NS&D Monitor
6/13/2014
IN CONGRESS
The Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee is looking to mark up its version of the Fiscal Year 2015 energy spending bill next week. The panel has scheduled a hearing June 17 beginning at 10 a.m. to consider the measure. The full Senate Appropriations Committee is expected to take up the bill June 19.
IN THE DNFSB
The Obama Administration’s new nominee to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is intended to replace current Board Member Joseph Bader, rather than fill a current vacancy. Late last week, the White House announced its intent to nominate Daniel Santos, a Senior Technical Advisor at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to the DNFSB for a term set to expire in October 2017. NS&D Monitor reported that Santos’ nomination was intended to fill the vacancy that occurred when Kenneth Mossman passed away early this year. However, Santos is instead being nominated to replace Bader, whose term has expired. The White House also announced late last week to renominate Jessie Roberson to a new term on the Board and to again designate her as Vice Chair.
IN THE INDUSTRY
B&W Pantex President and General Manager John Woolery has been named to head up B&W Conversion Services, LLC, the contractor responsible for the Department of Energy’s two depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion plants, effective July 1. That’s the same day that B&W Pantex is set to be replaced by Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, as the managing contractor for the Pantex Plant. Woolery was named as the top contractor official at Pantex in 2010 after serving as the plant’s deputy general manager since 2008. At BWCS, Woolery will replace Jeff Stevens, who has served as acting president since George Dials left B&W this spring. “John brings multiple levels of experience in the management of federal nuclear facilities to this new position, with a resumé that demonstrates positions of increasing responsibility throughout his career,” B&W Technical Services Group Chief Operating Officer Chuck Spencer said in a release issued late this week.
Bob Cochran, President of CB&I Federal Services, was elected as the new Chair of the Board of Directors of the Energy Facilities Contractors Group at its 2014 annual Executive Council meeting, held in Washington this week. Cochran replaces Bechtel’s Susan Stiger, who has been elected to the EFCOG Board. Michael Graham, General Manager, Environmental, at Bechtel; and EnergySolutions Government Group President Billy Morrison have been elected new Vice-Chairs of the EFCOG board. Other new Board members elected this week include Steve Hafner, Chief Operations Officer for Department of Energy operations at G4S Government Services; Fluor Government Group Senior Vice President Greg Meyer; and AREVA Federal Services President and CEO Tara Neider.