Northeastern regional environmental characterization report: Volume 1, Final report

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

OSTI ID:6725833

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, components of National Forest Lands, proximity to Federal-protected 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 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 will be of use at later phases of screening. 24 refs., 23 figs., 50 tabs.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Inst., Argonne, IL (USA). Office of Crystalline Repository Development
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-83CH10139
• OSTI ID: 6725833
• Report Number(s): DOE/CH-4(1)-Final; ON: TI89002579
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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COMPLIANCE
CONNECTICUT
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
EVALUATION
FEDERAL REGION I
FEDERAL REGION II
FEDERAL REGION III
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
MAINE
MANAGEMENT
MASSACHUSETTS
MATERIALS
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK
NORTH AMERICA
PENNSYLVANIA
PROGRESS REPORT
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REGULATIONS
RHODE ISLAND
STATE GOVERNMENT
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
USA
VERMONT
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES