| 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 Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 1
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | Integrated Long-Term Strategies Environmental Stewardship Land use Environmental management protection Long- Term Strategy Site Long-Range Sustainability Development Infrastructure planning Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 2
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | 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. Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 3
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | 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. Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 4
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | Environmental Grand Challenges Collaborate with our stakeholders and tribal governments to ensure that LANL’s impact on the environment is as low as reasonably achievable. 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. Protect human and environmental health by managing and restoring lands. Produce zero radioactive, hazardous, liquid, or solid wastes. Use energy efficiently while creating sustainable energy sources. Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 5
Environmental Stewardship Framework Input from LANS Senior Programmatic Congress, DOE, NNSA, Proactive Management Strategic Tribes, State, Direction Actions Leadership Planning Public Long-Term Strategy Long-Range Site Sustainability Development for Environmental Plan Stewardship & Sustainability Plan Public LANL Information Decision Support Environm onment ntal P Protec ection on Proactive Actions Web & Outreach Environmental Sampling Board Integrated Project Review
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | 12 Million Environmental Sampling Records Open to the Public INTELLUS is a publicly accessible database that provides access to over 12 million records collected by the Laboratory as part of environmental surveillance and compliance sampling activities. www.intellusNM.com Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 7
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | 2013 Results ANNUAL RESULTS Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 8
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
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | 2013 Communications Results Commitment to internal Briefings with NNSA to pueblo and external environmental departments of Cochiti, communication creates the Jemez, San Ildefonso, and Santa Clara Strategy's success. Pueblos Poster session presentation at LANL Community Leaders Breakfast LTSESS launched the Public Communication Website Public Briefed NNMCAB and lab-wide Information organizations Briefing at Nevada National Security Site Briefings for LA and Española counties Web & Outreach Press coverage Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 10
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | Tools and Standards 2013 Results 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 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 11
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | 2013 Tools and Standards (continued) Results Environmental Sampling Board, a peer-review council completed guidelines for environmental surveillance. Environmental Sampling Board Developed five 2014 institutional environmental goals for implementing long-term goals. Integrated Project Review for Integrated Project Review environmental protection Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 12
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | 2013 Implementation Results To address climate change a section was added to the Site Sustainability Plan and integrated with Long-term Strategy. Research shows the importance of 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). Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 13
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | 2013 Measuring long-term success Results A set of environmental indices were developed for each Grand Challenge to Strategy for Long-term Environment judge the status of al Stewardship the effectiveness of and Sustainabilit y the long-team actions. Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 14
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.
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | Trust but Verify: Environm nment ntal l Sampling ng Relevant and appropriate • data Answer questions about • Clean Air the protection of human Clean Air and environmental health Satisfy regulatory • Stormwater requirements Technically justified and • of sufficient quality Soils Transparent and readily • available to the Groundwater regulators and the public Foodstuffs & Biota Ensures a holistic, • adaptable, and cost- effective approach Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA LA-UR 13-28480 | November 2013 | UNCLASSIFIED | 16
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