Stewardship Issues at DOE Sites:

Regional Impacts of Nuclear Weapon Facilities
Past, Present and Future

CRESP research has focused on the analysis of the impacts of future use alternatives at major Department of Energy sites. The following selected researcher reports and publications illustrate CRESP's work in this area.

The reports have been selected to highlight three areas of CRESP research at Department of Energy sites: Future Land Use, Economic Considerations, and Biomonitoring for Stewardship. Within each topic papers are arranged according to individual sites and those applying to all Nuclear weapons complex.

Reports that are not available in full text may be requested from the CRESP library at lbliss@eohsi.rutgers.edu or by phone at (732)235-9604.

Future Land Use

Understanding both how the Department of Energy views the future uses of their lands, and how various tribal nations and other stakeholders view future land use, is critical to decisions about clean-up. These understandings in turn affect stewardship on the DOE lands, whether they remain under DOE or not. CRESP has been involved in developing tools to understand stakeholder views of future land use, and in examining the future use preferences of many different groups, from local land managers and planners to recreationists.

*Peer Reviewed Publication

CRESP Publication/Report Titles Listed by Location
ACROSS ALL DOE COMPLEX:	Abstract	Full Text
Bombs and butterflies: A case study of the challenge of post cold war environmental planning and management for United States' nuclear weapons sites * (Link to journal for full text)
Local Impacts of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facilities: A Survey of Planners. CRESP Researcher Report
Land Use Allocation Optimization Models Applied to Future Use at the U.S. D.O.E.'s Major Nuclear Weapons Sites. CRESP Researcher Report
ROCKY FLATS:
Cleaning it Up and Closing it Down: Land Use Issues at Rocky Flats*
SAVANNAH RIVER:
Attitudes and perceptions about ecological resources and hazards of people living around the Savannah River Site*
Environmental attitudes and perceptions of future land use at the Savannah River Site: Are there racial differences?*
Gender Differences in Recreational use, environmental attitudes and perceptions of future land use at Savannah River Site.*
Placing Future Land Use Planning in a Regional Context: The Case of the Savannah River Site*
Recreation and risk: Potential Exposure*
Risk perception, federal spending, and the Savannah River Site: attitudes of hunters and fishermen*
IDAHO NATIONAL ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY
Recreation, consumption of wild game, risk, and the Department of Energy sites: perceptions of people attending the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup*
American Indians, Hunting and Fishing Rates, Risk and the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory*

Economic Considerations

The facilities that make up our nation's nuclear weapons complex have employed hundreds of thousands of workers over the past five decades. In some regions, these employees represent a large percentage of the total workforce and DOE spending is a significant portion of the economy. In the Post-Cold War era, most production activities have ceased, and facilities are either closing down or taking on new missions. CRESP research has examined the current and future impacts of these changes on the regional economies around the DOE's major sites.

Biomonitoring for Stewardship

For wise decisions about both cleanup and future land use, it is essential to have viable biomonitoring plans to evaluate the risk from contamination, physical disruptions, and other perturbations on DOE lands. CRESP researchers have focused on biomonitoring of the physical environment, and the biological environment.

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