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[Document Type] EA [Document Number] DOE/EA-1408 [Title] Future Disposition of Certain Cerro Grande Fire Flood and Sediment Retention Structures [Decision] FONSI: August 2002 [Summary] 
This EA was prepared to analyze the environmental consequences that resulted from the disposition of certain flood retention structures built in the wake of the Cerro Grande Fire within the boundaries of LANL. Due to hydrophobic soils (non-permeable soil areas created as a result of very high temperatures often associated with wild fires) and the loss of vegetation from steep canyon sides caused by the fire, surface runoff and soil erosion on hillsides above LANL were greatly increased over prefire levels. The danger to LANL facilities and structures and homes located down-canyon from the burned area was magnified.
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