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Environmental Management
Department of Energy > Office of the Under Secretary > Environmental Management
-U.S. Department of Energy | 1000 Independence Ave., SW | Washington, DC 20585
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“The mission of the Office of Environmental Management (EM) is to complete the safe cleanup of the environmental legacy brought about from five decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. The program is one of the largest and most diverse and technically complex environmental cleanup programs in the world and includes responsibility for the cleanup of 108 contaminated nuclear weapons manufacturing and testing sites across the United States. Specified in that responsibility is the need to:
* Safely disposition large volumes of nuclear wastes;
* Safeguard materials that could be used in nuclear weapons; and,
* Deactivate and decommission several thousand contaminated facilities no longer needed to support the Department’s mission and remediate extensive surface and groundwater contamination.
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What We Do
EM manages its work at individual sites as a series of projects. EM projects are tasked with solving the large scale, technically challenging risks and hazardous conditions posed by the world’s largest nuclear cleanup. These nuclear cleanup activities are located at 21 sites covering more than two million acres in 13 states, and employing more than 30,000 Federal and contractor employees, including scientists, engineers and hazardous waste technicians. (The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) safely disposes of the nation’s defense-related transuranic radioactive waste, etc.
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Inés Triay - Assistant Secretary
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Dae Chung - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
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Frank Marcinowski - Chief Technical Officer
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Merle Sykes - Chief Business Officer
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Deputy Assistant Secretary, Project Management (Vacant)
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Steven Krahn - Deputy Assistant Secretary, Safety and Security Program
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Yvette Collazo - Director, Technology Innovation and Development
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Frank Marcinowski - Deputy Assistant Secretary, Technical and Regulatory Support
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Mark Gilbertson - Deputy Assistant Secretary, Program and Site Support
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Joann Luczak - Deputy Assistant Secretary, Program Planning and Budget
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Sandra Waisley - Deputy Assistant Secretary, Human Capital and Corporate Services
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Jack Surash - Deputy Assistant Secretary, Acquisition and Contract Management
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Chief of Staff
C. O’Dell
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Senior Advisors
J. Owendoff
T. Brown
R. Moorer
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Communications & External Affairs, S. Davenport
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DAS Project Management
G. Riner*
Project Assistance & Assurance, L. Ely
Construction Project Reviews & Assurance, G. Girard
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DAS Safety & Security Program
S. Krahn
Safety Management, C. Wu
Safety Operations Assurance, R. Goldsmith
Standards & Quality Assurance, R. Murray*
Safeguards & Security, K. Goodwin
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EM Recovery Act Program
C. Anderson
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Technology Innovation & Development
Y. Collazo
Waste Processing, S. Schneider*
Groundwater & Soil Remediation, K. Gerdes*
Nuclear Materials Disposition, G. DeLeon
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DAS Technical & Regulatory Support
F. Marcinowski
Environmental Compliance, W. Levitan
Public & Intergovernmental Accountability, M. Nielson
Disposal Operations, C. Gelles
D&D & Facility Engineering, A. Szilagyi*
Packaging & Transportation, S. O’Conner
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DAS Program & Site Support
M. Gilbertson
Large Site Support, F. Butterfield*
Small Site Completion, J. Moon*
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DAS Program Planning & Budget
J. Luczak
Budget, J. Luczak*
Strategic Planning & Analysis, J. Rhoderick
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DAS Human Capital & Corporate Services
S. Waisley
Human Capital, D. Crouther
Corporate Information Technology, J. Beard
Business Services, M. Holt
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DAS Acquisition & Contract Mgmt
J. Surash
Procurement Planning, M. Howard
Contract Assistance, R. James*
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Management Systems & Analysis
T. Harms
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* Denotes Acting
**Small Sites: EM: Oakland Project Office, Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC), GJO/Moab Project, West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor Project (SEFOR), Separation Process Research Unit (SPRU), Miamisburg Closure Project, GE Vallicitos; Science: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; NNSA: Nevada Test Site (NTS), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); Legacy Management: Tuba City
06/10/2010
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Advisory Boards
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Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB) – provides the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management (EM), with information, advice, and recommendations concerning issues affecting the EM program including, but not limited to: project management and oversight; cost/benefit analyses; program performance; contracts and acquisition strategies; human capital development; and site end-states activities. The Board is chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
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Board
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Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
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Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) – At the request of the Assistant Secretary or the Field Managers, the Board may provide advice and recommendations concerning the following EM site-specific issues: clean-up standards and environmental restoration; waste management and disposition; stabilization and disposition of non-stockpile nuclear materials; excess facilities; future land use and long term stewardship; risk assessment and management; and clean-up science and technology activities.
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Working Groups
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Applied Cost Engineering Team – In the present environment of budgetary constraints and increased scrutiny from Congress and stakeholders, the Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) program has been challenged to reduce and control costs. The Environmental Management (EM) Applied Cost Engineering (ACE) Team was established to promote continuous cost improvements through dissemination of cost engineering tools, methods, techniques, best practices, and lessons learned across the EM complex. The Office of Project Management serves as a champion for this effort.
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Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Federal Review Group (LFRG) – On December 19, 1996, the Deputy Assistant Secretaries for Waste Management and Environmental Restoration in the Office of Environmental Management established the Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Federal Review Group (LFRG) to develop and implement a review process for LLW disposal facility Performance Assessments and Composite Analyses. The LFRG was chartered to provide Environmental Management the information necessary to determine that LLW disposal facilities are designed, constructed, operated, maintained, and closed in a manner that protects the public and environment. The establishment of the LFRG is an important element of DOE’s response to Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board 94-2 and meeting the requirements of DOE Order 435.1, Radioactive Waste Management.
