SC&A Inc. of Vienna, Va., will help the Energy Department prepare a supplemental environmental evaluation the agency must conduct to finalize its two-phase plan to tear down a former commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in upstate New York, under a five-year contract worth nearly $17 million, including options, DOE announced late Thursday.
The Contract for the West Valley Demonstration Project for the Development of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement includes a three-year base period and two single-year options. DOE did not say how much guaranteed money SC&A would get for the three-year base period, and the contract had not been posted online at press time for Weapons Complex Monitor.
DOE received four proposals in response to its Aug. 2, 2016, solicitation, according to the press release announcing the award.
Under the potentially five-year deal, SC&A — a small business that consults for federal agencies besides DOE — will among other things help DOE create a supplemental environmental impact statement due to be published in draft form in 2019, plus a plan for decommissioning parts of West Valley not torn down by 2020. In its request for proposals, DOE estimated the work would require about 15 full-time hands.
The department will rely on the environmental impact statement to determine its exact approach to the second and final phase of West Valley demolition. A formal decision on the phase two strategy is due May 12, 2020, according to the solicitation for the contract SC&A just won.
Phase two will include whatever demolition is not completed under phase one, which began in 2011. CH2M BWXT West Valley is handling phase one demolition under a roughly $525 million West Valley Demonstration Project Interim End State contract that runs through spring 2020.
Phase one calls for removal of: the main plant processing building; the vitrification facility used to immobilize liquid high-level waste generated during spent-fuel reprocessing in the late 1960s and early 1970s; and the source area for a 650-foot-by-1,640-foot groundwater plume at the site’s north plateau.
