Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is providing advance notice of its intent to prepare a Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for its Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, a DOE multipurpose research and development laboratory. The SWEIS will be prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.], the Council on Environmental Quality NEPA regulations [40 CFR Parts 1500- 1508] and the DOE NEPA regulations [10 CFR Part 1021]. The SWEIS will analyze the potential environmental impacts of continuing to operate LANL and reasonable alternative operating envelopes. With this Advance Notice, DOE initiates a prescoping process to identify possible issues and alternatives to be analyzed in the SWEIS. As provided at 10 CFR 1021.311(b), this Advance Notice provides an early opportunity to inform the public of the SWEIS and to solicit early public comments. After this prescoping process, DOE will publish a Notice of Intent (NOI) which will identify the proposed scope of the SWEIS, including the proposed alternatives and issues developed through this prescoping process. Although schedules have not yet