Withdrawal of Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the High Flux Beam Reactor at the Brookhaven National Laboratory

摘要

On November 24, 1997, the Department of Energy announced its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, New York. The EIS would evaluate the range of reasonable alternatives regarding the future of the reactor including resumption of operation at a power level of up to 60 MW. On November 16, 1999, the Secretary of Energy announced that the HFBR would be permanently closed. Therefore, the preliminary draft environmental impact statement (EIS) that was under review in the Department is no longer necessary. The NEPA process is hereby terminated. The preliminary draft EIS has been released as an environmental report.