Looking Ahead

Here’s a look at the events we will be keeping an eye on this week:

• The Energy Communities Alliance is holding a peer exchange meeting in Washington Feb. 12-13. The meeting will involve presentations from Reps. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) and Chuck Fleischmann  (R-Tenn.); acting Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for Management and Performance David Klaus; acting Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management Mark Whitney; and NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz, among others. A full agenda of the meeting can be found here.    

• The House Cleanup Caucus is set to hold its first meeting this year on Feb. 12 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2226 of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington.. The meeting will include remarks by Co-Chairs Reps. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) and Ben Lujan (D-N.M.) and acting Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management Mark Whitney, along with remarks from other lawmakers that represent DOE cleanup sites. 
• Lawmakers will begin consideration of the Department of Energy Fiscal Year 2016 budget request this week with separate hearings planned in the House and Senate. On Feb. 11, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz is scheduled to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power beginning at 2:00 p.m. On Feb. 12, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set to hold a hearing on DOE’s request beginning at 10:00 a.m.
• The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday  Feb. 11 on the Government Accountability Office’s 2015 List of High Risk Government Programs at 10 a.m. in 342 Dirksen.
• ATK is expected to close the merger of its Aerospace and Defense Groups with Orbital Sciences today, after stockholders from both companies voted to approve the consolidation in separate Jan. 27 meetings. In connection with the merger, ATK is spinning off its Commercial Sporting group into a new entity called "Vista Outdoor." The new company will be named "Orbital ATK, Inc."
• The House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the fiscal 2016 budget for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Civil Works program this Wednesday at 10:30 AM in 2362-B Rayburn. Among other areas, the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program’s 2016 budget request could see some attention.
• Waste Control Specialists intends to announce its intentions to build the nation’s first consolidated interim storage facility for commercial spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste during a press briefing held at 1:30 p.m. ET Monday at the National Press Club.

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