads KW - Reclamation KW - Rivers KW - Streams KW - Tailings KW - Traffic Analyses KW - Transportation KW - Transportation Surveys KW - Water Quality KW - Water Quality Standards Violations KW - Wetlands KW - Utah KW - Floyd D, Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Compliance KW - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Compliance UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/36363472?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/Environmental+Impact+Statements%3A+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=report&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.date=2004-11-04&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=REMEDIATION+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.title=REMEDIATION+OF+THE+MOAB+URANIUM+MILL+TAILINGS%2C+GRAND+AND+SAN+JUAN+COUNTIES%2C+UTAH.&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Name - Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE N1 - Date revised - 2006-05-01 N1 - SuppNotes - Draft. Preparation date: November 4, 2004 N1 - Last updated - 2011-12-16 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Light water reactor health physics. AN - 67073619; 15551785 AB - In this article an overview of the historical development of light water reactor health physics programs is presented. Operational health physics programs have developed and matured as experience in operating and maintaining light water reactors has been gained. Initial programs grew quickly in both size and complexity with the number and size of nuclear units under construction and in operation. Operational health physics programs evolved to face various challenges confronted by the nuclear industry, increasing the effectiveness of radiological safety measures. Industry improvements in radiological safety performance have resulted in significant decreases in annual collective exposures from a high value of 790 person-rem in 1980 to 117 person-rem per reactor in 2002. Though significant gains have been made, the continued viability of the nuclear power industry is confronted with an aging workforce, as well as the challenges posed by deregulation and the need to maintain operational excellence. JF - Health physics AU - Prince, Robert J AU - Bradley, Scott E AD - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA. RJP4@nrc.gov Y1 - 2004/11// PY - 2004 DA - November 2004 SP - 469 EP - 479 VL - 87 IS - 5 SN - 0017-9078, 0017-9078 KW - Water KW - 059QF0KO0R KW - Index Medicus KW - Radiation Dosage KW - Humans KW - Safety Management -- standards KW - Health Physics -- legislation & jurisprudence KW - Radiation Protection -- legislation & jurisprudence KW - Safety Management -- legislation & jurisprudence KW - Health Physics -- trends KW - Occupational Exposure -- legislation & jurisprudence KW - Nuclear Reactors KW - Radiometry -- standards KW - Radiation Protection -- standards KW - Health Physics -- standards KW - Occupational Exposure -- prevention & control KW - Radiation Protection -- methods KW - Safety Management -- methods KW - Radiometry -- trends KW - Occupational Exposure -- standards KW - Safety Management -- trends KW - Health Physics -- methods KW - Radiometry -- methods KW - Occupational Exposure -- analysis UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/67073619?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Atoxline&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Health+physics&rft.atitle=Light+water+reactor+health+physics.&rft.au=Prince%2C+Robert+J%3BBradley%2C+Scott+E&rft.aulast=Prince&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft.date=2004-11-01&rft.volume=87&rft.issue=5&rft.spage=469&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Health+physics&rft.issn=00179078&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date completed - 2004-12-15 N1 - Date created - 2004-11-19 N1 - Date revised - 2017-02-17 N1 - Last updated - 2017-02-22 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Implantable self-powered detector for on-line determination of neutron flux in patients during NCT treatment. AN - 66789576; 15308188 AB - A novel system to determine thermal neutron flux in real time during NCT treatments was developed in the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina. The system is based on a special self-powered detector that can be implanted in patients owing to its small size and biocompatibility. High voltage is not required to operate this kind of detectors, which is a considerable advantage in terms of medical uses. By choosing the appropriate materials, it was possible to obtain a prototype with thermal neutron sensitivity providing for an adequate signal level in typical NCT thermal fluxes. It was also possible to minimize gamma response in order to neglect its contribution. JF - Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine AU - Miller, M E AU - Mariani, L E AU - Gonçalves-Carralves, M L Sztejnberg AU - Skumanic, M AU - Thorp, S I AD - Instrumentation and Control Department, Division of Nuclear Reactors and Power Plants Activities, National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), Av. Del Libertador 8250, C1429BNP, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. miller@cae.cnea.gov.ar Y1 - 2004/11// PY - 2004 DA - November 2004 SP - 1033 EP - 1037 VL - 61 IS - 5 SN - 0969-8043, 0969-8043 KW - Zirconium KW - C6V6S92N3C KW - Rhodium KW - DMK383DSAC KW - Index Medicus KW - Sensitivity and Specificity KW - Equipment Design KW - Argentina KW - Humans KW - Fast Neutrons -- therapeutic use KW - Prostheses and Implants KW - Neutron Capture Therapy KW - Radiation Monitoring -- statistics & numerical data KW - Radiation Monitoring -- instrumentation UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/66789576?