Yucca Mountain Biological resources monitoring program; Annual report FY89 and FY90

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:138187

The US Department of Energy (US DOE) is required by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (as amended in 1987) to study and characterize Yucca Mountain as a possible site for a geological repository for high-level radioactive waste. To ensure site characterization activities do not adversely affect the Yucca Mountain area, an environmental program, the Yucca Mountain Biological Resources Monitoring Program, has been implemented monitor and mitigate environmental impacts and to ensure activities comply with applicable environmental laws. Potential impacts to vegetation, small mammals, and the desert tortoise (an indigenous threatened species) are addressed, as are habitat reclamation, radiological monitoring, and compilation of baseline data. This report describes the program in Fiscal Years 1989 and 1990. 12 refs., 4 figs., 17 tabs. (MHB)

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC08-88NV10617
• OSTI ID: 138187
• Report Number(s): EGG-10617-2084; ON: DE91017416; TRN: 91:026266
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Jan 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
55 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
BASIC STUDIES
05 NUCLEAR FUELS
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
BASELINE ECOLOGY
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
REPTILES
MONITORING
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
MITIGATION
PROGRESS REPORT
NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACTS
COMPLIANCE
ECOSYSTEMS
PLANTS
POPULATION DYNAMICS
SPECIES DIVERSITY
BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS
ANIMALS
Yucca Mountain Project