Cleanup & Remediation

The U.S. Department of Energy on Sept. 27 officially issued up to one-year contract extensions for waste tank and Central Plateau cleanup at the Hanford Site in Washington state, as federal procurement officials work on long-term awards for those and other major projects. The previously announced extensions will be worth $665 million for AECOM-led Washington […]

The state of Idaho has assessed the U.S. Energy Department $6.77 million in fines for failure to start operating the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the Idaho National Laboratory by the end of 2012. The Energy Department has already paid, or is in the process of working off, more than $5.6 million of the […]

The Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) could be eligible for around $250 million in fees over three years, if the Department of Energy picks up the team’s options to manage the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., according to the text of a contract modification awarded over the summer. The modification, signed on July […]

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Tuesday praised remediation at the Hanford Site in Washington state as he attended a celebration to commemorate the completion of the K-Basin sludge transfer. “Thanks to the expertise and perseverance of our dedicated men and women on the ground … the removal of sludge away from the Columbia River […]

Three Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee say the U.S. Energy Department should tap the brakes on issuing a multibillion-dollar contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state, to a vendor being sued by the United States under the False Claims Act. While the lawmakers’ Sept. 27 letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry is short […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking capability statements from contractors ahead of an anticipated procurement for remediation services at the Luckey Site in Ohio under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The Army Corps issued a sources sought notice on Sept. 24. Capability statements are due by 10 a.m. Eastern time […]

The U.S. Energy Department is giving interested vendors four more days, until Tuesday, Oct. 8, to comment on a draft request for proposals on a nationwide deactivation, decommissioning, and removal services contract that could be worth $3 billion. The agency’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center announced the deadline extension Tuesday on the FidBizOpps website. The […]

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Tuesday praised remediation at the Hanford Site in Washington state as he attended a celebration to commemorate the completion of the K-Basin sludge transfer. “Thanks to the expertise and perseverance of our dedicated men and women on the ground … the removal of sludge away from the Columbia River […]

Three Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee say the U.S. Energy Department should hold off on issuing a multibillion-dollar contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state, to a vendor being sued by the United States under the False Claims Act. In a Sept. 27 letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), […]

A federal jury on Friday ordered a contractor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site to pay nearly $1.5 million in damages and back pay to a former employee who said she was subjected to wrongful retaliation after she was laid off six years ago. Jurors who heard the case last week agreed race could not be […]

The Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) could be eligible for around $250 million in fees over three years, if the Department of Energy picks up the team’s options to manage the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., according to the text of a contract modification awarded over the summer. The modification, signed on July […]

Idaho-based North Wind Group is picking up about $30 million worth of additional business in California from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. Within the past week, the company received word of a $22 million award for services at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as well as a two-year extension, worth between […]

The U.S. Energy Department is again delaying issuance of a draft record of decision (ROD) for its proposed new 2.2-million-cubic yard landfill for the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. The document had been due Monday. A DOE spokesman said by email Monday the ROD’s release was pushed back another month, until Oct. 31. It was […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking capability statements from contractors ahead of an anticipated procurement for remediation services at the Luckey Site in Ohio under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The Army Corps issued a sources sought notice on Sept. 24. Capability statements are due by 10 a.m. Eastern time […]

The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday officially issued up to one-year contract extensions for waste tank and Central Plateau cleanup at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The previously announced extensions will be worth $665 million for AECOM-led Washington River Protection Solutions and $500 million to Jacobs subsidiary CH2M Plateau Remediation, DOE said. The […]

The state of Idaho has assessed the U.S. Energy Department $6.77 million in fines for failure to start operating the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the Idaho National Laboratory by the end of 2012. The Energy Department has already paid, or worked off, more than half of the monetary fines, according to data provided […]

Nearly a month past its own declared schedule, the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management still has not issued a draft request for proposals (RFP) for further cleanup of the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. On July 2, DOE said in a notice on the federal procurement website FedBizOpps that it anticipated issuing the […]

An agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and Boeing does not require the federal agency to pay for access to property owned by the company at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County, Calif. Instead, the contract extension cited in a Sept. 20 Weapons Complex Monitor article covers Boeing’s potentially reimbursable costs for […]

Fluor, the Texas-based engineering and construction giant trying to reverse its worsening financial condition, said Tuesday it will sell off its government contracting business that includes its work for the U.S. Department of Energy. While long a major player in government services, Fluor sees the business as a valuable property that can be moved in […]

The U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management, and the rest of the federal government, would keep operating beyond the end of fiscal 2019 on Monday under a stopgap spending bill awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature at deadline Friday for Weapons Complex Monitor. The Senate voted 82-15 on Thursday to pass the continuing resolution, with […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee wants additional cost information before Congress provides any more funding for the Department of Energy’s planned new landfill at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. “The Committee is disappointed in the lack of progress in issuing the Record of Decision for the new landfill and recommends no funding to continue the […]

The U.S. Energy Department on Monday formally announced it would demolish the final 18 structures at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California. The plan is laid out in a new record of decision for remediation of the DOE-held Area IV and Northern Buffer Zone at Santa […]

Fluor, the Texas-based engineering and construction giant trying to reverse its worsening financial condition, said this week it will sell off its government contracting business that includes all its work for the Department of Energy. Long a major player in government services, the laboring Fluor now sees the business as a valuable property that can […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency required significant revisions to four documents submitted for remediation of the radioactively contaminated portion of the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Missouri. Contractor Parsons Corp. in July filed draft versions of the emergency response and site management plans for Operable Unit 1 (OU-1) at West Lake, then in August […]

Companies in the U.S. Energy Department nuclear cleanup sector are still trying to gauge the impact of Fluor’s decision to divest its government contracting business. There are still far more questions than answers among DOE contractors, subcontractors, and workforce, several sources said following the Tuesday announcement from the Texas-based engineering and construction giant. “Nobody really […]

Fluor’s announcement Tuesday that it will sell off its government business unit opens the door for one of its peers to take full or partial ownership of multibillion-dollar contracts for the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management and semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The Irving, Texas-based engineering and construction multinational is lead partner […]

Nearly a month past its own declared schedule, the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management still has not issued a draft request for proposals (RFP) for further cleanup of the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. On July 2, DOE said in a notice on the federal procurement website FedBizOpps that it anticipated issuing the […]

Texas-based Fluor, a pillar of the U.S. Energy Department’s nuclear operations and cleanup complexes, said Tuesday it will exit the government market as part of a company shakeup following recent hard times. CEO Carlos Hernandez and Executive Chairman Alan Boeckmann announced plans to divest the company’s government services business, as well as the AMECO construction […]

The U.S. Energy Department on Monday formally announced it would demolish the final 18 structures at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California. The plan is laid out in a new record of decision for remediation of the DOE-held Area IV and Northern Buffer Zone at Santa […]

A Colorado-based company has won a roughly $2.8 million litigation support contract for the U.S. Energy Department’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center. The Cincinnati-based procurement center for the DOE Office of Environmental Management published the award to TLI Solutions on Sept. 19. The contractor will support the EMCBC chief counsel in “simple and complex litigation” […]