OREPA Final CTrans SPEIS comment

Comments of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance on the Final Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement November 20, 2008 The Final Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement is a disappointment to tens of thousands of people who commented on the Draft C-Trans SPEIS, not simply because the Final C-Trans SPEIS indicates a preferred alternative different from the one they advocated, but because they will find, in Volume 3, Part 2, that many of the concerns they raised are dismissed in ways that range from disingenuous to dishonest. The C-Trans SPEIS is a massive document, complex and often confusing. Tracking down comments and responses and then the documentation on which the comment is based is laborious and time consuming; the idea that the public is supposed to digest the Final SPEIS and lodge any concerns, comments or complaints in 30 days is untenable. So these comments are provided with the disclaimer that they do not exhaust our concerns with the Complex Transformation SPEIS and the hope that they at least give the NNSA pause to consider a more meaningful exchange on the continuing concerns with the Preferred Alternative and the inadequacies of the responses provided to many comments submitted by people across the country. Specific comments: Volume 3 of the Final C-Trans SPEIS makes clear that the goal of the National Nuclear Security Administration was ...