URS-CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC (UCOR) President Leo Sain yesterday stressed the need for adequate funding to ensure the demolition of the former K-25 uranium enrichment process building is completed as currently scheduled in the summer of 2014. In remarks at this year’s Decisionsmakers’ Forum, Sain warned that the level of funding for the K-25 D&D project in the Senate Fiscal Year 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, which is less than what DOE had sought in its request and what House appropriators have proposed, would have an impact on how the project is completed. “We need to, basically, keep the D&D funding that we currently have on K-25 where it’s at,” he said. “My biggest concern right now is, number one, there are folks that think we’re doing all kinds of D&D, and if you hit the D&D budget a little, you can just stop some of the support facilities. Well, we’re not doing any of that right now The only D&D we’re doing is K-25.” Sain added, “So what we need to be able to do right now is we need to maintain at least the House mark … or even better, if we can get the $311 [million] that we asked for.”
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