WC Monitor
1/30/2015
IN CONGRESS
There will be a major shakeup on the staff of the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee with two of the top staffers on the panel leaving Capitol Hill for lobbying jobs. WC Monitor has learned that Senate Majority Clerk Tom Craig and Senate Minority Staffer Leland Cogliani are leaving the subcommittee at the end of this week. Craig, who joined the panel two years ago, will serve as the director of government affairs for Duke Energy, while Cogliani will serve as a senior lobbyist for Washington, D.C., lobbying consulting firm Lewis-Burke Associates. Craig will be replaced as majority clerk by Tyler Owens, though the panel is likely to hire a staffer to handle Craig’s portfolio, which includes the National Nuclear Security Administration. Chris Hanson, who is detailed to the committee from the Department of Energy, will take over Cogliani’s NNSA and applied energy portfolio. Minority Clerk Doug Clapp will handle Cogliani’s Office of Science portfolio.
IN THE INDUSTRY
Washington Closure Hanford and its subcontractor employees have worked 5 million hours without a lost workday due to injury. This is the second time that safety milestone has been reached since Washington Closure started work cleaning up the 220 square miles of the River Corridor Closure Project in 2005. “[Workers] have been consistent in demonstrating their commitment to safety while tackling hazardous and uncertain conditions on a daily basis,” said Scott Sax, Washington Closure president. Washington Closure has completed 91 percent of the work assigned to it. However, some high-hazard work will remain past September, including cleaning up a highly radioactive spill beneath the 309 Building and the 618-10 and 618-11 waste burial grounds. Work is completed on 178 square miles of land, with 321 of 331 buildings demolished and 518 of 585 waste sites cleaned up.
