Wrap Up: In DOE, In The DNFSB, In The Industry

By Mike Nartker

WC Monitor
7/3/2014

IN DOE

The Secretary of Energy Advisory Board’s Task Force on Technology Development for Environmental Management is scheduled to hold a public meeting at DOE headquarters July 15. The task force has been charged with “assessing the value of a renewed EM science and technology development effort and how such a program would be structured,” according to a notice posted in the Federal Register this week. The purpose of the July 15 meeting is to provide an overview of the EM program.

Robert Edwards has been named the acting Department of Energy official overseeing the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Project. Edwards holds the title of Deputy Manager at DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. He is replacing Jack Zimmerman, who has been named Deputy Manager for the Idaho Cleanup Project at DOE’s Idaho Operations Office, until “a replacement is selected through the DOE competitive hiring process,” a Department spokesman said this week.

The Department of Energy has extended to July 11 from July 7 the due date for responses to a sources sought notice for the planned follow-on contract for the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project. DOE is seeking capability statements to help determine if the new contract to manage the Department’s two DUF6 conversion plants, located at the Portsmouth and Paducah sites, can be set aside for small businesses. The plants are currently being managed by B&W Conversion Services under a contract set to expire Jan. 1, 2016.

IN THE DNFSB

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has named Padraic Fox as a new site representative at Hanford, effective in September. Fox will be the Board’s third site rep at Hanford, joining Robert Quirk and David Gutowski. Fox joined the Board’s technical staff in September 2009, and during his tenure he has been responsible for evaluating “safety system designs and startup readiness activities” associated with facility design and construction projects, with a focus on the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant among other projects, according to a release issued this week. Prior to joining the DNFSB, Fox worked for 10 years as a consulting engineer and project manager, and he has 23 years of active duty service in the U.S. Navy.

IN THE INDUSTRY

Lee McIntire is set to retire as Chairman of CH2M Hill’s Board of Directors at the company’s September Board meeting. McIntire has served as Chairman since 2010, and held the role of CH2M Hill CEO from 2009 to 2013. He joined CH2M Hill as President and Chief Operating Officer in 2006. In a release issued this week, CH2M Hill said, “McIntire guided CH2M HILL from 15,000 employees with $3 billion in annual revenues when he joined the company to a firm with 27,000 employees and $6 billion of revenue today.” Current CH2M Hill President and CEO Jacqueline Hinman said in the release, “Lee is a long-time industry leader and we greatly appreciate what he has done for us, especially internationally and with program management,” adding, “We wish him the very best in this new chapter."

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June 09, 2014

WRAP UP: IN DOE, IN THE DNFSB, IN THE INDUSTRY

By Martin Schneider

WC Monitor
3/21/2014

IN DOE

Terry Tyborowski, who currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget and Program Planning in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, is moving next month to take a job in the Department’s Chief Financial Officer’s office. Tyborowski will serve as Deputy Director for Budget Analysis, effective April 21. Dennis Deziel, who currently serves as Tyborowski’s deputy in EM, will take over her duties until a permanent replacement is found, EM spokeswoman Candice Trummell said in a written response.

IN THE DNFSB

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is seeking a small boost in funding next year to hire additional staff the Board says are needed to handle additional workload requirements. The DNFSB’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget request, released late last week, seeks $30.15 million, an increase of approximately $2 million from the Board’s current funding levels. Approximately half of the requested funding increase would be used to add five new full-time equivalents (FTEs) in response to “the need for increased resources for safety oversight” at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant; the assignment of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Inspector General to also provide IG serves to the Board; and changes made by lawmakers to how the Board operates, such as requiring the Board to assess risk when preparing recommendations, the request states. Defending its proposed funding increase, the Board said in its request, “The cost of re-engineering and making post-construction safety modifications to complex DOE defense nuclear facilities due to the late identification of significant design flaws would require significantly more resources than the Board’s requested budget. When incomplete or incorrect safety features are identified late in the design stage (or worse, in the construction stage) project costs are increased and schedules are delayed.”

IN THE INDUSTRY

Gonzales-Stoller Remediation Services, LLC, reportedly submitted a bid late last month for the new contract to provide environmental monitoring and D&D services at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site, bringing the total number of bidders on the contract to at least four, according to industry officials. Other bidders are believed to include Dynamic Management Solutions, LLC; North Wind; and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (WC Monitor, Vol. 25 No. 11). The new ETEC contract, estimated to be worth approximately $25-40 million, is being competed under DOE’s set of small business national Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity cleanup contracts. DOE plans to award the new contract in the July-September time frame.

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