| Abstract: |
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Sitel a former nuclear
weapons production plant near Denver, Colorado, is
scheduled for complete closure within the next decade.
A number of important land use issues remain unresolved.
High levels of uncertainty about future uses and dependence
on decisions from DOE Headquarters regarding the fate of
Plutonium make it difficult to produce a land use plan to
guide cleanup and reuse decisions, and threaten the site's
ability to achieve the accelerated cleanup milestone set
for 2006. We recommend a scenario-based participative
land use planning process where competing interests,
costs, risks and benefits of alternate future uses are
made apparent to all on-site and off-site stakeholders. |