2006 Intergovernmental Meeting November 29, 2006

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2006 Intergovernmental MeetingNovember
29, 2006
Building on Closure Success
Past
Present
Fernald Closure Project
Mark W. Frei Office of Program Planning Budget,
EM-30
September 2006
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
July 1995
October 2005
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Building on Closure SuccessEM Program Priorities

• Continue to focus on safe, cost-effective risk
  reduction, and cleanup
• Build on cleanup completion success
• Complete 5 sites in 2006
• Complete as many as 12 additional sites or areas
  between 2007 2009

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EM is scheduled to complete 5 sites this year

• Lawrence Livermore National CA
• Laboratory-Main Site
• Rocky Flats Environmental CO
• Technology Site
  
• Kansas City Plant MO
• Columbus Environmental OH
• Management Project
  
• Fernald Environmental OH
• Management Project

2006
RFETS
LLNL (Main Site)
Columbus
KCP
Fernald
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and as many as 12 additional sites/areas between
2007-2009

• Lawrence Berkley National CA
• Laboratory
  
• Ashtabula
  OH
• Miamisburg Environmental OH
• Management Project
  
• Lawrence Livermore National CA
• LaboratorySite 300
  
• Inhalation Toxicology Laboratory NM
• Pantex Plant
  TX
• Energy Technology Engineering CA
• Center
  
• Stanford Linear Accelerator CA

2007
LBNL
BNL
LLNL (Site 300)
ANL-E
2008
Stanford
Inhalation Lab
Ashtabula
Miamisburg
ETEC
2009
SNL
ETTP
Pantex
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EM PrioritiesWithin the FY 2007 Budget

• Conduct compliant and safe operations
• Support post-closure benefits and liability
  requirements
• Fully establish the disposition capability for
  radioactive liquid tank waste, special nuclear
  materials, and spent nuclear fuel
• Dispose contact-handled and remote-handled
  transuranic waste and low-level radioactive waste
• Continue to remediate contaminated soil and
  groundwater
• Decontaminate and decommission facilities no
  longer needed

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Historic EM Funding

6.4
6.7
7.0
7.0
7.3
6.6
5.8







Congressional Appropriations
Congressional Request

• FY 2001-2007
• As results are achieved and mortgages are
  reduced, funding has begun to decline
• However, EM continually evaluates regulatory and
  legal requirements, performance, and new scope
  relative to funding requirements

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EM Program FY 2007 Budget Request

Budget Request 5.8 Billion
New York
Idaho
Nevada
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
New Mexico

Legend
Over 1 billion
300 million to 1 billion
50 million to 300 million
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FY 2007 Budget Overview

• EM is focused on cleanup completion and risk
  reducing results with safety still the utmost
  priority

Other is comprised of Program Direction,
Technology Development, Contribution to the DD
Fund, Uranium/Thorium Reimbursements,
Headquarters, and Community and Regulatory Support
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Comparison Between FY 2006 Appropriations FY
2007 Request

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Significant Changes From FY 2006 to FY 2007
Resulting Impacts

• Idaho ( )
• TRU waste (CH and RH) retrieval, packaging, and
  shipment to WIPP ( )
• nuclear facility DD ( )
• non-nuclear facility DD ( )
• HLW stabilization and disposition ( )
• Soil and groundwater cleanup ( )
• Oak Ridge ( )
• Completion of Melton Valley cleanup ( )
• K-25 and K-27 GDP DD at ETTP ( )
• Portsmouth/Paducah ( )
• revised construction baseline for DUF6 projects (
  )
• completion of legacy LLW (Portsmouth) disposal (
  )
• Richland ( )
• deferral of some DD at PFP ( )
• K-basin sludge removal and treatment ( )
• River Corridor cleanup ( )

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Significant Changes From FY 2006 to FY 2007
Resulting Impacts

• River Protection ( )
• Waste Treatment Plant construction ( )
• Pause in bulk vitrification demonstration and
  reduced SST retrievals ( )
• Savannah River ( )
• Salt Waste Processing Facility design and
  construction ( )
• nuclear facility DD ( )
• Closure Sites ( )
• Completion of 2006 closure site cleanup ( )
• NNSA Sites ( )
• LANL cleanup slowdown due to performance issues (
  )
• Program Direction ( )
• support needed FTEs and training to improve
  Federal oversight capability ( )

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EM Management Initiatives

• Maintain and demand highest safety performance
• Validate project baselines, schedules, and
  assumptions
• Improve senior management focus on project
  execution
• Implement additional training for Federal
  managers and staff to enhance project management
  and acquisition skills
• Assure effective identification and management of
  risks
• Ensure selection of the most appropriate contract
  type and fee earning method corresponding to the
  scope of work and business case analysis
• Provide real-time feedback and application of
  lessons learned
• Enlist proper organizational alignment of
  functions, authorities, and people (assets) at HQ

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Corporate Performance Measures

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Stakeholder Involvement

• The Office of Program Planning Budget
  acknowledges the importance of involving various
  stakeholders in the formulation of cleanup
  priorities and in budgetary process
• EM will continue to
• Involve Advisory Boards early on during EMs
  yearly budgetary process
• Stakeholders other interested parties should
• Attend DOE EM sponsored public meetings and
  workshops

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Building on Closure Success Summary

• With the FY 2007 budget request, EM will continue
  focusing on safe, cost-effective risk reduction
  and environmental cleanup
• For the future, EM is working to secure the
  needed funding for our evolving mission scope,
  while being mindful of other important national
  priorities
• EM is committed to and is formulating several
  management initiatives to improve safety, project
  management, and project execution