Plan for Los Alamos Cleanup Was Due Friday

The plan for transitioning cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to management by the Office of Environmental Management was due Friday for submission to the Secretary of Energy. DOE Friday declined to comment on the timeline for the plan’s completion or whether it had been submitted to the Secretary.Currently, cleanup activities at Los Alamos are overseen by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos Field Office but funded by EM. However, after pressure from New Mexico for the change, in late September DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz asked NNSA and EM to “work collaboratively to establish two working groups to develop a plan for the transition of legacy environmental cleanup work” to EM-managed contracts, which would be due on Nov. 14, according to an Oct. 29 draft plan for the work obtained by WC Monitor.