NMED DOE-OB operations at Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) are intended to support non-regulatory activities of the State of New Mexico in working with the DOE to evaluate the adequacy of DOE activities related to environmental monitoring; establish a comprehensive, coordinated environmental oversight and monitoring program; facilitate a better understanding by local and Tribal governments and the general public on the environmental impacts, if any, associated with LANL operations; and to support periodic State monitoring of discharges, emissions, or biological parameters as necessary to verify the effectiveness of the DOE programs at LANL.
The DOE‐OB Los Alamos Oversight Section (LOS) provides technical support to the U.S. DOE, DOE contractors, the NMED, state and federal entities, tribes, and public interest and oversight groups. Technical support includes the technical review and comment of analytical data, work plans and sampling and analysis plans (SAPs), and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), and other technical documents and reports.
The DOE‐OB LOS manages environmental field and analytical data and provides database support of Environmental Information Management (EIM)/Intellus New Mexico.
The DOE‐OB LOS is an integral and founding member of the Software Control Board (SCB), a collaborative group that manages the database EIM/Intellus New Mexico, which stores all geospatial, environmental field and analytical data on and around LANL property for internal and public use. Other members of SCB include the two primary LANL contractors, Triad and N3B. All three organizations collaborate to troubleshoot database issues, plan database improvements, approve all sampling locations, analytical parameters, and methods. Besides the functionality of EIM/Intellus for DOE‐OB data reporting purposes, the presence of DOE‐OB as a stakeholder and decisionmaker on SCB confirms credibility to the public of all environmental monitoring data produced by Triad and N3B.
- Visit LANL’s Electronic Public Reading Room
- Explore the Intellus database