With federal records increasingly available electronically, the Department of Energy is closing a Richland, Wash., repository for Hanford Site paper records, federal and state agencies announced last week.
In August 2022, the Tri-Party Agreement agencies that govern cleanup of the former plutonium production complex, DOE, the Washington state Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, agreed to stop requiring hard copies of Hanford administrative record documents, according to a Thursday press release.
As a result, the Hanford public information repository at 2440 Stevens Center Place in Richland, is closing according to the Nov. 16 press release from DOE and Ecology.
“Documents will continue to be added to the Administrative Record website during this time,” according to the online records repository.
Hanford documents available for public comment can still be found at many public libraries near the DOE site as well as a Hanford public reading room at Washington State University Tri-Cities in Richland and libraries at Gonzaga University in Spokane; the University of Washington in Seattle and Portland State University in Portland, Ore.
For questions about Hanford administrative records, email [email protected].
