Revised draft: Northeastern Regional environmental characterization report. Volume 1

Technical Report · Thu Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6227743

This report presents available environmental information pertinent to siting a repository for high-level nuclear waste in crystalline rock in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, northeastern and southeastern New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, northern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. For each of the states within the Northeastern 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, existing state protected lands, proximity to state protected lands, population density and distribution, proximity to highly populated areas, national and state forest lands, state wildlife lands, designated critical habitats for threatened and endangered species, 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 may be of use at later phases of screening. Also included is a discussion of the relationship between the US Department of Energy (DOE) Siting Guidelines 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: 6227743
• Report Number(s): DOE/CH-4(1); ON: DE85006332
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR QUALITY
CLIMATES
CONNECTICUT
DATA
DATA COMPILATION
DEMOGRAPHY
ECOSYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
FEDERAL REGION I
FEDERAL REGION II
FEDERAL REGION III
GEOGRAPHY
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
IGNEOUS ROCKS
INDIAN RESERVATIONS
INFORMATION
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
LAND USE
MAINE
MANAGEMENT
MASSACHUSETTS
MATERIALS
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
METEOROLOGY
NATURE RESERVES
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK
NORTH AMERICA
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NUMERICAL DATA
PENNSYLVANIA
POPULATION DENSITY
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RESOURCES
RHODE ISLAND
ROCKS
SCREENING
SITE SELECTION
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
USA
VERMONT
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
WATER RESOURCES