b'U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY| Office of Nuclear EnergyOffice of Nuclear Energy Facilities,Operations, and SecurityENVIRONMENT ANDDOE-ID supported start-up of the IWTU and treatment of sodium-bearing SUSTAINABILITYwaste, allowing receipt of SNF in accordance with the ISA Supplement. DOE-ID HIGHLIGHTS: ensured closure of one of the remaining two RCRA interim-status units, a high priority for the state of Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). Reduced 181 Environment and Sustainability renegotiated 8 STP milestones to reduce risk of regulatory potential fines and penalties and maintain regulatory relationships.requirements DOE-ID finalized the DOE PFAS Roadmap Implementation Plan at INL to Negotiated six newunderstand environmental risks.permits/agreements DOE-ID fully executed the new Cultural Resource Programmatic Agreement (PA), providing a streamlined approach to Section 106 and implementing Modified eight permitsa highly effective Section 110 process. For this, DOE-ID received a DOE Sustainability Honorable Mention Award. The PAs execution reduced required consultation to less than 5% of all undertakings and provided for a reduction Processed 171 federal/ of approximately 73% of historic properties. DOE-ID awarded the University state/DOE regulatoryof Utah ethnohistorical study of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes to document compliance reports their relationship to the INL lands and developed novel approach for NEPA Made 96 cultural-resourceand cultural resources with the NRC for reactor-demonstration projects on determinations the INL Site. DOE-ID obtained a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant for a 3-year sagebrush seed-collection and seed-planting project to support conservation Planted 75,000 sagebrushmeasures in the Candidate Conservation Agreement.seedlingsNEPA ACTIONS:169 99 70 45NEPA DOE-ID categoricalINL categoricalPublicdeterminationsexclusionexclusions comments reviewed issued determinationsdeterminedmadeTHREE Final EIS for CNC, EA for MCRE, andSupplemental Analysis for IWTU issued26'