The Nevada Department of Environmental Protection will provide oversight of the Energy Department’s waste management operations at the Nevada National Security Site for five years, under a $13 million DOE grant announced Tuesday.
Under the grant for “Programmatic and Regulatory Oversight, Monitoring and Analysis at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) and Surrounding Locations,” the state agency will conduct programmatic and regulatory oversight of the DOE Waste Management Project at the site, DOE said in its press release. The intent is for the state agency “to perform various tasks that relate to the NDEP planning and regulatory authority, natural resource planning and management with the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and DOE Mission,” DOE added.
One of the DOE Office of Environmental Management’s smaller jobs, the Nevada cleanup has a roughly $50 million annual budget. The site includes legacy waste material from both above-ground and subterranean Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests.
