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DOE Awards Small Business Contracts for Recovery Act Cleanup Work at DOE�s Idaho Site
August 2, 2010
Media contact: Brad Bugger, (208) 526-0833
Cincinnati � The Department of Energy Office of
Environmental Management (EM) has awarded two small business
contracts for work at the Department of Energy�s Idaho Site
funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
North Wind Services, LLC, Idaho Falls, Idaho, was awarded a
$14 million construction contract and TerranearPMC, LLC, of
Exton, Pennsylvania, is awarded a $2 million cleanup
contract. North Wind Services and TerranearPMC are both
certified small businesses under the U.S. Small Business
Administration.
North Wind Services, LLC, an Alaskan Native Owned
Corporation was contracted to procure and construct a
retrieval enclosure and ancillary structures designated as
Accelerated Retrieval Project VII (ARP VII) over Pit 10 West
at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex. These
facilities will function as a weather protection enclosure
and minimize the spread of contamination during buried waste
excavation, retrieval and packaging operations. This
contract is from July 30, 2010 through September 30, 2011.
TerranearPMC will deactivate and demolish the Test
Reactor Area-712, at the Advanced Test Reactor Complex. The
contract period is July 30, 2010 to July 30, 2011.
In the last year, the Office of Environmental Management
has continued to meet the goals of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act by creating and saving jobs, spurring
economic activity and accelerating waste cleanup. While
implementing these goals and spending Recovery Act funds,
the program has fostered unprecedented levels of
accountability and transparency, said EM Recovery Act
Program Director, Cynthia V. Anderson.
�Recovery Act funds have helped us make significant
progress over the last year and a half while providing
substantial job growth in communities across the United
States. Recovery Act funding provided $6 billion to
accelerate the cleanup of nuclear waste at sites around the
country, with the goal of reducing EM�s footprint by 40
percent. More than 20,000 workers have benefitted from
Recovery Act spending, with 698 Recovery Act positions being
retained or created to date at INL working at EM projects,�
EM Recovery Act Program Director Cynthia Anderson said.
EM is responsible for the largest nuclear environmental
cleanup project in the world. After five decades of nuclear
weapons production, the Cold War left 1.5 million cubic
meters of solid waste and 88 million gallons of liquid waste
that will require treatment and permanent safe storage. In
addition to the decontamination of soil and ground water at
these sites, thousands of buildings and structures must be
decontaminated and demolished.
-DOE-
Editorial Date August 3, 2010
By Brad Bugger
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