Site Planning

The Contractor shall:

Perform planning based on the requirements, interfaces, endpoint targets and performance objectives provided in DOE guidance. This planning activity shall utilize systems engineering techniques that assures the Contractor’s workscope is integrated and consistent with requirements in the Hanford Site Environmental Management Specification (Specification), DOE/RL-97-55, Rev. 1c, 7 September 1999, as modified under configuration control from time to time. The Contractor shall support required revisions of the Hanford Strategic Plan and will participate with other DOE Prime Contractors, regulators, stakeholders, and HQ-EM, in strategic situation analysis, integrated baseline development discussions and issue definition and resolution. This planning shall look beyond the period of this contract to the life-cycle of the projects associated with the Contract workscope.

Complete and maintain a life-cycle baseline which reflects: (a) the technical scope of work specified in this Contract, (b) project/program schedules with critical paths identified, and (c) a validated cost profile based on a resource-loaded schedule. The Contractor shall use industry-proven methodology, which will interface with DOE specific management information systems, in the preparation of this technical, schedule and cost baseline. The baseline shall be the basis for budget development, input to risk analysis, and prioritization of work. The baseline will be developed and implemented in the Contractor’s management system. Specifically, the Contractor shall:

Organize the technical scope of work to be planned, managed, integrated, and reported using conventional project management techniques. The contractor shall develop and use a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) which will map to the Hanford EM WBS.

Implement a systems engineering process which supports the management and integration of workscope activities under the authority of the PHMC. The Contractor shall describe their approach to systems engineering in a Systems Engineering Management Plan as required in Section J, Appendix E. The Contractors’ selected approach to systems engineering should be based on best industry practices and should utilize a graded approach, as necessary.

Develop and implement a risk management process which supports the management and integration activities under the authority of the PHMC. The Contractor shall describe the approach to risk management specifically in the Risk Management Plan as required in Section J Appendix E.

Use a “graded approach” to determine applicable sets of requirements for use in design, management and operation of the individual facilities, and execution of projects and programs, with due consideration for industry standards, elimination of redundant requirements, value added, and the level of risk associated with each facility or program.

Incorporate the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into the planning process for activities covered in this Contract.

Provide support to the DOE planning process. Conduct studies and analyses of Hanford sitewide systems and information, which supports RL’s internal and external management needs. The Contractor shall provide support in (1) corporate strategic planning, (2) policy formulation, (3) management information systems development, and (4) baseline management and reporting. Studies and analyses include identification and development in conjunction with DOE of breakthroughs that significantly improve baseline performance and lifecycle costs or improve work processes.

Translate specific fiscal year guidance from the Contracting Officer into direction for updating baselines of each project and site services activities. DOE must approve the baselines and the supporting documentation before the Contracting Officer authorizes the commencement of work.

Management Systems

The Contractor is responsible to have systems which are managerially and financially in control for its own and other Hanford Site work as required by DOE. In furtherance of this the Contractor shall:

Establish and maintain management systems to ensure that the Contract work is managed in a business-like manner to promote integration, enhance customer and stakeholder confidence, provide accurate and timely information for proactive decision-making, and ensure worker and public safety and protection of the environment. Systems and methodologies shall be established to identify, evaluate, and manage risks, and establish priorities based on project life-cycle considerations.

Obtain, integrate, analyze, report and maintain appropriate and accurate Hanford Site information to support DOE in the integration and management of the Hanford Site. This information includes, but is not limited to, data critical to effective management of the Hanford Site such as movement of wastes on or off the site, compliance with regulatory action assignments, or utilization of site services.

Maintain a plan that describes the management and integration approach and manage Contract performance in accordance with it. The plan shall include a detailed description of the proposed management system and cover the elements required to achieve integrated technical, cost, and schedule control and reporting (See Section J, Appendix E).

The management system should consider the best of incumbent contractor(s), the Contractor, or new processes to supply DOE and Contractor management with appropriate and accurate information to control, evaluate, and integrate project/mission management. This system shall reflect the following.

