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Saaamanto <br /> Site 300 <br /> ooktan <br /> LLHL <br /> • e They <br /> L!tvwynon <br /> SIta <br /> sea High Explosive Open Burn, <br /> San Joeaa Treatment Facility -'♦ <br /> Cargy H*WW ao'° <br /> Figure 1 <br /> Land Use/Environmental <br /> Facility Description and Setting <br /> Operations <br /> Land Use: The Lawrence Livermore National <br /> Laboratory - Site 300 Experimental Test Site <br /> The Lawrence Livermore National was purchased by the Atomic Energy <br /> Laboratory - Site 300 facility occupies Commission to fulfill the mission of high <br /> approximately 11 square miles. The site is explosive testing in 1955. The previous land <br /> operated by the University of California as use was agricultural, primarily grazing land <br /> an experimental test site for the U.S. for cattle and sheep. The nearest residential <br /> Department of Energy (Figure 1). About area is the town of Tracy, located 6 miles to <br /> one-sixth of the site lies in Alameda County, the northeast. The closest school is within <br /> and the remainder is in San Joaquin County. approximately 8 miles. State Highway 580 <br /> runs within 2 miles of the Site 300 facility <br /> The closed High Explosive Open Burn boundary. Surrounding land is primarily <br /> Treatment Facility occupies less than '/2 acre agricultural, commercial, and wind farms. <br /> and consists of three open air burn pits that SRI International, a research facility, operates <br /> were used to thermally treat high explosive a testing site located less than 1 mile south of <br /> wastes. The facility has been in operation Site 300. The Carnegie State Vehicular <br /> since 1955. A cap was constructed over the Recreation Area is located south across Corral <br /> burn pits and closed in 1999. Hollow Road. PrimexPhysics International, <br /> no longer in operation, is located east of Site <br /> 300. <br /> Page 2 <br />