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Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management Report 2 (2022) / Chapter Skim
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... In fact, the program is averse to innovation if it creates risks for achieving near-term milestones.9 DOE-EM lacks the completion mindset and urgency to finish the cleanup mission and instead defaults to the practice of frequent re-baselining of cleanup schedules and costs and renegotiation of regulatory agreements. CLEANUP PROGRAM FUNDING UNCERTAINTIES AND RESTRICTIONS Uncertainties in the annual appropriations cycle and restrictions on reprogramming of appropriated funds make it difficult for DOE-EM to plan and execute the cleanup mission on a multi-year basis.
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... , 2019, "Past Assistant Secretaries for Environmental Management," December 12, https://www.energy.gov/em/past-assistant-secretaries-environmentalmanagement; DOE, "William "Ike" White," https://www.energy.gov/em/person/william-ike-white, accessed March 31, 2022.
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  • cleanup program
  • regulatory agreements
  • cleanup mission
  • environmental management
  • program funding

  • funding uncertainties
  • tank wastes


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