Cleanup & Remediation

The business owner who gave $40,000 in kickbacks to Fluor Hanford purchasers has been sentenced to community service rather than jail time. Shane Fast, owner of the defunct Fast Pipe and Supply and a former Congressional candidate, must perform 100 hours of community service and pay a fine of $1,000, ruled Judge Lonny Suko of […]

Idaho cleanup contractor CH2M WG Idaho inappropriately transferred about $7.9 million in funds from the Sodium Bearing Waste Treatment Facility construction project to other accounts, resulting in an understated total project cost, according to a Department of Energy Inspector General report released this week. In an effort to reduce SBWT total project costs below the […]

The Department of Energy plans an assessment of shipments of radioactive waste within short distances of Hanford after safety concerns were raised. The Washington State Department of Ecology raised some initial issues in a report on an ongoing inspection in July obtained by Hanford Challenge. However, the Department of Ecology does not have regulatory authority […]

Ken Rueter has been tapped to serve as the next president and project manager for Savannah River Remediation, LLC, the liquid waste contractor for the Savannah River Site, effective Sept. 16. Rueter currently serves as chief operating officer for URS-CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC, and URS has begun an internal process to select a replacement, according […]

The Department of Energy has extended the deadline for bids for the new support services contract for the Department’s Transportation Tracking and Communications System to Sept. 11, from a previous due date of Aug. 27. The extension was included in a brief amendment issued to the Request for Proposals for the new contract earlier this […]

The Government Accountability Office late last week denied two protests of the Army Corps of Engineers award of a contract for cleanup of the Maywood site. The Corps awarded the contract in May to Cabrera Services and CB&I, which prompted protests from two teams—Maywood Closure Company, LLC, and a team of Terranear and EnergySolutions. Those […]

With no sign on the horizon of the Department of Energy completing a final Fiscal Year 2012 fee determination for one of its main cleanup contractors—CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co.—a set of DOE letters Weapons Complex Monitor obtained yesterday through the Freedom of Information Act helps provide some insight into the Hanford contractor’s fee performance for […]

Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, the managing contractor for the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project, has lost $50,000 in fee for the early departure of two key personnel ahead of a two-year commitment, the Department of Energy said last week. ITG lost $25,000 each—the maximum penalty under its contract—for the departure of former Environment, Safety and […]

ExchangeMonitor Publications’ seventh annual RadWaste Summit is scheduled to get underway later today. The summit, set to run from Sept. 3-6., is scheduled to feature presentations on a variety of radioactive waste topics from speakers such as NRC Commission William Ostendorff, Nevada Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Leo Drozdoff, New Mexico Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn, […]

Unusual radiation readings that caused an emergency alert to be declared last month at Hanford came from old contamination, according to Hanford officials. No evidence of a new leak from the sluicing system being used to retrieve waste from a Hanford tank or from the system’s transfer hoses was found, Hanford workers were told yesterday. […]

The Department of Energy anticipates releasing this week a draft Request for Task Proposals for the new environmental monitoring and facility D&D contract at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site, according to a notice issued yesterday. The procurement is set to be conducted under DOE’s set of national small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity […]

The extent of potential layoffs coming for workers at liquid waste contractor Savannah River Remediation has become even more uncertain, as the Department of Energy this week said recent reports warning of “hundreds” of layoffs were inaccurate. Tank waste cleanup at SRS was cut about $183 million in DOE’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget request, and […]

The Department of Energy yesterday awarded a $1.29 million task order to Waste Control Specialists for disposal of mixed low-level waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory. “The work to be performed under this task order includes the receipt and disposal of 207 cubic yards of Class C Mixed Low-Level Waste,” said a DOE release, which […]

The Department of Energy yesterday issued for industry comment the draft Request for Task Proposals for the new environmental monitoring and D&D contract at the Energy Technology Engineering Center site (ETEC) in California. Among the areas where DOE is looking for input is the “important discriminating factors” that should be used in making an award […]

