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WHAT 15 AN ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT? Each year LLNL is required to (DOE), National Nuclear The Environmental Report prepare hundreds of different Security Administration, and 2003 is available at LLNL reports for regulatory agencies the University of California, environmental repositories and charged with regulating LLNL. oversee LLNL operations and on the Web at: http://www- monitor any impacts that LLNL envirinfo.11nl.gov/ under Site Among the agencies working operations may have on the Annual Environmental Report. with the Laboratory to protect public or the environment. public health and the environ- Please call me at (925) 424- ment are the U.S. Environmental Environmental monitoring 4026 or email heffnerl@llnl. Protection Agency, regional data collected and the related gov with any questions. air and water boards, and the modeling, analysis, and California Department of Toxic conclusions are presented to Substances Control. regulatory agencies and are P� available to the public in the H. F. Heffner, Manager, These agencies, as well as the annual environmental report. Environmental Community U.S. Department of Energy Relations, Environmental Protection Department Federal Agency Completes LLNL Public Health Assessment: No Health Hazards Found A Public Health Assessment of the Laboratory site in Livermore was completed in mid-2004 by the nation's top public health agency. The assessment is available at http://www-envirinfo.11nl.gov/ (See 'ATSDR Completes LLNL Public Health Assessments"). The federal assessment found, "No Apparent Public Health Hazard" from past and ongoing operations of the Laboratory. An assessment of Site 300 by the same federal agency is expected in late 2004. The findings mean, "that although community exposures of site-related contaminants may have occurred or may be occurring, the resulting doses are unlikely to result in any adverse health effects and are consequently below levels of health concern." The health assessment notes that, "Past and present pathways of community exposure are below levels of public health concern."Also, "The current environmental monitoring program conducted by LLNL is adequate to ensure that future releases of hazardous substances will not present a future public health hazard." The health assessment was completed by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and took about ten years. The Agency is part of the Centers for Disease Control of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is responsible for assessing public health impacts at U.S. Department of Energy sites undergoing environmental restoration. Questions about the Livermore Main Site Public Health Assessment may be directed to ATSDR's Mark Evans at 404-498-0363. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract W-7405-ENG-48. UCRL-AR-207510 4 Environmental Community Letter October 2004