Open AccessEnvironmental assessment for operations, upgrades, and modifications in SNL/NM Technical Area IV
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/228488
Subject(s) - environmental impact statement , action (physics) , environmental impact assessment , meaning (existential) , national environmental policy act , environmental quality , environmental policy , environmental planning , statement (logic) , business , environmental protection , environmental science , environmental resource management , political science , engineering , law , psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
The proposed action for this EA for Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico Technical Area IV, includes continuing existing operations, modification of an existing accelerator (Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator II) to support defnese-related Z-pinch experiments, and construction of two transformer oil storage tanks to support the expansion of the Advanced Pulsed Power Research Module, a single pulse accelerator. Based on the analyses in the EA, DOE believes that the proposed action is not a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment within the meaning of NEPA and CEQ NEPA implementing regulations in 40 CFR 1508.18 and 1508.27. Therefore, an environmental impact statement is not required, and a Finding of No Significant Impact is issued