Status of NNWSI area-to-location screening activities

A systems approach for screening the Nevada Research and Development Area of the Nevada Test Site and contiguous lands in Nye County, Nevada for potential geologic repository locations is being implemented by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Technical Overview Contractor to the Department of Energy's Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations (NNWSI). The results of the formal screening method will be reviewed by the NNWSI Site Evaluation Working Group and Steering Committee and recommendations forwarded to the manager of DOE's Nevada Operations Office for a decision on preferred repository locations in the spring of 1982. Basic geologic, hydrologic, engineering, and environmental data compatible with the requirements of the screening method have been provided to Sandia Technical Overview by other NNWSI project participants from Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the US Geological Survey, and others.