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The Department of Energy and Sandia National Laboratories are reaching the crossroads of a 10+ year environmental restoration project. The project has grown from information gathering and characterization to full-scale environmental restoration of technically challenging contaminated sites. In the next several years, the active cleanup portion of the project will end and so we are now beginning to formalize the plans for long-term stewardship of these sites.

What is long-term stewardship? Why is it important to us? Stewardship can be defined as, Activities necessary to maintain long-term protection of human health and the environment from hazards posed by residual radioactivity and chemically hazardous materials. It is important to us because it is clear that technology limitations and the associated costs to clean up sites to a natural state will result in residual contamination at some of these sites. Good long-term stewardship planning ensures us that public health and environmental quality will be protected.

Stewardship and the elements within it are not directly regulated under a federal act or under a body of regulations. We are taking steps forward to identify the issues, discuss them, and develop sensible, amicable, and cost effective solutions for the stewardship of these environmental restoration sites.

Mike Zamorski
Area Manager
U.S. Department of Energy
Kirtland Area Office

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