The Department of Energy yesterday posted its plans to launch a small business procurement for environmental characterization and remediation.  A team of Navarro Research and Engineering and INTERA has held the environmental characterization and remediation contract at Nevada since 2009. For a follow-on contract the Department is considering a cost plus award fee contract with […]

Salmon Group Inc. has won a new contract to provide administrative support services to the Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office, according to a notice published yesterday on the FedBizOpps Web site. The new contract, which was competed as an 8(a) small business set-aside, is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity-type contract with firm fixed-price task orders. […]

The Department of Energy provided yesterday what some may say are among the most important details of the planned follow-on cleanup contract for the Nevada National Security Site—its term and value.  According to a revised sources sought notice, the new contract is set to have a ceiling value of $90-130 million over a potential five-year […]

After delays earlier this year due to funding issues, the Department of Energy has set a schedule for its implementation of recommendations to minimize risk at the Savannah River Site’s former plutonium facility, 235-F. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board released a recommendation in May 2012 finding that a fire or earthquakes at the facility could […]

The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest filed over the Department of Energy Richland Operations Office’s award of two blanket purchase agreements for business support services to Corporate Allocations Services, Inc., and Longenecker & Associates, Inc. The protest was filed in late July by Interactive Technology Group, Inc., and it remains unclear whether DOE […]

Cabrera Services has hired Todd Trometer as a new Senior Program and Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) Manager. Trometer previously worked as president of T2 Strategic Consulting Services. In his new role with Cabrera, Trometer’s new role “will be to lead Cabrera’s MMRP, provide business development and environmental remediation support including Cabrera’s innovative technologies and […]

Alice Williams, the No. 3 official in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, announced yesterday plans to retire from federal service effective Jan. 2, 2014. Williams has served as EM Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary since late 2011, when the position was created as part of a reorganization of EM carried out by […]

CH2M Hill is set to undergo a top-level management change in the new year, with CEO and Chairman Lee McIntire to step down and be replaced by Jacqueline Hinman. McIntire will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board after the management change, which is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, 2014, according to […]

The Small Business Administration denied an appeal on Monday to its size standard challenge decision from July concerning the awarding of the Army Corps of Engineers’ FUSRAP Maywood clean up site to Cabrera Services. The SBA stated that Cabrera Services qualified as a small business. Cabrera Services President Kim Nelson said in an email to […]

A senior-level management shuffle is in the works at the Department of Energy’s two main offices that oversee the cleanup of Hanford. Stacy Charboneau, who is currently the Deputy Manager at the Office of River Protection, is set to move to the Richland Operations Office, where she will serve as Assistant Manager for Safety and […]

Oak Ridge cleanup contractor URS CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC, this week appointed Matt Marston as its new chief operating officer. Marston was previously UCOR’s deputy area project manager for the Deactivation and Decommissioning Group, and joined UCOR in September 2011. He is taking over for Kenneth Rueter, who started this week as the new president […]

B&W Technical Services Group has created a new position of Director of Environmental Programs, to be filled by Jeff Stevens. Stevens last served as executive vice president of U.S. Operations for EnergySolutions’ Global Commercial Group. In his new role, Stevens will be “supporting existing projects and new environmental management opportunities,” B&W said in a press […]

The House Cleanup Caucus is scheduled to hold a briefing on the Department of Energy’s Idaho site this week. The briefing is set to include presentations from the Department of Energy and the two main cleanup contractors at the site—CH2M-WG Idaho and Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, which manages the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project. The […]

In a move set to significantly increase waste processing rates at the Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Plant, Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, has received regulatory approval to use the AMWTP facility’s supercompactor as a treatment method for some items prohibited for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Regulators in both Idaho and New Mexico […]

The Department of Energy has asked bidders for its contract for support services for the Office of Legacy Management to extend their proposals to the end of 2013. The move comes as part of its corrective action that the Department is taking after two protests were filed with the Government Accountability Office following the award […]

Top Washington state officials said late last week that the Department of Energy’s recent warning that it may miss two cleanup milestones at Hanford is “unacceptable.” Last week, DOE warned Washington and Oregon state officials that two milestones in the Tri-Party Agreement are now at “serious risk” of being missed because of budgetary issues—completion of […]