North Central Regional environmental characterization report. Volume 1. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:5248420

This report presents available environmental information pertinent to siting a repository for high-level nuclear waste in crystalline rock in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. For each of the states within the North Central Region, information is provided on those environmental disqualifying factors and regional screening variables to be used in region-to-area screening. These environmental factors and variables include existing and proposed Federal-protected lands, proximity to Federal-protected lands, components of national forest lands, existing state-protected lands, proximity to state-protected lands, population density and distribution, proximity to highly populated areas or to 1-mile square areas with 1000 or more persons, national and state forest lands, designated critical habitats for threatened and endangered spcies, surface water bodies, and wetlands. In addition, supplementary descriptive information providing a general characterization of the region is presented, as is information on environmental parameters that will be of use at later phases of screening. Also included is a discussion of the relationship between the US Department of Energy Siting Guidelines (10CFR 960) and those environmental disqualifying factors and regional screening variables to be used in the region-to-area screening process.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Inst., Argonne, IL (USA). Office of Crystalline Repository Development
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-83CH10139
• OSTI ID: 5248420
• Report Number(s): DOE/CH-5(1)-FINAL; ON: DE86000407
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AIR QUALITY
CLIMATES
DATA
DATA COMPILATION
DEMOGRAPHY
ECOSYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
FEDERAL REGION V
GEOGRAPHY
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
IGNEOUS ROCKS
INDIAN RESERVATIONS
INFORMATION
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
LAND USE
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
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NUMERICAL DATA
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
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WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
WATER RESOURCES
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