Organized By The National Governors Association Federal Facilities Task Force

April 08, 2003 -- ECOS LTS Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) February 28, 2003 -- NNSA Long-Term Environmental Stewardship Baseline Guide -- Prepared By: U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration(NNSA) Service Center, Environmental Programs Department -- 38 Pages 1.02 Meg PDF File October 18 2002 -- Funding Long-term Stewardship of DOE Weapons Sites - Tennessee’s Perpetual Care Trust Fund (NGA Issues Brief) September 2002 -- Site Transition Framework for Long-Term Stewardship -- Draft document comment to DOE/EM-HQ by October 18, 2002 September 10, 2002 -- Draft Agreement -- On Long-Term Stewardship in the United States, between the Environmental Council of the States and the United States (U.S.) Department of Defense - Office of Installations and Environment, the U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Environmental Management, the U.S. Department of Interior - Assistant Secretary - Policy, Management and Budget, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response    Cover Memo    ECOS Resolution on Long-Term Stewardship (LTS)- Draft-9/13/02 August 2002 -- Long-term Stewardship Planning Guidance for Closure Sites -- DOE (11 Pages 130 KB) July 2002 -- Report to Congress - The Cost of Waste Disposal: Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Disposal of Department of Energy Low-Level Radioactive Waste at Federal and Commercial Facilities -- Adobe PDF File (52 Pages -- 683KB) Also avalible is a Memorandum from EM1 titled -- "Low-Level Wasge Disposal Cost Study: Implementing the Results" June 21, 2002 -- DOE-- Long-Term Stewardship Strategic Plan -- draft - Version 2.0 DOE's Draft Strategic LTS Plan is now being circulated within the Department of Energy's Field Offices; the Field Offices are being encouraged to provide the document to their local site-specific advisory boards for review and comment.  As well, the Field Office are being asked to circulated the document to interested national intergovernmental and stakeholder groups.  Comments on this version are due by September 6, 2002. DOE intends to incorporate/resolve the comments on this version and to release the final draft of the plan by October 2002.   Please forward all comments to:   Mr. Gregory Sullivan, EM-51   U.S. Department of Energy   1000 Independence Avenue SW   Washington, DC 20585   Tel 202-586-0771  Fax 202-586-1241   Greg.Sullivan@em.doe.gov Download Draft Plan -- Adobe PDF File Format -- 39 Pages, 345KB    June 2002 -- The Rocky Flats Stewardship Toolbox: Tools for Long-Term Planning (Adobe PDF File, 102 PAGES 1.5MB). -- This document presents an analytical matrix designed to help decision-makers ensure that long-term stewardship requirements are thoroughly considered during the remedy selection process. The toolbox is divided into six discrete components of a long-term stewardship analysis which will also become components of a long-term stewardship plan: physical controls; institutional or administrative controls; operational and performance monitoring and maintenance; information management; periodic assessment; and maintenance by a responsible controlling authority. The toolbox lays out a framework for conducting a systematic review of the long-term needs for each of these categories. This document explains how to use the toolbox and explores many of the essential elements of a comprehensive stewardship analysis.    March 14, 2002 -- Institutional Controls -- LTS Framework  EPA Post - ROD Authority Presented by EPA at the March 2002 State and Tribal Government Working Group Download and Run EPA Power Point Presentation (59KB)   See new EPA LTS Webpage on this website  (Links to EPA LTS Institutional Control Guidance Documents)  December 20, 2001 -- National Governors Association (NGA) recently submitted a summary of Long-Term Stewardship (LTS) project activities to the Department of Energy.  The projects summaries contain LTS program activities being conducted by:   NGA -- National Governors Association   NAAG -- National Association of Attorneys General   ECOS -- Environmental Council of the States   ECA -- Energy Communities Alliance, and the   STGWG -- State & Tribal Government Working Group Each organization's project activities are categorized by project, policy input, and coordination/liaison functions. The information in the document has been incorporated into this website. The summaries were provided to assist DOE assess the various groups' interests and roles in LTS activities. Download Adobe PDF File 6 pages 30KB  November 25 2001 -- Whose mess is it, anyway? Editorial -- St Louis Post-Dispatch WELDON SPRING PROTECTING Missouri's citizens and environment from the legacy of The Bomb is no less a federal obligation than national defense. But the Department of Energy's plan to monitor and secure contaminated wastes from the atomic era at Weldon Spring is unacceptably vague and inadequate even by the government's own standards.  