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                                                   FINAL
                                     F-CANYON PLUTONIUM SOLUTIONS
                                    ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT                         
                Department of Energy - Savannah River Site - Aiken, South Carolina
                                                DECEMBER 1994

RESPONSIBLE AGENCY:  U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
TITLE:  Final Environmental Impact Statement, F-Canyon Plutonium
Solutions, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina (DOE/eis-0219)
CONTACT:  For additional information on this statement, write or
call:
   A. B. Gould, Jr., Director
   Environmental Compliance Division
   NEPA Compliance Officer
   U.S. Department of Energy
   Savannah River Operations Office
   P. O. Box 5031
   Aiken, South Carolina 29804-5031
   Attention:  F-Canyon Plutonium Solutions eis
   Telephone:  (800) 242-8269
For general information on the DOE NEPA process, write or call:
   Ms. Carol M. Borgstrom, Director
   U.S. Department of Energy
   Office of NEPA Oversight (EH-25)
   1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.
   Washington, D.C. 20585
   Telephone:  (202) 586-4600, or leave a message at
   (800) 472-2756
ABSTRACT:  This document evaluates the potential environmental
impacts over the next 10 years of alternatives for stabilization
of plutonium solutions currently stored in the F-Canyon at the
Savannah River Site (SRS).  The plutonium solutions remain from
chemical separation operations that DOE suspended in 1992.  
Because of safety concerns associated with the solutions, DOE
proposes to take expedited action to stabilize them. Alternatives 
analyzed are the preferred alternative of processing the plutonium 
solutions to a plutonium metal; processing to a plutonium oxide; 
transferring the plutonium solutions to the SRS waste management 
system for proposed vitrification in the Defense Waste Processing 
Facility; vitrification in the F-Canyon; and no action.  Other 
potential activities for the reduction of risk are also described.
PUBLIC COMMENTS:  In its preparation of this Final Environmental
Impact Statement, DOE considered both written comments sent to 
DOE and comments received at public meetings held in Columbia, 
South Carolina (October 4, 1994); North Augusta, South Carolina 
(October 6, 1994); and Savannah, Georgia (October 11, 1994).