NMED News:

The State of New Mexico’s Environment Department (NMED) is issuing a courtesy reminder that NMED and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) will host a public meeting 5:30-7 p.m., Jan. 6, 2022 in accordance with Section VIII.C.3.d of the 2016 Order on Consent (CO).

This reminder is in addition to English and Spanish public notices sent to local and regional newspapers, the NMED external events calendar, and the NMED LANL Facility Mailing List.

The CO is a settlement agreement between the NMED and EM-LA that was issued in 2016. The investigation and remediation of contamination from legacy waste at LANL is conducted under the CO. The CO both guides and governs the ongoing cleanup of legacy waste at LANL through a campaign‐based approach and the annual planning process.

The annual planning process allows for revisions to cleanup campaigns based on actual work progress, changed conditions and funding.

NMED will host the meeting and EM-LA will present information concerning cleanup work completed in federal fiscal year (FFY) 2021 and the cleanup milestones and target dates for FFY 2022.

The Appendix B of the CO, which includes the FFY 2022 milestones and targets, is available on the NMED website under the Compliance Order on Consent at: https://www.env.nm.gov/hazardous-waste/lanl.

In order to ensure that COVID-19 safe practices are observed, this meeting will be held via WebEx.

Meeting link: https://hwb.webex.com/hwb/j.php?MTID=me9cffff32ae28b57d7a2bac79d7cbeae

Meeting number (access code): 2632 980 0641 Meeting password: iKF3mdHMy73

The WebEx meeting can also be joined via phone: 415.655.0001 Access code: 2632 980 0641

For additional information regarding the public meeting, contact Neelam Dhawan at neelam.dhawan@state.nm.us or (505).690.5469.