National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Adoption of Environmental Assessment DOI-BLM-NM-P020-11-1414 Double Eagle Water System
DOE/EA-1905
October 2011
This document examines the potential environmental impacts associated with providing DOE funding for the proposed improvements to the City of Carlsbad Double Eagle Water System

Amendment to the Record of Decision for the Department of Energy's Waste Management Program: Treatment and Storage of Transuranic Waste
This Federal Register Notice relates to DOE sending contact-handled and remote-handled transuranic waste from certain generator sites as needed to the Idaho National Laboratory to be treated and characterized prior to shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for disposal.

Environmental Assessment for Actinide Chemistry and Repository Science Laboratory
DOE/EA-1404, January 2006 Final
This document examines the potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed construction and operation of an Actinide Chemistry and Repository Science Laboratory (ACRSL) along with other reasonable alternatives to support chemical research activities related to WIPP.

Environmental Assessment for Conducting Astrophysics
and Other Basic Science Experiments at the WIPP Site
DOE/EA-1340, Jan. 2001
This document examines the potential environmental consequences from conducting particular types of scientific experiments in the experiment gallery at WIPP, including the potential cumulative impacts of conducting experiments with the operation of WIPP as a TRU waste repository.

Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Reconstruction of the South Access Road (CR 802) in Support of the Department of Energy, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
This document examines the potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed reconstruction and widening of the existing WIPP South Access Road

Finding of No Significant Impact Reconstruction of the South Access Road (CR 802) in Support of the Department of Energy, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Eddy County, New Mexico

Mitigation Action Plan for the Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Reconstruction of the South Access Road, Eddy County, New Mexico, January 2010
This document describes the plan for implementing commitments made in DOE/EA 1755, Environmental Assessment for Reconstruction of the South Access Road, to mitigate potential adverse environmental impacts associated with this project.

Record of Categorical Exclusion Determination

Removal of one standard waste box and one drum of low-level waste for off-site treatment and disposal

Record of Decision for the Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Disposal Phase, 63 FR 3624, January 23, 1998 
This Federal Register Notice provides the Department of Energy's Record of Decision to dispose of transuranic (TRU) waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Supplement Analysis for the Disposal of Certain Rocky Flats Plutonium Bearing Materials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, DOE/EIS-0026-SA-3
This document examines the environmental impacts of disposing of additional volumes of plutonium bearing materials from Rocky Flats at WIPP.  These plutonium bearing materials have plutonium concentrations similar to the Rocky Flats plutonium residues previously authorized for disposal at WIPP. 

Supplement Analysis for the Proposed Characterization for Disposal of Contact Handled Transuranic Waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, DOE/EIS-0200-SA-1
This document examines the environmental impacts of the proposal to perform characterization activities required by the WIPP Hazardous Waste Facility Permit for contact-handled waste at the WIPP.

Supplement Analysis for use of the 10-160B Transportation Cask for RH-TRU Waste Shipments to WIPP DOE/EIS-0026-SA-4
This document examines the environmental impacts of using the 10-160B transportation cask for transporting remote-handled transuranic waste to WIPP.

Supplement Analysis for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site-Wide Operations

DOE/EIS-0026-SA-07

May 2009

This document examines the environmental impacts of changes to WIPP site-wide and transportation operations, and new information gathered, since the preparation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Disposal Phase Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS-II) (DOE/EIS-0026-S-2), and the Supplement Analysis for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site Wide Operations (DOE/EIS-0026-SA05).

Supplement Analysis for the Packaging and Handling of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste in Shielded Containers

DOE/EIS-0026-SA-08

September 2010

This document examines the impacts of the packaging and emplacement at WIPP of a portion of the RH-TRU waste inventory using a new container design called the lead shielded container.

US Department of Energy Carlsbad Field Office Record of Categorical Exclusion Determination
Performance of a three-dimensional seismic survey line

U.S. Department of Energy Categorical Exclusion Determination Form

August 2012

This Record of Categorical Exclusion (CX) Determination is for a proposed Wind Erosion Study to be performed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Wind Erosion and Water Conservation Research Unit on the WIPP Land Withdrawal Area

U.S. Department of Energy Categorical Exclusion Determination Form

September 2012

This Record of Categorical Exclusion (CX) Determination is for removal and disposal of High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters resulting from air filtration of waste handling operations and mining operations at the WIPP facility.

U.S. Department of Energy Categorical Exclusion Determination Form

February 2013

CX Determination for DOE Grant funding to support improvements to the City of Carlsbad Double Eagle Well Field.

U.S. Department of Energy Categorical Exclusion Determination Form

March 2013

This Categorical Exclusion Determination is for the proposed lease of office space in Santa Fe, New Mexico

WIPP Disposal Phase Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS-II)
This document assesses whether to dispose of TRU waste at WIPP. This document also assesses reasonable options for transportation and other activities associated with disposal, as well as reasonable alternatives concerning quantities, sources, and treatment of TRU waste before disposal.