WC Monitor
6/13/2014
IN CONGRESS
The Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee is looking to mark up its version of the Fiscal Year 2015 energy spending bill next week. The panel has scheduled a hearing June 17 beginning at 10 a.m. to consider the measure. The full Senate Appropriations Committee is expected to take up the bill June 19.
IN THE DNFSB
The Obama Administration’s new nominee to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is intended to replace current Board Member Joseph Bader, rather than fill a current vacancy. Late last week, the White House announced its intent to nominate Daniel Santos, a Senior Technical Advisor at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to the DNFSB for a term set to expire in October 2017. Weapons Complex Monitor reported that Santos’ nomination was intended to fill the vacancy that occurred when Kenneth Mossman passed away early this year. However, Santos is instead being nominated to replace Bader, whose term has expired. The White House also announced late last week to renominate Jessie Roberson to a new term on the Board and to again designate her as Vice Chair.
IN THE INDUSTRY
Bob Cochran, President of CB&I Federal Services, was elected as the new Chair of the Board of Directors of the Energy Facilities Contractors Group at its 2014 annual Executive Council meeting, held in Washington this week. Cochran replaces Bechtel’s Susan Stiger, who has been elected to the EFCOG Board. Michael Graham, General Manager, Environmental, at Bechtel; and EnergySolutions Government Group President Billy Morrison have been elected new Vice-Chairs of the EFCOG board. Other new Board members elected this week include Steve Hafner, Chief Operations Officer for Department of Energy operations at G4S Government Services; Fluor Government Group Senior Vice President Greg Meyer; and AREVA Federal Services President and CEO Tara Neider.
Savannah River Remediation, the liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site, announced this week that it has recently achieved 5 million hours without a lost workday due to a safety incident or injury. The last lost workday occurred in March 2013. “We have seen SRR employees complete such tasks as operationally closing massive radioactive waste tanks without a safety injury and incident,” SRR President Ken Rueter said in a statement. “Achieving this milestone is not a surprise.”