Read Full Story - Adobe PDF Format  View Cartoon  November 09 2001 -- The Department of Energy (DOE) announces the release of the Long-Term Stewardship Study.  DOE prepared the Study in accordance with the Settlement Agreement between DOE and 38 plaintiffs [Natural Resources Defense Council, et. al. v. Richardson, et. al., Civ. No. 97-963 (SS)].  The Long-Term Stewardship Study presents issues associated with the long-term stewardship of sites where contaminated facilities, water, soil, and/or engineered units are likely to remain after cleanup activities are completed.  The Study also provides DOE responses to comments received on the draft Study. Volume I (1.7KB)   --  Volume II (113KB)  October 26, 2001 -- DOE Memorandum - Next Steps for Long-term Stewardship (Geiser)   October 2001 -- EPA Request to conduct Institutional Controls Tracking Systems and Costs Survey. EPA believes that information gathered in the survey will help it design a Superfund institutional controls tracking system that incorporates the most appropriate features of other systems. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection. Comment deadline is December 3, 2001 See EPA Federal Register Notice and the detailed proposal to OMB  June 2001 -- EPA -- Comprehensive Five-Year Review Guidance-- The Comprehensive Five-Year Review Guidance, OSWER Directive 9355.7-03B-P, dated June 2001, is intended to promote consistent implementation of the five-year review process.  June 19, 2001 -- Developing the Report to Congress on Long-Term Stewardship Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Future Planning -- FINAL DRAFT  June 2001 -- Final Draft, Long-Term Stewardship Case Study Report -- Office of Long-Term Stewardship Office of Environmental Management U.S. Department of Energy In this report available documents for seven DOE management decisions (five site specific and two programmatic) were analyzed to evaluate the degree to which long-term stewardship was considered in the past decision-making process. The seven decisions analyzed were: – Fernald On-Site Waste Disposal Facility; – INEEL Test Area North Remediation Project; - Mound Site Property Transfer and HS/RTG Facility - Savannah River Site High-Level Waste Tank Closure report, and – Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project. The analyses of these decisions were conducted to identify how, and to what extent, long-term stewardship considerations factored into the identification and evaluation of alternatives.  However, this report does not re-open past decisions for evaluation and critique.  The objective is to highlight lessons learned from these decisions in order to make recommendations, inform future decisions, and improve the integration of long-term stewardship into the decision making process.  June 4, 2001 --   EPA Directive -- This directive presents information for developing future land use assumptions when making remedy selection decisions for Superfund sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).  DOE LTS Workshop July 30 - August 2, 2001 --    4th Annual Long-Term Stewardship Workshop Grand Junction, Colorado --"The Future Through The Past"  NGA Letter to DOE May 25, 2001 --   Letter From the National Governors Association (Ann Beauchesne - on behalf of the Federal Facilities Task Force) to Mr. David Geiser, DOE - Director, Office of Long-Term Stewardship: The letter conveys Task Force comments on DOE's draft Long-Term Stewardship (LTS) Plan Guidance.   NGA Message to DOE April 11, 2001 -- NGA Federal Facilities Task Force Collective Message to DOE   DOE Site Databases (Online)  Selected Annotated Bibliography on Long-Term Stewardship Prepared for the Federal Facilities State Task Force, National Governors’ Association Document made available on April 8, 2001  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Policy on Institutional Controls.  December 2000 -- The policy of the USACE is to establish and maintain institutional controls in a manner which fully meet customers’ expectations of quality, timeliness, and cost effectiveness within the bounds of legal responsibility  LTS news from Colorado: On April 20, Governor Owens signed SB01-145 into law. This bill, which was one of the top items on Attorney General Ken Salazar's legislative agenda, creates an "environmental covenant," an enforceable mechanism for implementing institutional controls imposed in connection with cleanups of contaminated sites. SB01-145 also contains several innovative provisions intended to address many of the inherent difficulties of implementing institutional controls. For example, the law provides for multiple enforcers, and allows the state environmental regulatory agency to enforce local zoning ordinances under certain circumstances. The final text of the legislation can be found at:  Download document, Adobe PDF file format -- 13 pages, 44KB   The Role of Local Governments in Long-Term Stewardship at DOE Facilities (ELI 2001 Research Report) March 2001 -- At sites throughout the country the Department of Energy (DOE) is cleaning up the radioactive and chemical contamination legacy of nuclear weapons production.  