Bill Moore, a geologist with more than 25 years of experience in the environmental cleanup business, is the new executive director for the Tennessee-based Energy Technology and Environmental Business Association.
Bob Eby, the organization’s board president, announced Moore’s appointment this week during the trade group’s first virtual 2020 Business Opportunities and Technical Conference.
Moore has worked for a number of federal contractors that work in markets for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Most recently a vice president for business development with Ontario-based EXP civil engineering, Moore has held management posts with AECOM, Tetra Tech and Bechtel, among others, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Moore officially takes the helm of ETEBA Nov. 1 and replaces Tim Griffin who accepted an emergency management position in March in his home state of North Carolina. Griffin became ETEBA’s executive director in 2015.
The new chief will begin his tenure by leading development of the 2021 strategy and vision for ETEBA, according to an ETEBA press release.
For the past 6 months, ETEBA’s president-elect Lauren Amos has served as acting executive director of the organization, which was originally formed in 1989 as the Oak Ridge Waste Management Association, and today has 177 firms among its members.
Comments were due Thursday on a request for information notice issued by the Department of Energy on plans to build the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative facility near the Savannah River National Laboratory site in South Carolina.
The estimated $45-million facility will be built on about five acres within the campus of the University of South Carolina-Aiken in Aiken, S.C., not far from DOE’s Savannah River Site.
The Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative facility is in the works because DOE needs “safer, more cost-effective nuclear chemical manufacturing technology, facilities and expertise” to speed radioactive and chemical waste cleanup and to comply with government regulations, according to the Request for Information and Sources Sought (RFI) notice.
The new facility would work in tandem with national laboratories, commercial entities, and educational institutions, “to stimulate innovative thinking and to adapt innovative technologies to accomplish DOE missions,” according to the RFI.
It is envisioned that the new facility will provide between 40,000 to 70,000 square-feet of space, enough to house no fewer than 120 staff members, including some now stationed at SRNL. The building will include laboratories, digital equipment, classrooms, office space and conference rooms.
The department must still determine if this should be a set-aside for small business. The chief contact person is DOE contracting officer, Dustin Dalton, who can be reached at [email protected].
Paul Dabbar, the Department of Energy’s undersecretary for science, said during a visit to Savannah River in August that he hopes to see ground broken on the facility by early 2021.
The DOE wants the facility operating by December 2023. The RFI is not an actual request for proposals.
