The supply-chain manager for DOE’s prime cleanup contractor at the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee will discuss the Energy Department’s budget for dealing with excess nuclear facilities at a monthly industry dinner slated for Thursday in Oak Ridge.
The dinner, hosted by the Energy, Technology and Environmental Business Association of Tennessee, is set for 5:30 p.m. at the Double Tree Hotel. Tim Melberg, manager of supply chain management at URS CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), is slated to deliver prepared remarks at 7 p.m., according to an online notice from the Oak Ridge-based trade group. The cost to attend is $30 for members, $40 for nonmembers.
The group said Melberg will discuss “some recent funding that [DOE’s Office of Environmental Management] received in late December to be dedicated to the disposition of Excess Facilities.”
DOE’s Environmental Management Office (EM), with its roughly $6 billion annual budget, is responsible for overseeing remediation of legacy nuclear waste left over from programs dating back to World War II and the Cold War. The EM portfolio includes 16 active cleanup sites in 11 states. DOE also has excess nuclear facilities currently funded through the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration that have yet to be transferred to EM for cleanup.
The 2016 omnibus spending bill signed Dec. 15 stipulated that DOE’s “Environmental Management shall not accept ownership or responsibility for cleanup of any National Nuclear Security Administration facilities or sites without funding specifically designated for that purpose.”
