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Gregory Mello, Affidavit #2, November 12, 2010, References

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4a 1 D'Agostino, Thomas, NNSA, Woodrow Wilson Center, 28 Oct 2010.
4b 2 NNSA, Los Alamos Site Office (LASO), FY2010 LANL Performance Evaluation Plan (PEP), 28 Apr 2010: 40.
4b 3 National Nuclear Security Administration, FY2011 Congressional Budget Request, Laboratory Tables, Mar 2010: 41-43.
4b 4 National Nuclear Security Administration, Management and Operating Contract for LANL, NNSA, DE-AC52-06NA25396, 21 Dec 2005: 12.
4b 5 NNSA, Los Alamos Site Office (LASO), FY2010 LANL Performance Evaluation Plan (PEP), 28 Apr 2010: 40.
4c 6 Biden, Jr., Vice President Joseph R., Letter to Senator John F. Kerry, 15 September 2010: 124-125.
4d 7 NNSA, Los Alamos Site Office (LASO), FY2010 LANL Performance Evaluation Plan (PEP), 28 Apr 2010:121.
4e 8 Kyl, Senator Jon, letter to VP Biden, 19 Aug 2010.
4e 9 Jacobson, Todd, “Despite GOP Gains, Admin. Still Urging Lame-Duck 'New START' Vote,” Nuclear Weapons and Materials Monitor, 8 Nov 2010.
4f 10 Ramos, Derrick, NNSA, email to Katie Matthews, Rep. Markey’s office, 6 Aug 2010.
4f 11 NNSA, “FY2011 Congressional Budget Request,” 04-D-125: 221.
4g 12 Jacobson, Todd, “Costly Uranium Processing Facility Also a Necessity, Harencak says; Are Multi-Year Appropriations an Answer to GOP Concerns on Out-Year Funding for Major NNSA Projects?” Nuclear Weapons and Materials Monitor,15 Nov 2010.
6 13a NNSA, CMRR Nuclear Facility Project Overview LA-UR10-07047, October 2010.
6 13b NNSA, CMRR SA:11.
6 13c Benson, Jody, affidavit, 2 Nov 2010, EXHIBIT C.
6 14 Google Earth, LANL TA-55, image of 30 Jul 2005.
6 15 Los Alamos Study Group, CMRR aerial photo, Jan 2009.
7 16 NNSA, FY2011 CBR, Weapons Activities, Project Data Sheet 08-D-701, Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security Upgrades Project (NMSSUP) Phase II: 297-303.
7 16a NNSA, CMRR SA, 2010: 14.
8 17 Bretzke, John. “Pajarito Construction Activities,” LANL Construction Forum, Espanola, New Mexico, 16 June 2010, slide 4.
8 18a NNSA, FY2011 Congressional Budget Request (CBR), 1 February, 2010: 227.
8 18b Biden, Jr., Vice President Joseph R., Letter to Senator John F. Kerry, 15 September 2010: 124-125.
12a 19a NNSA, “Draft Supplement Analysis for the CMRR-NF” (CMRR SA), 2010: 26.
12a 19b John Bretzke presentation, quoted in Mello aff. #1: 25. “Our current truck inspection facility which is supporting our ongoing mission operations is not capable of this kind of increased load, and so we'll probably be installing a dedicated truck inspection station that really is focused on the construction activities themselves.”
12a 20 NNSA, CMRR SA, 2010: 17.
12a 21 Benson, Jody, Affidavit of 2 Nov 2010, ¶4B, EXHIBIT C.
12a 22 NNSA, CMRR-EIS: 2-40.
12a 23 Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 245, 19 December 2008: 77650.
12a 24 NNSA, Annex D, FY2011 Biennial Plan and Budget Assessment on the Modernization and Refurbishment of the Nuclear Security Complex: 28.
12a 25 Joseph Romm, “New study puts the ‘hell’ in Hell and High Water,” citing Dai, Aiguo, “Drought under global warming: a review,” National Center for Atmospheric Research, 19 Oct 2010.
12a 26 David D. Breshears, et. al., “Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. Vol 102 Issue 42, 18 Oct 2005: 15144-15148.
12b 27 NNSA, CMRR SA, 2010: 19.
12b 28 It is partly for this reason, and for similar reasons related to utilities, access, topography, and functional interdependence, that the various projects of the Pajarito Construction Corridor are connected and must be managed as a single project with multiple elements, as defendants have long recognized and are acting upon.
12g 29 NNSA, CMRR SA, 2010: 18.
12h 30 DOE (DOE), Final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (“SWEIS”) for LANL: 4-98.
