2022 PROCEEDINGS

​​​​​​​​2022 National Cleanup Workshop

Clearing the Decks to Enable the Next Decade of Cleanup Success
​Arlington Ballroom


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Thursday, September 22

8:30am - 8:45am             
OPENING REMARKS
                                                  Introduction: Seth Kirshenberg, Executive Director, Energy Communities Alliance (ECA)
                                                  Brent Gerry, Mayor, City of West Richland, WA; Chair, ECA
                                                  Michael Lempke, Chair, Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG); President, Nuclear and Environmental                                                               group, HII’s Mission Technologies division








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8:45am - 9:15am             A NEW ERA FOR EM CLEANUP

                                                  Ike White, Senior Advisor for Environmental Management, DOE










9:15am - 9:45am             UPCOMING EM ACQUISITION PLANS AND SCHEDULE
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Introduction: Ryan Overton, Executive Vice President, Navarro Research and Engineering
                                                  Aaron Deckard
, Procurement Director, DOE-EMCBC











10:30am - 12:00pm         THE NEXT PHASE OF EM PROGRESS

                                                  Moderator: Cathy Tullis, Chief of Staff, DOE-EM

​                                                  ...Completing D&D of Building 326 at Portsmouth

​                                                         Joel Bradburne, Manager, Portsmouth Paducah Project Office, DOE

                                                        Greg Wilkett, Site Project Director, FBP

                                                  …A New Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility in Oak Ridge

                                                         Laura Wilkerson, Acting Manager, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management

                                                         Ken Rueter, President and CEO, United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR)

                                                  …End-State Contracting Model Implementation at Idaho

                                                         Connie Flohr, Manager, EM-Idaho

                                                         Ty Blackford, President, Idaho Environmental Coalition, LLC











1:00pm - 1:30pm             PERSPECTIVES FROM CAPITOL HILL
                                               
  ...Introduction: Chuck Hope, Council Member, City of Oak Ridge, TN
                                                  
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN)
, Chairman, House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus









                                                  ...
Introduction: Eric Freeman, Operation Manager for Leidos Integrated Missions Operations
                                                 
Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV)
, Co-Chair, House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus










1:30pm - 2:30pm             RESETTING REGULATORY RELATIONSHIPS AND APPROACHES TO ENABLE THE EM MISSION

​                                                  Moderator: Shelly Wilson, Longenecker & Associates

                                                  Kristen Ellis, Director for Regulatory Intergovernmental and Stakeholder Engagement, DOE-EM

                                                  Kim Lebak, President, N3B Los Alamos

                                                  Laura Wilkerson, Acting Manager, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management

                                                  Wyatt Clark, Chief Operating Officer, Savannah River Mission Completion

                                                  Connie Herman, Associate Lab Director, Savannah River National Laboratory and executive sponsor, SRNL

                                                         Regulatory Center of Excellence

                                                  Amy Fitzgerald, Government Affairs and Information Services Director, City of Oak Ridge, TN











3:00pm - 4:00pm             DEVELOPING THE FUTURE EM WORKFORCE

                                                  Moderator: David Izraelevitz, Councilor, Los Alamos County, NM; Treasurer, ECA

                                                  Kristen Ellis, Director for Regulatory Intergovernmental and Stakeholder Engagement, DOE-EM

                                                  JJ Chavez, Council Member, City of Carlsbad, NM; ECA Executive Board

                                                  John Eschenberg, President, CPCC

                                                  Myrna Redfield, President/CEO & Program Manager, Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, LLC










4:00pm - 5:00pm             ROUNDTABLE: LESSONS LEARNED AND IMPROVING PROJECT PERFORMANCE

​                                                  Moderator: Martin Schneider, Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG)

                                                  Tom Jouvanis, President, Atkins Nuclear Secured

                                                  Michael Lempke, President, Nuclear and Environmental group, HII’s Mission Technologies division

                                                  Greg Meyer, Senior Vice President, Fluor

                                                  Dena Volovar, Executive Vice President, Nuclear, Security & Environmental (NS&E), Bechtel

                                                  Mark Whitney, President-National Security, Amentum










Friday, September 23

8:30am - 9:30am             DOE LEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVES

                                                  Moderator: Colin Jones, Deputy General Manager, North American Nuclear, Jacobs

​                                                  Candice Robertson, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, DOE-EM

                                                  Randy Hendrickson, Senior Advisor to EM-3, DOE-EM

                                                  Dae Chung, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Corporate Services, DOE-EM










10:00am - 11:00am         ROUNDTABLE: DOE FIELD OFFICE MANAGERS

                                                  Moderator: Rebecca Casper, Mayor, City of Idaho Falls

​                                                  Laura Wilkerson, Acting Manager, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, DOE-EM

                                                  Joel Bradburne, Manager, Portsmouth Paducah Project Office

                                                  Connie Flohr, Manager, EM Idaho Operations Office, DOE

                                                  Michael Mikolanis, Manager, EM Los Alamos

                                                  Reinhard Knerr, Carlsbad Operations Office, DOE

                                                  Michael Budney, Manager, Savannah River Site Operations Office, DOE-EM

                                                  Brian Vance, Manager, Office of River Protection/Richland Operations Office, DOE-EM

                                                  Jack Zimmerman, Director, Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center, DOE-EM










11:00am - 12:00pm         MAXIMIZING REUSE OPPORTUNITIES AT EM SITES

​​                                                  Moderator: Rick McLeod, President and CEO, Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organization

                                                  Randall Ryti, Chair, Los Alamos County Council

                                                  Diahann Howard, Executive Director, Port of Benton

                                                  Jennifer Chandler​, Administrator, Village of Piketon, OH

                                                  Ken Rueter, President and CEO, UCOR










1:00pm - 2:00pm             ENTERING A NEW ERA FOR HANFORD AND THE TRICITIES

​​                                                  Brian Vance, Manager, Office of River Protection/Richland Operations Office

​                                                  Steven Ashby, Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

                                                  Wes Bryan, President, Washington River Protection Solutions

                                                  Val McCain, Project Manager, Bechtel-WTP

                                                  Bob Wilkinson, President, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions

                                                  David Reeploeg, Executive Director, Hanford Communities










2:00pm - 3:00pm             IMPROVING ASSURANCE APPROACHES TO ADDRESS EMERGING CHALLENGES

​                                                  Moderator: Jack Craig, COO, Atkins Nuclear Secured

                                                  Dae Chung, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Corporate Services, DOE-EM

                                                  David Blevins, Vice President and General Manager, North American Nuclear, Jacobs

                                                  Stuart MacVean, President, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions

                                                  Jim Blankenhorn, Senior Vice President-Environment and Security, Amentum

                                                  Sandra Fairchild, Director of Mission Assurance and Controls, UCOR

                                                  Heatherly Dukes, President, BWXT Technical Services Group

                                                  Amanda Kolling, Assistant Director-Natural Resources and Environment, GAO