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DOE Seeks to Expedite Major Cleanup Procurements
Procurement officials at the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) are seeking to reduce the typical two-year process for awarding major contracts to one year. Tamara Miles, federal procurement director for the DOE Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center, discussed efforts to expedite contract awards during a panel session last month at the Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix, Ariz. Speeding up the contracting process was one target of last year’s 45-day review of EM operations ordered by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management James Owendoff, Miles said. Owendoff at the time headed DOE’s nuclear cleanup operations, prior to the nomination and confirmation of Anne Marie White as assistant…		 Upcoming Events

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Declining Profit Margins Drive Mergers for DOE Contractors, Executive Says
Declining profit margins, in some cases just 2 to 4 percent, are a major reason for the wave of mergers and acquisitions by companies that do business in the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup sector, a senior executive with one…
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No One Hurt in Radioactive Drum Accident in Idaho, Fluor Says
No injuries or environmental contamination apparently resulted after a drum of radioactive waste overheated and breached Wednesday at the Department of Energy’s Idaho Site, cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho said. The accident occurred Wednesday evening at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex…
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House Blazes, Senate Hedges On Yucca Mountain in Budget Hearings
WASHINGTON — After the first wave of hearings on the Department of Energy’s fiscal 2019 budget, key House members still want to turn Yucca Mountain in Nevada into a permanent nuclear-waste repository as soon as possible, while key senators continue…
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Feinstein Won’t Vote for DOE Budget That Includes B83 Bomb
The ranking Democrat on the Senate panel that writes the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) annual funding bill said this week she would not vote for a budget that keeps the B83 nuclear gravity bomb in service. Meanwhile, New Mexico’s…
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