12h 31 NNSA, Integrated Natural and Cultural Resources Management Plan for Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sept 2002: 7, 42 (map of threatened and endangered species habitat).
12h 32 NNSA, Integrated Natural and Cultural Resources Management Plan for Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sept 2002: 40-41.
12h 33 Joseph Romm, “New study puts the ‘hell’ in Hell and High Water,” citing Dai, Aiguo, “Drought under global warming: a review,” National Center for Atmospheric Research, 19 Oct 2010.
12h 34 NNSA CMRR EIS: 3-38.
12h 35 NNSA, CMRR EIS: S31.
12h 36 NNSA, CMRR EIS: 3-33.
12i 37 NNSA and LANS, CMRR Project Update, Steve Fong and Rick Holmes, 6 Oct 2010.
12l 38 LANL, A Plan for the Management of the Cultural Heritage at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, LA-UR-04-8964, March 2006: 53,67.
12m 39a Madalena, Governor Joshua, Pueblo of Jemez, letter to Steven Chu and Thomas D’Agostino, 4 Oct 2010, EXHIBIT 1.
12m 39b Sanchez, J. Gilbert, affidavit, 3 Nov 2010, EXHIBIT B.
12n 40 CMRR EIS: 2-29-34.
12n 41 DOE CBR FY2010: 223.
14a 42 Defendants assume a 4-year transition period once CMRR-NF begins full operation. NNSA, CMRR EIS: 2-38.
14a 43 Oral briefing with Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group and DNFSB Chair, Vice-Chair and member Peter Winokur, John Mansfield, Joseph Bader, respectively, and DNFSB senior staff, 7 May 2010, Washington, DC; NNSA Principal Associate Director of Defense Programs Glenn Mara letter to Don Winchell, NNSA Los Alamos Site Office (LASO) Site Manager of 22 Feb 2008 (study of hot cell capabilities -- housed in Wing 9 – “ongoing”); LANL, Ten-Year Site Plan FY09-FY18, Sept 2008, LA-UR-08-0654: 41 (“Until replacement facilities can be developed, Wing 9 of CMR will need to remain in operation to support NE [Nuclear Energy] as well as environmental, NNSA, and other activities”); Mello conversation with Brett Broderick, DNFSB LANL site representative, 1 June 2010, (NNSA or LANL study of Wing 9 retention underway).
14a 44 LANL, Ten Year Site Plan FY09-FY18: 25.
14a 44a LANL, Ten Year Site Plan FY09-FY18: 69.
14b 45a Bretzke, John. “Pajarito Construction Activities,” Los Alamos National Laboratory Construction Forum, Espanola, New Mexico, 16 June 2010, slide 4.
14b 45b NNSA, CMRR SA, 2010: 25.
15 46 DOE, CMRR EIS: 2-39.
15 47 DOE, CMRR EIS: 2-41.
15 48 DNFSB Staff Issue Report, “Review of [CMRR] Facility.”
15 49a LANL Hydrotest
15 49b LANL Comprehensive Site Plan 2000, LA-UR 99-6704, 31 Jan 2000, Vol. IV: 4.
15 49c LANL, Holmes, Rick, 10 June 2010, “[CMRR] Project”: 13.
18 50 Madalena, Governor Joshua, Pueblo of Jemez, letter to Steven Chu and Thomas D’Agostino, 4 Oct 2010, EXHIBIT 1.
19 51 Pajarito Group of Sierra Club, Letter to John Tegtmeier, NNSA, 1 Nov 2010, EXHIBIT 2.
20 52 Snodgrass, Roger, “Facility design may proceed,” The New Mexican, 9 Oct 2010, EXHIBIT 3.
21 53 City of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County, “Joint Resolution in Support of a New Environmental Impact Statement for LANL's Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility (CMRR Project),” Nov 2010.
22 54 NNSA, 2003 CMRR EIS, p. 2-41.
24 55 NNSA, CMRR SA, 2010: 17.
25 56 NNSA, CMRR SA, 2010: 29.
25 57 NNSA, CMRR EIS: table 2-1.
26 58 NNSA, CMRR SA, 2010: 30.
27 59 BuildingGreen.com, Embodied Energy and CO emissions from Cement and Concrete Production: tables 2 & 4.
27 60 Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), “Draft NEPA Guidelines on Consideration of the Effects of Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” 18 Feb 2010.
27 61 New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), “Inventory of New Mexico Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2000 – 2007," 15 Mar 2010: 45-49.
28 62 See list of historic New Mexico projects at: http://www.lasg.org/CMRR/open_page.htm

 


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