Management, control, and reporting of technical, schedule, cost, and financial elements of the Project Hanford life-cycle baseline and the supporting execution plans of project and site services activities, as required by the Earned Value Management System clause of this contract, including:

Appropriate change control processes which ensure documentation of all monitored elements of the baseline is maintained up-to-date. This includes the configuration baseline of all technical systems and structures, and includes revision to the baseline and critical path as appropriate upon approval of changes. Any change request that impacts the Specification shall be submitted with sufficient detail to allow DOE to update it.

Tracking and measuring tools to provide DOE continual assessment of Contractor and subcontractor performance against the baseline;

Tools which allow the evaluation of the consequences (technical, cost, and schedule) of new information, alternative activities, and/or new financial scenarios;

Estimating procedures based on proven commercial techniques, such as activity-based cost estimating and benchmarking against industry standards, providing DOE with cost estimates, which can be independently validated;

Cost accounting practices used for accumulating and reporting costs shall be consistent with those used in estimating costs for work under the contract, and as such, amenable to the same validation as above;

Provide DOE with appropriate integrated financial, schedule, and critical path analysis, and activity tracking data to effectively manage their baselines through automated reporting emphasizing performance measurements, change control, and trending data. This system shall support DOE’s ability to both control and report direct and indirect costs in a manner satisfactory to DOE.

Maintain flexible information systems compatible with DOE information systems, including reporting, budget, and financial systems, and allow efficient data interchange among site contractors and DOE. This includes compatibility with DOE Integrated Planning, Accountability, and Budgeting System-Information System.

Create the ability to accommodate electronic transfer of data between a diverse set of hardware, software, and communications platforms. Use standard data definitions, time schedules, and rules for the provision of information to the MIS to ensure accuracy and consistency. All data and information provided to DOE relating to the Contractor or the subcontractors shall be prepared using common and consistent definitions, principles, and methodologies (e.g., Full-Time Equivalent [FTE] employees).

Use a centralized system of reporting unusual occurrences, near misses, etc., and ensure that lessons to be learned from such occurrences are provided to DOE, the Contractor, and subcontractor workforces.

Maintain comprehensive management and technical oversight and corrective action programs, including tracking of issues thus developed and lessons-learned program effectiveness.

Establish a configuration management system based on industry consensus standards, which with other management tools, such as change control, assures a sound technical basis for the PHMC life-cycle baseline. Configuration Management will be specifically addressed in the management and integration plan as part of the integrated management system.

Provide to DOE via a computerized file, periodic accounting entries regarding government property acquisitions, dispositions, and monthly depreciation charges. These entries shall provide consistent information and allow reconciliation of the Contractor’s detailed property records.

Manage and Integrate Resources

The Contractor shall manage and integrate its resources for optimal achievement of outcomes set forth in C.1 above. In furtherance of this, the Contractor shall:

Support the annual budget submission process by working with DOE and other prime contractors to develop budget formulation documentation. The Contractor shall prepare documentation for its own work activities as well as coordinate, compile and integrate budget documentation for all Hanford Site work, as required by DOE. Support to DOE during this process shall include but is not limited to assisting DOE to:

Develop project and site support budget data.

Prepare budget justification analyses and budget scenario studies.

Prepare and integrate all crosscutting budget formulation documents, i.e., ESH&Q, Information Resources Management, etc.

Obtain regulator and other stakeholder participation in budget development, including assistance in response to stakeholder and regulator inquiries.

Provide leadership, project, and personnel management skills necessary to ensure compliance with the Hanford Site goals and the Tri-Party Agreement (TPA), and to motivate the workforce to:

Achieve quality work performance;

Mandate attention to worker and public safety and health, environmental protection, and the tenets of Conduct of Operations; and,

Be fiscally and ethically responsible in the management of government and public resources, including property, equipment, funds, and time.

