The Department of Energy has posted the times and coordinates for a pair of February public scoping meetings on soil cleanup plans at the Energy Technology Engineering Center section of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory Site in Simi Valley, California.
An online or virtual meeting regarding a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on cleanup of contaminated soil is set for Thursday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m., Pacific Time, DOE said in following up on a December Federal Register notice. Instructions on how to join the Zoom meeting or listen to the audio by phone are available online.
In addition, an in-person meeting and open house is set for 6 p.m. local time Feb. 18 at the Grand Vista Hotel, 999 Enchanted Way, Simi Valley, Calif.
DOE published a notice of intent Dec. 27 in the Federal Register announcing plans to develop a supplemental impact statement for soil cleanup for parts of the 2,850-acre California site where a DOE predecessor agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, once had test reactors. The supplemental impact statement, expected in summer 2026, would modify a final statement from to 2017, according to the notice.
Boeing, NASA and DOE are the three parties responsible for cleanup of Santa Susana, under a 2007 consent decree between California and the federal government. Iin 2021 the agency tore down to ground level the last of the Energy Technology Engineering Center structures. The Los Angeles County fires have to date not reached Santa Susana, DOE officials have said.