How Hanford is Cleaned Up could Change under Federal Review

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The Hanford-area community will be allowed to weigh in as the Department of Energy considers possible shifts in how environmental cleanup is done at Hanford, according to a DOE official based in Washington, D.C. Hanford leaders have been instructed to discuss proposals that came out of a completed 45-day review that began in late June with elected officials, Hanford regulators and those interested in the nuclear reservation, said Stacy Charboneau, associate principal deputy assistant secretary for field operations at the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management in Washington, D.C. Charboneau - a former manager of both of DOE's Hanford offices that oversee cleanup at the nuclear reservation - spoke at a Kennewick meeting last week of the national Environmental Management Site Specific Advisory Board Chairs. The 45-day review was put in motion by James Owendoff after he was named the acting leader of the DOE Office of Environmental Management in June. He asked the 1,400 employees of the DOE office, including those based at Hanford, for any and all ideas they had for environmental cleanup.