NOTICE OF AIR QUALITY PERMIT APPLICATION
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announces its application submittal to the New Mexico
Environment Department for an air quality permit for the technical revision of its New Source Review
(NSR) permit 2195H for the LANL Destruction Facility. The expected date of application submittal to the
Air Quality Bureau is November 2025.
The exact location for the proposed facility known as TA-03-0030 at LANL, will be at latitude
35.8738888889 dec deg North and longitude -106.3291666667 dec deg West. The approximate location
of this facility is 0.13 miles south of the intersection of West Jemez Rd. and Bikini Atoll Dr. in Los Alamos
County.
The proposed technical revision consists of the addition of a new industrial paper shredder (data
disintegrator) to New Source Review (NSR) permit 2195H for the LANL Destruction Facility. The
Destruction Facility has moved from TA-52-0011 to a new location within LANL, TA-03-0030. The
permitted data disintegrator, Unit No. TA-52-11, is currently offline as it is too large for the new building,
therefore the facility plans to utilize a new data disintegrator (data disintegrator 2). The LANL
Destruction Facility is responsible for the pickup and destruction of classified, controlled unclassified
information (CUI), and unclassified controlled nuclear information (UCNI) paper from locations across
LANL.
The low-level citation for this NSR technical revision permit application is 20.2.72.219.B(1)(b) NMAC.
Technical permit revisions are allowed when additional equipment with a potential emission rate of no
more than one pound per hour for any pollutant listed in the National or New Mexico Ambient Air
Quality Standards. The emission rates are well below the one pound per hour threshold referenced in
20.2.72.219.B(1)(b) NMAC.
The estimated maximum quantities of any regulated air contaminant will be as follows in pound per
hour (pph) and tons per year (tpy) and could change slightly during the course of the Department’s
review:
Current Permitted Allowable Emissions in 2195H:
Pollutant Pounds per hour Tons per year
Particulate Matter (PM) 2.3 pph 9.9 tpy
PM10 2.3 pph 9.9 tpy
Additional estimated maximum controlled emission rates in the Technical Revision Application:
Pollutant Pounds per hour Tons per year
Particulate Matter (PM 0.0 pph 0.0 tpy
PM10 0.0 pph 0.0 tpy
PM2.5 0.00031 pph 0.0014 tpy
The standard operating schedule will be 10 hours per day, 4 days per week, 52 weeks per year. The maximum operating schedule will be 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 52 weeks per year.
The operator of the Facility is: Triad National Security, LLC, P.O. Box 1663, MS J978, Los Alamos, New
Mexico, 87545, and the owner is the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy,
3747 West Jemez Road, Los Alamos, NM 87544. Please direct questions for the Laboratory to the Environmental Communication & Public Involvement Office point of contact, Steve Horak, at 505-551-4514, envoutreach@lanl.gov, or Environmental Communication & Public Involvement, P.O. Box 1163, MS K491, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545.
If you have any comments about the construction or operation of this facility, and you want your
comments to be made as part of the permit review process, you must submit your comments in writing
to this address: Permit Programs Manager; New Mexico Environment Department; Air Quality Bureau;
525 Camino de los Marquez, Suite 1; Santa Fe, New Mexico; 87505-1816. Other comments and
questions may be submitted verbally. (505) 476-4300; 1 800 224-7009.
Please refer to the company name and site name, or send a copy of this notice along with your comments, since the Department may have not yet received the permit application. Please include a legible return mailing address with your comments. Once the Department has performed a preliminary review of the application and its air quality impacts, the Department’s notice will be published in the legal section of a newspaper circulated near the facility location.
General information about air quality and the permitting process, and links to the regulations can be found
at the Air Quality Bureau’s website: www.env.nm.gov/air-quality/permitting-section-home-page/. The
regulation dealing with public participation in the permit review process is 20.2.72.206 NMAC.
Atención
Este es un aviso de la oficina de Calidad del Aire del Departamento del Medio Ambiente de Nuevo
México, acerca de las emisiones producidas por un establecimiento en esta área. Si usted desea
información en español, por favor comuníquese con esa oficina al teléfono 505-629-7748.
Notice of Non-Discrimination
NMED does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age or sex in the administration of its programs or activities, as required by applicable laws and regulations. NMED is responsible for coordination of compliance efforts and receipt of inquiries concerning non-discrimination requirements implemented by 40 C.F.R. Part 7, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 13 of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act Amendments of 1972. If you have any questions about this notice or any of NMED’s non-discrimination programs, policies or procedures, or if you believe that you have been discriminated against with respect to a NMED program or activity, you may contact: Non-Discrimination Coordinator, NMED, 1190 St. Francis Dr., Suite N4050, P.O. Box 5469, Santa Fe, NM 87502, (505) 827-2855, nd.coordinator@env.nm.gov. You may also visit our website at https://www.env.nm.gov/non-
employee-discrimination-complaint-page/ to learn how and where to file a complaint of discrimination.
PUBLISHED IN THE LOS ALAMOS DAILY POST THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2025