After announcing last month that it would reduce its workforce by up to 100 employees, Savannah River Remediation said yesterday it is laying off 48 employees through its involuntary separations program. The Savannah River Site liquid waste contractor said that in the last month 18 employees chose voluntary layoffs while 20 employees left the company “through normal attrition.” SRR President Dave Olson said in a letter to employees yesterday, “The sum total of 86 reductions in full-time personnel through both attrition and the WFR meets the workforce objectives necessary to accomplish our high-level waste mission in 2012 in alignment with expected funding.” He added, “While there is never a good time to implement an ISP, we will move forward as we prepare our company for its important work in the future.”