Appendix E

Presentations at the Committee’s Information-Gathering Meetings and Submitted Comments

PUBLIC MEETING #1: VIRTUAL, JULY 15, 2021

Invited Presentations

• The Perspective from Congress on Section 3125 of the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act, Senior Staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Armed Services Committee
• Introductory Remarks from the U.S. Department of Energy, Mark Gilbertson, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory and Policy Affairs, Office of Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy, and Brian T. Vance, Manager, Richland Operations Office and Office of River Protection, U.S. Department of Energy
• Perspective from Washington State Department of Ecology, David Bowen, Nuclear Waste Program Manager, and Jay Decker, Lead Tank Waste Treatment Engineer
• Perspective from Oregon Department of Energy, Maxwell Woods, Assistant Director for Nuclear Safety, and Jeff Burright, Radioactive Waste Remediation Specialist, Oregon Department of Energy
• Overview of Relevant Technical Issues from Office of River Protection, Kaylin Burnett, Portfolio Coordinator, One Hanford, U.S.
• Department of Energy

Presentations from the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Team

• Introductions, William F. Bates, Team Leader and Deputy Assistant Laboratory Director for the Environmental and Legacy Management Directorate, Savannah River National Laboratory
• Presentations, Paul Dixon, Deputy Director, Civilian Nuclear Programs Office, Los Alamos National Laboratory and David Tate, Senior Defense Analyst, Systems and Analyses Center, Institute for Defense Analyses

PUBLIC MEETING #2: VIRTUAL, OCTOBER 20-21, 2021

Invited Presentations

• U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management’s (DOE-EM’s) Initiative to Develop a R&D Roadmap for Accelerating Hanford Tank Waste Cleanup, Ming Zhu, Ph.D., DOE-EM Senior Advisor for Laboratory Policy and DOE-EM Liaison to Network of National Laboratories for Environmental Management and Stewardship (NNLEMS), U.S. Department of Energy, and Connie Herman, Associate Laboratory Director, Environmental and Legacy Management directorate, Savannah River National Laboratory
• Derived Concentration Standard and Dose Coefficients used in Radiation Protection, Carlos Corredor, Senior Health Physicist, Office of Public Radiation Protection, U.S. Department of Energy
• Perspective from the Chair of the Hanford Advisory Board, Stephen (Steve) Weigman, Chair, Hanford Advisory Board

• Perspectives from Representatives of the Hanford Communities, Energy Community Alliance, and Tri-City Development Council, David Reeploeg, Executive Director, Hanford Communities, Diahann Howard, Executive Director or the Port of Benton, and Brent Gerry, Mayor, West Richland, WA
• Alternatives for Immobilizing SLAW, Suzanne Dahl, Section Manager, Tank Waste Treatment Section, Nuclear Waste Program, Washington State Department of Energy
• Supplemental LAW Options, Jeff Burright, Radioactive Waste Remediation Specialist, Oregon Department of Energy
• Nez Perce Tribe’s Involvement with Cleanup at the Hanford Site, Jack H. Bell, Director, Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program, Nez Perce Tribe
• Perspective from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Althea HuestiesWolf, Hanford Policy Analyst, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Presentations from the FFRDC Team

• Introductions, William F. Bates, Team Leader and Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for the Environmental and Legacy Management Directorate, Savannah River National Laboratory
• Baseline Case and Flywheel Effect for Technetium and Iodine, Michael E. Stone, Savannah River National Laboratory
• Regulatory Considerations, Stephanie Johansen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Decision Framework, David Tate, Ph.D., Institute for Defense Analyses
• Assumptions and GAO Best Practices, Matt Champagney, Parsons
• Alternatives Update and Preliminary Assessment, Dan McCabe, Savannah River National Laboratory
• Technical Uncertainties, Matt Asmussen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Cost Estimating Bases and Description, William “Gene” Ramsey, Savannah River National Laboratory

Public Comments

• Stuart Arm, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Anthony Smith, Nez Perce Tribe
• Dan Solitz, Hanford Cleanup