The Department of Energy announced April 11 in a Federal Register notice it is renewing the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board for two more years.
The board, set up under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, offers local advice on nuclear cleanup-related issues to DOE’s assistant secretary for environmental management. The renewal was effective April 8, according to the Federal Register notice.
“Additionally, the renewal of the Board has been determined to be essential to conduct DOE’s business and to be in the public interest in connection with the performance of duties imposed on the DOE by law and agreement,” according to the notice.
While there is only one umbrella national board chartered under the Advisory Committee Act, eight local boards exist serving the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Idaho National Laboratory, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the Nevada National Security Site, the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, the Paducah Site in Kentucky, the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
The Environmental Management Advisory Board chairs next meet May 1 in Chillicothe, Ohio near the Portsmouth Site.