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Links to sources of information related to stewardship are provided below. These sources are organized into the following categories:
  • Other Federal Agencies Considering Long-term Care
  • Citizens Advisory Boards and other stakeholder organizations

    • DOE Headquarters

    Contact Address Description
    DOE's Office of Environmental Management www.em.doe.gov DOE's Office of Environmental Management focuses on cleanup of DOE sites and what long-term committments DOE might have
    Department of Energy www.energy.gov Exit EM The U.S. Department of Energy
    DOE's Office of Environment, Safety, and Health (EH) www.eh.doe.gov Exit EM EH is the Departmental advocate for excellence in programs to protect the environment, as well as the health and safety of workers at Department of Energy facilities and the public. The EH information portal contains valuable environment, safety, and health information, including DOE policy and guidance documents. To view guidance documents related to long-term stewardship visit the law and policy section of this site. To browse a larger catalog of DOE guidance by subject matter or regulatory driver, visit EH's Office of Environmental Policy and Assistance (EH-41).
    Environmental Management Advisory Board www.em.doe.gov/emab The official website of the Environmental Management Advisory Board (follow the EMAB Committee link for information on the Long-Term Stewardship Committee)."
    DOE Information Bridge www.doe.gov/bridge/ Exit EM The DOE Information Bridge provides free, convenient, and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

    DOE Operations/Field Offices

    Contact Address Description
    Albuquerque Operations Office www.doeal.gov Exit EM Albuquerque Operations Office's primary function is to maintain the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons, as well as restoring and improving the environmental quality of its operations, and extending the contributions of the national laboratories to basic and applied research in science and technology.
    Chicago Operations Office www.ch.doe.gov Exit EM The Chicago Operations Office is a technical and business management team whose purpose is to advance the Department of Energy's mission through managing programs, projects, facilities and contracts.
    Golden Operations Office www.eren.doe.gov/golden/ Exit EM The main goal of the Golden Field Office is to advance the development and commercialization of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
    Grand Junction Office www.doegjpo.com Exit EM The primary mission of the Grand Junction Office is to apply its project management, engineering, analytical, and scientific capabilities to provide cost-effective, quality, and timely support systems and services for environmental restoration, decontamination and decommissioning, and geoscience programs for Department of Energy and other governmental agencies.
    Idaho Operations Office www.id.doe.gov/doeid/ Exit EM The Idaho Operations Office is charged with overseeing the operations of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.
    Nevada Operations Office www.nv.doe.gov Exit EM The Nevada Operations Office maintains the capability at the Nevada Test Site and other facilities and sites to implement DOE initiatives in stockpile stewardship, crisis management, waste management, environmental management, nondefense research and development, and work for others; as well as supporting other DOE programs.
    Oak Ridge Operations Office www.oakridge.doe.gov Exit EM Oak Ridge Operations Office is responsible for major DOE programs in research and development, defense programs, environmental management, and other activities. Cleanup programs are underway to correct the legacies remaining from energy research and weapons production, as well as managing currently-generated wastes.
    Oakland Operations Office www.oak.doe.gov Exit EM Oakland Operations Office specializes in the following areas: national security; environment management; basic energy science; fusion; high energy physics; and biomedical/environmental sciences.
    Ohio Operations Office www.ohio.doe.gov Exit EM The Ohio Operations Office is responsible for environmental restoration, waste management, and other programs at its four area offices.
    Savannah River Operations Office www.srs.gov/general/srs-home.html Exit EM The mission of the Savannah River Operations Office is to oversee operations at DOE's Savannah River Site.

