ENERGY COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE Read ECA's July 2017 Bulletin ECA Staff July 31, 2017 ECA has published the July 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 appropriations in Congress, the National Defense Authorization Act, DOE and NRC nominations in the Senate, and more;
- Lessons Learned from DOE Cleanups;
- New Acting EM Assistant Secretary Jim
Owendoff Lays Out His Vision;
- ECA Submits Comments to DOE on Streamlining Operations and Regulations; and
- Much, much more!
Questions, comments, or suggestions for future editions may be sent to ECA Program Manager Megan Casper at meganc@energyca.org.
CONTRACTING & ACQUISITION No Hanford contracting plan yet, but DOE continues to seek interested companies Tri-City
Herald July 29, 2017 The Department of Energy has yet to release its master plan for new Hanford contracts, but is continuing to ask for information from businesses interested in performing work at the nuclear reservation.
Late last week it put out a request for information from companies interested in performing part or all of a new management and services contract for
the Hanford 222-S Laboratory. The last time the lab contract was awarded it was valued at $44.6 million over five years. >>Continue reading Los Alamos County Submits Comments To NNSA On Draft Solicitation For LANL Site
M&O Contract Competition Los Alamos Daily Post July 28,
2017 Both County Council Chair David Izraelevitz and County
Manager Harry Burgess submitted letters to NNSA Wednesday outlining concerns about the draft solicitation for LANL site management and operating contract competition, just ahead of the July 26 comment deadline.
Burgess’ letter highlighted primary concerns that the County would like to see
addressed, and the letter from Chair Izraelevitz offered more details and attached documentation.
Burgess listed 13 points in his letter, which ranged from concerns over the structure of the contract to a lack of recognition and language in the solicitation about the important relationships that
must be maintained and funded with the community, businesses, schools and Northern New Mexico partners. >>Continue
reading Piketon, DOE spar over proposed
on-site waste site Chillicothe Gazette July 30,
2017 PIKETON – As those involved with cleanup operations at
the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon celebrate the most recent funding allocated for work to create an on-site waste disposal facility, officials within Piketon's village government are stepping up efforts to prove that work should be stopped.
Officials from the village met
with a representative of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency July 10 to discuss conclusions reached by a third-party environmental consultant, The Ferguson Group’s Karl Kalbacher, who the village hired to evaluate plans for a 100-acre disposal cell that would handle low-level contaminated waste from the cleanup work. >>Continue reading Letter to the Editor: WIPP's recovery ongoing Current Argus July 30, 2017 While we are all extremely pleased that shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (the Department of Energy’s underground repository for defense-generated transuranic waste near Carlsbad, New Mexico) have resumed, we need to make certain that they are not halted again in the future due to a failure to address maintenance issues. During WIPP’s recovery phase, resources were
devoted toward making necessary repairs to return the underground portion of the facility to an operational status, but aging infrastructure has not been replaced. WIPP has now been in existence for 35 years. The environment beneath the surface is corrosive, and little maintenance money has been devoted toward improvements to the site’s infrastructure, particularly on the surface. >>Continue reading |
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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 |
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| September 2017 | | 5-7 | Radwaste Summitt 2017 |
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| September 2017 | | 12-14 | 2017 National Cleanup
Workshop |
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| September 2017 | | 13 | House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus Event |
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