EM DEVELOPING NEW ‘MISSION STATEMENT,’ ‘VISION’

By ExchangeMonitor

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is looking to revise its “vision” and “mission statement.” The potential changes appear to have an eye toward emphasizing the reuse of facilities and land where cleanup has been completed, along with active remediation efforts, according to a survey circulated among EM employees last week. While EM’s mission statement currently reads “The mission of the Office of Environmental Management (EM) is to complete the safe cleanup of the environmental legacy brought about from five decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research,” the new version under consideration states that the mission is “to safely and efficiently remediate EM sites and facilitate the beneficial reuse of assets.”

The new vision statement under consideration reads, “DOE cleanup is complete, long-term obligations are being met, and remediated assets are being used to benefit the nation and surrounding communities.” According to the survey, a vision statement “outlines what the organization wants to be, or how it wants the world in which it operates to be (an ‘idealized’ view of the world). It is a long-term view and concentrates on the future. It can be emotive and is a source of inspiration.” According to the e-mail accompanying the survey, the “EM Improvement Team” plans to submit a recommendation to EM senior leadership by Aug. 10.

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