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Local environmental board meets with federal, state agencies to discuss cleanup mission

Posted at 12:45 am September 28, 2016
By Ashley Huff Leave a Comment

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The Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board holds its annual planning meeting in August 2016 with U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. (Submitted photo)

 

In August, members of a citizen’s advisory board met with representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to consider key issues for Oak Ridge Reservation cleanup in fiscal year 2017, which begins in October.

The Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board held its 2016 Annual Planning Meeting in Townsend, Tennessee, on August 6. The Saturday meeting brought together members of the Oak Ridge board, leadership from DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, or OREM, and liaisons from federal and state regulatory agencies to review cleanup accomplishments in FY 2016 and discuss priorities for FY 2017.

ORSSAB is a federally chartered citizens’ panel that provides recommendations to OREM on its environmental management activities at DOE sites locally. OREM encourages public participation in federal projects and meets regularly with the Oak Ridge board, as well as with other citizen and stakeholder groups within the community to gather public perspectives regarding a diverse cleanup mission that addresses legacy nuclear waste at sites across the Oak Ridge Reservation through numerous activities, including waste disposition, long-term stewardship, and site restoration. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board, State, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: annual planning meeting, Belinda Price, cleanup, Dave Adler, DOE, DOE Information Center, East Tennessee Technology Park, environmental management, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, ETTP, Greg Paulus, groundwater strategy, historic preservation, Jeff Crane, Kristof Czartoryski, Oak Ridge cleanup, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, Oak Ridge Reservation, Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board, ORNL, ORSSAB, Sue Cange, TDEC, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, transuranic waste, TRU Sludge Processing Facility, TRU waste, U-233, U.S. Department of Energy, Vision 2016, waste disposal, Y-12 National Security Complex

DOE commits to three-year, $4.5 million groundwater study in Oak Ridge

Posted at 3:34 pm January 23, 2014
By John Huotari 17 Comments

Daniel Goode and SSAB Groundwater Strategy Presentation

Daniel J. Goode, a research hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, briefs members of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board on a new groundwater strategy for the Oak Ridge Reservation.

The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to spend $4.5 million during the next three years to study groundwater contamination on the Oak Ridge Reservation.

The reservation includes three federal sites—East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Y-12 National Security Complex—that have been involved in missions ranging from scientific research to uranium enrichment to nuclear weapons work. That work has sometimes included the use of hazardous substances such as mercury and technetium-99, a slow-decaying radioactive metal.

The $4.5 million in funding will help implement a new groundwater strategy developed by DOE with help from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The strategy, which was presented to the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board in November, will help guide future cleanup decisions, said Sue Cange, deputy manager for environmental management in DOE’s Oak Ridge Office. [Read more…]

Filed Under: DOE, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Office, Slider, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: Bear Creek Valley, Clinch River, contaminants, Copper Ridge, Daniel J. Goode, Dave Adler, DOE, drinking water, East Tennessee Technology Park, ETTP, groundwater contamination, groundwater quality assessment, groundwater strategy, Haw Ridge, hydrofracture, Melton Valley, mercury, Michael T. Koentop, migration, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Office, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, Oak Ridge Reservation, Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board, ORNL, ORR, ORSSAB, plumes, radionuclides, RSI, SAIC, strontium-90, Sue Cange, technetium-99, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Geological Survey, UCOR, uranium, VOC, volatile organic compounds, wells, Y-12, Y-12 National Security Complex

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