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Atoxline&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Applied+radiation+and+isotopes+%3A+including+data%2C+instrumentation+and+methods+for+use+in+agriculture%2C+industry+and+medicine&rft.atitle=Implantable+self-powered+detector+for+on-line+determination+of+neutron+flux+in+patients+during+NCT+treatment.&rft.au=Miller%2C+M+E%3BMariani%2C+L+E%3BGon%C3%A7alves-Carralves%2C+M+L+Sztejnberg%3BSkumanic%2C+M%3BThorp%2C+S+I&rft.aulast=Miller&rft.aufirst=M&rft.date=2004-11-01&rft.volume=61&rft.issue=5&rft.spage=1033&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Applied+radiation+and+isotopes+%3A+including+data%2C+instrumentation+and+methods+for+use+in+agriculture%2C+industry+and+medicine&rft.issn=09698043&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - ProQuest Environmental Science Collection N1 - Date completed - 2005-06-13 N1 - Date created - 2004-08-13 N1 - Date revised - 2017-02-17 N1 - Last updated - 2017-02-22 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Geologic, hydrologic and geochemical features, events and processes (FEPS) that could affect waste isolation at the proposed Yucca Mountain repository; U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) risk-insights baseline study AN - 51669399; 2005-065878 AB - The NRC staff has developed insights into the significance of geologic, hydrologic and geochemical features (e.g., hydrologic properties of unsaturated zone; quantity and chemistry of seepage water; transport distance in saturated alluvium; ash production by an eruption), events (e.g., infiltration; climatic change; faulting; igneous activity; transient percolation; seismic loading) and processes (e.g., matrix diffusion; colloidal transport) that could either affect a large number of radioactive-waste disposal packages, or significantly affect radionuclide releases from waste packages, or could significantly affect the transport of radionuclides through the geosphere and biosphere at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (YM). The significance to waste isolation of natural system FEPs is based upon review of and experience with total system performance assessments, subsystem analyses, auxiliary calculations. These analyses estimate the capability of the site to isolate waste. Integrity of waste packages, slow releases of radionuclides from degraded waste packages, and long travel times due to expected pathway characteristics contribute to waste isolation. The geologic, hydrologic and geochemical FEPs that result in a significant impact on waste isolation capability and associated with the dose-based performance criteria (regulations in Title 10 of U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Part 63, "Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in a Proposed Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada"), help focus the NRC staff's review of the U.S. Department of Energy's potential license application to construct a high-level radioactive waste repository at YM. The NRC staff views expressed herein are preliminary and do not constitute a final judgment or determination of the matters addressed or of the acceptability of a license application for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. JF - Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America AU - Justus, Philip S AU - Leslie, Bret W AU - Grossman, Christopher J AU - Danna, James G AU - McCartin, Timothy J AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2004/11// PY - 2004 DA - November 2004 SP - 281 PB - Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO VL - 36 IS - 5 SN - 0016-7592, 0016-7592 KW - United States KW - processes KW - hydrology KW - U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission KW - diffusion KW - colloidal materials KW - isotopes KW - loading KW - regulations KW - matrix KW - government agencies KW - waste disposal sites KW - unsaturated zone KW - Nye County Nevada KW - climate change KW - radioactive waste KW - radioactive isotopes KW - percolation KW - waste disposal KW - Yucca Mountain KW - geochemistry KW - Nevada KW - faults KW - 30:Engineering geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51669399?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.atitle=Geologic%2C+hydrologic+and+geochemical+features%2C+events+and+processes+%28FEPS%29+that+could+affect+waste+isolation+at+the+proposed+Yucca+Mountain+repository%3B+U.+S.