Ohio Field Office

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The Ohio Field Office is located in Miamisburg, Ohio.

FACILITY MISSION

Although it is relatively new, the Department of Energy's Ohio Field Office shares a long history with the U.S. Defense weapons complex, the residents of Ohio, and most recently, the residents of New York. The Ohio Field Office concept was launched following an October 1993 realignment meeting at Headquarters.

The mission of the Ohio Field Office is to provide administrative, financial, and technical support to the Ashtabula, Columbus, Fernald, Miamisburg, and West Valley Area Offices, which will allow them to complete environmental restoration, waste management, and economic development activities supporting the Department's goals. These programmatic activities are conducted in a manner that ensures safety, social and fiscal responsibility, cost- effectiveness, environmental responsibility, physical security, and stakeholder involvement.

FUTURE USE

The Environmental Management program management activities are expected to remain at the Ohio Field Office, at least through FY 2005. Most facilities at the Mound site will be transitioned to the city or to private ownership. Complete remediation is expected at the Fernald site in FY 2019; the West Valley site will be returned to the State of New York, and Reactive Metals, Inc. and Battelle Columbus Laboratories will be returned to the respective contractor owners once remediation and decommissioning are complete.

NUCLEAR MATERIAL AND FACILITY STABILIZATION

Activities associated with the Nuclear Material and Facility Stabilization program support site planning activities such as surplus facilities assessments, facility transfers, safe shutdowns, and site development.

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION

Activities associated with the Environmental Restoration program support stabilizing contaminated soil; pumping, treating, and containing ground water; decontaminating, decommissioning, and demolishing process buildings; and exhuming sludge and buried drums.

WASTE MANAGEMENT

Activities associated with the Waste Management program support designing, constructing, and operating a variety of treatment facilities to prepare waste for disposal and facilities for safe storage of the various waste streams.

DESCRIPTION OF PERSONNEL

Current Composition

The current FY 1996 federal Full-Time Equivalent allocation of 118 is presented in the table below. As an oversight office, the Ohio Field Office specialities include management, general administration, engineers, scientists, and administrative personnel, who support the Waste Management programs, Environmental Restoration and Nuclear Material and Facility Stabilization. These numbers will remain steady during the next few years but are expected to decline over the next ten years.

Site Management Structure

The Ohio Field Office staff serves as an Office of Support. The Office was established to provide centralized services to multiple, geographically dispersed Area Offices. When initially established in 1994, three Area Offices were under Ohio Field Office cognizance. One Area Office was added in 1995 and another in 1996. The services provided include general management, Chief Financial Officer functions, project control direction, compliance and safety and common administration support such as personnel and contracting. From its inception, the Office has focused on decreasing the cost of all federal and contractor support activities to increase the funding available for completing direct mission work. Ensuring safety is the only higher priority throughout the Ohio Field Office and the Area Offices within its management control. Ohio also has a successful record of teaming with its stakeholders who have been instrumental in achieving many major successes, including the ability of the sites to sustain scope through productivity enhancements. Regulators have been deeply involved in the sites' development and implementation of innovative approaches, which accelerate mission completion and facilitate transfer of the sites into the private sector.

Future Full-Time Equivalent Needs

The level and mix of Full-Time Equivalents at the Ohio Field Office is expected to remain relatively static during the near term. Given its vision of completing cleanup activities and making all five sites available for economic development within the next decade, the goal is to eliminate the necessity for Department of Energy presence. Although this is a significant goal and the pressures on the federal staff are intense, management and employees are fully committed to achieving the vision with no increase in Full-Time Equivalents.

FUNDING ESTIMATE

The following tables present estimated funding information for the Ohio Field Office.