WIPP (Carlsbad) Federal Radioactive Waste Corridor (NM)
Tracked preemption from the New Mexico overlay bundle.
Overview
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Effective
1992-10-30
Sunset
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Authority
federal
Scope
state:NM
Other New Mexico preemptions
NMSA 3-21A — Manufactured Home Siting Non-DiscriminationMilitary AICUZ / Federal Installation Overlays (Kirtland AFB, Holloman AFB, WSMR, Cannon AFB)N.M. Const. Art. X § 6 — Constitutional Municipal Home Rule (Charter Cities)NMSA 3-21 — Municipal/County Zoning Enabling Act (Dillon's Rule Baseline)NMSA 3-21-2 / 3-21-6 — Extraterritorial Joint Zoning Authority (EZA/ELUC, SFEZO)Los Alamos County / LANL Federal–County Hybrid GovernanceFederal-Land Jurisdiction Carve-Out (BLM / USFS / NPS / State Trust Lands)Acequia / Community Ditch Overlay (NMSA Ch. 73)
Trigger predicate
When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.
AND
parcel.fips_county_code==35025parcel.adjacent_to_wipp_corridor==True
Preempted fields
1 field on the base district schema is rewritten when the trigger fires.
| Field | Op | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
municipal_zoning_applicability | override | federal_within_wipp_withdrawal | 16-sq-mi WIPP Land Withdrawal Area (Eddy County) is DOE federal land outside Carlsbad/Eddy County zoning. WIPP transportation corridor (TRUPACT-II shipments on designated highway routes) is regulated under DOT/NRC rules, not local zoning |
Citation
Authority source
WIPP Land Withdrawal Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102-579); 40 CFR Parts 191, 194 (EPA WIPP compliance); DOE Carlsbad Field Office authority
§ WIPP LWA §§ 3, 4 (land withdrawal + transfers)
Research notes
WIPP is the only operational deep-geologic transuranic-waste repository in the U.S., operated by DOE in a 16-sq-mi withdrawn salt-bed formation ~26 mi east of Carlsbad, Eddy County. The withdrawal area itself is federal land outside county zoning; the broader Carlsbad / Loving / Hobbs region carries WIPP-related transportation, emergency-response, and exclusion-zone overlays that interact with municipal zoning where shipments traverse highway corridors. Included as a state-level overlay because it materially affects how Carlsbad and Eddy County land-use records are interpreted, even though the underlying authority is federal.