Advisory Boards and Working Groups

Advisory Boards Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB) - provides the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management (EM), with information, advice, and recommendations concerning issues affecting the EM program including, but not limited to: project management and oversight; cost/benefit analyses; program performance; contracts and acquisition strategies; human capital development; and site end-states activities. The Board is chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act . Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) - At the request of the Assistant Secretary or the Field Managers, the Board may provide advice and recommendations concerning the following EM site-specific issues: clean-up standards and environmental restoration; waste management and disposition; stabilization and disposition of non-stockpile nuclear materials; excess facilities; future land use and long term stewardship; risk assessment and management; and clean-up science and technology activities. Working Groups Applied Cost Engineering Team - In the present environment of budgetary constraints and increased scrutiny from Congress and stakeholders, the Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) program has been challenged to reduce and control costs. The Environmental Management (EM) Applied Cost Engineering (ACE) Team was established to promote continuous cost improvements through dissemination of cost engineering tools, methods, techniques, best practices, and lessons learned across the EM complex. The Office of Project Management serves as a champion for this effort. Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Federal Review Group (LFRG) - On December 19, 1996, the Deputy Assistant Secretaries for Waste Management and Environmental Restoration in the Office of Environmental Management established the Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Federal Review Group (LFRG) to develop and implement a review process for LLW disposal facility Performance Assessments and Composite Analyses. The LFRG was chartered to provide Environmental Management the information necessary to determine that LLW disposal facilities are designed, constructed, operated, maintained, and closed in a manner that protects the public and environment. The establishment of the LFRG is an important element of DOE's response to Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board 94-2 and meeting the requirements of DOE Order 435.1, Radioactive Waste Management.