The Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) elected its FY 2016 officers during its September board meeting. Belinda Price was elected chair; Alfreda Cook, vice chair; and Dave Hemelright, secretary. Their terms of service are October 2015 through September 2016.

ORSSAB is a federally chartered citizens’ panel that provides recommendations to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Environmental Management Program (DOE EM).

Price, of Knoxville, was appointed to the board in February 2013. She is a senior hydrogeologist with Alliant Corporation with more than 25 years of experience in environmental investigation and environmental remediation as a geologist, hydrogeologist, and task/project manager.

Cook retired as a data and systems analyst in 2012. As an employee of successive contractors to the DOE Oak Ridge EM Program since the early 1990s, she was instrumental in compiling and reporting corporate waste disposition data and developing various electronic systems that enhanced the accuracy of information reported to DOE. An Oak Ridge resident, she joined the board in July 2012.

Hemelright, a board member since 2011 and a resident of Lenoir City, is the K–12 Facilities Specialist for Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc., specializing in Tennessee public school planning, design, and construction. He currently serves on the board of the Tennessee School Plant Management Association. He most recently served two years as ORSSAB chair and was vice chair prior to that.

ORSSAB meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. at the DOE Information Center in Oak Ridge. Meetings of the board and its committees are open to the public, and notices are posted on the board’s web site: www.energy.gov/ORSSAB.