Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
5/1/2015
The Department of Energy this week exercised a two-year option in Savannah River Remediation, LLC’s contract to provide liquid waste services at the Savannah River Site, keeping the contractor in place from July 1 through June 30, 2017. The extension, which is valued at $797 million, comes as AECOM-led SRR makes progress on its mission to empty, close and grout high-level waste tanks at the Savannah River Site. “Savannah River Remediation LLC continues to successfully meet or exceed the terms of its contract,” DOE Savannah River Operations Office Manager David Moody said in a statement. “Extending this contract will allow Savannah River Remediation to continue its important missions of managing liquid waste and closing waste tanks at the Savannah River Site.”
The extension comes at a time when several other major Savannah River Site contracts are nearing a close. The site’s management-and-operations contractor, Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, is operating under a contract extension that expires in September 2016. Meanwhile, Savannah River’s Salt Waste Processing Facility, designed to increase tank waste processing rates and currently under construction by contractor Parsons, is scheduled to be completed in 2016 and operating in 2018.
