diff --git a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ccpp-scm/spack.yaml b/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ccpp-scm/spack.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bdebca4a..000000000
--- a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ccpp-scm/spack.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-spack:
-  concretizer:
-    unify: when_possible
-
-  config:
-    install_tree:
-      root: $env/install
-  modules:
-    default:
-      roots:
-        lmod: $env/install/modulefiles
-        tcl: $env/install/modulefiles
-
-  view: false
-  include: []
-
-  specs:
-  - netcdf-fortran
-  - bacio
-  - sp
-  - w3emc
-  - py-f90nml
-  - py-numpy
-  - py-netcdf4
diff --git a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/gfs-v16.2/spack.yaml b/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/gfs-v16.2/spack.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index b1ae3d487..000000000
--- a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/gfs-v16.2/spack.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-spack:
-  concretizer:
-    unify: when_possible
-
-  config:
-    install_tree:
-      root: $env/install
-    deprecated: true
-  modules:
-    default:
-      roots:
-        lmod: $env/install/modulefiles
-        tcl: $env/install/modulefiles
-
-  view: false
-
-  specs:
-  - jpeg@9.1.0
-  - zlib@1.2.11
-  - szip@2.1.1
-  - jasper@2.0.25
-  - udunits@2.2.28
-  - hdf5@1.10.6
-  - netcdf-c@4.7.4
-  - netcdf-fortran@4.5.3
-  - netcdf-cxx4@4.3.1
-  - nco@5.0.6
-  - cdo@1.9.8
-  - parallelio@2.5.3
-  - esmf@8.0.1
-  - fms@2021.03
-  - bacio@2.4.1
-  - sigio@2.3.2
-  - sfcio@1.4.1
-  - gfsio@1.4.1
-  - w3nco@2.4.1
-  - sp@2.3.3
-  - ip@3.3.3
-  - ip2@1.1.2
-  - landsfcutil@2.4.1
-  - nemsio@2.5.2
-  - nemsiogfs@2.5.3
-  - w3emc@2.9.2
-  - g2@3.4.5
-  - g2tmpl@1.9.1
-  - crtm@2.3.0
-  - upp@8.1.0
-  - wrf-io@1.2.0
-  - bufr@11.4.0
-  - wgrib2@2.0.7
-  - prod-util@1.2.2
-  - grib-util@1.2.3
-  - ncio@1.0.0
-  - madis@4.3.0
-  - met@10.1.0
-  - metplus@4.1.0
diff --git a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/gsi-addon-dev/spack.yaml b/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/gsi-addon-dev/spack.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ca410405..000000000
--- a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/gsi-addon-dev/spack.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Note that an upstream must be set for this template using
-# spack create env --upstream=/path/to/envs/env-name/install
-# Also, the compilers must be set manually below to match the
-# compilers of the upstream environment
-
-spack:
-  concretizer:
-    unify: when_possible
-
-  view: false
-  include:
-  - site
-  - common
-  definitions:
-  - compilers: ['%aocc', '%apple-clang', '%gcc', '%intel', '%oneapi']
-  - packages:
-    - global-workflow-env
-    - ufs-weather-model-env
-    - emc-verif-global-env
-    - gsi-env
-
-  packages:
-      met:
-         require:: '@9.1.3 +python +grib2'
-      metplus:
-         require:: '@3.1.1 ^met@9.1.3'
-
-  specs:
-  - matrix:
-    - [$packages]
-    - [$compilers]
diff --git a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/jedi-mpas-nvidia-dev/spack.yaml b/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/jedi-mpas-nvidia-dev/spack.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index cbd30f556..000000000
--- a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/jedi-mpas-nvidia-dev/spack.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-# This template minimizes skylab-dev to just the required parts of the jedi-mpas-env virtual env
-# needed for compiling subsets of jedi with the compilers provided in the Nvidia HPC SDK.
-#
-# So, this template is basically a listing of the packages within jedi-mpas-env, but with some
-# packages excluded for reasons such as:
-# - python is excluded because we don't dare compile it with nvhpc, and it's just too cumbersome
-#   to list all of python's dependencies and all relevant python packages as being compiled with
-#   the fallback gcc compiler.
-#   NB: Python is needed so should be installed from the distro's package manager!
-# - gsibec is excluded because it doesn't build with nvhpc, but as it is Fortran code we don't
-#   have the option of falling back to gcc.
-# - various file-format libraries are excluded because they're not needed yet, and excluding
-#   them for now is simply a better use of resources.
