Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury

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Mission Support FY 2027 Congressional Justification The Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-414) as amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Public Law 114-182), which banned the export of elemental mercury generated in the United States beginning in 2013, prohibits federal agencies from either selling or distributing mercury, and instructs DOE to provide long-term management and storage for elemental mercury generated within the United DOE's mercury storage operations will be subject to the requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. EM is responsible for designating a DOE facility for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury and the Office of Legacy Management is responsible for the operation of the facility. DOE began preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement in May 2009 to identify a location for a long-term elemental mercury management and storage facility. The final Environmental Impact Statement was issued in January 2011. In June 2012, DOE announced its intention to evaluate additional locations near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and developed a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. The final Supplement to the Environmental Impact Statement was issued in October 2013. EM published a Supplement Analysis in June 2019 that analyzed changes that had occur

Extracted from doe fy 2027 volume 5 em, p. 397. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased. This is a different document from the one the figures above were read off — the agency prints this line's dollars in a summary table and its justification elsewhere.

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1 linked contract. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

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