Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Integrated Tank Disposition Contract (ITDC) to be performed at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State.

EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project shipped more than 1 million tons of mill tailings for disposal in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the largest annual amount since fiscal 2012.

Mark Gilbertson is set to retire from federal service at the end of October following 40 years of public and private sector experience.

The EM Nevada Program’s environmental program services contractor has developed a new small-grants program to support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programming at schools near the Nevada National Security Site.