[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: "DOE wants changes to Hanford [WA] Advisory Board"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Here's another discouraging example of a federal agency attempting  
to re-organized a community-based advisory board. - LS]


DOE wants changes to Hanford Advisory Board


By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
September 9, 2012

The Department of Energy is changing the rules for the Hanford  
Advisory Board, to the dismay or anger of most of its board members.

Initially, that would include term limits for members representing  
some Hanford employees on the board and the general public.

However, DOE Hanford officials and DOE Headquarters officials are  
continuing talks on additional changes to the board, with the wish  
for changes driven by officials in Washington, D.C., rather than at  
Hanford. DOE declined to say what other changes are being discussed.

"A promise was made to the board four years ago. The promise was not  
kept," said Jeff Luke, who represents non-union, nonmanagement  
employees on the advisory board.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/09/09/2682264/doe-wants-changes- 
to-hanford-advisory.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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