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Environmental Management

This program protects human health and the enviroment by cleaning up millions of gallons of radioactive waste, thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel and special nuclear material, along with huge quantities of contaminated soil and water.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • Managers are implementing reforms that are improving program performance. For example, the program is renegotiating cleanup contracts to include performance incentives. The program is also reorganizing operations to focus on risk reduction.
  • The program has aggressive long-term risk reduction, cost, and schedule goals. These goal were documented in performance mangement plans for major cleanup sites that State and Federal regulators endorsed.
  • The program needs to develop annual cost and schedule performance measures. The Department of Energy Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office have identifed better peformance measures as crtical to assessing program achievements.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Refining cleanup plans in concert with Federal and state regulators to reduce health risks, and accelerate cleanup schedules, while lowering program management costs.
  • Reviewing nearly all Environmental Management site baseline costs, representing over 90 percent of the program's mission-related expenditures.
  • Improving implementation of the program's earned value management system to link performance to cost.

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