DOE/EA-2086: Environmental Assessment

DOE prepared an EA (DOE/EA-2086) to evaluate the Test Bed Initiative Demonstration.

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance

March 20, 2023
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Test Bed Initiative Demonstration; Washington

DOE’s Office of Environmental Management is proposing to proceed with the engineering-scale Test Bed Initiative Demonstration, which would separate and pretreat approximately 2,000 gallons of Hanford low-activity tank waste, which would then be treated and solidified (grouted) at an offsite, permitted, commercial facility and disposed of at an offsite, permitted and licensed, mixed low-level radioactive waste (MLLW) disposal facility. DOE prepared this environmental assessment (DOE/EA-2086) to assess the potential environmental impacts of implementing the Test Bed Initiative Demonstration, including potential impacts of alternatives and the No Action Alternative.

For more information, see Test Bed Initiative Demonstration