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Comment to the Dept. of Energy.
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WHAT AN AMAZING RESPONSE!
After only a month the dedicated online activists of Peace Action have demonstrated the power of the Peace Majority - blowing our initial goal out of orbit. Now we need to step it up - find a hearing in your area to speak out in person.

Comments received on the draft SPEIS:
1. "Campaign" email comments - 90,000
2. Individual (unique) emails - 977
3. "Campaign" postcards/letters - 8,326
4. "Petition" signatures/comments - 15,000 - 20,000
5. Oral testimony at hearings - 625
6. Written comments handed in at hearings - 98
7. Mailed in (unique) comment letters - 214

TOTAL = between 115,240 and 120,240 !!!
Comment to the Dept. of Energy.
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WASHINGTON DC: Peace Action and experts presented final testimony to the Department of Energy.

On January 11, 2008, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy (DOE), a proposal named "Complex Transformation."

This document lays out the agency's vision for the future of US nuclear weapons production, research, and testing complex. It is fundamentally about securing the future of nuclear weapons production and research by revamping infrastructure and adding capabilities across the complex.

If allowed to move forward, this new Bombplex will design new nuclear weapons and resume industrial-scale bomb production. This vision, "Complex Transformation", was formerly known as "Complex 2030".
What is a SPEIS?

The complex Transformation proposal document is a Draft Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SPEIS), as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Under NEPA, DOE is required to analyze the environmental and socio economic impacts of any proposed actions. The NEPA processes allows for public participation, by including two public comment periods.

• Scoping period. The first comment period is before the full plan has been written. DOE releases a notice of intent in which it suggests its plan as well as alternatives.

This scoping period" is finished. DOE received over 33,000 comments in opposition to their plan – a record breaking number of comments!

• Comment period. DOE releases a draft document, which analyzes their proposal as well as alternatives, and receives a second round of comments.

write in:
Mr. Theodore A. Wyka
Complex Transformation SPEIS Document Manager
Office of Transformation, NA-10.1
Department of Energy
1000 Independence Ave., SW
Washington DC 20585
ComplexTransformation@nnsa.doe.gov

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