Hearing transcripts now available
Today is the deadline to comment on the National Nuclear Security Administration's complex transformation proposal.
"Although we have provided more than double the time required by law to comment and held more public hearings than we have ever held for this type of activity, we have decided to extend the deadline in order to ensure that everyone has enough time to submit their comments," said NNSA Administrator Thomas D'Agostino. "We want to give people every opportunity to adequately express their point of view about NNSA's proposal to make the nuclear weapons complex smaller, safer, more secure, and more cost effective."
Laboratory employees and the public can submit written comments using this form. More than 85,000 comments about the proposal have been submitted to the NNSA.
The Laboratory is NNSA's preferred alternative site for plutonium research, development, and limited manufacturing, along with nuclear weapons design and engineering, and supercomputing. Read a fact sheet on the preferred alternative.
The Laboratory's complex transformation Web page has information about how the Laboratory is impacted by the proposal.
The NNSA conducted a number of public meetings throughout the country in March, including seven in New Mexico. Transcripts from the public hearings are here.
The proposal, in the form of a draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SPEIS), evaluates four alternatives: maintaining the status quo, distributed centers of excellence, consolidated centers of excellence, and a capabilities-based complex. The SPEIS identifies NNSA's preferred alternative, the distributed centers of excellence, which would consolidate missions and facilities within the existing NNSA sites. This means that NNSA would eliminate redundancies in missions, capabilities, and facilities, eventually saving money in the future.
Read an NNSA news release.
Read a news release from New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici.
Read a news release from New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman and Rep. Tom Udall.
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