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Environmental Programs
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Program was created in 1989
to address the environmental legacy of 50 years of nuclear weapons research, production, and testing in the United States.
The Environmental Management Program Vision/Mission establishes the principles and goals for programmatic work related to
the management of waste and materials and the corrective actions associated with contaminated sites and facilities. These
principles and goals are:
- Eliminate risks to the public and the environment
- Reduce costs so additional funding is available for further risk reduction
- Protect worker health and safety
- Reduce the generation of waste
- Create and maintain a collaborative relationship between DOE, its regulators and stakeholders
- Integrate waste treatment and disposal activities across all DOE Environmental Management sites
In pursuit of these principles, goals and other environmental responsibilities, the Nevada Site Office Environmental
Management (EM) Program is organized into three elements:
- Environmental characterization and restoration of areas and facilities on the Nevada Test Site affected by historic
nuclear research, development and testing
- Permanent disposal of low-level and mixed low-level radioactive waste generated by environmental cleanup activities
at the Nevada Test Site and other DOE and U.S. Department of Defense sites historically involved with nuclear weapons
research, development and testing
- Environmental protection, compliance and monitoring of the air, water, plants, animals, and cultural resources at the
Nevada Test Site
For more information:
Environmental Management brochure [PDF, 1.3MB]
Environmental Management End State Vision document [PDF, 7.3MB]
Environmental Management Project Baseline Summaries [PDF, 1.6MB]
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