[en] Eager to get the most bang for its waste cleanup bucks, the US Department of Energy is conducting its own version of the Pillsbury bake-off. DOE is pitting two environmental contractors, Rust International Corp. and Lockheed Environmental Systems and Technologies Co., against each other to come up with the prize-winning recipe for cleaning up some nasty waste problems

[en] Cleanup of the huge Hanford nuclear weapon site in Washington state, long mired in disputes over contract awards, faces another potential delay. On October 12 the US General Accounting Office upheld a protest to the award of the site's $800-million Environmental Restoration Management Contract (ERMC). GAO has ordered the US DOE to review the contract award to a team led by Bechtel Group Inc., a process observers say could be quick or a quagmire. GAO sustained part of a protest filed in early 1993 by Parsons Environmental Services Inc., Pasadena, California, which led an unsuccessful team bid for the ERMC

[en] This article is a review of the funding of current/future (1992 and beyond) US DOE efforts to clean up its several nuclear weapons wastes sites. The discussion centers mainly on the results of a 'decisionmakers' conference held in Amelia Island, Florida in September 1992 to address concerns that the mission is clouded by infighting among key players and the expected departure of Assistant Secretary Leo Duffy

[en] This article is a review of the DOD/DOD funding debate in Congress. DOE expected the House to cut $740M from the 1996 cleanup program budget, and DOD expects some $200M to be cut from its programs

[en] A team of contractors led by Bechtel Group, Inc. has won the clean up management contract at the Department of Energy's site at Hanford, Washington. The Hanford site is one of the nation's most complex environmental challenges with 1391 waste sites spread over a 560 sq. mile area which includes at least 625,000 cu. meters of solid waste with radioactive contamination, 200 sq. miles of contaminated groundwater and 149 single-shell waste tanks, some of which are known to be leaking

[en] Thomas P. Grumbly, the US Department of Energy's new environmental and waste czar, is on a mission to prove that it can actually correct a half-century of neglect. But he made it clear to attendees at a cleanup conference in Amelia Island, Florida, late last month that agency weapon-site managers and contractors will shoulder more of the responsibility. DOE headquarters already is shifting specific cleanup decisions to field offices, Grumbly told 400 cleanup firm executives at the annual Decisionmaker's Forum, sponsored by Weapons Complex Monitor, a publication that follows nuclear waste cleanup. To support the change, 1,000 employees will be added over the next three years to provide field offices with more cleanup expertise