[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Savannah River Site (SC) tank closure dispute

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Energy Dept. still pushing for SRS cleanup extension

by Derrek Asberry
Aiken Standard
September 19 2014

The Department of Energy is calling for a dispute resolution after  
the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, or SCDHEC,  
denied its request to extend tank-closure deadlines at the Savannah  
River Site.

The dispute resolution was announced in a Sept. 18 letter written by  
Brian Hennessy, an SRS remedial project manager. Hennessy sent the  
letter to SCDHEC Manager Susan Fulmer and Robert Hope, An  
Environmental Protection Agency official.

Hennessy wrote that SCDHEC’s letter did not include enough details to  
deny the request.

"These letters did not include an explanation of the basis for the  
agencies' positions that the technical information and barriers DOE  
experienced do not constitute good cause for an extension for the  
period of time DOE has requested," wrote Brian Hennessy, an SRS  
remedial project manager. "Under these circumstances … DOE considers  
it necessary to and hereby invokes dispute resolution."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20140919/AIK0101/140919308/1002/ 
AIK01/energy-dept-still-pushing-for-srs-cleanup-extension

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Lenny Siegel
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