As
one of the designated Affected Units of Local Government (AUG), Lander
County maintains this website to inform citizens about issues related
to the proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository planned 90
miles north of Las Vegas. This website will also continue to update
as activities and decisions happen that concern the potential transportation
of nuclear waste in Lander County and Nevada.
This website contains documents, photos, maps, and
more about the history and current developments concerning the Yucca
Mountain Repository program. If you have any questions or suggestions
please contacts us.
The Lander County repository oversight program office
is located in Austin, Nevada with a smaller office maintained in
Battle Mountain for the Board of County Commissioners. Primary tasks
include: grant administration, financial management, and overall
program implementation, communication and coordination with other
Lander County departments.
Program Oversight Activities
The primary function of oversight activities is to
attend program related meetings, conferences and workshops, monitor
program activities, review studies and other related information
and provide periodic reports to the Lander County Board of County
Commissioners. Oversight functions will be administered by county
staff, elected officials and the planning consultant.
Lander County anticipates coordination with or attendance
at meetings with the following entities:
- Department of Energy
- State of Nevada-Commission on Nuclear Projects
- Tribal and Local Governments
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Western Interstate Energy Board
- Transportation Coordination Group
- Transportation External Coordinating Group
- Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
- Transportation Protocol Working Group
Transportation Routing
One of the rail routes that is currently identified
in the Yucca Mountain EIS travels from the north end of Lander County
continuing south to the Lander County boundary line. Lander County
will monitor and study impacts on the county and it's residents in
the event that this railway is constructed as well as:
- Monitor highway route designations and points of entry into
Nevada
- Monitor rail routing and access to Yucca Mountain
- Identify and review routing studies to Yucca Mountain
- Identify the number of potential shipments to Yucca Mountain
- Identify potential risk related impacts associated with transportation
of nuclear waste to the repository
- Identify research on stigma associated with transportation
activities
- Identify other nuclear waste shipments including defense
waste shipment scheduled for Yucca Mountain and the Nevada
Test Site.
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Aerial view of Yucca Mountain.
Yucca Mountain rift.
Tunnel opening in Yucca Mountain.
Inside Yucca Mountain.
Rail road inside the tunnel is used to transport people and equipment. |
PUBLIC NOTICE
U. S Department of Energy Issues National Environmental Policy Act Documents for Public Comment Las Vegas, NV – The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued for public comment two Draft National Environmental Policy Act documents reted to the Yucca Mountain Project. The 90-day comment period begins October 12, 2007 and ends January 10, 2008.
Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada (Draft Repository SEIS)
Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada – Nevada Rail Transportation Corridor (Draft Nevada Rail Corridor SEIS) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for a Rail Alignment for the Construction and Operation of a Railroad in Nevada to a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada (Draft Rail Alignment EIS)
DOE has scheduled eight public hearings for interested parties to comment on the two draft documents. The meetings are scheduled as follows:
• Hawthorne, Nevada. Hawthorne Convention Center, 932 E. Street, November 13, 2007,
from 4 to 7 p.m.
• Caliente, Nevada. Caliente Youth Center, U.S. Highway 93, November 15, 2007,
from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
• Reno/Sparks, Nevada. Reno-Sparks Convention Center, 4590 S. Virginia Street,
November 19, 2007, from 4 to 7 p.m.
• Town of Amargosa Valley, Nevada. Longstreet Inn & Casino, Highway 373, November 26, 2007, from 4 to 7 p.m.
• Goldfield, Nevada. Goldfield School Gymnasium, Hall & Euclid, November 27, 2007,
from 4 to 7 p.m.
• Lone Pine, California. Statham Hall, 138 N. Jackson Street, November 29, 2007,
from 4 to 7 p.m.
• Las Vegas, Nevada. Cashman Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd., December 3, 2007,
from 4 to 7 p.m.
• Washington, D.C. Marriott at Metro Center, 775 12th Street, N.W., December 5, 2007,
from 2 to 5 p.m.
Requests for additional information on the Draft Repository SEIS and the Draft Nevada Rail Corridor SEIS and Draft Rail Alignment EIS may be submitted to the EIS Office, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, 1551 Hillshire Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89134 or by calling 1-800-967-3477 or faxing a request to 1-800-967-0739. Written comments may be submitted to the EIS Office at the above address, or by facsimile to 1-800-967-0739, or via the Internet at: http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov. |
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