[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: "Committee suggests simplifying jargon-filled Savannah River Site (SC) documents"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Committee suggests simplifying jargon-filled Savannah River Site  
documents

By Rob Pavey
Augusta Chronicle (GA)
February 14, 2012

Politicians might not always speak in plain language, but the federal  
government is supposed to, according to a committee that wants  
Savannah River Site to do a better job.

There’s even a law that requires public documents be simple enough  
for the masses, wrote members of the SRS Citizens Advisory Board, in  
a request to Energy Department site manager David Moody.

Citing the Plain Writing Act of 2010, the board said many of the  
site’s complex and acronym-studded public documents fall short of the  
Federal Plain Language Guidelines.

...

For the entire article, see
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-02-14/committee- 
suggests-simplifying-jargon-filled-savannah-river-site-documents

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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