ENERGY COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE Read ECA's June 2017 Bulletin ECA Staff June 30,
2017 ECA has published the June 2017 ECA
Bulletin, a detailed brief of the major events from across the DOE nuclear complex this month.
Articles in the issue include:
- The Legislative Update: a close look at the President's FY2018 budget request, appropriations in congress, Yucca Mountain legislation, nuclear production tax credits, and more;
- ECA High-Level Waste Meeting: Clarification of HLW Definition Needed;
- Owendoff New Acting EM-1;
- ECA Comments on Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Review of SMR Early Site
Permit;
- LANL Faces Scrutiny Over Improperly Shipped Nuclear Waste; and
- Much, much more!
Questions, comments, or suggestions for future editions may be sent to ECA Program Manager Megan Casper at
meganc@energyca.org.
Trump vows to create 'American energy dominance' The Hill June 29, 2017 President Trump is formally seeking a review of energy policies to help the nuclear power industry
prosper.
Trump announced the review during a speech at the Energy Department’s headquarters, which came as part of the administration’s Energy Week
celebration.
“The golden era of American energy is now underway. And I’ll go a step further: the golden era of America is now underway, believe me,” Trump told the fossil fuel industry executives, workers, lawmakers and others assembled. >>Continue
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Senators introduce new bipartisan energy bill The Hill June 29,
2017 The leading senators overseeing energy policy introduced a new version of their broad energy reform bill
Thursday.
The legislation from Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and ranking member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) has few changes from a bill the upper chamber passed last year.
The bill, dubbed the Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017, has a wide variety of provisions, centered on energy efficiency, infrastructure and cybersecurity, as well as federal land management and sportsmen’s access. >>Continue
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Energy & Commerce Members Highlight Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments
Act U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee June 28,
2017 WASHINGTON, DC – The Energy and Commerce Committee today will vote on H.R. 3053, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017, authored by #SubEnvironment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL). H.R. 3053 provides practical reforms to the nation’s nuclear waste management policy to ensure the federal government’s legal obligations to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste
be fulfilled. Click HERE to watch #SubEnvironment Chairman Shimkus discuss H.R.
3053.
For a fact sheet on the bill, click HERE.
For a comprehensive list of the committee’s work as it relates to Yucca Mountain, click HERE.
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readingCONTRACTING & ACQUISITION Los Alamos Lab starts bid process for multibillion-dollar management
contract Albuquerque Business Journal June 27, 2017 Tuesday marked the start of a bidding process for new management to oversee Los Alamos National Laboratory, whose management contract with Los Alamos National Security LLC is set to expire next
year.
National Nuclear Security Administration spokesman Greg Wolf said the announcement has nothing to do with safety issues that have been cited at the LANL. According to the
Associated Press, those instances have included the mishandling of plutonium and radioactive waste at Los Alamos. >>Continue
readingTests making progress for Idaho nuclear waste
treatment Associated Press; Local News 8 June 29, 2017 BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Federal officials say testing of a small-scale version of a key component of an eastern Idaho radioactive waste treatment facility that has so far failed to operate is making progress at finding a
solution.
The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday says results from testing at
Hazen Research near Denver, Colorado, will be used during planned tests at the Idaho facility later this year.
The inability of the $600 million Integrated Waste Treatment Unit to process 900,000 gallons (3.5 million liters) of high-level nuclear waste stored at the 890-square-mile (2,300-sq. kilometer) Energy Department site in eastern Idaho has caused the federal agency to violate a 1995 agreement with Idaho. >>Continue
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| August 2017 | | 8-9 | Intermountain Energy Summitt |
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| August
2017 | | 16-17 | INVITATION ONLY ECA Peer Exchange: Implementation of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park Richland, WA |
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| September 2017 | | 5-7 | Radwaste Summitt 2017 Summerlin, NV |
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| September 2017 | | 12-14 | 2017 National Cleanup
Workshop Alexandria,
VA |
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| September 2017 | | 13 | House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus
Event Washington,
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