The WIPP institutional program for states` involvement in WIPP transportation planning, and operations

Conference · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:10178272

Leonard, R

The Supplemental Stipulated Agreement of 1982 between the state of New Mexico and the Department of Energy (DOE) committed the DOE to emergency response training in New Mexico. In 1988, the state of New Mexico and the DOE entered into a two-year agreement providing $203,017 for financial assistance and $67,000 for equipment to enhance the state`s emergency response capability. In 1990, this agreement was extended for an additional two years providing $226,088 for financial assistance and $39,000 for emergency response equipment. Also, in 1988 an agreement between the Western Governors` Association and the United States Department of Transportation provided $1.0 million to seven western states (Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) to identify and implement programs to help ensure the safe transportation of transuranic waste from western points of origin to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). As part of this process, the Western Governors` Association and the seven states prepared the Report to Congress, Transport of Transuranic Wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: State Concerns and Proposed Solutions. In July 1990, a five-year cooperative agreement between the Western Governors` Association and the DOE was signed providing $1.515 million in funding to seven states along the Hanford/WIPP route. This continued the work started under the Department of Transportation`s cooperative agreement.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Carlsbad, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-86AL31950
• OSTI ID: 10178272
• Report Number(s): DOE/WIPP-91-027C; CONF-911107-84; ON: DE93017908; TRN: 93:018877
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1991 winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS),San Francisco, CA (United States),10-15 Nov 1991; Other Information: PBD: [1991]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
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TRANSPORT
WIPP
WASTE TRANSPORTATION
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES
PLANNING
NEW MEXICO
US DOE
EMERGENCY PLANS
US DOT
PUBLIC INFORMATION
ACCIDENTS
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TRANSPORT, HANDLING, AND STORAGE
HEALTH AND SAFETY
WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE