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| Los Alamos National Laboratory | Long-Term Strategy for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Michael Brandt Associate Director for Environment, Safety and Health November 7, 2013 UNCLASSIFIED Operated by Los Alamos National

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

UNCLASSIFIED

Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Long-Term Strategy for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability

Michael Brandt

Associate Director for Environment, Safety and Health

November 7, 2013

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Integrated Long-Term Strategies

Environmental Stewardship Long-Range Development Site Sustainability

Environmental protection Land use management Infrastructure planning

Long- Term Strategy

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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How will the Laboratory manage long- term environmental impacts?

  • Use a Long-Term Strategy
  • Address significant and as

yet unsolved environmental grand challenges.

  • Accomplish our national

security mission while providing impeccable environmental stewardship.

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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We protect human and environmental health by

1. Cleaning up or stabilizing historical releases to the environment 2. Controlling current programs to ensure an impact to the environment which is as low as reasonably achievable and 3. Creating a sustainable future through pollution prevention, waste elimination, and reducing our use of energy and water

  • Two linked perspectives,

1. a broad-reaching vision to set long-term environmental goals 2. the day-to-day examination of decisions to choose those actions that are most protective.

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Environmental Grand Challenges

Produce zero radioactive, hazardous, liquid, or solid wastes. Remove or stabilize pollutants from the Manhattan Project and Cold War eras. Protect water resource quality and reduce water use. Eliminate industrial emissions, discharges, and releases to the environment. Use energy efficiently while creating sustainable energy sources. Protect human and environmental health by managing and restoring lands. Collaborate with our stakeholders and tribal governments to ensure that LANL’s impact on the environment is as low as reasonably achievable.

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Proactive Actions

Environmental Stewardship Framework

Long-Range Development Plan Long-Term Strategy for Environmental

Stewardship & Sustainability

Site Sustainability Plan Input from Congress, Tribes, State, Public DOE, NNSA, Direction LANS Senior Management Leadership Programmatic Strategic Planning Proactive Actions

Web & Outreach LANL Decision Support Public Information

Environm

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ntal P Protec ection

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Environmental Sampling Board Integrated Project Review

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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12 Million Environmental Sampling Records Open to the Public

www.intellusNM.com

INTELLUS is a publicly accessible database that provides access to

  • ver 12 million records collected

by the Laboratory as part of environmental surveillance and compliance sampling activities.

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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ANNUAL RESULTS

2013 Results

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Integration

The LTSESS is part of the fabric of how we conduct day- to-day business.

  • Integrated Site Sustainability

with the Long-Term Strategy

  • Integrated environmental reviews with project execution
  • Implemented Long-Term Strategy through the Environmental

Management System in the environmental directorates

  • Routine integration meetings between three primary LANL long-term

strategies

  • Developed 5 institutional environmental action goals for FY 2014
  • Initiated the Forest Management Plan
  • Open space and fire management

2013 Results

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Communications

Commitment to internal and external communication creates the Strategy's success.

  • Briefings with NNSA to pueblo

environmental departments of Cochiti, Jemez, San Ildefonso, and Santa Clara Pueblos

  • Poster session presentation at LANL

Community Leaders Breakfast

  • LTSESS launched the Public

Communication Website

  • Briefed NNMCAB and lab-wide
  • rganizations
  • Briefing at Nevada National Security Site
  • Briefings for LA and Española counties
  • Press coverage

Web & Outreach Public Information

2013 Results

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Tools and Standards

We integrate protection into our everyday decision-making.

  • Decision Support

Application

  • Internal decision-support
  • Trained over 200 people
  • 187 data layers are now

integrated in the tool

  • DSA users invented over

50 ways to use the tool. For example:

  • TA-3 security & safeguards bypass scenarios
  • Measuring effectiveness of off-site air monitoring strategy for new

public locations

  • Improve implementation of the Multi-Sector General Permit through

reducing or eliminating the need for monitoring

2013 Results

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Tools and Standards (continued)

  • Environmental Sampling Board, a

peer-review council completed guidelines for environmental surveillance.

  • Developed five 2014 institutional

environmental goals for implementing long-term goals.

  • Integrated Project Review for

environmental protection

Environmental Sampling Board Integrated Project Review

2013 Results

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Implementation

  • To address climate change a

section was added to the Site Sustainability Plan and integrated with Long-term Strategy.

  • Research shows the importance
  • f considering environmental

disturbance in contaminant transport modeling and dose calculations.

  • A. Park Williams, Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady, Daniel

Griffin, Connie A. Woodhouse,David M. Meko, Thomas W. Swetnam, Sara A. Rauscher, Richard Seager, Henri D. Grissino- Mayer, Jeffrey S. Dean, Edward R. Cook, Chandana Gangodagamage, Michael Cai & Nate G. McDowell (2013). Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality. Nature Climate Change, Volume 3, 292- 297 (2013).

2013 Results

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Measuring long-term success

  • A set of

environmental indices were developed for each Grand Challenge to judge the status of the effectiveness of the long-team actions.

Strategy for Long-term

Environment al

Stewardship and Sustainabilit y

2013 Results

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Environmental Grand Challenges

Significant progress in 2013

Collaborated with stakeholders to create low-impact design storm water controls. Shared the strategy and requested community input. Removed 920 cubic meters of TRU waste in 230

  • shipments. Constructed over 2500 storm water controls

to manage run on and run off from SWMUs Opened the Sanitary Effluent Reclamation Facility recycling 500 acre feet of water for cooling computing centers. We closed 6 additional water outfalls, keeping 11 open while using only 7 of these. Deployed a multilayered GIS tool to assist managers in making daily decisions on land use which are protective and low in environmental impact. Created a strategy for zero liquid discharges and began investigating how to make it possible. Installed meters on biggest energy users and selected 31 buildings to retrofit with energy-saving technology.

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Trust but Verify: Environm nment ntal l Sampling ng

Clean Air

  • Relevant and appropriate

data

  • Answer questions about

the protection of human and environmental health

  • Satisfy regulatory

requirements

  • Technically justified and
  • f sufficient quality
  • Transparent and readily

available to the regulators and the public

  • Ensures a holistic,

adaptable, and cost- effective approach

Soils Groundwater Clean Air Foodstuffs & Biota Stormwater

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

12 Million Environmental Sampling Records Open to the Public

www.intellusNM.com

INTELLUS is a publicly accessible database that provides access to

  • ver 12 million records collected

by the Laboratory as part of environmental surveillance and compliance sampling activities.

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Public Involvement

  • Address pressing public interests
  • Clean water
  • Air Quality
  • Recreational use
  • Focus on facts
  • Diverse approaches designed for

engagement and participation

Public tour of open burning waste disposal Public tour of sediment control structures in Pueblo Canyon Public tour of TRU waste storage at Area G

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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |

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