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Santa Fe County approves letter urging caution on LANL EIS, opposes pit-production expansion
Summary
Santa Fe County commissioners voted April 8 to send a letter to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commenting on Los Alamos National Laboratory's draft sitewide environmental impact statement, adding edits to flag hexavalent chromium, human impacts and explicitly oppose any expansion of plutonium pit production.
Santa Fe County commissioners voted April 8 to send a letter from the board to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commenting on the draft sitewide environmental impact statement for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
The board approved an amended letter that asks NNSA to be explicit about hexavalent chromium, to address socioeconomic and housing impacts and to include a short human-impact statement. "We firmly oppose any expansion of Los Alamos National Labs that continues to produce plutonium pits," Commissioner Adam F. Johnson said as part of the language the board adopted.
The letter began as a staff draft focused on environmental concerns;…
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