Idaho Environmental Coalition won 86% of its subjective fee and 94% of its total potential fee for five months of cleanup work in 2022 at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory, including preparing a nuclear waste treatment plant for startup.
Idaho Environmental Coalition, which took over from Fluor Idaho on the Idaho Cleanup Project in January, earned 86%, or $5.2 million, of its possible subjective fees and $13.3 million, or 94%, of the total available fee of $14 million, according to a fee scorecard released last week by the Office of Environmental Management.
The scorecard covers the period from May 1 through Sept. 30.
The Jacobs-led contractor needs to work on improving and increasing transuranic waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, DOE said in its review.
The contractor was credited for completion of the final confirmatory run at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU), processing over 137,000 gallons of simulant waste in preparation for radiological operations. The Jacobs-North Wind Portage team also completed various readiness assessments for operation of the IWTU, which after a long series of delays was expected to start converting sodium-bearing waste to a granular form in January.
Also during its first evaluation period, Idaho Environmental Coalition successfully tore down the first two buildings at the Naval Reactors Submarine 1st Generation Westinghouse facility at the laboratory, DOE said in the scorecard.
The contractor has a 10-year, $6.4-billion contract that runs from October 2021 through September 2031.
