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Recovery Act Small Business Funding of Selected Sites
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Small Business Opportunities
| EMCBC |
| Carlsbad |
MOAB |
PPPO |
SLAC |
SPRU |
| $7,199,000 |
$3,445,000 |
$197,000,000 |
$7,925,000 |
$14,775,000 |
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| OTHER |
OakRidge |
Richland |
River Protection |
Savannah River |
| $6,185,242 |
$102,224,779 |
$17,835,407 |
$4,599,480 |
$6,670,616 |
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History of the Office of Environmental Management
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On a cold morning in December 1989, workers at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado
loaded the last plutonium "trigger" for a nuclear warhead into a tractor trailer
bound southeast to the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. No one knew then that
the nuclear weapon built with this plutonium trigger would be the last one made
in the United States for the foreseeable future.
Until then, the production of nuclear weapons had run continuously, beginning during
World War II with the startup of the first reactor to produce plutonium for the
top-secret Manhattan Project. But growing concerns about safety and environmental
problems had caused various parts of the weapons-producing complex to be shut down
in the 1980s. These shutdowns, at first expected to be temporary, became permanent
when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. The nuclear arms race of the Cold War came
to a halt for the first time since the invention of the atomic bomb. Quietly, a
new era had begun.
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Participate in Public Meetings
Contact our stakeholder relations team to find sign up to receive information about EM Recovery public involvement opportunities in your area.
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How do I apply?
Register for inclusion in the EM Recovery reporting process. Make sure your project or business qualifies as part part of the overall EM Recovery effort.
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How do I find locations near me?
Go to the sites and locations on this site to find out more information about regional EM Recovery activity.
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Answers
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FUNDING
On what basis did the Office of Environmental Management (EM) allocate
Recovery funding to sites?
EM allocated the $6 billion of Recovery Act funding provided by Congress to support footprint
reduction and near-term completion cleanup activities. The cleanup projects chosen for the
Recovery Act work were selected based on criteria that would ensure quick deployment of resources
to maximize creation of jobs. Activities that were in-line with compliance agreements and
work that could begin quickly was identified at 17 sites in 12 states, thus meeting these
Recovery Act criteria.
How were the Recovery Act projects chosen?
The Recovery Act funding was directed towards the "shovel ready" projects or existing scope that
could be most readily be accelerated such as: soil and groundwater remediation; radioactive
solid waste disposition and facility and decontamination & decommissioning. Additionally,
selection of Recovery Act work scope was integrated with ongoing EM budgeting and planning
acitivities to ensure seamless integration of Recovery Act work within existing baseline work.
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Making Progress
Click here to View Performance Graph
| Facility Square Footage Demolished (square feet) |
5,837,509 |
5,778,594 |
5,804,079
(99% of goal) |
= |
101 football fields |
| Mill Tailings Disposed (tons) |
2,199,804 |
2,199,804 |
2,631,899
(120% of goal) |
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18,277 rail cars |
Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Processed
(certification-ready)
(cubic meters) |
6,485 |
5,799 |
5,885
(91% of goal) |
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28,266 55-gal drums |
| Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Certified for Final Disposal(cubic meters) |
3,740 |
3,740 |
3,710
(99% of goal) |
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1,273 TRUPACT IIs (17,820 55-gal drums)
(424 shipments) |
| Transuranic Waste Inventory Dispositioned (cubic meters) |
7,635 |
4,970 |
5,534
(72% of goal) |
= |
26,581 55-gal drums |
Low-Level and Mixed Low-Level Waste Permanently Disposed
(cubic meters) |
81,474 |
81,467 |
97,290
(119% of goal) |
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467,296 55-gal drums |
Recovery Act Press Releases
Thursday, December 22, 2011 Idaho Site Completes Demolition of Cold War-era Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facility  Friday, September 30, 2011 Department of Energy Completes Demolition of K-33 Building Thursday, September 29, 2011 SRS Commemorates P & R Reactor Area Completions Thursday, September 01, 2011 Oak Ridge Environmental Management Program Completes Work at Bethel Valley Burial Ground Monday, August 29, 2011 First TRUPACT-III Shipment Arrives Safely at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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Recovery Funding
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ETEC
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California
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$51,675,000
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SLAC
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California
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$14,300,000
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Idaho
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Idaho
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$467,875,000
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Argonne
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Illinois
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$79,000,000
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Paducah
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Kentucky
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$80,400,000
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Nevada Test Site
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Nevada
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$44,325,000
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Los Alamos
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New Mexico
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$211,975,000
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WIPP
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New Mexico
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$172,175,000
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Brookhaven
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New York
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$70,810,000
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SPRU
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New York
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$58,575,000
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West Valley
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New York
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$62,875,000
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Mound
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Ohio
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$17,900,000
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Portsmouth
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Ohio
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$119,800,000
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Savannah River
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South Carolina
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$1,615,200,918
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Oak Ridge
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Tennessee
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$754,989,967
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Moab
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Utah
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$108,350,000
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Richland
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Washington
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$1,634,445,175
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River Protection
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Washington
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$326,035,000
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Other
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$97,694,849
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Total
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$5,988,400,908
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