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The U. S. Department of Energy announces the award of a contract to Wastren Advantage, Inc. (WAI) to manage waste management activities at the Oak Ridge Transuranic (TRU) Waste Processing Center.

Louisiana small business to provide geosynthetic materials and installation services for expansion of the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Waste Management Facility (EMWMF) on the Oak Ridge Reservation.

DOE has awarded $10.1 million to an Ohio-based small business to contain and cap contaminated soil in the Bethel Valley area near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office names John Eschenberg as its Assistant Manager for Environmental Management.

ORAU is preparing to lead characterization surveys at ORNL, along with independently verifying work at ORNL, ETTP, and Y-12. The $2.9 million contract will involve support to DOE for its efforts to accelerate the cleanup of deteriorated facilities that will pave the way for greater footprint and site reduction across the Reservation.

Newly hired employees under the Recovery Act will be working to reduce DOE's transuranic waste inventory in Oak Ridge.

Construction of a $35 million, 465,000 cubic yard expansion of the Environmental Management Waste Management Facility (EMWMF) is now underway, using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

EM program begins demolition on Building 3026 at ORNL. The project is slated for completion by January 2010.

Environmental cleanup activities are under way at Y-12 with the removal of excess equipment and scrap materials from Beta 4 (Building 9204-4) and Alpha 5 (Building 9201-5).

DOE announces that cleanup of the Old Salvage Yard at the Y-12 National Security Complex has started using funding received from the Recovery Act.