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Title: Letter Report Yucca Mountain Environmental Monitoring Systems Initiative - Air Quality Scoping Study for Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, Lincoln County, Nevada

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/950713· OSTI ID:950713

The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is performing a scoping study as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain Environmental Monitoring Systems Initiative (EMSI). The main objective is to obtain baseline air quality information for Yucca Mountain and an area surrounding the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Air quality and meteorological monitoring and sampling equipment housed in a mobile trailer (shelter) is collecting data at eight sites outside the NTS, including Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), Pahranagat NWR, Beatty, Rachel, Caliente, Crater Flat, and Tonopah Airport, and at four sites on the NTS (Engelbrecht et al., 2007a-d). The trailer is stationed at any one site for approximately eight weeks at a time. This letter report provides a summary of air quality and meteorological data on completion of the site's sampling program.

Research Organization:
Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education, Las Vegas and Reno, NV
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA26383
OSTI ID:
950713
Report Number(s):
DOE/NV/26383-LTR2008-02; TRN: US0902051
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English