Identification of Preferred Alternatives for the Department of Energy's Waste Management Program: Low-Level Waste and Mixed Low-Level Waste Disposal Sites

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DOE's Final Waste Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (WM PEIS) identified preferred alternatives for disposal of low-level waste (LLW) and mixed low-level waste (MLLW) as regional disposal at two or three sites to be selected from six candidate sites. (As used here and in the WM PEIS, ``regional disposal'' refers to using only a few disposal sites for a much larger number of waste generating sites.) The six candidate sites were: the Hanford Site in Washington, the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, the Nevada Test Site (NTS), the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) in Tennessee, and the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. As committed to in the WM PEIS, this Notice identifies the specific sites the Department prefers for regional disposal of LLW and MLLW. For the management of LLW analyzed in the WM PEIS, DOE prefers regional disposal at Hanford and NTS. In addition, consistent with current practice, LLW disposal operations at LANL, ORR, INEEL and SRS would continue, to the extent practicable. LANL and ORR would continue disposal of LLW generated on-site. INEEL and SRS would