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Bullet The EM Story, May 2008
Bullet Office of Environmental Management Five Year Plan - FY2007 through FY2011 Adobe PDF Document, March 2006
This document describes the Office of Environmental Management's planned strategies, funding and accomplishments over the next five years.
Bullet Second National Report for the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactivve Waste Management Adobe PDF Document, October 2005
Bullet Top-To-Bottom Review of the Environmental Management Program Status Report Adobe PDF Document, October 2003
Bullet National Report on the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management Adobe PDF Document, May 2003 (2.4 MB)
Bullet Top-to-Bottom Review of the Environmental Management Program Adobe PDF Document, February 2002
Bullet Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on the Dispositon of Scrap Metals, July 2001
Bullet Revision to the Record of Decision for the Department of Energy's Waste Management Program:  Treatment and Storage of Transuranic Waste, July 13, 2001
The revision is to transfer approximately 300 cubic meters of contact-handled transuranic (CH-TRU) waste from the Mound Plant to the Savannah River Site (SRS) for storage, characterization, and repackaging for disposal at WIPP. DOE will ship this Mound CH-TRU waste to SRS in OHOX railcars (formerly known as ATMX railcars), in accordance with a DOT exemption from the requirement for shipping this waste in a Type B container.
Bullet Revision to the Record of Decision for the Department of Energy's Waste Management Program: Treatment and Storage of Transuranic Waste, December 2000
The Department of Energy is revising the Record of Decision for the Department of Energy's Waste Management Program: Treatment and Storage of Transuranic Waste.  The Department has decided to establish a centralized characterization capability at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to prepare contact-handled transuranic waste for disposal (up to 1,250 of the 7,000 cubic meters planned to be received for disposal annually). The New Mexico Environment Department must approve a modification of WIPP's Hazardous Waste Facility Permit before the Department could perform disposal characterization at WIPP.
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Current and Planned Low-Level Waste Disposal Capacity Report Revision 2 Adobe PDF Document, December 2000
This document has been prepared in accordance with the Department of Energy’s response to Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Recommendation 94-2, and describes the overall approach, major elements, and key implementation steps of the Department of Energy’s Low-Level Waste Projection Program.

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Twelfth Annual Report to Congress, Fiscal Year 1998 Progress in Implementing Section 120 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation, and Liability Act, DOE/EM-0536, April 2000


This report presents information on contaminated sites at DOE facilities that were placed on the NPL as of September 30, 1998, and on facilities on the docket as of November 23, 1998 (eleventh annual update). These versions of the NPL and docket are the most current.

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Status Report on Paths to Closure Adobe PDF Document, March 2000
This document contains updates of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) program life-cycle cost and schedule estimates for completing cleanup, which EM last provided in the 1998 Paths to Closure report. EM is issuing this status report now to discuss recent trends in its life-cycle cost and schedule estimates and to introduce additional analyses that offer new insights into the long-term scope of the program. This status report is based on life-cycle cost and schedule data that EM collected in 1999. The estimated schedules for completing environmental management activities (not including long-term stewardship) have been adjusted to be consistent with the FY 2001 budget request.

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From Cleanup to Stewardship, A Companion Report to Accelerating Cleanup: Paths to Closure Adobe PDF Document, October 1999
Supports the Scoping Process Required for the 1998 PEIS Settlement Study and provides background information on the Department of Energy's long-term stewardship obligations and activities. Long term stewardship includes the work necessary to protect human health and the environment from hazards remaining after cleanup (including entire sites that are closing and portions of sites that are not closing) or facility stabilization is completed.

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Fiscal Year 1999 Progress in Implementing Section 120 of the CERCLA, February 1999
This report, prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Environmental Management, is being submitted to Congress in accordance with Section 120(e)(5) of CERCLA. It is DOE's Eleventh Annual Report to Congress and provides information on DOE's progress in implementing CERCLA Section 120 in fiscal year 1997 (FY 97), i.e., from October 1, 1996, to September 30, 1997.

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Accelerating Cleanup: Paths to Closure, June 1998 (Historical)
This document outlines the Energy Department’s evolving and dynamic cleanup program based on site-developed, project-by-project forecasts of the scope, schedule, and costs to complete the 353 projects that currently define the cleanup program.

Small Box Arrow Fiscal Year 1996 Progress in Implementing Section 120 of the CERCLA, December 1997 (Historical)
This report, prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Environmental Management, is being submitted to Congress in accordance with Section 120(e)(5) of CERCLA. It is DOE's Tenth Annual Report to Congress and provides information on DOE's progress in implementing CERCLA Section 120 in fiscal year 1996 (FY 96), i.e., from October 1, 1995, to September 30, 1996.
Small Box Arrow Linking Legacies, January, 1997
Connecting the Cold War Nuclear Weapons Production Processes To Their Environmental Consequences
Small Box Arrow Baseline Environmental Management Report, 1996 (Historical)
The Baseline Environmental Management Report (Baseline Report) is an analytical tool to help guide the Departmental decisions and provide an accounting of the Department's progress, spending, and plans. In addition to illustrating the assumed path forward, the 1996 Baseline Report presents policy analyses that examine the consequences of modifying key program assumptions.
Small Box Arrow Fiscal Year 1995 Progress in Implementing Section 120 of the CERCLA, September 1996 (Historical)
This report, prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Environmental Management, is being submitted to Congress in accordance with Section 120(e)(5) of CERCLA. It is DOE's Ninth Annual Report to Congress and provides information on DOE's progress in implementing CERCLA Section 120 in Fiscal Year 1995 (FY 95), i.e., from October 1, 1994, to September 30, 1995.
Small Box Arrow Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom, January 1996 (Historical)
This book describes environmental, safety, and health problems throughout the nuclear weapons complex and what the Department of Energy is doing to address them.
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Nuclear Age Timeline, September 1993 (Historical)
The timeline traces the nuclear age from the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity to the explosion of the first atomic bomb through the cold war to its thaw to the cleanup of the nuclear weapons complex through September 1993.

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