Categorial Exclusions
Overview
Categorical exclusions are types of actions the DOE has determined do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the environment. Therefore, these actions do not require an Environmental Impact Statement or an Environmental Assessment. Under DOE’s 10 CFR Part 1021 DOE NEPA Implementing Procedures Subpart D, a proposed activity can be categorically excluded from further NEPA review if it falls within any of the classes of action analyzed and documented in 10 CFR Part 1021 DOE NEPA Implementing Procedures and determined will not significantly impact the environment.
Under an October 2, 2009, policy memorandum, each DOE Program and Field Office will document and post online all categorical exclusion determinations involving classes of actions listed in 10 CFR Part 1021 DOE NEPA Implementing Procedures Subpart D, Appendix B of the Department’s NEPA implementing procedures. However, posted categorical exclusion determinations will not contain information exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, such as classified, trade secrets, or commercial or financial information.
Categorical Exclusions:
- Special Technologies Laboratory (STL) Demolition of Trailers
- Demolition of Buildings in Areas 1 and 23
- Livermore Operations (LO)
- Remote Sensing Laboratory – Andrews Operations (RSL-A)
- Transport of Large Equipment
- Building 06-CP-71, Fire Station #2 Dormitory, Characterization and Demolition
- Demolition of Buildings in Areas 12 and 23 (Rev. 1)
- Demolition of Buildings in Areas 12 and 23
- NASA Astronaut Training – 1
- USAF North Las Vegas Facility Temporary Office Installation
- Mercury Shooting Range Lighting Upgrade
- Protective Force Training Complex
- Los Alamos Operations (LAO)
- Seismic and Remote Diagnostic Monitoring
- Military Data Collection Training
- Engagement Simulation System (ESS) Training
- Area 2 Office Trailer Disposal
- Construction of Indoor Firing Range
- Area 6 Device Assembly Facility (DAF) Geotechnical Investigation
- Weather Support for the NNSS
- Building 23-118 Certified Packaging Center (CPC)
- Demolition, Removal, and Disposal of Structures in Area 12 Camp
- Remote Sensing Laboratory San Diego
- Procurement of Protective Forces Services
- CTOS Eastern Region Administrative, Warehouse, and Training Office
- Nevada Desert Research Center (NV Desert FACE and Mojave Global Change Facilities)
- Demolition, Removal, and Disposal of 11 Structures in Area 12 Camp
- Desert Research Institute Frank Rogers Building
- Area 12 Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF)
- Mobile Test Bed Capability Project – Construction
- Nuclear Accident Dosimetry (NAD) Laboratory
- Offices and Unoccupied Buildings
- Demolition of 13 Buildings at CP Hill
- UXO Rocket Warhead
- NNSS Seismic and Remote Diagnostic Monitoring
- Mercury Cattle Guard Communications Mast
- Procurement of Helicopters for NNSA’s Aerial Measuring System
- Building 06-914 Equipment Staging and Preparation
- Area 25 – Criminal Site Investigation
- Red Tailed Hawk Nest Relocation (Emergency Action)
- Offsite Seismic Monitoring Operations
- Special Technologies Laboratory (STL) Operations
- U1a Modernization Surface – Seismic Monitoring of U1a drilling activities (addition)
- New Mexico Operations-Los Alamos Office (LAO)
- Mercury Demolition of 23-475 through 23-484 and Associated Block
- U1a Modernization Surface – Seismic Monitoring of U1a drilling activities
- U1a Modernization – Surface
- Remote Sensing Laboratory – Andrews Operations (RSL-A)
- Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Field Activities
- Area 6 to U1a Water Supply Line Replacement – Potholing
- Mercury Modernization – Campus Development and Construction Activities
- NNSS AML 20K Rocket Launcher Retrieval
- DAG Series Airborne Operations
- Mercury Equipment Storage Structure (Building 23-424) Demolition
- SOC Protective Force Training Complex
- Exterior LIDAR Scanning of Tunnels or Other Existing Facilities
- CP Hill Waterline Replacement – Potholing
- Solar Photovoltaic Expansion Project
- Atlas Machine Disassembly
- Mercury Water & Sewer Utility Discovery
- Livermore Operations Site
- DAF-18 Full Scale Exercise
- Mercury Bowling Alley (Building 23-517) Demolition
- Engagement Simulation System (ESS) Training
- Mercury Asbestos Sampling
- Off-site Seismic Monitoring
- Mercury Power & Communications Infrastructure Consolidation and Upgrades
- SNL Seismic Monitoring
- Reactivation of Building 23-119, LOTO Training Facility
- Desert Research Institute Cultural Resource Management Program
- Creation of Turnaround Areas
- Telephone Pole Grading Project
- USAF NLVF Project
- USGS Vegetation, Small Mammal, and Reptile Studies
- Yucca Mountain Site Property Disposition
- Building 25-4014 Warehouse
- Remote Sensing Laboratory Helicopter Training
- Weather Support for the NNSS (ARL/SORD)
- Dense Plasma Focus Security Exercise
- Timber Mountain Weather Station
- Nevada National Security Site Zone 2 Maintenance
- Site Operations South
- Nevada National Security Site, Area 12 Camp Cafeteria Renovation
- WSI Training Facility