Vol. 32, No. 23

Budget & Policy

Acting Cleanup Boss White Touts $7.6B EM Budget Request to Contractors

The Joe Biden administration’s $7.6-billion budget request for the Office of Environmental Management was the largest request for nuclear-weapons cleanup since 2015, the office’s acting head told contractors Thursday. Biden’s ask is the “largest administrative request for environmental management that I can recall,” William (Ike) White, acting assistant secretary for environmental management, told the Energy […]
  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    DNFSB Chair Expects Progress on Operating Memorandum With DOE This Summer

    The head of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board told federal contractors Thursday her agency could approve a memorandum of understanding on its “rules of the road” with the Department of Energy as early as next month. “We did have a great conversation with Deputy Secretary [David] Turk earlier this year and “it looks like […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Securitas-led Team Retains DOE Paramilitary Contract at SRS

    After a Department of Energy review prompted by a contract challenge, a joint venture led by Securitas CIS is keeping its $1-billion Security Services contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management said in a Thursday press release that SRS Critical Infrastructure Security is retaining the contract awarded […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP Waste Haulage Small Biz RFP Hits the Street

    The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management on Thursday published its potential $100-million solicitation for a new waste haulage contract for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. CAST Specialty Transportation has the current five-year, $112-million contract, set to expire May 27, 2022, for moving transuranic material from DOE generator sites to the […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP Prime Will Stay on Job While DOE Procurement Moves Forward

    The Amentum-BWX Technologies joint venture that runs the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico will be kept on at least until early 2022 as the agency moves ahead with its solicitation for a new prime, according to a nugget tucked inside the White House budget justification for the Office of Environmental […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Hanford Fiscal 2022 Budget Would Be Trimmed Under Biden Request

    The Hanford Site in Washington State would receive a haircut under President Joe Biden’s budget request for the Department of Energy in fiscal 2022, but still account for nearly a third of the entire $7.6-billion budget sought for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. Should the spending package for cleanup at the former […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    GAO Says EM Liability Now Stands at $406B

    The Department of Energy’s environmental liability, which stands at more than a half-trillion dollars, continues to grow and most of it is concentrated in the agency’s nuclear cleanup office, the Government Accountability Office said Tuesday in an update to Congress. The DOE liability stands at $512 billion as of fiscal 2020, which is the most […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Hanford Shifting to CDC COVID Guidance for Vaccinated Workers

    While not divulging details yet, the manager of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state says the complex will loosen its COVID-19 protocols for fully-vaccinated workers next week. The relaxed rules will technically go into effect Friday, which is not a workday at the site, Brian Vance, the top federal boss at the […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Federal Court Dismisses Race Discrimination Suit Brought by Ex-SRNS Employee

    A federal judge in South Carolina has dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a white former employee of the management contractor for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site. In a May 27 order, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Anderson, Jr., dismissed the case brought against Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) by plaintiff Christopher […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Recent Tank Leak Dubbed Minor ‘From a Risk Perspective,’ Says Hanford Boss

    The April announcement from the Department of Energy that the B-109 tank is leaking at the Hanford Site in Washington state is not a cause for alarm, site manager Brian Vance said this week. The single-shell tank is leaking at the rate of about 1,000 to 1,500 gallons per year, Vance told an online meeting […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Federal Claims Court Wants Briefs After July 4 in Swift & Staley’s SBA Dispute

    The Small Business Administration, Swift & Staley and a firm that successfully challenged the latter’s size eligibility for a Department of Energy landlord contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky have until after Independence Day to file briefs with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Federal Claims Judge Thompson Dietz last week gave the government, […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Wrap Up: Sheppard Now With HII, Group Laments PILT Cuts in DOE Request

    Frank Sheppard, former Parsons senior vice president and project manager of the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, is now part of a senior leadership board with Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), a company spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Parsons joined Huntington Ingalls in January and “is part of […]

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