Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 12.11.1999

Record of Decision: Hanford Comprehensive Land-Use Plan Environmental Impact Statement (HCP EIS)

The Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing this Record of Decision (ROD) to adopt a Comprehensive Land-Use Plan (CLUP) for its Hanford Site in Washington. The purpose of this land-use plan and its implementing policies and procedures is to facilitate decision-making about the site's uses and facilities over at least the next 50 years. The Department's decision seeks to balance the Department's continuing land-use needs at Hanford with its desire to preserve important ecological and cultural values of the site and allow for economic development in the area. This land-use plan consists of several key elements which are included in the Department's Preferred Alternative in the Final Hanford Comprehensive Land-Use Plan Environmental Impact Statement (HCP EIS). These elements are a land-use map that addresses the Hanford Site as five geographic areas--the Wahluke Slope, the Columbia River Corridor, the Central Plateau, All Other Areas of the Site, and the Fitzner- Eberhardt Arid Lands Ecology (ALE) Reserve--and depicts the planned future uses for each area; a set of nine land-use designations that define the permissible uses for each area of the site; and the planning and implementing po