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Congress requested that the National Academies study the project management of the environmental cleanup activities and the deactivation and decommissioning of sites and facilities owned or managed by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management: Report 2
Consensus Study Report
·2022
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) was established by Congress in 1989 to remediate waste and environmental contamination that have resulted from nuclear weapons production and related activities. It has expended almost $200 billion on cleanup and related act...
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