Budget & Policy

Senate and House FY15 Spending Bills Boost Cleanup Funds, While House Cuts SRS Budget

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Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
6/19/2014
While both the House and Senate versions of the Fiscal Year 2015 Energy and Water Appropriations bills would boost funding overall for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management above DOE’s…

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More Than $100 Million for WIPP Recovery in Bills, but House and Senate Disagree on Source

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How Should DOE Promote Small Business Subcontracts in the Next Round of Primes?

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INTERVIEW: Poneman Looks Back on Contract Mgmt. Improvements, Cleanup Challenges

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EM-1 Nominee Breezes Through Hearing, Doesn’t Indicate Big Changes for Program

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Deputy Energy Secretary Poneman to Leave DOE This Fall

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EDITORIAL: It’s Time to Separate Out Cleanup Work from Los Alamos, Other NNSA Sites

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DOE Gearing Up to Compete New Oak Ridge TWPC Contract

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House Appropriators Again Take DOE to Task Over Project Management Concerns

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Senate Bill Would Reauthorize Uranium Enrichment D&D Fund

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Fluor-B&W Portsmouth Working to Improve NDA Program

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DOE Launching New Investigation Into WIPP Incidents

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South Carolina Warns DOE That Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Penalties May be Coming

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Converdyn Sues DOE In Effort to Halt Uranium Transfers

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URS Shuffles Leadership at Oak Ridge, Savannah River Cleanup Contractors

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Parsons Rejects DOE Final Offer on SWPF Startup

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U.K. Cleanup Focus

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At River Protection

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At Richland

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At Oak Ridge

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Wrap Up: In DOE, In The DNFSB

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