DOE expects to rely on local governments to implement essential elements of its plans for protecting the public from hazards that will remain after it completes cleanup activities at its facilities.  DOE uses the term long-term stewardship to encompass the activities and mechanisms that will be used to protect the public from the remaining hazards at such sites.  Local governments have the legal authority, responsibility, and experience in the types of functions that will need to be provided at these sites, such as land-use planning and control, protecting public health and safety, maintaining official records of land ownership, and providing information on health and safety to their citizens.  This apparent congruence of need and capability is, for the most part, however, merely superficial.  In this report the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) examine how local governments are only beginning to develop the capacity to apply their experience to the highly specialized types of environmental hazards that DOE will leave behind.  Download document from ELI website -- 176 pages, Adobe PDF File, 1.2KB   Long-term Stewardship Implementation Plan Guidance Draft (DOE/HQ/EM) January 18, 2001 -- This document provides a first draft of a guidance document designed to provide assistance in developing site-specific long-term stewardship implementation plans.  It begins to lay out the framework for developing an LTS Implementation strategy, and provides a first cut at a possible model table of contents for site-specific plans. . . The guidance is based on materials developed by the Grand Junction Office in support of the LTSM program, and incorporates additional information and components of a plan recommended by many of the recent DOE and stakeholder reports on long-term stewardship.  Download document -- 92 pages, Adobe PDF File, 260KB   Interim Policy for the Department of Energy’s Use of Institutional Controls (DOE/HQ/EM) January 2000 --The purpose of this document is to state policy for the use of institutional controls at U.S.Department of Energy (DOE) facilities to protect human health and the environment during and after environmental restoration actions are taken to address releases of hazardous substances, including radionuclides.  Download Adobe PDF file, 6 pages 25KB   DOE FY 2000 National Defense Authorization Act Long-term Stewardship Report January 24, 2001 -- The Department of Energy (DOE) has released a Report to Congress containing the most comprehensive analysis to date of DOE's existing and anticipated long-term stewardship obligations at DOE sites.  The report fulfills a Congressional request in the FY 2000 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The report identifies the long-term stewardship activities anticipated by the Department at 96 sites by the year 2006, and, eventually, at up to 129 sites. DOE already performs long-term stewardship activities at 34 sites that have been cleaned up and closed.  While the primary focus of the report covers the period from now through the year 2006, the report provides a preliminary glimpse of what DOE's long-term stewardship obligations may be up to the year 2070. Long-term stewardship activities encompass monitoring, maintenance, record keeping, and other activities necessary to ensure protection of human health and the environment from hazards that may remain after cleanup, stabilization, or disposal of waste is completed.  The estimated scope, cost, and schedule of those activities are summarized in the two-volume report: Volume I provides summary-level information, while Volume II provides site-level information.     LTS Comments Letters: December 15, 2000 -- STGWG - State and Tribal Government Working Group Comments on DOE's Draft Long-Term Stewardship Study December 14, 2000 -- National Governors' Association Comments on DOE's Draft Long-Term Stewardship Study -- December 13, 2000 -- State of Colorado Comments on DOE's Draft Long-Term Stewardship Study     LTS Press News December 2000 -- The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) has developed a special purpose website to support the organizations Long-Term Stewardship subcommittee.  The website is organized as a virtual private office (VPO).  The VPO site allows registered users to disseminate information to other users thus creating a web-based method to facilitate regular communication among the various subcommittee members.  The site is located at www.getf.org.  If you are not registered , you can request access on line at the referenced URL.  Overall, the site contains significant and substantial information on DOE and DoD LTS information and issues.     Home Page