+Nuclear+Regulatory+Commission%27s+%28NRC%27s%29+risk-insights+baseline+study&rft.au=Justus%2C+Philip+S%3BLeslie%2C+Bret+W%3BGrossman%2C+Christopher+J%3BDanna%2C+James+G%3BMcCartin%2C+Timothy+J%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Justus&rft.aufirst=Philip&rft.date=2004-11-01&rft.volume=36&rft.issue=5&rft.spage=281&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.issn=00167592&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - Geological Society of America, 2004 annual meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States N1 - Date revised - 2005-01-01 N1 - PubXState - CO N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - GAAPBC N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - climate change; colloidal materials; diffusion; faults; geochemistry; government agencies; hydrology; isotopes; loading; matrix; Nevada; Nye County Nevada; percolation; processes; radioactive isotopes; radioactive waste; regulations; U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; United States; unsaturated zone; waste disposal; waste disposal sites; Yucca Mountain ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Conducting the review of a license application for a repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada AN - 51666469; 2005-071799 AB - Disposal of high-level nuclear waste requires a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license. Part 63 under Title 10 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (i.e., 10 CFR 63, "Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in a Proposed Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada") prescribes rules governing the licensing (including issuance of a construction authorization) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposed repository. The licensing regulations are risk-informed and performance-based. The staff has developed the Yucca Mountain Review Plan to guide the review of any DOE license application for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. The NRC will determine whether to issue a construction authorization and license for the proposed repository based, in part, on whether the DOE has demonstrated compliance with the performance objectives. The NRC has a congressional mandate that the agency reach a determination within three years on the DOE's application for construction authorization for a high-level radioactive waste repository. Subpart J of 10 CFR 2 ("Procedures Applicable to Proceedings for the Issuance of Licenses for the Receipt of High-Level Radioactive Waste at a Geologic Repository") contain the rules of practice for the licensing proceeding. NRC staff has developed an information architecture to aid in conducting the licensing proceeding. To shorten the time spent on the exchange of documents that may be used as evidence in the NRC licensing proceeding, the interested governmental participants as well as parties and potential parties to the hearing on the DOE application will make their documents available via the Internet, through the Licensing Support Network (LSN), before any DOE license application is submitted to the NRC. Other parts of the NRC's information architecture include provisions for electronic information exchange, an electronic hearing docket, and an electronic courtroom. These systems and the risk-informed review process will be further described in the presentation. The NRC staff views expressed herein are preliminary and do not constitute a final judgment or determination of the matters addressed or of the acceptability of a license application for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. JF - Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America AU - Leslie, Bret W AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2004/11// PY - 2004 DA - November 2004 SP - 297 PB - Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO VL - 36 IS - 5 SN - 0016-7592, 0016-7592 KW - United States KW - licensing KW - high-level waste KW - waste disposal sites KW - waste disposal KW - Yucca Mountain KW - Nye County Nevada KW - construction KW - review KW - Nevada KW - radioactive waste KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51666469?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.atitle=Conducting+the+review+of+a+license+application+for+a+repository+at+Yucca+Mountain%2C+Nevada&rft.au=Leslie%2C+Bret+W%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Leslie&rft.aufirst=Bret&rft.date=2004-11-01&rft.volume=36&rft.issue=5&rft.spage=297&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.issn=00167592&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - Geological Society of America, 2004 annual meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States N1 - Date revised - 2005-01-01 N1 - PubXState - CO N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - GAAPBC N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - construction; high-level waste; licensing; Nevada; Nye County Nevada; radioactive waste; review; United States; waste disposal; waste disposal sites; Yucca Mountain ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Conceptual model development and identification of groundwater pathways for monitoring system design at a nuclear materials processing facility using 3D geospatial models AN - 51625000; 2006-020088 AB - Knowledge of groundwater flow and transport pathways is essential for designing optimal monitoring systems, yet detailed pathway data are commonly not collected