The new management team is in place at the Idaho National Laboratory, according to the Idaho Environmental Coalition’s website.
The change was effective Jan. 1. The Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC) has a potential ten-year, $6.4 billion contract and took over from Fluor Idaho.
Ty Blackford is the president and program manager at the new team, which includes Jacobs and North Wind Portage, with subcontractors Navarro, Oak Ridge Technologies and Spectra Tech. Blackford previously led remediation within the Central Plateau of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state.
Blackford’s management team at IEC includes: business manager Jack Macrae, who has been chief risk officer overseeing contracts for North Wind Group; Ken Whitham, the senior director of health, safety and security, who most recently worked in management at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York; and essential missions manager Connie Simiele, who is the former chief operating officer for CH2M Central Plateau at Hanford.
The environmental work at Idaho includes: retrieving the last of the waste from the Rocky Flats weapons plant in Colorado, currently buried in a 97-acre landfill at Idaho National Laboratory grounds; protecting the Snake River Aquifer; and operation of the long-delayed Integrated Waste Treatment Unit that will convert sodium-bearing radioactive waste into a granular form for eventual disposal.
Spectra Tech will support Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed facilities under the IEC, as it did under a previous stand-alone contract. Navarro will handle a number of chores including closing the Radioactive Waste Management Complex and monitoring groundwater, according to the IEC website. Oak Ridge Technologies will support nuclear fuel management.
