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DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) currently oversees more than 80 of these cleanup projects, primarily at government-owned, contractor-operated sites throughout the nation. Some of these highly complex projects have completion dates beyond 2050. Ten of these projects meet or nearly meet DOE’s definition of “major”: projects whose costs exceed $1 billion in the near-term—usually a 5-year window of the project’s total estimated life cycle.1,2 These 10 projects have combined estimated near-term costs of almost $19 billion and combined life cycle costs estimated to range between $115 billion and $143 billion, and they account for almost half of EM’s $5.5 billion fiscal year 2009 budget request.3 These 10 projects are described in detail in appendix II and include the remediation, decontamination, and decommissioning, or the stabilization and disposition of:
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Five others join Salazar, Allard in signing letter Pressure is mounting for the investigative arm of Congress to probe how the federal government is treating sick nuclear weapons workers. Meanwhile, officials from the agency responsible for compensating the workers have been to Capitol Hill this week defending their work.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) told a Senate oversight committee Sept. 16 that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ignored recommendations from an advisory committee established to assist the agency in creating policies to protect children's health. For example, in developing three recent air quality standards on particulate matter, ozone, and lead, EPA either rejected the committee's recommendations or treated them as one of many public comments, according to GAO.
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It will cost at least $1 billion more than the Bush administration expected to deploy advanced radiation detection equipment at the country's ports, government auditors said Monday. The Government Accountability Office — the investigative arm of Congress — projects it will cost $3.1 billion through 2017 to equip U.S. ports with the machines, which are capable of sensing a nuclear bomb hidden in a shipping container.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander is among seven U.S. senators who wrote Sept. 16 letter asking the Government Accountability Office to "review the implementation" of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. The senators asked the GAO to focus on a number of concerns, including delays in processing claims and the credibility of the compensation decisions for sick nuclear workers.
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The award of Hanford's new $3 billion Mission Support Contract has been protested, the Department of Energy notified Hanford employees Monday evening. DOE expects the Government Accountability Office to take up to 100 days to resolve the protest. In the meantime, work to transition to the new support services contract cannot begin. The contract was awarded Sept. 3 to Mission Support Alliance, a team led by Lockheed Martin. Mission Support Alliance was told then that it would begin the transition from Fluor Hanford on Oct. 1 at the earliest and would assume full responsibility Jan. 1.
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The U.S. Department of Energy is behind schedule to complete environmental and safety analyses at Savannah River Site, the federal facility near Augusta that is preparing to process and dispose of 25 million tons of nuclear materials starting in 2010. In a study released Friday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that some required analyses have been delayed as much as two years due to staffing shortages.
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Security lapses at one of the nation's three nuclear weapons testing labs, the storied Los Alamos National Laboratory in the New Mexico desert, have continued despite frequent and sometimes heated calls for improvements by congressional leaders, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today.
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Hanford is one of the two Department of Energy nuclear cleanup sites with employee benefits more than 5 percent higher than comparable organizations, according to the Government Accountability Office. It issued a report last week to Congress providing information on DOE's management of costs and liabilities for pensions and post-retirement benefits for which it must reimburse DOE contractors. DOE is concerned about future costs for pensions and benefits for retirees, such as health care and life insurance, and congressional leaders find budgeting for fluctuating amounts difficult each year.
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From January 2003 to September 2007, GAO investigators discovered numerous border security vulnerabilities -- at ports and at unmanned and unmonitored border locations in four states on the northern border, three on the southern and two other states requiring international air travel.
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Two senior members of the US House of Representatives are questioning the factual basis of the Bush administration's nonproliferation defense of Russia's nonproliferation record, a key part of the justification for the administration's decision to sign a nuclear cooperation agreement with Moscow.
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