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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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... technical challenges in executing the cleanup mission; (2) constraints created by the requirements and prefer ences of multiple federal, state, and local stakeholders, including long standing, inflexible agreements in need of updating to reflect current 1  National Defense Authorization Act of 2019, Public Law 115-232.
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... • The Secretary of Energy, working with federal and state regulators and with the support of the administration and Congress, should review, update, and restructure site-level regulatory agreements as needed. The other recommendations in this report focus on project management, contracting, and technology development (Chapter 3)
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... . • Implement the recommendations from a previous National Academies report for improving technology development across the cleanup pro gram, focusing initially on reducing costs and schedules for cleaning up Hanford tank wastes (Recommendation A-4, Chapter 3)
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