Urge the Department of Energy to extend comment period on the Nevada National Security Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement

[Jane Feldman]

Urge them to extend the comment period at least 90 days, from Oct 27 to Jan 27.

Pls excuse if you already rec'd the email.

Thank you for all that you do for the environment.

Jane

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		Urge the DoE to extend the comment period beyond October 27th Dear Friend, The Department of Energy is assessing environmental impacts to changes in activities at the Nevada Test Site, now called the Nevada National Security Site. The Department of Energy is assessing environmental impacts to changes in activities at the Nevada Test Site, now called the Nevada National Security Site. The draft EIS is over 1500 pages long and it took them 3 years to write. The level of activities could increase or decrease, and they include: Testing large explosives. Testing and training chemical and biological simulants. Nuclear materials handling. Homeland Security exercises. It’s exciting to think that the site could host commercial solar development and technology research. The Test Site is already contaminated from above-ground atomic testing in the 1950s and 60s with radionuclides such as plutonium and neptunium welded to soils and plants, and tritium in subsurface water. Please urge the DoE to extend the comment period beyond October 27th, for at least an additional 90 days. We need the time to understand the EIS document, the contamination already present, the activities proposed for the site, and the biological resources that are impacted there. We can make some statements of concern, but more time is needed for more meaningful comments. Send an email right now to the DoE and ask for the comment period to be extended through January 27, 2012. Thank you for all you do for the environment, Jane Feldman Energy Chair, Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club P.S. Please share this important alert with your friends and neighbors! You can also help spread the word on your social networks with these handy links: For more information, plan to attend one of the public meetings: Tuesday, Sept 20, 5-8pm, Las Vegas, Cashman Field Wednesday, Sept 21, 5-8 pm, Pahrump, Parump Nugget Or Tuesday, Sept 27, 5-8 pm, Tonopah, Convention Center. For more information on the EIS or to get copies: ne...@nv.doe.gov You can find the EIS document here: http://nnsa.energy.gov/nepa/nnsssweis A DoE document on Pu and Np/radionuclides in surface contamination here: http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV_1046.pdf The LV Review Journal had this article: http://www.lvrj.com/news/draft-analyzes-options-for-nevada-national-security-site-126160868.html

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