Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy lists the Idaho National Laboratory as a possible site for storing about 1,300 dump truck loads of low level radioactive waste. A final environmental impact statement says possible methods of disposal at the 890-square-mile federal site in eastern Idaho include an intermediate-depth borehole disposal facility, a near-surface trench, or in a vault. The federal agency's preferred alternative according to the document made available in March is the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant geologic repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The INL is listed as a possibility in three other alternatives that also include the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state, the Nevada National Security Site and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. A final decision must involve Congress. The timeline on that isn't clear.

You can read a full report here from AP reporter Keith Ridler, which includes a Department of Energy statement to the AP saying the low level radioactive waste "is not related to the 1995 agreement" to remove nuclear waste from Idaho. Former Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus disagreed, saying such waste was a violation. "The first thing DOE should do is comply with the '95 agreement in which they are in violation of and clean up the waste that's already there," Andrus said Wednesday. "Don't talk about bringing more garbage in."

Here's a link to the EIS.