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Following Through: Oak Ridge’s Cleanup Program Continues Forward

Laura Wilkerson, Deputy Manager Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management

Our work supports critical Departmental missions in Oak Ridge

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Complete cleanup of Oak Ridge Reservation to:

• Protect the region’s health

and environment

• Make clean land available

for future use

• Ensure DOE’s ongoing vital

missions Our vision is a remediated, modernized, andreindustrialized Oak Ridge Reservation

Oak Ridge includes three distinct sites with a variety of cleanup challenges

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OREM’s guiding principles are leading to cleanup successes across Oak Ridge OREM Guiding Principles:

• Remain investment worthy
• Maintain an unwavering commitment to safety
• Finish what we start
• Reduce risk to protect people and

the environment

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Accomplishing our goals has resulted in annual budget increases

Dollars in millions

Appropriation Account FY15 Enacted Budget FY16 Enacted Budget FY17 Enacted Budget FY18 Enacted Budget FY19 Enacted Budget Defense Environmental Cleanup 239.5 251.6 278.8 417.8 424.0 Non-Defense Environmental Cleanup – Historic Preservation 2.5 6.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 UE D&D Fund 189.6 211.6 213.5 214.0 212.3 Total Oak Ridge $431.2 $469.2 $498.3 $639.8 $646.3

Oak Ridge’s cleanup program employs more than 2,255 direct contractors and 75 federal employees.

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A view of ETTP before we began transforming the site

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We have made tremendous progress toward

• ur vision for ETTP

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We are nearing our Vision 2020 goal

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Today, ETTP is ready for private sector development

• 1,200+ acres of land

transferred to date

• 600+ additional acres

approved for transfer

• 14 buildings transferred

totaling 332,000 ft2

• 20 private companies
• perating at ETTP
• Site infrastructure, roads

and emergency services transferred to the City of Oak Ridge

Access to abundant power

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Large parcels of land are available

We are working to commemorate the accomplishments of Manhattan Project workers

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There are decades of work for the EM program at Y-12 and ORNL

Excess Facilities at Y-12 Excess Facilities at ORNL

• ORNL and Y-12 have 220+ excess contaminated buildings
• Oak Ridge contains 66 of DOE’s 254 high-risk facilities– far more thanany
• ther DOE site
• Wide range of physical, chemical, and nuclear hazards that present riskto

critical ongoing research and national securitymissions

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Through Congressional support, we are ramping up cleanup efforts and dispositioning legacy waste at ORNL

• Facility modifications to enable processing of

remaining U-233 inventory in design phase

LGWO Life-Extension Activities Transuranic Waste Processing and Shipments

• Funding from Congress has allowed us to begin

work at ORNL excess facilities earlier than originally anticipated

• We are beginning risk reduction and stabilization

projects primarily in the Central Campus Area

• Transuranic waste inventory processing and

disposition underway

Building 3026

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Our work enhances safety and enables future growth at ORNL

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• Funding from Congress

has allowed us to begin work at Y-12 earlier than

• riginally anticipated
• At Y-12, we are beginning

mercury risk reduction and preparing the remaining five Biology Complex buildings for demolition

Through Congressional support, we are ramping up cleanup efforts at Y-12

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Our work enhances safety and enables future growth at Y-12

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We are constructing key infrastructure to enable large-scale cleanup at Y-12

• Site preparation for the Mercury Treatment Facility is complete
• APTIM-North Wind Construction awarded contract, and construction willbegin

this year

• It will pave the way for demolition of the large, contaminated buildings atY-12

Crews constructing the retaining walls for the Mercury Treatment Facility

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Sufficient waste disposal capacity is crucial to begin the next phase of cleanup

The current onsite disposal facility, the Environmental Management Waste Management Facility

• Our current engineered disposal facility is more than 70 percent full, andwe

need additional capacity to complete cleanup at ORNL andY-12

• We concluded the Public Comment Period for the proposed new facilityin

January, and we are working with EPA and TDEC to move forward on the project.

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• With cleanup at ETTP concluding, we are working to identify areas to

locate our workforce

• Estimate needing a 20-acre area for hundreds of employees that will

be working on ORNL and Y-12’s cleanup scope

• Partnering with the Office of Science and NNSA to find the best

location and solution

We are planning the logistical and operational set-up for the next phase of cleanup

We are awarding contracts to perform the next phase of cleanup

• Oak Ridge Reservation Cleanupcontract
• Scope covers EM activities at Y-12, ORNL, andETTP
• Draft Request for Proposal being developed
• Characterization and D&D contract
• Evaluating proposals. Expect to make multiple awards

in Spring 2019

• Engineering Technical Services contract
• Procurement planning ongoing. Contract provides nuclear safety services to our

cleanup program

• DOE Information Center &Site Specific Advisory Board contract
• Procurement Planning ongoing, 8(A) opportunity.

Contact Natasha White: Natasha.White@orem.doe.gov. For additional information: https://www.emcbc.doe.gov/seb/orrcc/

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Our work is removing economic barriers and enabling DOE’s important ongoing missions

• Work at the East Tennessee Technology Park is transforming the

former uranium enrichment complex into a private industrial park

• Cleanup at Y-12 and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is

eliminating risks, supporting modernization, opening clean land for future missions, and enabling these sites to remain at the forefront of their respective fields

New Hope Center at Y-12 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Heritage Center Industrial Park at ETTP

Questions?

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