DOE/EIS-0293: Amended Record of Decision (July 9, 2002)

Transfer of Land Tracts Located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) is amending the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Environmental Impact Statement for the Conveyance and Transfer of Certain Land Tracts Administered by the Department of Energy and Located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos and Santa Fe Counties, New Mexico, DOE/EIS–0293 (Conveyance and Transfer EIS) to reflect changes in the need to retain certain portions of land tracts withheld earlier due to potential national security mission requirements for health and safety buffer areas relating to on-going and future operations. Specifically, DOE/ NNSA has reassessed its need for certain portions of tracts to serve as health and safety buffer areas after: (1) Ceasing its tritium activities at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL’s) Technical Area 21 (TA–21); and (2) further refinement of its contemplated proton radiograph project at TAs –53 and –72. DOE/NNSA would no longer need to retain an 8-acre portion located at the western end of the Airport Tract for this purpose. Additionally, two portions of the White Rock Y Tract comprising about 74 acres of highway easement are no longer required as health and safety buffer areas.

For more information, see Transfer of Land Tracts Located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM.