Key Issue: Long Term Stewardship
Background
DOE activities related to research and production of nuclear weapons created significant amounts of radioactive waste, and as a result many sites are heavily contaminated and cannot be cleaned up to a level of unrestricted use. Furthermore, contamination at these sites presents a danger to human health and the environment that will require management to ensure environmental protection as well as the safety of present and future generations. DOE, states, tribes, and intergovernmental groups continue to work together on long-term stewardship plans to achieve these goals. DOE's Office of Legacy Management (DOE-LM) assumes management responsibility for post-closure sites; LM currently has 96 sites under its charge. EM and LM jointly develop site transition plans (STPs)for the handover of sites between the two offices.
Documents:
- EPA Report - Long-Term Stewardship: Ensuring Environmental Site Cleanups Remain Protective Over Time 9/30/05
- Summary of State Based Cleanup Programs and Long-Term Stewardship — Conference Call with Dave Geiser, DOE-LM (09/14/05)
- Senator Wayne Allard's legislation to address Rocky Flats mineral rights (6/15/05)
- The Uniform Environmental Covenants Act as drafted by the NCCUSL (8/07/03)
- GAO Report: Hazardous Waste Sites—Improved Effectiveness of [Institutional] Controls at Sites Could Better Protect the Public (1/28/05)
- Institutional Controls Implementation Guide for Use with DOE P 454.1, Use of Institutional Controls
- DOE Policy 454.1 from April 2003
- GSA Memo: Restrictive Covenants on Non-excess Property (10/16/98)
- Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council's report— Issues of Long-Term Stewardship: State Regulators' Perspectives (7/2004) (External Link)
- Rolling Stewardship: Beyond Institutional Controls — Preparing Future Generations for Long Term Environmental Cleanup [note: document discussed during 2004 Intergovernmental Meeting with DOE] (12/01/99)
- Environmental Data Standards Council’s - Institutional Controls Data Standard (1/06/2006) (External Link)
- Conference Call Summary: DOE-LM and NGA FFTF on September 10 (9/10/04)
- Long Term Stewardship webpage - John Walker of Nevada
- Response letter from Mike Owen, Director of LM, to Governors Locke Owens regarding the new LM office (12/16/03)
- Letter from Governors Locke and Owens to Mike Owen, Director of LM (10/10/03)
- Uniform Environmental Covenants Act (NCCUSL, 2003)
- Letter from Dave Geiser to MoDNR re: Weldon Spring (6/25/03)
- "Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Federal Agency Opposition to State Institutional Control Laws"- Dan Miller (9/2002)
- Funding Long-term Stewardship of DOE Weapons Sites: Tennessee’s Perpetual Care Trust Fund (10/2002)
- Letter to DOE, CDPHE, and EPA from Rocky Flats Citizen Advisory Board expressing concerns about Long-term Stewardship at Rocky Flats (9/4/03)
- NNSA Long-Term Environmental Stewardship Baseline Guide (2/28/03)—Prepared By U.S. DOE, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Service Center, Environmental Programs Department
- FY 2004 Department of Energy Program Mission for the Office of Legacy Management
- Q&A from Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO) during the Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on DOE-EM and DOE-LM (4/02/03)
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