Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk met privately with the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Jan. 27, a board spokesperson confirmed Monday.
Members of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) leadership of DOE and its $7.5-billion Office of Environmental Management “try to meet periodically to discuss updates,” in closed sessions, DNFSB associate director for board operations Tara Tadlock.
There were no presentation materials used at the quarterly meeting, listed on the DNFSB January calendar, Tadlock said.
The DNFSB provided Weapons Complex Monitor with a list of participants. Leading the DNFSB contingent was chair Joy Connery as well as board members Thomas Summers and Jessie Hill Roberson along with a trio of DNFSB senior staffers—— executive director Joel Spangenberg, technical director Chris Roscetti and general counsel Kevin Lyskowski.
Members of DOE participating were Turk, his chief of staff Arpita Bhattacharyya, senior adviser Candice Robertson, special assistant Sandie Raines, general counsel Emily Hammond and DOE’s representative to DNFSB, Joe Olencz.
William (Ike) White, senior adviser and ranking federal official at the Office of Environmental Management, was not listed among the attendees.
A Jacobs executive, a college professor, a retired federal regulator and the mayor of a town adjoining the government’s largest nuclear cleanup property are the four newest members of an advisory board to the Department of Energy’s $7.5-billion Office of Environmental Management, the agency said last week in a press release.
Newly-appointed members of the 17-member Environmental Management Advisory Board are Celeste Greene, Michael Shapiro, Julius “Jake” Washington and Brent Gerry. Each will serve a two-year term, which the agency can renew, on the panel charged with providing independent recommendations to DOE’s assistant secretary for environmental management on site cleanup and risk reduction.
Greene is a University of Virginia associate professor and program director of graduate certificates in public administration and leadership.
Shapiro is a former deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Water, which oversees EPA’s Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act programs.
Washington is a senior executive at Jacobs on worldwide projects supporting the Navy and Marine Corps, DOE said in the release.
Gerry, is mayor of West Richland, Wash., which adjoins DOE’s Hanford Site and is also vice chair of the Energy Communities Alliance.
