The Department of Energy’s multi-billion-dollar nuclear cleanup wing could see 11 members of its federal Senior Executive Service level managers leave via buyout, according to a document viewed Friday by Exchange Monitor.
In addition to the previously-reported anticipated departure of the head of DOE’s Office of Environmental Management operations at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, are other executives not previously reported.
The list, which a source indicated was generated inside DOE, does not include headquarters-based executives, such as longtime Environmental Management boss Jim Owendoff.
In what appears to be a Deferred Resignation Plan or “Fork-in-the-Road” buyout list, recognizable names include Michael Budney, Savannah River’s Environmental Management field manager. James Folk, Savannah River’s assistant manager for waste disposition, is also on the buyout list.
Betsy Forinash, deputy manager of the DOE Carlsbad, N.M., Field Office that oversees the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is also listed as taking the deferred resignation.
Brian Stickney, deputy manager at the Hanford Field Office in Washington state is also on the list —although a source in the weapons complex questioned this, saying Stickney is expected to stay.
Senior government people leaving DOE’s weapons complex during the White House push to reduce the federal headcount is a developing story that the Monitor will continue to cover.
Editor’s note: The second, third and sixth graphs were modified at 4:10 p.m. Eastern Time.