Use the existing “People Core” system at the Hanford Site to enhance human resources functions sitewide.

Continually “right-size” its own workforce and that of its subcontractors to have the size of workforce equal to that necessary to accomplish the authorized workscope.

Resolve employee concerns at the appropriate level, as required by applicable laws and DOE directives. The Contractor shall support and provide cooperative membership in the Hanford Joint Council (HJC) for resolving employee concerns, using it as a forum for resolution of contractor personnel concerns. However, the Contractor shall review and make recommendation to DOE to make the Charter and processes of the HJC consistent with this contract. The annual budget for the effort will be determined by DOE. The continued need for the HJC shall be reviewed annually and recommendations submitted to DOE for decision.

Continually promote diversity in all aspects of the work under this contract. An updated Diversity Plan shall be submitted to DOE annually for review and approval, as set forth in Section J, Appendix E.

Provide an independent internal audit capability to review its activities and those of its subcontractors. An updated Internal Audit Plan shall be submitted to DOE annually for review and approval as set forth in Section J, Appendix E.

Environment, Safety, Health and Quality (ESH&Q)

The safety and health of workers and the public, protection and restoration of the environment and implementation of quality assurance programs are fundamental responsibilities of the Contractor. Accordingly, the Contractor shall:

Take necessary actions to minimize serious injuries/illnesses and /or fatalities and prevent radiological or chemical exposures to workers and environmental releases in excess of established limits;

Establish clear environmental, safety, health and quality plans and priorities and manage activities in proactive ways, including visible management field presence, that effectively and efficiently protect the environment, public and worker safety and health, and ensure the quality of work and work products;

Carry out all activities in a manner that complies with human health, safety, environmental, and quality regulations; minimizes the generation of wastes, releases or emissions into the atmosphere, and releases to soil and surface or groundwater; and complies with applicable regulatory requirements and DOE directives;

Empower workers through the use of committees, employee involvement and the tenants of DOE’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP);

Engender a “Safety Conscious Work Environment” in which safety issues are promptly identified and effectively resolved, and in which employees feel free of recrimination, harassment, intimidation, or other actions that induce peer pressure to not raise safety issues or otherwise create an environment where safety issues are not identified and resolved.

The Contractor shall establish an Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS), in compliance with the clauses entitled, “Integration of Environment, Safety and Health into Work Planning and Execution,” and “Conditional Payment of Fee, Profit or Incentives” that clearly communicates the roles, responsibilities, and authorities of line managers; holds line managers accountable for the performance of work in a manner ensuring protection of workers, the public, and the environment; and ensures quality work and products. The Contractor shall maintain a ISMS system description and submit appropriate changes to the Contracting Officer.

The Contractor shall:

Establish effective management systems to identify deficiencies and resolve them in a timely manner; ensure that corrective actions are implemented that address the extent of conditions, root causes, and measures to prevent recurrence; and prioritize and track commitments and actions as well as identify and implement lessons learned from other DOE Sites, contractors, or commercial activities.

Establish a structured, standards-based approach to planning and control of work including identification, management and implementation of ESH&Q standards and requirements that are appropriate for the work to be performed and for controlling related hazards, while facilitating the effective and efficient delivery of work. The Contractor shall implement the requirements identified in the clause entitled, “Laws, Regulations and DOE Directives.”

Establish an organization that supports effective ESH&Q management by ensuring appropriate levels of staffing and competence.

Establish disciplined self-assessment, feedback, continuous improvement processes, and conduct of operations discipline in the performance of all work.

Implement a program to track and address environmental compliance issues and implement requirements (including but not limited to permitting, environmental reporting, Consent Decrees, Tri-Party Agreement reporting/management, NEPA, pollution prevention, waste minimization), and comply with all aspects of the clause entitled, “Environmental Responsibility.”

Recommend and implement ESH&Q performance measures to monitor the effectiveness of the implementation of ESH&Q programs.

