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Cost Sharing at the Ashtabula Environmental Management Project

The Department of Energy (Department), by its own estimate, spends about $217 million annually to operate over 50 separate nuclear material tracking systems and to perform other procedures necessary to maintain accountability over its nuclear material inventory. Because these systems are not fully integrated, obtaining comprehensive data about nuclear materials is inefficient. In addition to the many site-level systems, the Department also maintains the Nuclear Materials Management Safeguards System (NMMSS). Used since 1965, NMMSS comprises a major component of the Government's nuclear materials accounting system. It contains high-level, aggregate data on quantity, as well as individual transaction data on shipments of nuclear materials, both internal and external to the United States. The Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission share the $4 million annual operating costs for NMMSS. In recognition of the inefficiencies of maintaining numerous tracking systems, the Department initiated a study in 1999 to examine opportunities to modernize its nuclear materials management systems.@Nõ

Nuclear Materials Accounting Systems Modernization Initiative

From 1954 through 1989, the mission of the Department of Energy's Fernald Environmental Management Project (FEMP) was the production of high-purity uranium metals for use in the Department's nuclear weapons program. The Department suspended all production operations at the site in 1989 and, in 1991, it formally ended the site's production mission. The first environmental restoration contract at the FEMP was awarded to the Fernald Environmental Restoration Management Corporation, now known as Fluor Fernald, Inc. (Fluor), in 1992. From December of that year through November 2000, Fluor managed the site's cleanup activities, and in November 2000, was awarded the FEMP's closure contract.

Closure of the Fernald Environmental Management Project

Order authorizing UBS AG, London Branch to export electric energy to Mexico.

Order authorizing UBS AG, London Branch to export electric energy to Mexico.

Order authorizing TransCanada Power Marketing Ltd to export electric energy to Canada.

Order authorizing TransCanada Power Marketing Ltd to export electric energy to Canada.

Welcome to the 31st quarterly report on lessons learned in the NEPA process.