Advocates for the Oak Ridge Reservation (AFORR) was formed as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation in 1999 to coordinate efforts to protect the natural resources and the public interests in the sustainable management of the Oak Ridge Reservation.
AFORR is a membership organization open to individuals as well as other nonprofit groups that share its concerns.
As an independent watchdog group, AFORR investigates the U.S. Department of Energy's management of the Oak Ridge Reservation as well as proposals that could impact any of of the reservation's abundant values.
The ORR is Federal property, taken by eminent domain from some 1,000 family-owned farmsteads and small rural businesses for the Manhattan Project during World War II. Since the end of the war, several tracts of the ORR have been given away or at a time sold far below market value. Of the origiinal 58,575 acre Reservation, little more thann 33,000 acres remain today.
In disregard of provisions of the National Environmental Protection Act and even DOE's NEPA guidance, DOE has neglected to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the ORR.
AFORR keeps insisting on a thorough EIS with ample opportunity for public input and comprehensive analysis of cumulative environmental impacts.