Occupational Health Services are currently provided to the Hanford Site by the Hanford Environmental Health Foundations (HEHF). The Contractor shall obtain for itself and require all subcontractors performing work on the Hanford Site to obtain the following services from HEHF: occupational medical evaluations including return to work evaluations and work restriction reviews, medical surveillance evaluations, occupational primary care, health care centers/first aid, work conditioning, case management, work site health programs including blood-borne pathogens and immunizations, and behavioral health services including employee assistance programs, and health information services such as medical records and medical scheduling.

The Contractor shall coordinate with HEHF and reach agreement regarding service requirements and delivery, including data gathering and sharing. The agreement should emphasize a comprehensive public health approach as being integral to a well run health and safety program and address cost and resources effectiveness. This agreement shall be subject to approval and validation by DOE.

Maintain, implement and improve the PHMC Nuclear Safety Authorization Basis in support of safe, effective, and efficient work accomplishment.

Provide Material Safety Data Sheet management services for the PHMC, LMHC, RL and HEHF.

Economic Transition and Outsourcing

The Contractor shall:

Be responsible for the performance of the work under this contract in a manner that helps the community establish a stable economic base over the long term. This shall be accomplished through appropriate private sector participation in cleanup, creation as appropriate of new service or technology companies, making available for effective private use DOE assets no longer required or under-utilized by the Government, and investment of private resources in the community.

The Contractor shall:

Implement and maintain an Economic Transition and Outsourcing Plan which addresses short- and long-term strategies to actively pursue opportunities to transition functions performed solely for DOE to local and regional businesses or other governmental entities when found to be in the long-term financial advantage of the Federal Government.

Expand private sector participation in cleanup through the creation of technical and service companies.

Recommend to DOE the use (by the Contractor, subcontractors, or other private entities) of Government-owned assets (equipment, facilities, or land) on a non-interfering basis to promote, assist, or otherwise foster creation of new private sector jobs.

Accomplish changes in the workforce in a way that minimizes social and economic impacts and complies with Section 3161 of P.L. 102-484.

Technology Management

The Contractor shall support efforts to implement the DOE-established technology management process, which provides the framework to identify technology needs and develop effective, acceptable solutions. The Contractor shall work with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to identify the areas of highest technical risk and uncertainty, align technology investments with the areas of highest risk, seek and apply innovative technical solutions, and provide linkages with the national science and technology programs. The Contractor shall:

Coordinate and conduct science and technology assessments to identify and quantify the areas of high technical risk/uncertainty.

Develop near and long term mitigation plans (e.g., technology roadmaps, technology plans, technology insertion points, etc.) and link these plans with project baselines.

Seek innovative technical solutions and make appropriate investments to buy-down areas of highest risk consistent with mitigation plans.

Communicate and cooperate with appropriate Hanford Site and National Technology Development teams and build partnerships with the science and technology community.

Waste Management Project

The mission of the Hanford Waste Management Project is to provide safe, compliant, and cost-effective waste management services for the Hanford Site and DOE complex. These services include solid waste storage, treatment, and disposal and management of liquid effluents. In addition, the Project provides cross-cutting support services including analytical services, waste generator services, transportation and packaging (including shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Project), and waste minimization.

This project has the lead to ensure waste minimization programs are applied across the Hanford Site in accordance with DOE/RL-91-31, Hanford Site Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention Program Plan (RL 1997a).

