Recommendation for collaborative development of community outreach, public and stakeholder education and engagement with DOE-EM missions.
Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management
October 24, 2018
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The Environmental Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) understands that successful completion of the DOE-EM mission must include community, public and stakeholder education and engagement. This engagement can be developed and implemented in any of several different forms that reflect the public interest in; stage of cleanup combined with the complexity and uniqueness of each of the cleanup sites managed by DOE-EM.
Because of the variety of sites and different cleanup schedules, we are presenting a suite of potential activities that can be implemented at varying levels at each of the sites but are applicable to all in some form. Individual site-specific advisory boards are in the perfect position to help develop and recommend implementation strategies on each of these activities. Advisory board involvement would help the site enhance its outreach by providing advice related to specific targeted areas based on feedback from actual communities and individuals who live near or are potentially impacted by site activities.