WC Monitor
8/22/2014
The Department of Energy this week awarded a five-year $10.4 million cooperative agreement to the Southern States Energy Board to form a committee called the Transuranic Waste Transportation Working Group. The group plans to meet twice a year to discuss transuranic waste transportation issues. “Group members will work with the Southern States Energy Board to develop their state work plans and budgets for transuranic waste campaigns that traverse the southern region,” according to a DOE release. The waste committee will include representatives from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The Board, whose mission is to promote economic development through energy innovations, will provide the committee with information.
