A major contractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory has recently completed $7.5 million of cleanup work adjacent to the Los Alamos townsite in New Mexico.
The cleanup, conducted by TerranearPMC and overseen by lab prime Los Alamos National Security LLC (LANS), was done on DOE property along the south-facing slopes of the Los Alamos Canyon. This included some legacy sites, such as old drain lines and outfalls.
Roughly 425 cubic yards contaminated soil was sent for disposal at the EnergySolutions facility in Clive, Utah, according to the Energy Department. The work also involved site restoration and waste management.
The work was initiated in fiscal 2015 and completed in fiscal 2017, which ended on Sept. 30. It began under LANS’ management and operations contract, but in fiscal 2016 shifted to its separate bridge contract for environmental remediation operations at the nuclear-weapon lab, DOE said in response to a Weapons Complex Monitor inquiry.
This soil work, which was completed this summer, was done in connection with a much larger LANL legacy cleanup effort spelled out in a June 2016 consent order between DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and the New Mexico Environment Department.
The consent order updated an earlier document from 2005 and clarified remediation priorities at the site.
A 2016 estimate from DOE estimated the scope of remaining LANL cleanup work would take roughly 19 years and $3.8 billion.
TerranearPMC finished the last of the cleanup work at the townsite this summer, according to DOE. At times, a crane had to be used to cope with uneven terrain around the townsite.
Georgia-based-Celeritex Services physically loads certain transuranic waste at DOE generating sites prior to its transport to WIPP. That covers assembling payloads, leak testing, and shipment certification, according to a DOE website on contract opportunities for small and disadvantaged businesses.
The current contract’s expiration date is Oct. 31. The cost-plus, fixed-fee deal awarded in 2012 has an estimated value of $18 million over five years.
The work is carried out at a number of waste-generating facilities within the DOE complex, including the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Idaho National Laboratory, the Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories in New Mexico, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
A DOE source confirmed Thursday that the contract is not being renewed.
The business could be rebid as a prime contract, or be carried out as a subcontract under another DOE contractor. The website indicated that a decision has yet to be made on this issue.
The program office for the contract is the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center. According to its website, Celeritex LLC is a joint venture formed by Project Service Group LLC and DeNuke Contracting Services.
