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UCOR, DOE cleanup contractor in Oak Ridge, earns 94 percent of award fee

Posted at 2:01 am January 5, 2017
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UCOR workers take down the final portion of Building K-27, achieving Vision 2016, a DOE goal to remove all of the former uranium enrichment buildings at the East Tennessee Technology Park by the end of 2016. K-27 was the fifth and final gaseous diffusion building to be demolished at the site. Successful demolitions of the four other buildings were completed from 2006 to 2015. (U.S. Department of Energy photo)

 

UCOR, the U.S. Department of Energy’s cleanup contractor in Oak Ridge, received about $3.4 million for its performance from April through September 2016, or 94 percent of the total award fee available, federal officials said.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, or OREM, recently issued the six-month fee determination scorecard for UCOR, or URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC, after completing its evaluation.

“Contractor award fee evaluations determine what will be paid based on performance against stated objectives in accordance with annual award fee plans,” the DOE Office of Environmental Management, or EM, said in the EM Update electronic newsletter on December 29. “EM releases information relating to contractor fee payments to further transparency.”

According to UCOR’s scorecard, the company received an overall rating of “very good” for project management and “high confidence” for cost and schedule based on cost and schedule indexes, the newsletter said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: East Tennessee Technology Park, Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Office, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: award fee, Building K-27, Community Reuse Organization of Tennessee, DOE, DOE Office of Environmental Management, East Tennessee Technology Park, EM, EM program, EM Update, ETTP, fee determination, historic preservation, Mercury Treatment Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, OREM, ORNL, reindustrialization, U.S. Department of Energy, UCOR, URS-CH2M Oak Ridge LLC, Y-12 National Security Complex

ETEC presents 2013 Muddy Boot Awards

Posted at 6:01 pm December 15, 2013
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On Friday, the East Tennessee Economic Council named three new recipients of the Muddy Boot Award: Bill Biloski, Ray Smith, and Barry Stephenson.

The Muddy Boot Award is a tribute to people who, through their work and community activities, make East Tennessee a stronger region.

Also Friday, ETEC presented two Postma Young Professional Medals to husband and wife Colin and Sherith Colverson.

The council’s annual celebratory event was keynoted by Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: Anderson County Industrial Development Board, Barry Stephenson, Bill Biloski, Bill Haslam, Colin Colverson, DOE, East Tennessee Economic Council, East Tennessee Technology Park, ETEC, ETTP, historian, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Lydia Birk, Manhattan Project, Manhattan Project National Historical Park, Materials and Chemistry Laboratory, MCLinc, Muddy Boot Awards, Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Postma Young Professional Medals, Ray Smith, redevelopment, reindustrialization, Sherith Colverson, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex

EDi buys former IMPACT Services site from CROET

Posted at 4:53 pm October 15, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

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State and contractor officials lead tours of the IMPACT Services Inc. site at Heritage Center in west Oak Ridge in June. More than one million pounds of low-level radioactive waste has been shipped from the site.

An environmental services company that helped clean up the former IMPACT Services site at Heritage Center has purchased the seven-acre property from the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee.

The company, Environmental Dimensions Inc., is headquartered in Alburquerque, N.M., but has offices in Oak Ridge.

The cleanup work at the site started in May 2012 after IMPACT Services, which processed low-level radioactive waste, declared bankruptcy. The company had leased the site—which is at the northwest corner of Heritage Center, the former K-25 site in west Oak Ridge—from CROET.

“We are fortunate to have a partner like EDi who has not only helped us address the environmental liabilities of the property, but that has a vision for its future that will help our community, bring jobs to the area, and further our reindustrialization efforts at East Tennessee Technology Park’s Heritage Center,” said Lawrence Young, CROET president and chief executive officer. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Oak Ridge, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: cleanup, Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee, CROET, East Tennessee Technology Park, EDi, Environmental Dimensions Inc., ETTP, Heritage Center, K-25, Lawrence Young, low-level radioactive waste, Mike Bradshaw, nuclear waste, reindustrialization, U.S. Department of Energy

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