-# - jasper is excluded because it's difficult to compile
-#
-spack:
-  concretizer:
-    unify: when_possible
-
-  view: false
-  include: []
-
-  specs:
-
-  # packages from base-env
-  # removed python
-  # removed py-* packages
-  - hdf5
-  - nccmp
-  - netcdf-c
-  - netcdf-fortran
-  - parallel-netcdf
-  - parallelio
-  - wget
-
-  # packages from jedi-base-env
-  # removed gsibec
-  # removed py-* packages
-  # removed ncview
-  # and these file-format libraries not needed to run jedi from IODA files
-  # removed bufr, bufr-query, netcdf-cxx4
-  # removed odc
-  # removed eccodes
-  # removed hdf
-  - bison
-  - boost
-  - ecbuild
-  - eckit
-  - ecmwf-atlas
-  - eigen
-  - ectrans
-  - fckit
-  - fftw
-  - flex
-  - git-lfs
-  - gsl-lite
-  - jedi-cmake
-  - nlohmann-json
-  - nlohmann-json-schema-validator
-  - udunits
-
-  # packages from jedi-mpas-env
-  # removed jasper
-  - metis
-
-  # added packages
-  - netcdf-cxx4
-  - zlib
diff --git a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-srw-dev/spack.yaml b/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-srw-dev/spack.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 55a1db94e..000000000
--- a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-srw-dev/spack.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-spack:
-  config:
-    install_tree:
-      root: $env/install
-    deprecated: true
-  modules:
-    default:
-      roots:
-        lmod: $env/install/modulefiles
-        tcl: $env/install/modulefiles
-      lmod:
-        projections:
-          parallelio: 'pio/{version}'
-          wrf-io: 'wrf_io/{version}'
-          gsi-ncdiag: 'ncdiag/{version}'
-      tcl: 
-        projections:
-          parallelio: '{^mpi.name}/{^mpi.version}/{compiler.name}/{compiler.version}/pio/{version}'
-          wrf-io: '{^mpi.name}/{^mpi.version}/{compiler.name}/{compiler.version}/wrf_io/{version}'
-          gsi-ncdiag: '{^mpi.name}/{^mpi.version}/{compiler.name}/{compiler.version}/ncdiag/{version}'
-
-  view: false
-  include:
-  - site
-  concretizer:
-    unify: true
-
-  specs:
-  - jasper@2.0.32
-  - zlib@1.2.13
-  - libpng@1.6.37
-  - hdf5@1.14.0
-  - netcdf-c@4.9.2
-  - netcdf-fortran@4.6.0
-  - parallelio@2.5.10
-  - esmf@8.4.2
-  - fms@2023.01
-  - bufr@12.0.0
-  - bacio@2.4.1
-  - crtm@2.4.0
-  - g2@3.4.5
-  - g2tmpl@1.10.2
-  - ip@3.3.3
-  - sp@2.3.3
-  - w3nco@2.4.1
-  - gftl-shared@1.5.0
-  - yafyaml@1.1.0
-  - mapl@2.35.2
-  - nemsio@2.5.4
-  - sfcio@1.4.1
-  - sigio@2.3.2
-  - w3emc@2.9.2
-  - wgrib2@2.0.8
-  - wrf-io@1.2.0
-  - ncio@1.1.2
-  - gsi-ncdiag@1.1.2
-  - met@11.1.1
-  - metplus@5.1.0
diff --git a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-srw-public-v2/spack.yaml b/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-srw-public-v2/spack.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4313eff88..000000000
--- a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-srw-public-v2/spack.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-spack:
-  config:
-    install_tree:
-      root: $env/install
-    deprecated: true
-  modules:
-    default:
-      roots:
-        lmod: $env/install/modulefiles
-        tcl: $env/install/modulefiles
-      lmod:
-        projections:
-          gsi-ncdiag: 'ncdiag/{version}'
-      tcl: 
-        projections:
-          gsi-ncdiag: '{^mpi.name}/{^mpi.version}/{compiler.name}/{compiler.version}/ncdiag/{version}'
-
-  view: false
-  include: []
-
-  concretizer:
-    unify: true
-
-  specs:
-  - jasper@2.0.25
-  - zlib@1.2.11
-  - libpng@1.6.37
-  - hdf5@1.10.6
-  - netcdf-c@4.7.4
-  - netcdf-fortran@4.5.4
-  - parallelio@2.5.2
-  - esmf@8.3.0b09
-  - fms@2021.03
-  - bacio@2.4.1
-  - crtm@2.3.0
-  - g2@3.4.3
-  - g2tmpl@1.10.0
-  - ip@3.3.3
-  - sp@2.3.3
-  - w3nco@2.4.1
-  - upp@10.0.10
-  - gftl-shared@1.3.3
-  - yafyaml@0.5.1
