States agencies and other entities will receive a combined $54 million worth of funding for programs supporting the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup work, the federal agency said Thursday.
For starters, Pittsburgh-based NuVision Engineering will receive $3.5 million for an independent comparison of the DOE nuclear cleanup program with governmental counterparts for the United Kingdom, Canada and certain other countries
All the announced awards stretch five years, from September 2023 into October 2028, and most of them are tied directly to nuclear remediation sites overseen by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management.
Here’s a look at the other entities, work and funding amounts detailed in the DOE press release.
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control will receive $19 million toward environmental monitoring and emergency response oversight for DOE’s Savannah River Site.
The Savannah River Site in South Carolina gets much of its workforce from just across the line in Georgia. Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security was awarded $1.2 million to maintain the emergency planning and response capabilities for its residents.
New Mexico Environment Department will get two separate financial assistance grants totaling about $16.5 million. One is nearly $10.8 million for monitoring and oversight-related work for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The other is for $5.7 million to perform similar oversight activity for Sandia National Laboratory.
California Department of Toxic Substances Control will receive about $10 million to fund regulatory oversight of DOE’s 90-acre Energy Technology Engineering Center, located within the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley.
National Conference of State Legislatures, which is Denver-based, will receive $3.6 million “to work collaboratively with governors to address challenges posed by waste management and cleanup at DOE sites” by supporting state legislatures, according to the release.