    DOE Sites

    Contact Address Description
    Argonne National Laboratory www.anl.gov Exit EM Argonne National Laboratory is one of the Department of Energy's research centers. Its research falls into four broad sectors: basic science, scientific facilities, energy resources, and environmental management.
    Argonne National Laboratory Environmental Assessment Division Risk Web Site http://www.ead.anl.gov/inetapp/dsp_inetsum.cfm?appsumid=41 Exit EM Although the EM Center for Risk Excellence (CRE) was closed in early FY 2002, this web site provides access to some of the products developed in support of the CRE.
    Argonne National Laboratory-West www.anlw.anl.gov Exit EM Argonne National Laboratory-West is part of the Argonne National Laboratory located near Chicago. Argonne National Laboratory is a non-profit research Laboratory operated by the University of Chicago for the Department of Energy.
    Ashtabula Environmental Management Project www.ashtabula.doe.gov/ Exit EM The Ashtabula Site contains information on the application of several innovative technologies and remedial activities at the site.
    Brookhaven National Laboratory www.bnl.gov Exit EM The Laboratory's broad mission is to produce excellent science in a safe, environmentally benign manner with the cooperation, support and appropriate involvement of its communities.
    Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/ Exit EM DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network helps communities incorporate sustainable development concepts into community planning.
    FermiLab www.fnal.gov/fermilab_home.html Exit EM Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory advances the understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy by providing leadership and resources for qualified researchers to conduct basic research at the frontiers of high energy physics and related disciplines.
    Fernald www.fernald.gov Exit EM Information on the Fernald site
    Hanford www.hanford.gov Exit EM The Hanford site supports programs in waste management, environmental restoration, science and energy. Hanford was established during the Second World War to produce plutonium for America's nuclear weapons.
    Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory www.inel.gov Exit EM The present mission of the INEEL is to develop, demonstrate, deploy, and transfer advanced engineering technology and systems to private industry to improve U.S. competitiveness and security, the efficient production and use of energy, and the quality of life and the environment worldwide.
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.lbl.gov Exit EM The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a multiprogram lab where research in advanced materials, life sciences, energy efficiency, detectors and accelerators serves America's needs in technology and the environment.
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory www.llnl.gov Exit EM The mission of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is to apply science and technology in the national interest. LLNL's focus is on global security, global ecology, and bioscience.
    Los Alamos National Laboratory www.lanl.gov Exit EM The central mission of Los Alamos is security, but the laboratory also has broad scientific expertise, including innovative biological research, global climate modeling, novel methods for examining material properties, exploring the outer reaches of the solar system, and scientific computing power.
    Nevada Test Site www.nv.doe.gov/nts/default.htm Exit EM The Nevada Test site was established as a proving ground, and was used for those purposes for over four decades. Since the nuclear weapons testing moratorium in 1992, the test site has diversified into many other programs such as hazardous chemical spill testing, emergency response training, conventional weapons testing, and waste management and environmental technology studies.
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory www.ornl.gov Exit EM Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducts research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the nation's leadership in key areas of science; increase the availability of clean, abundant energy; restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security.
    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory www.pnl.gov Exit EM Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's core mission is to deliver environmental science and technology in the service of the nation and humanity. Through basic research, PNL creates fundamental knowledge of natural, engineered, and social systems that is the basis for both effective environmental technology and sound public policy.
    Pantex Plant www.pantex.com Exit EM The Pantex Plant industrial operations are conducted for the Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Sandia National Laboratory. Pantex Plant is America's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility.
    Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site www.rfets.gov Exit EM The Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site is a former nuclear weapons facility located approximately 16 miles northwest of Denver, Colorado. Rocky Flats no longer has a production mission, and is now cleaning up its nuclear and chemical contamination while decommissioning the site in order to ultimately close the site altogether.
    Sandia National Laboratories www.sandia.gov Exit EM Sandia is a national security laboratory operated for the U.S. Department of Energy. It designs all non-nuclear components for the nation's nuclear weapons, performs a wide variety of energy research and development projects, and works on assignments that respond to national security threats.
    Savannah River Site www.srs.gov/general/srs-home.html Exit EM The Savannah River Site serves the national interest by ensuring that programs, operations and resources are managed in a safe, open and cost-effective manner to support current and future national security requirements, reduce the global nuclear proliferation danger, protect and restore the environment while managing waste and nuclear materials, and conduct mission-supportive research and technology development.
    Stanford Linear Accelerator Center www.slac.stanford.edu Exit EM The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is a national basic research laboratory, probing the structure of matter at the atomic scale with x-rays and at much smaller scales with electron and positron beams. The laboratory is operated by Stanford University under a contract from the United States Department of Energy.
    Waste Isolation Pilot Plant www.wipp.carlsbad.nm.us Exit EM The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is designed to dispose of transuranic radioactive waste left from the research and production of nuclear weapons. Located in southeastern New Mexico, 26 miles east of Carlsbad, project facilities include disposal rooms excavated in an ancient, stable salt formation, 2,150 feet (almost half a mile) underground.

    Other Federal Agencies Considering Long-term Care

    Contact Address Description
    Department of Defense www.defenselink.mil Exit EM The U.S. Department of Defense considers stewardship as it closes former air force bases in the Base Realignment and Closure program.
    Department of Interior www.doi.gov Exit EM The U.S. Department of Interior's mission is to protect and provide access to the Nation's natural and cultural heritage and honor the trust responsibilities to tribes.
    Environmental Protection Agency www.epa.gov Exit EM The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment
    Federal Energy Technology Center www.fetc.doe.gov Exit EM The Federal Energy Technology Center performs, procures, and acts as a partner in technical research, development, and demonstration to advance technology into the commercial marketplace.

    Citizens Advisory Boards and Other Stakeholder Organizations

    Contact Address Description
    National Governor's Association Long-Term Stewardship Website http://ndep.state.nv.us/lts/activity.htm Exit EM This website contains information about long term stewardship (LTS) activities being implemented across the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) nuclear weapons complex. The site's LTS Activities web page contains a summary table that depicts LTS information across both government and non-government organizations. The site also has an Annotated Bibliography on LTS. This is a comprehensive document with numerous hypertext links to important LTS documents.
    Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation www.cresp.org Exit EM The homepage for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation is working to foster a broader and deeper understanding of risk-related issues that concern waste cleanup.
    Rocky Flats Citizen Advisory Board www.rfcab.org Exit EM The Rocky Flats Citizen Advisory Board provides recommendations on cleanup and waste management plans for the site.
    Savannah River Site Citizen's Advisory Board www.srs.gov./general/people/srs-cab/srs-cab.html Exit EM The Savannah River Site Citizen's Advisory Board homepage.
    State and Tribal Government Working Group www.em.doe.gov/stgwg/index.html The State and Tribal Government Working Group helps ensure that DOE facilities and sites are operated and cleaned up in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations, and Tribal rights; as well as in a manner that protects human health, safety and the environment.

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    Please direct any comments to Marilyn Tolbert-Smith in the DOE's EM-51 Office of Long-Term Stewardship.
    Thank you.

     

    Last Updated 04/03/01 (jlt)