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Central Plateau Remediation Contractor Earns 89 Percent of FY17 Fee

Central Plateau Remediation Contractor Earns 89 Percent of FY17 Fee

Office of Environmental Management

May 22, 2018
Hanford’s groundwater treatment program hit an all-time high for the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, treating 295 million gallons of contaminated groundwater at the largest pump-and-treat facility on the Hanford Site.
Hanford’s groundwater treatment program hit an all-time high for the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, treating 295 million gallons of contaminated groundwater at the largest pump-and-treat facility on the Hanford Site.

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office awarded CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) 89 percent of the available fee for fiscal year 2017 (FY17), equating to $9,906,250 of a possible $11,075,000.

   EM releases information relating to contractor fee payments — earned by completing the work called for in the contracts — to further transparency in its cleanup program.

   Evaluation of CHPRC’s performance is conducted under two categories — objective performance measures ($8,075,000 in available fee) and a subjective performance measure ($3 million in available fee).

   In the objective category, CHPRC earned 99 percent of the available fee, or $7,975,000. The contractor completed a number of EM’s key performance goals for Hanford Site cleanup in FY17, including treatment of 2.2 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater, remediation of the 618-10 Burial Ground, and advancement of the sludge removal project in the 100 K Reactor Area; repackaging 280 cubic meters of transuranic mixed and mixed, low-level waste; continued progress in the management of the cesium and strontium capsule project; and completing uranium sequestration injections in the 300 Area. 

Workers on the sludge removal project step through procedures in the 100 K Reactor Area to prepare for a DOE operational readiness review completed in April.
Workers on the sludge removal project step through procedures in the 100 K Reactor Area to prepare for a DOE operational readiness review completed in April.

   In the subjective category, CHPRC earned 64 percent of the available fee, or $1,931,250. This category of the fee determination addresses the June 2017 spread of radiological contamination that occurred at the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) and the corresponding corrective actions that were ineffective at preventing recurrence as evidenced by the later spread of contamination in December 2017. Otherwise, performance was adequate, with a few areas in need of improvement, including vehicle safety, change proposal quality, baseline variance analysis detail, safety basis documentation, appropriate accounting for depreciation, and a backlog of subcontract audits.

   No payment of provisional fee for work on the PFP was made, and fee allocated for that work will remain as provisional fee until the final fee determination for that multi-year performance measure. 

   EM posted a fee determination scorecard on its Hanford Site website. View the scorecard here. 

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