The Energy Department has renewed its Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) for a two-year period, through April 11, 2020.
The department announced the extension in an April 17 Federal Register notice.
The 17-member advisory board provides DOE’s Office of Environmental Management with recommendations on a number of issues concerning specific nuclear cleanup sites. This includes areas ranging from cleanup standards and environmental restoration to future land use at these locations.
Continued operation of the board “has been determined to be essential to conduct DOE’s business and to be in the public interest,” according to the Federal Register notice.
While only one EM SSAB officially advises the assistant secretary for environmental management, eight local boards report to it: the Hanford Advisory Board, Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board, Nevada SSAB, Oak Ridge SSAB, Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board, Portsmouth SSAB, and Paducah Citizens Advisory Board.
