Vol. 31, No. 25 
Hanford, SRS Report New COVID-19 Cases; Sites Slowly Get Back to Work
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Contracts & Procurement
GAO Rejects Two Protests Against Energy Dept. Legacy Management Contract
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied two protests filed over RSI EnTech’s roughly $191 million contract to provide support services for the Energy Department’s Office of Legacy Management, which the challengers called unrealistically cheap. The Energy Department previously said the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract could be worth up to $1 billion over five years, depending […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Navarro Retains Environmental Business at Nevada Site
Incumbent Navarro Research and Engineering has won a new contract potentially worth $350 million to continue providing environmental services at the Energy Department’s Nevada National Security Site. The current contract for Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Navarro, valued at almost $85 million, began in March 2015 and is set to expire July 31. The new indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity […]
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Budget & Policy
Pandemic Complicates Planning for Hanford’s Fiscal 2022 Budget, Officials Say
The Energy Department was chided for not providing much hard data during a virtual public meeting Wednesday on fiscal 2022 budget priorities for ongoing cleanup at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The meeting was organized by the three signatories to the 1989 Tri-Party Agreement that governs environmental remediation at the former plutonium production complex: […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Permanent DOE Cleanup Field Office Managers Selected for Carlsbad, Los Alamos
Reinhard Knerr, a director at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth-Paducah Project Office (PPPO), will in mid-July become the new permanent manager for the agency’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico. The appointment is part of a flurry of new assignments unveiled this week by the DOE Office of Environmental Management. Knerr is currently federal project director […]
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Budget & Policy
DOE Report to Congress Steers Clear of DNFSB Battle
In an official report to Congress about tritium-safety oversight, the Department of Energy again sought to avoid a legal fight about whether its workforce is subject to recommendations from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). The independent federal agency feared the Energy Department might have rejected a 2019 recommendation to bolster the Savannah River Site’s […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
EnergySolutions Seeks 2020 Utah Decision on Depleted Uranium License
EnergySolutions hopes this year to receive a state license to finally begin accepting large amounts of depleted uranium at its radioactive waste disposal facility near Clive, Utah. That would mark the end of a regulatory process that has stretched for more than a decade. State legislation enacted in March 2018 set three requirements for the […]
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Decommissioning
California Agencies Prioritize Tearing Down 10 Contaminated Santa Susana Buildings
Tearing down 10 contaminated Department of Energy buildings must precede further cleanup at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County, California state officials said during an online meeting June 11. Representatives of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and the state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) expect final state approval next month of […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP Shipments Through May Well Behind 2019 Pace
The Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico received only 67 shipments of transuranic waste during the first five months of the year, compared to 125 during the same period in 2019. The underground disposal site for defense-related TRU received 20 shipments in May. Thirteen came from the Idaho National Laboratory and seven […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Two Fluor Managers Receive Separation Payments
Fluor is paying over $1.1 million in separation agreements to two recently departed executives, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Executive Vice President for Systems and Supply Chain Ray Barnard is being paid a lump sump of $620,000, and Executive Vice President, Energy and Chemicals—Business Development and Strategy Jose Bustamante is […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Strategic Management Solutions Hires Executive VP
Department of Energy contractor Strategic Management Solutions Inc. (SMSI) has hired industry veteran Matthew Nuckols for the newly created position of executive vice president. A civil engineer, Nuckols has 25 years of project and program management experience at sites within the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management and semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) complexes, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: CFO Becomes AECOM Chief Executive
AECOM said Monday that Chief Financial Officer W. Troy Rudd would be elevated to CEO effective Oct. 1. Rudd will succeed Michael Burke, who is retiring after six years as chief executive. Lara Poloni will also move up to president from chief executive of AECOM’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) business, according to a […]