The Department of Energy has selected one new member and reappointed five current members to the Paducah Citizens Advisory Board, the agency said recently in a press release.
Eric Butterbaugh, an analyst for a computer firm, is the new appointee and will serve a two-year term.
The five incumbent members receiving a new two-year term are: Chair Don Barger, a retired public school teacher; Phillip Brown a Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant retiree; Victoria Caldwell, who works as a social media coordinator; William Murphy, a retired professor from the University of Kentucky and Blake Summarell who works as a financial advisor, according to last week’s release.
The Citizens Advisory Board, composed of up to 15 people from Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois, is a federally chartered board that provides advice to DOE on environmental cleanup and future use of the Paducah Site. The members can serve up to three consecutive two-year terms, DOE said.
The board also has liaisons from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Kentucky and meets the third Thursday of most months at 5:30 p.m. Central Time. The meetings are being held virtually nowadays due to COVID-19 and the most recent one was Sept. 16, according to the advisory board website.
