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| The Long-term Stewardship Program will maintain and continuously improve protection of public health, safety, and the environment at a site or portion of a site assigned to DOE for such purposes. This mission includes providing sustained human and environmental well-being through the mitigation of residual risks and the conservation of the site's natural, ecological, and cultural resources. Mission activities will include vigilantly maintaining "post-cleanup" controls on residual hazards; sustaining and maintaining engineered controls, infrastructure, and institutional controls; seeking to avoid or minimize the creation of additional "post-cleanup" long-term stewardship liabilities during current and future site operations; enabling the best land use and resource conservation within the constraints of current and future contamination; and periodic re-evaluation of priorities and strategies in response to changes in knowledge, science, technology, site conditions, or regional setting. The Long-term Stewardship Program will coordinate activities to identify and promote additional research and development efforts needed to ensure this protection and to incorporate new science and technology developments that result in increased protection of human health and the environment and lower costs. |
Please direct any comments through the DOE Office of Legacy Management's website at http://www.gjo.doe.gov/LM/,
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Last Updated 09/17/04