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The Energy Department on Tuesday issued its final environmental impact statement (EIS) for tearing down buildings and cleaning up soil and groundwater on its portion of the 2,850-acre Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) in Ventura County, Calif. The EIS for Area IV and the Northern Buffer Zone is one of the last steps prior to […]

A California Superior Court judge has rejected arguments by the Los Angeles branch of Physicians for Social Responsibility and other groups that state regulators could prevent Boeing from tearing down several old structures at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) site. The advocacy groups argued in a 2013 lawsuit that the state allowed demolition of […]

A California Superior Court judge has rejected arguments by the Los Angeles branch of Physicians for Social Responsibility and other groups that state regulators could prevent Boeing from tearing down several old structures at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) site. The advocacy groups argued in a 2013 lawsuit the state allowed the demolition for at […]

Radioactively contaminated areas of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) in Ventura County, Calif., were not hit by the Woolsey Fire last week, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) said Monday. “Our staff were able to access the site Saturday morning and assess damage caused by the fire,” DTSC spokesman Russ Edmondson said […]

Radioactively contaminated areas of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) in Ventura County, Calif., were not hit by the Woolsey Fire last week, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) said Monday. “Our staff were able to access the site Saturday morning and assess damage caused by the fire,” DTSC spokesman Russ Edmondson said […]

A fire charring much of Southern California probably is not expected to spread contamination left by old nuclear operations at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) in Ventura County, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control said Friday. On Thursday, the so-called Woolsey Fire burned an area within the 2,800-acre site, used over the years […]

The congressional district that covers the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) will have new representation in January after incumbent Rep. Steve Pearce stepped aside to run for New Mexico governor. Pearce is facing off against a colleague in Congress, Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.), to succeed term-limited governor Susana Martinez, a Republican. Pearce, […]

HENDERSON, Nev. — The head of the Energy Department’s nuclear cleanup office fears remediation efforts have reached a “plateau” and need a push to advance toward closure of remaining sites. Toward that, the office is developing strategic plans both for its full operations and for specific properties over the coming decade. “The analogy that comes […]

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) confirmed recently the cleanup road map for the entire Santa Susana Field Laboratory site, due this year, will not be published until 2019. State spokesman Sanford Nax confirmed by email the DTSC now expects to issue the program management plan (PMP) for the 2,800-acre site in early […]

The Energy Department is advertising for a deputy manager at the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) in Tennessee. The position has not been filled permanently since Jay Mullis became OREM manager last fall. Mullis had been OREM’s acting manager since October 2016 and deputy manager since February 2015. The Energy Department posted an […]

The Energy Department has drilled two open-borehole bedrock wells as it tries to gauge the extent of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in groundwater within Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California. The Energy Department is also seeking to determine if a VOC source exists at Building 4457, part of the Hazardous Materials […]

The Energy Department and the California Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) aim by the end of 2018 to issue a final environmental impact report for cleanup of DOE’s portion of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory Site (SSFL). The state and federal agencies have been working closely to finalize steps for remediation of groundwater and […]

Strata-G LLC has won a $1 million contract from the Energy Department to conduct environmental sampling at the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee. The sampling will support DOE plans for construction of an additional on-site disposal facility for hazardous and radioactive wastes at the Bear Creek Valley area of Oak Ridge, DOE said in a […]

The Energy Department, Boeing and NASA have submitted a plan to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control outlining how they plan to determine baseline air quality prior to cleanup work at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. That’s among the recent milestones cited in a September report by (California Department of Toxic Substances Control) DTSC […]

In response to requests for more time, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control has extended by 45 days the public comment period on two draft documents for the planned cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) site. Stakeholders now have until Dec. 7 to provide input on DTSC’s draft program environmental impact report […]

The Energy Department on Jan. 6 released a draft environmental impact statement for soil and groundwater cleanup and building demolition at the former rocket and atomic test site at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley, Calif. The overdue draft — DOE once thought it would finish the site’s environmental impact process last year — examines a range […]