CONTRACTING
Hanford Communities and ECA submit letters regarding recent EM contracting impacts on small businesses
ECA Staff | 2/12/2021
In recent weeks, ECA staff has been coordinating with Hanford communities a response on an Office of Environmental Management (EM) contracting change that has impacted small and local businesses within the Hanford area. In response to this contracting change, both ECA and Hanford communities submitted letters to the Department of Energy (DOE).
Both letters requests that DOE and EM mitigate the recent impacts of contracting decisions at Hanford and ensure the same contracting decisions that led to the impacts on the local businesses at Hanford do not occur at other EM sites.
Read the Hanford Communities letter here.
Read the ECA letter here.
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REACTORS
U.S. Department of Energy Extends Public Comment Period for Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Versatile Test Reactor
Office of Nuclear Energy | 2/12/2021
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has extended the public review and comment period for the Draft Versatile Test Reactor Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS-0542) through March 2, 2021.
DOE issued the Draft Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) EIS for public review and comment on December 21, 2020. The Draft document identifies Idaho National Laboratory (INL) as DOE’s preferred location for the VTR. DOE’s VTR is a proposed sodium-cooled fast-neutron-spectrum test reactor that will enhance and accelerate research, development, and demonstration of innovative nuclear energy
technologies.
ENERGY COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE
EXCITING SPEAKER LINE-UP FOR HIGH LEVEL WASTE WEBINAR
ECA will be hosting a webinar on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 from 12:00PM to 4:00PM ET. The webinar will include discussions on DOE cleanup priorities, how Congress plans to address nuclear waste, storage options, and what to expect in the incoming Biden administration.
Registration is free.
Please find below the speaker list. ECA welcomes:
- Mark Gilbertson, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory and Policy Affairs
- Kara Colton, Director of Nuclear Policy, ECA
- Bob Thompson, Councilmember, City of Richland, WA
- Rebecca Casper, Mayor, City of Idaho Falls, ID
- JJ Chavez, Councilmember, City of Carlsbad, NM
- Rick McLeod, President/CEO, Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organization
- David Klaus, Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation
- Dr. Matt Bowen, Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University/SIPA
- Jim Hamilton, Founder and Executive Director, Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative
- Mary Louise Wagner, Consultant
- Tim Smith, President, Governmental Strategies, Inc.
A full agenda can be found here.
NUCLEAR WASTE
NUCLEAR ENERGY
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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Interested in learning more? Read the ECA report “Making Informed Decisions on DOE's Proposed High Level Waste Definition” at www.energyca.org/publications
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