-  - mapl@2.22.0
-  - gfsio@1.4.1
-  - landsfcutil@2.4.1
-  - nemsio@2.5.2
-  - nemsiogfs@2.5.3
-  - sfcio@1.4.1
-  - sigio@2.3.2
-  - w3emc@2.7.3
-  - wgrib2@2.0.8
-  - gsi-ncdiag@1.0.0
diff --git a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-utils/spack.yaml b/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-utils/spack.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index ba7a6cc9e..000000000
--- a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-utils/spack.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-spack:
-  concretizer:
-    unify: when_possible
-
-  config:
-    install_tree:
-      root: $env/install
-  modules:
-    default:
-      roots:
-        lmod: $env/install/modulefiles
-        tcl: $env/install/modulefiles
-
-  view: false
-  include: []
-
-  specs:
-  - ufs-utils-env~debug  
-  - sigio@2.3.2
-  - sfcio@1.4.1
-  - g2@3.4.5
-  - g2tmpl@1.9.1
-  - ip@4.0.0
-  - nemsio@2.5.4
-  - zlib@1.2.11
-  - hdf5@1.10.6
-  - netcdf-c@4.7.4
-  - netcdf-fortran@4.5.3
-  - esmf@8.4.0b08
-  - nco@4.9.1
-  - nccmp@1.8.9.0
-  - libpng@1.6.35
-  - prod-util@1.2.1
-  - jasper@2.0.25
-  - bufr@11.7.0
-  - wgrib2@2.0.8
diff --git a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-weather-model-static/spack.yaml b/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-weather-model-static/spack.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index e1010095e..000000000
--- a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-weather-model-static/spack.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-# The intent of this template is to "clone" the stack available on WCOSS2
-# insofar as needed to support the UFS Weather Model. Install as ufswm-env.
-# Updated April 2024 by Alex Richert
-spack:
-  concretizer:
-    unify: true
-  config:
-    deprecated: true
-    install_tree:
-      root: $env/install
-  modules:
-    default:
-      roots:
-        lmod: $env/install/modulefiles
-        tcl: $env/install/modulefiles
-  view: false
-  include:
-  - site
-  - common
-  specs:
-  - bacio@2.4.1
-  - crtm@=2.4.0 ~fix
-  - esmf@8.6.1 +external-parallelio ~xerces ~pnetcdf snapshot=none fflags="-fp-model precise" cxxflags="-fp-model precise"
-  - fms@2024.02 constants=GFS precision=32,64 +quad_precision +gfs_phys +openmp
-  - g2@3.5.1
-  - g2tmpl@1.13.0
-  - gftl-shared@1.6.1
-  - hdf5@1.14.0 +hl +mpi ~tools ~szip
-  - ip@3.3.3 +openmp
-  - jasper@2.0.25
-  - libjpeg-turbo
-  - libpng@1.6.37 libs=static
-  - mapl@2.46.3 ~pflogger ~fargparse ~extdata2g ~f2py
-  - netcdf-c@4.9.2 ~parallel-netcdf +mpi ~dap ~szip
-  - netcdf-fortran@4.6.0
-  - parallel-netcdf@1.12.2
-  - parallelio@2.5.10 +fortran~pnetcdf
-  - scotch@7.0.4 +mpi +metis ~threads ~mpi_thread +noarch
-  - sp@2.3.3 ~openmp
-  - w3emc@2.9.2
-  - zlib@1.2.11
-  packages:
-    all:
-      require:
-      - any_of: ['%intel@19.1.3.304', '%intel']
-      - any_of: ['build_type=Release', '@:']
-      - any_of: ['~shared', '@:']
-      - any_of: ['+pic', '@:']
-    cmake:
-      require: '@3.20.2'
-    libxml2:
-      require: '+shared'
-    gettext:
-      require: '+shared'
-    netcdf-c:
-      require: 'build_system=autotools'
diff --git a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-weather-model/spack.yaml b/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-weather-model/spack.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5318ca2a2..000000000
--- a/configs/templates_NOT_YET_CONVERTED_TO_SPACK_v1/ufs-weather-model/spack.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-spack:
-  concretizer:
-    unify: when_possible
-
-  config:
-    install_tree:
-      root: $env/install
-  modules:
-    default:
-      roots:
-        lmod: $env/install/modulefiles
-        tcl: $env/install/modulefiles
-
-  view: false
-  include: []
-
-  specs:
-    - ufs-weather-model-env~debug