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Full disposal of nuclear waste from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Benton County, Washington at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository in Carlsbad, New Mexico could be delayed by 20 years following an accidental radiological release in 2014 at the WIPP site.
Hanford Site, a 580-square-mile location in southeastern Washington was created in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.
Most of the reactors were decommissioned by the 1970s and today its main mission is environmental remediation and protecting the nearby Columbia River, along with some ongoing research.
Following the incident in 2014, which led to a three-year shutdown of WIPP’s primary operations, waste shipments from Hanford to WIPP were paused and were still yet to be resumed after WIPP reopened and began receiving and emplacing waste in 2017.
Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway said the rental fee is a formality.
“Because we are required by law to charge a rental fee, due to us being a government entity,” he said.
The Carlsbad Field Office administers over 2 million acres of surface estate and 3 million acres of mineral estate in the southeastern portion of New Mexico, per the BLM’s website.
The BLM leases 7,750 square feet of land at Cavern City Air Terminal, per a lease agreement between the federal government and City of Carlsbad.
“The BLM maintains a storage shed and an office trailer on the property,” Aragon said.
She said the space allows the BLM to load Single Engine Airtankers (SEATs) closer to a fire instead of having them loaded at the Roswell Airtanker Base.