EIS-0113_Section_9 - Hanford Site

Environmental considerations regarding disposal of Hanford's retrievably stored TRU
waste at the Waste. Isolation p ilot Plant (WIPP) (except for retrieval., processing, packaging,
certification and transportation of waste from Hanford to WIPP, which are discussed in this
EIS) are based on the Final Environmental Impact Statement--Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
(DOE/EIS-0026). Environmental considerations associated with waste disposal in geologic
repositories are based on information from the Final Environmental Impact Statement--
Management of Commercially Generated Radioactive Waste . (DOE/EIS-0046F). Alternatives to
disposal of high-level waste in geologic repositories were described in that document..
Environmental considerations associated with borosilicate glass as a waste form for
repository disposal of waste and with the construction and operation of a plant to .provide
vitrified waste are based in part on information developed in three previous DOE documents:
Final Environmental Impact Statement--DefenseWaste Processing Facility Savannah River Plant
Aiken, South Carolina (DOE/EIS-0082); Environmental Assessment--Waste Form Selection
for SRP High-Level Waste (DOE/EA-0179); and Analyses of the Terminal Waste Form Selection for
the West Valley Demonstration Project (!WVDP-100 DOE).
The EIS has been structured to conform as closely as possible to the format described in
Co CEQ Regulation 40 CFR . Parts .1502.1: through 1502.18. To provide more information for the
reader than can be reported within the text of Volume 1, more detailed information is
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included in 22 appendices (Volumes 2 and 3)..Figure 1 in the Introduction to the Appendices
(Volume 2, p. xxiv) shows the purpose of each appendix and how appendices relate to each
other and to the text of Volume 1. Lines in the margins of Volumes 1, 2 and 3 indicate the
areas where revisions were made. Volume 4 contains agency and public comments received and
responses to them as well as the indication of location where revisions were made to the
draft EIS. .Volume 5 contains a , reproduction of all of the comment letters received.
The final EIS is being transmitted to commenting agencies, made available to members of
the public, and filed with the EPA. The EPA. will publish a notice in the Federal. Register
indicating that the DOE has f iledthe final EIS. A DOE decision on proposed actions will not
be made earlier than 30 days after the EPA has published the Federal Register notice for the
final EIS. The DOE will record its decision in a publicly available Record of Decision .
document published in the Federal Register.
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