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(continued) ural gas products that are collected or released in increased quantity or that were not previously collected or released.
B6.4 Siting, construction (or modification or expansion), operation, and decommissioning of an onsite facility for storing packaged hazardous waste (as designated in 40 CFR part 261) for 90 days or less or for longer periods as provided in 40 CFR 262.34 (d), (e), or (f) (e.g., accumulation or satellite areas).
B6.5 Siting, construction (or modification or expansion), operation, and decommissioning of an onsite facility for characterizing and sorting previously packaged waste or for overpacking waste, other than high-level radioactive waste, if operations do not involve unpacking waste. These actions do not include waste storage (covered under B6.4, B6.6, B6.10, and C16) or the handling of spent nuclear fuel.
B6.6 Modification (excluding increases in capacity) of an existing structure used for storing, packaging, or repacking waste other than high-level radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel, to handle the same class of waste as currently handled at that structure.
B6.7 Under the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 (5(c)(5)), granting of a petition qualified under 10 CFR 730.6 for allocation of commercial disposal capacity for an unusual or unexpected volume of commercial low-level radioactive waste or denying such a petition when adequate storage capacity exists at the petitioner's facility.
B6.8 Minor operational changes at an existing facility to minimize waste generation and for reuse of materials. These changes include, but are not limited to, adding filtration and recycle piping to allow reuse of machining oil, setting up a sorting area to improve process efficiency, and segregating two waste streams previously mingled and assigning new identification codes to the two resulting wastes.
B6.9 Small-scale temporary measures to reduce migration of contaminated groundwater, including the siting, construction, operation, and decommissioning of necessary facilities. These measures include, but are not limited to, pumping, treating, storing, and reinjecting water, by mobile units or facilities that are built and then removed at the end of the action.
B6.10 Siting, construction (or modification), operation, and decommissioning of a small upgraded or replacement facility (less than approximately 50,000 square feet in area) at a DOE site within or contiguous to an already developed area (where active utilities and currently used roads are readily accessible) for storage of waste that is already at the site at the time the storage capacity is to be provided. These actions do not include the storage of high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel or any waste that requires special precautions to prevent nuclear criticality. See also B6.4, B6.5, B6.6, and C16.
B7. Categorical Exclusions Applicable to International Activities
B7.1 Planning and implementation of emergency measures pursuant to the International Energy Program.
B7.2 Approval of import or export of small quantities of special nuclear materials or isotopic materials in accordance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 and the “Procedures Established Pursuant to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Act of 1978” (43 FR 25326, June 9, 1978).
[57 FR 15144, Apr. 24, 1992, as amended at 61 FR 36239–36242, July 9, 1996; 61 FR 64608, Dec. 6, 1996]
Appendix C to Subpart D to Part 1021—Classes of Actions that Normally Require EAs But Not Necessarily EISs
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C1. [Reserved]
C2. Rate increases more than inflation, not power marketing
C3. Electric power marketing rate changes, not within normal operating limits.
C4. Reconstructing and constructing electric powerlines.
C5. Implementation of Power Marketing Administration systemwide vegetation management program
C6. Implementation of Power Marketing Administration systemwide erosion control program
C7. Allocation of electric power, no major new generation resource/major changes in operation of generation resources/major new loads.
C8. Protection of fish and wildlife habitat
C9. Field demonstration projects for wetlands
C10. [Reserved]
C11. Siting/construction/operation/decommissioning of low- or medium-energy particle acceleration facility with primary beam energy greater than approximately 100 MeV
C12. Siting/construction/operation of energy system prototypes
C13. Import/export natural gas, minor new construction (other than a cogeneration powerplant)
C14. Siting/construction/operation of water treatment facilities greater than approximately 250,000 gallons per day capacity
C15. Siting/construction/operation of research and development incinerators/nonhazardous waste incinerators
C16. Siting/construction/operation/decommissioning of large waste storage facilities
C1 [Reserved]
C2 Rate increases for products or services marketed by DOE, except for electric power, power transmission, and other products or services provided by the Power Marketing Administrations, and approval of rate increases for non-DOE entities, that exceed the change in the overall price level in the economy (inflation), as measured by the GNP fixed weight price index published by the Department of Commerce, during the period since the last rate increase for that product or service.
C3 Rate changes for electric power, power transmission, and other products or services provided by Power Marketing Administrations that are based on changes in revenue requirements if the operations of generation projects would not remain within normal operating limits.
C4 Reconstructing (upgrading or rebuilding) existing electric powerlines more than approximately 20 miles in length or constructing new electric powerlines more than approximately 10 miles in length.
C5 Implementation of a Power Marketing Administration system-wide vegetation management program.
C6 Implementation of a Power Marketing Administration system-wide erosion control program.
C7 Establishment and implementation of contracts, policies, marketing plans, or allocation plans for the allocation of electric power that do not involve (1) the addition of new generation resources greater than 50 average megawatts, (2) major changes in the operating limits of generation resources greater than 50 average megawatts, or (3) service to discrete new loads of 10 average megawatts or more over a 12 month period. This applies to power marketing operations and to siting, construction, and operation of power generating facilities at DOE sites.
