Appendix C

Presentations at the Committee’s Information-Gathering Meetings

Public Meeting #1: Washington, DC, December 12-13, 2017

Invited Presentations

• Congressional Perspectives on the Tasking, Jonathan Epstein, professional staff member, Senate Committee on Armed Services
• Overview of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Management (DOE-EM) Program and Perspective on the Committee’s Tasking, Betsy Connell, Director, EM Regulatory, Intergovernmental, and Stakeholder Affairs
• DOE’s Office of River Protection (DOE-ORP): Program Scope and Status, Delmar Noyes, Assistant Manager Waste Immobilization and Treatment Plant Start-Up, Commissioning, and Integration, DOE-ORP
• Presentations by members of the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Team, led by the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), Bill Bates, project leader, SRNL, with Michael Stone, SRNL, and Thomas Brouns, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Perspective Regarding Congressional Interests About Cleanup at the Hanford Site, David Bearden, Congressional Research Service
• Perspective from the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Reports on Treatment Options for Low-Activity Waste at the Hanford Site, David Trimble and Nathan Anderson, U.S. Government Accountability Office
• Independent Assessment of Challenges Concerning Cleanup at the Hanford Site, Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute of Policy Studies

Public Comments

• John Greeves, independent consultant
• Suzanne Dahl, Washington State Department of Ecology
• Geoff Fettus, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Ian Pegg, Vitreous State Laboratory, The Catholic University of America

Public Meeting #2: Richland, Washington, February 28-March 1, 2018

Invited Presentations

• Introductory Remarks on DOE-ORP, Jon Peschong, DOE-ORP

Presentations by Washington River Protection System’s contractors

• Introduction, Jason Vitali
• Hanford Low Activity Waste Historical Overview, Dave Swanberg
• System Plan 8 Baseline Case Supplemental Low-Activity Waste (SLAW) Sizing, Jeremy Belsher
• History of SLAW Treatment Reviews, Dave Swanberg
• History of SLAW Cost Comparison, Dave Swanberg

• Advanced Glass Program, John Vienna
• Immobilized Low-Activity Waste (ILAW) Glass Testing Program Status, Elvie Brown
• Overview of the 2017 Integrated Disposal Facility (IDF) Performance Assessment for LAW, Pat Lee
• Radioactive Waste Test Bed Initiative, Stephanie Doll
• Cementitious Waste Form Formulation and Testing Status, Dave Swanberg

FFRDC Team’s presentations

• Introduction to Study and Lines of Inquiry Table and Schedule Overview, Bill Bates (SRNL)
• Process Flowsheet Overview and Feed Vector Overview, Michael Stone (SRNL)
• Baseline and Vit Flowsheets and Preliminary Technical Readiness Levels (TRLs), Alex Cozzi (SRNL)
• Grout Flowsheets and Waste Forms and Preliminary TRLs, George Guthrie (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Steam Reforming and Waste Forms and Preliminary TRLs, Nicholas Soelberg (Idaho National Laboratory)
• Technologies Considered and Not Included, Thomas Brouns (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
• Disposal Facilities Overview, Waste Acceptance Criteria, and Transportation, John Cochran (Sandia National Laboratories)
• Analytic Approach to Risk, Thomas Brouns
• Cost Estimating Methodology, Frank Sinclair (SRNL)
• Wrap Up, Bill Bates

Stakeholders’ Presentations

• Alex Smith, Washington State Department of Ecology
• Dave Bartus, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Office
• Ken Niles, State of Oregon Department of Energy
• Susan Leckband, Chair, Hanford Advisory Board
• David Reeploeg, Vice President, Tri-Cities Development Economic Council (TRIDEC)
• Pam Larsen, President, Hanford Communities
• Matthew Johnson, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR)

Public Comments

• Paul Flaherty, CHC Consulting LLC, who made an oral presentation and submitted a written comment on behalf of Knauf Insulation
• Vince Panesko, retired from the Hanford Site
• Don Alexander, retired from DOE

Submitted Written Comments at the Public Meeting

• John Vienna, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• John Williford, Chrysalis Technology Group, Ltd.
• Tom Carpenter, Hanford Challenge

Darryl Siemer, a consulting scientist who is retired from the Idaho National Laboratory, submitted a number of comments via e-mail to the National Academies.