2022 National Cleanup Workshop
Clearing the Decks to Enable the Next Decade of Cleanup Success
Arlington Ballroom
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2022 PROCEEDINGS
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
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
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