C8 Protection, restoration, or improvement of fish and wildlife habitat, fish passage facilities, and fish hatcheries if the proposed action may adversely affect an environmentally sensitive resource.
C9 Field demonstration projects for wetlands mitigation, creation, and restoration.
C10 [Reserved]
C11 Siting, construction (or modification), operation, and decommissioning of a low- or medium-energy (but greater than approximately 100 MeV primary beam energy) particle acceleration facility, including electron beam acceleration facilities, and associated beamlines, storage rings, colliders, and detectors for research and medical purposes, within or contiguous to an already developed area (where active utilities and currently used roads are readily accessible).
C12 Siting, construction, and operation of energy system prototypes including, but not limited to, wind resource, hydropower, geothermal, fossil fuel, biomass, and solar energy pilot projects.
C13 Approval or disapproval of an application to import/export natural gas under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act involving minor new construction (other than a cogeneration powerplant), such as adding new connections, looping, or compression to an existing natural gas pipeline or converting an existing oil pipeline to a natural gas pipeline using the same right-of-way.
C14 Siting, construction (or expansion), operation, and decommissioning of wastewater, surface water, potable water, and sewage treatment facilities with a total capacity greater than approximately 250,000 gallons per day, and of lower capacity wastewater and surface water treatment facilities whose liquid discharges are not subject to external regulation.
C15 Siting, construction (or expansion), and operation of research and development incinerators for any type of waste and of any other incinerators that would treat nonhazardous solid waste (as designated in 40 CFR Part 261.4(b)).
C16 Siting, construction (or modification to increase capacity), operation, and decommissioning of packaging and unpacking facilities (that may include characterization operations) and large storage facilities (greater than approximately 50,000 square feet in area) for waste, except high-level radioactive waste, generated onsite or resulting from activities connected to site operations. These actions do not include storage, packaging, or unpacking of spent nuclear fuel. See also B6.4, B6.5, B6.6, and B6.10.
[57 FR 15144, Apr. 24, 1992, as amended at 61 FR 36242, July 9, 1996; 61 FR 64608, Dec. 6, 1996]
Appendix D to Subpart D of Part 1021—Classes of Actions That Normally Require EISs
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D1. Strategic Systems
D2. Siting/construction/operation/decommissioning of nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities
D3. Siting/construction/operation/decommissioning of uranium enrichment facilities
D4. Siting/construction/operation/decommissioning of reactors
D5. Main transmission system additions
D6. Integrating transmission facilities
D7. Allocation of electric power, major new generation resources/major changes in operation of generation resources/major loads.
D8. Import/export of natural gas, involving major new facilities
D9. Import/export of natural gas, involving significant operational change
D10. Siting/construction/operation/decommissioning of major treatment, storage, and disposal facilities for high-level waste and spent nuclear fuel
D11. Siting/construction/expansion of waste disposal facility for transuranic waste
D12. Siting/construction/operation of incinerators (other than research and development, other than nonhazardous solid waste)
D1 Strategic Systems, as defined in DOE Order 430.1, “Life-Cycle Asset Management,” and designated by the Secretary.
D2 Siting, construction, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities.
D3 Siting, construction, operation, and decommissioning of uranium enrichment facilities.
D4 Siting, construction, operation, and decommissioning of power reactors, nuclear material production reactors, and test and research reactors.
D5 Main transmission system additions (that is, additions of new transmission lines) to a Power Marketing Administration's main transmission grid.
D6 Integrating transmission facilities (that is, transmission system additions for integrating major new sources of generation into a Power Marketing Administration's main grid).
D7 Establishment and implementation of contracts, policies, marketing plans or allocation plans for the allocation of electric power that involve (1) the addition of new generation resources greater than 50 average megawatts, (2) major changes in the operating limits of generation resources greater than 50 average megawatts, or (3) service to discrete new loads of 10 average megawatts or more over a 12 month period. This applies to power marketing operations and to siting construction, and operation of power generating facilities at DOE sites.
D8 Approval or disapproval of an application to import/export natural gas under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act involving major new natural gas pipeline construction or related facilities, such as construction of new liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals, regasification or storage facilities, or a significant expansion of an existing pipeline or related facility or LNG terminal, regasification, or storage facility.
D9 Approval or disapproval of an application to import/export natural gas under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act involving a significant operational change, such as a major increase in the quantity of liquid natural gas imported or exported.
D10 Siting, construction, operation, and decommissioning of major treatment, storage, and disposal facilities for high-level waste and spent nuclear fuel, including geologic repositories, but not including onsite replacement or upgrades of storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel at DOE sites where such replacement or upgrade will not result in increased storage capacity.
D11 Siting, construction (or expansion), and operation of a disposal facility for transuranic (TRU) waste and TRU mixed waste (TRU waste also containing hazardous waste as designated in 40 CFR part 261).
D12 Siting, construction, and operation of incinerators, other than research and development incinerators or incinerators for nonhazardous solid waste (as designated in 40 CFR part 261.4(b)).
[57 FR 15144, Apr. 24, 1992, as amended at 61 FR 36243, July 9, 1996; 61 FR 64608, Dec. 6, 1996]