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Table 5.2.3.1-1. Site-Wide Land UseEXISTING LAND USE FUTURE LAND USELAND USE CATEGORY ACREAGE ACREAGEService/Support 140 161Experimental Science 514 544High Explosives Research and Development 1,310 1,436High Explosives Testing 7,096 7,096Nuclear Materials Research and Development 374 42Physical/Technical Support 336 340Public/Corporate Interface 31 24Theoretical/Computational 2 22Waste Management 186 231Reserve 17,874 17,856 aTotal 27,863 27,482aLand conveyance and transfer may include up to 4,046 acres by November 2007. The first transfer occurred in 2002.All of this acreage is included in the reserve land use category.5.2.3.2 Land TransferOn November 26, 1997, Congress passed Public Law 105-119. Section 632 of that law directed theSecretary of Energy to convey to the Incorporated County of Los Alamos, New Mexico, or to the designee ofthe County and transfer to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, parcels of landunder the jurisdictional administrative control of the Secretary at or in the vicinity of LANL. Such parcels, ortracts, of land had to meet the suitability criteria established by the law, that is, they were not required for thenational security mission before the end of 11/26/2007; could be restored or remediated by 11/26/2007; andwere suitable for historic, cultural, or environmental preservation, economic diversification, or communityself-sufficiency. The DOE 1 identified 10 tracts of land for potential conveyance to the County of Los Alamosor transfer to San Ildefonso Pueblo. These 10 tracts of land have been further divided into subparcels fordisbursal purposes.The 10 tracts, which total approximately 4,600 acres, are shown in Figure 5-3 and include the following:• TA-21 tract, 244 acres - located on the eastern end of the same mesa on which the central businessdistrict of Los Alamos is located.• DP Road tract, 50 acres - located between the western boundary of TA-21 and the majorcommercial districts of the Los Alamos townsite.• DOE Los Alamos Area Office tract, 13 acres - located within the Los Alamos townsite between LosAlamos Canyon and Trinity Drive.• Airport tract, 198 acres - located east of the Los Alamos townsite, close to the East Gate BusinessPark.• White Rock tract, 99 acres - located north of Pajarito Acres residential development and west of theWhite Rock townsite.• Rendija Canyon tract, 909 acres - located north of and below Los Alamos townsite’s BarrancaMesa residential subdivision.• White Rock Y tract, 435 acres - a complex area that incorporates the alignments and intersectionsof State Routes 502 and 4 and the easternmost part of Jemez Road.• Site 22 tract, 0.3 acres - located at the edge of the Los Alamos townsite mesa, south of TrinityDrive and above Los Alamos Canyon.1Congress established the NNSA within the DOE to manage the nuclear weapons program for the United States. LANL is one of the facilities nowmanaged by the NNSA. The NNSA officially began operations on March 1, 2000. Its mission is to carry out the national security responsibilities ofthe DOE, including maintenance of a safe, secure, and reliable stockpile of nuclear weapons and associated materials capabilities and technologies;promotion of international nuclear safety and nonproliferation; and administration and management of the naval nuclear propulsion program.5-6SWEIS Yearbook—2002