Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board set to visit Pahrump

The Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board plans to meet in Pahrump, officials said.

The meeting is set for 4 p.m. today at the Bob Ruud Community Center, at 150 N. Highway 160.

The planned meeting topics include a briefing and recommendation development for proposed changes to long-term monitoring at closed soil and industrial sites and recommendation development for groundwater communication activities for the Nevada National Security Site, according to the news release.

Kelly Snyder, public affairs manager for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nevada Site Office, said the meeting is open to the public and there is a public comment period.

“The Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board holds at least one meeting per year in Pahrump,” Snyder said in an email. “It is important to the department to host public meetings in Pahrump, and other rural areas near the Nevada National Security Site, to ensure that communities are aware of the environmental management activities taking place at the Nevada National Security Site.”

Currently, the Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board has 20 voting members from Pahrump, Amargosa Valley, Beatty, Henderson, Las Vegas, Mesquite, Boulder City, Panaca, North Las Vegas and Goldfield.

Liaisons, who are not voting members, participate in advisory board deliberations and contribute their institutional views.

Liaisons represent Clark County, Consolidated Group of Tribes and Organizations, Esmeralda County Commission, Nye County Commission, Nye County Emergency Management, Nye County Nuclear Waste Repository Project Office, state of Nevada, U.S. National Park Service and White Pine County Commission.

Prior to the public meeting, an educational session is set to begin at 3 p.m. on subsurface microbial worlds of the Nevada National Security Site and the Death Valley Flow System by Duane Moser of the Desert Research Institute.

The Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board is a federally chartered board comprised of rural and urban southern Nevada residents who provide recommendations to the DOE Environmental Management Nevada Program regarding environmental cleanup activities at the Nevada National Security Site.

According to its website, the Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board is comprised of volunteers who represent Nevada stakeholders by reviewing and commenting on environmental restoration and waste management activities at the Nevada National Security Site. The site formerly was known as the Nevada Test Site.

For more information, visit the board website at www.nnss.gov/nssab/

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