during initial site characterization and therefore not incorporated into early conceptual models. We present an approach for identifying site-specific groundwater pathways which involves construction of alternative conceptual 3D geohydrologic framework and property models using a former nuclear materials processing facility in Oklahoma as an example. The models formed a basis for monitoring system design at the site. The geohydrologic framework model contains three hydrostratigrahic zones, corresponding to aquifer systems in which groundwater has been sampled since 1991. The terrace groundwater system (TGWS) aquifer (uppermost zone) is made up of terrace and alluvial deposits and a basal shale. A sandstone aquitard separates TGWS from the underlying shallow groundwater system (SGWS) aquifer (middle zone), composed of three shale units and two discontinuous sandstones. SGWS is separated from the underlying deep groundwater system (DGWS) aquifer (lowest zone) by another sandstone aquitard. Terrace and alluvial deposits form a perched aquifer and fractured shales are continuous water-bearing units. TGWS and SGWS aquifers were contaminated during facility operation by spills and leaks of nitric acid processing solutions containing uranium ore constituents. Radioactive materials were also leached from discarded equipment and waste containers. Based on analysis of 3D models, site-specific groundwater pathways were identified. Lateral transport of uranium was indicated in TGWS along a buried erosional channel in bedrock trending south-southwest from the main processing building (MPB). Arsenic and nitrate greater than EPA MCLs also occur along this channel in TGWS and SGWS. Another pathway atop bedrock, trending west-northwest from the MPB, showed lateral migration of nitrate and arsenic in SGWS. Lateral movement of nitrate and arsenic in SGWS was indicated north and west from the largest holding pond at the site. As a result of delineation of these pathways, they were more carefully characterized by trenching and resistivity and new monitoring wells installed. The site conceptual model developed by hydrologic modelers was also modified. JF - Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America AU - Stirewalt, Gerry L AU - Shepherd, James C AU - Anonymous Y1 - 2004/11// PY - 2004 DA - November 2004 SP - 567 PB - Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO VL - 36 IS - 5 SN - 0016-7592, 0016-7592 KW - United States KW - nitric acid KW - site exploration KW - characterization KW - sandstone KW - terraces KW - ground water KW - sedimentary rocks KW - perched aquifers KW - transport KW - movement KW - depositional environment KW - nitrate ion KW - water pollution KW - inorganic acids KW - bedrock KW - monitoring KW - trenching KW - three-dimensional models KW - shale KW - pollutants KW - arsenic KW - pollution KW - resistivity KW - aquitards KW - aquifers KW - models KW - Oklahoma KW - hydrostratigraphy KW - metals KW - shallow aquifers KW - leaching KW - water wells KW - fluvial environment KW - clastic rocks KW - 22:Environmental geology UR - http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/51625000?accountid=14244 L2 - http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Ageorefmodule&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.atitle=Conceptual+model+development+and+identification+of+groundwater+pathways+for+monitoring+system+design+at+a+nuclear+materials+processing+facility+using+3D+geospatial+models&rft.au=Stirewalt%2C+Gerry+L%3BShepherd%2C+James+C%3BAnonymous&rft.aulast=Stirewalt&rft.aufirst=Gerry&rft.date=2004-11-01&rft.volume=36&rft.issue=5&rft.spage=567&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Abstracts+with+Programs+-+Geological+Society+of+America&rft.issn=00167592&rft_id=info:doi/ LA - English DB - GeoRef N1 - Conference title - Geological Society of America, 2004 annual meeting N1 - Copyright - GeoRef, Copyright 2012, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States N1 - Date revised - 2006-01-01 N1 - PubXState - CO N1 - Last updated - 2012-06-07 N1 - CODEN - GAAPBC N1 - SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - aquifers; aquitards; arsenic; bedrock; characterization; clastic rocks; depositional environment; fluvial environment; ground water; hydrostratigraphy; inorganic acids; leaching; metals; models; monitoring; movement; nitrate ion; nitric acid; Oklahoma; perched aquifers; pollutants; pollution; resistivity; sandstone; sedimentary rocks; shale; shallow aquifers; site exploration; terraces; three-dimensional models; transport; trenching; United States; water pollution; water wells ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Testing claims about volcanic disruption of a potential geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada AN - 51616733; 2006-023909 AB - A special use of geologic data is to evaluate low probability/high consequence events. We examine volcanism near Yucca Mountain (YM), a potential repository for disposal of high-level radioactive waste. Recent studies suggest that basaltic dikes could penetrate the repository with a frequency as high as 1E-6/yr. Our analysis raises doubts about such claims. More realistic models are developed based on non-de