Mercury Storage EIS and Supplemental EIS

The Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to designate a facility or facilities for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury generated within the United States.
 

As required by the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008, the Department of Energy (DOE) plans to identify a facility or facilities for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury generated in the United States. DOE intends to prepare a supplement to the January 2011 Environmental Impact Statement for the Long-Term Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury (Mercury Storage EIS) to analyze additional alternatives.

The Mercury Storage EIS evaluated seven candidate locations for the elemental mercury storage facility, as well as the No Action Alternative. Those candidate locations are: DOE Grand Junction Disposal Site near Grand Junction, Colorado; DOE Hanford Site near Richland, Washington; Hawthorne Army Depot near Hawthorne, Nevada; DOE Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho; DOE Kansas City Plant in Kansas City, Missouri; DOE Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina; and Waste Control Specialists, LLC, site near Andrews, Texas. Since publication of the Final Mercury Storage EIS, DOE has reconsidered the range of reasonable alternatives evaluated in that EIS. The Supplemental EIS evaluates three additional locations for a long-term mercury storage facility, all near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), which is located approximately 26 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico.

DOE invites Federal agencies, state, local, and tribal governments, and the general public to comment on the Draft SEIS. Public hearings on this Draft SEIS will be held during the public comment period. The dates, times, and locations of these public hearings have been published in the DOE Federal Register notice on April 19, 2013.

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