The Department of Energy is awarding a National Governors Association group a grant worth $2.6 million spread over five years to work on waste management and nuclear cleanup at federal sites, the agency said Wednesday.
The grant to the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices is provided through DOE’s fiscal 2023 budget, the agency said in a July 6 press release.
The grant’s five-year performance period started July 1 and runs through June 30, 2028, DOE said. The grant will allow the governors group’s best practices center to “continue to provide a forum for states to work directly with DOE on a wide array of subjects including budget and regulatory issues, waste treatment and disposal options, and equitable decisions on waste management,” according to the release.
Over time the National Governors Association and DOE have worked together on issues ranging from consent-based siting of radioactive waste to studying how social media is used or sometimes misused to spread information during emergencies.
