The Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG) last week elected a new member to its Board of Directors and re-elected another six members.
First-time board member Bob Miklos is director of Production Facilities and Infrastructure at Idaho National Laboratory’s Materials and Fuels Complex. He has 30 years of experience with nuclear facilities and also chairs EFCOG’s project delivery working group.
The returning board members are: Morgan Smith, president and CEO, Consolidated Nuclear Security; John Clymo, associate lab director for infrastructure operations and chief security officer, Sandia National Laboratories; Todd Wright, general manager-environment and nuclear, AECOM; Karen Wiemelt, general manager-North American Nuclear, Jacobs Engineering Group; Michael Graham, operations manager, Bechtel National.; and Linda Kobel, president and CEO, Los Alamos Technical Associates.
The organization, which represents about 100 DOE contractors, held the elections during its June 5-6 meetings in Washington, D.C. All of the board members were elected to three-year terms, with the exception of Smith, who was elected to a one-year term.
The full EFCOG board, chaired by Billy Morrison, with Veolia Nuclear Solutions, is comprised of 18 members plus a senior adviser, Donald Pearman of Bechtel, according to the group’s website. EFCOG was founded in 1991 to improve operation and management of DOE facilities.
Allison Scott Majure has left her position as communications director for the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) to accept a similar post with Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B), the new legacy cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in the state.
Majure became a marketing and communications leader at N3B last month after spending more than three years as a media contact for the state agency, according to her LinkedIn profile.
The New Mexico Environment Department is the state regulator for cleanup at Los Alamos and also oversees hazardous waste permits for both LANL and DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. Prior to joining NMED, Majure worked eight years at the Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities.
The New Mexico Environment Department had not hired a new communications officer as of Wednesday.
The N3B team is comprised of Stoller Newport News Nuclear (SN3) and BWXT Technical Service Group, along with key subcontractors Longenecker & Associates and Tech2 Solutions. N3B received a potential 10-year, $1.39 billion legacy cleanup contract in December, and officially became the LANL cleanup contractor at the end of April. The work includes surface and groundwater monitoring and compliance, meeting terms of a 2016 state-federal consent order on cleanup, and finding solutions for a chromium plume at LANL.
