[DOE LETTERHEAD]
November 1, 2002
The Honorable John T. Conway
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004-2901
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This letter provides an update of my July
26,2002, letter concerning performance incentives at the Savannah River
Site.� Environmental Management has
worked to align Performance Based Incentives (PBIs) with risk reduction.� The PBIs developed for the High Level Waste
Program is attached.� These PBIs support
the risk reduction mission by providing fee incentives to perform the
following:
The PBIs award a higher incremental fee for
increased performance.� This is most
notable with the PBI related to sludge waste canister production and salt
processing.� In the area of tank
closures we are finalizing an additional PBI for closing tanks l-8.� However, more work is needed to further
accelerate the cleanup mission at SRS.�
Therefore, I have directed the following:
While the HLW PBIs remain weighted toward
canister production, PBIs will be reconfirmed or modified by March 2003 to
place more weight on dispositioning High Level Waste, processing salt and
closing old style tanks.� The increased
premium on these parameters will not be at the expense of incentives to reduce
sludge in the tanks.
Lastly, we will continue the reviews of SRS
to ensure that the findings identified this summer are resolved, and that WSRC
continues to make progress toward reducing the risk of High Level Waste by
processing the sludge into glass, processing the salt to saltstone and closing
tanks.
If you have any further questions, please
contact me at (202) 586-7709 or Mr. Paul Golan, Chief Operating Officer, at
(202) 586-0738.
Sincerely,
Jessie Hill Roberson
Assistant Secretary for
Environmental Management
Enclosure
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