Commissioners table Santa Fe County response to LANL site‑wide environmental impact statement, ask staff to attach draft

Santa Fe County commissioners on March 12 voted to table a proposed county response to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) site‑wide environmental impact statement and asked staff to include the draft statement in the next meeting packet.

The motion to table — made by Commissioner Adam Johnson and seconded by Commissioner Justin Green — carried unanimously after several commissioners said they wanted more time to add concerns about housing, transportation, tax distribution and off‑site laboratory facilities to the county’s response. Commissioner Green said the letter should better reflect how off‑mesa hiring and lab facilities affect Santa Fe County residents: “I would hope that we would do something as comprehensive and as focused on our constituents as possible,” he said, noting a month remained before the comment deadline.

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