Spent Nuclear Fuel Project

The Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) mission supports the Hanford Site mission to clean up the Site by providing safe, economic, and environmentally sound management of Hanford Site SNF in a manner which relocates the fuel to interim on-site storage, initiates interim storage, and deactivates the 100 K Area facilities. The SNF scope includes:

All the Hanford Site SNF, as defined in Hanford Spent Fuel Inventory Baseline, WHC-SD-SNF-TI-001;

K Basin facilities, associated operations, and equipment;

All the Hanford Site SNF stabilization, handling, and onsite transfer activities to achieve safe, interim storage;

All new or modified Hanford Site SNF facilities (Cold Vacuum Drying (CVD), Canister Storage Building (CSB) associated with receipt, stabilization and interim storage before staging for final disposition. Acquire SNF interim storage facilities;

Transfer and transport of SNF from custodian facilities to SNF facilities;

Operating the complex, which includes the CSB and 200 Area Interim Storage Area. Management and integration of Contractor activities at the 100 K Area until the SNF, debris, water, and sludge have been removed from the K Basins;

Deactivation of the K Basins and interim stabilization and storage facilities to a condition that meets requirements for transfer to the organization(s) responsible for final disposition of these facilities.

Facility Stabilization Project (FSP)

The primary FSP mission is to deactivate contaminated facilities on the Hanford Site, in preparation for Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D), and to provide safe and secure storage of Special Nuclear Material (SNM), Nuclear Material (NM), and Nuclear Fuel (NF) until these materials can be transferred to another facility, sold, or dispositioned. The Facility Stabilization Project mission includes providing minimum safe surveillance and maintenance of facilities on the Hanford Site to reduce risks to workers, the public, and the environment, until they are transitioned to a low cost, long term surveillance and maintenance state. Facility Stabilization will protect the health and safety of the public and our workers, protect the environment, and provide beneficial use of the facilities and other resources where it makes sense to do so. Work will be in accordance with the Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Tri-Party Agreement), local, national, international and other agreements, and in compliance with all applicable Federal, state, and local laws. Work will be leveraged with a view of providing positive, lasting economic impact in the region.

Landlord Project

The mission of Landlord Project is to provide major maintenance/replacement of general infrastructure facilities and systems to facilitate the Hanford Site cleanup mission. Also, once an infrastructure facility or system is no longer needed the Landlord Project transitions the facility to final closure/removal through excess, salvage, or demolition. Landlord Project activities will be performed in an environmentally sound, safe, economical, prudent, and reliable manner. The Landlord Project consists of the following major facilities/systems: steam, water, liquid sanitary waste, electrical distribution, telecommunication systems, sanitary landfill, emergency services, general purpose offices, general purpose shops, general purpose warehouses, environmental support facilities, roads, and the site land. The objectives for general infrastructure support are reflected in three specific areas, (1) Core Infrastructure Maintenance, (2) Mortgage Reduction, and (3) Infrastructure Risk Mitigation.

Advanced Reactors Transition (ART) Project

The ART Project mission is to manage and deactivate the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) and Fuels and Materials Examination Facility (FMEF), the Nuclear Energy Legacy alkali metal test facilities, and the Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor (PRTR)/309 Building. The FFTF is being maintained in a standby condition, pending a DOE decision on the potential for a future mission, and only limited deactivation is being performed. The ART Project scope includes all activities needed to (1) maintain the facilities within their approved safety Agreement, (2) disposition radioactive and nonradioactive sodium from the designated facilities, (3) remove nuclear materials from the FFTF, (4) remove spent nuclear fuel from the FFTF, (5) remove or stabilize and characterize hazardous and radioactive materials in the designated facilities, (6) make useable facilities available for alternative uses, and (7) establish non-useable facilities in a condition requiring minimal Surveillance and Maintenance (S&M) during the interim period until final D&D is accomplished.

The ART has two missions. One, funded by DOE-EM is to transition assigned, surplus facilities to a safe and compliant, low-cost, stable, deactivated condition (requiring minimal surveillance and maintenance) pending eventual reuse or D&D. Facilities to be transitioned include the 309 Building/Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor (PRTR) and Nuclear Energy (NE) Legacy Facilities.

The second mission, funded by DOE-NE, is to maintain the FFTF and affiliated 400 Area buildings in a safe and compliant standby condition. The condition of the plant hardware, software and personnel is to be preserved in a manner not to preclude a plant restart.

Infrastructure

The Contractor shall provide infrastructure services consistent with commercial practices where appropriate, and integrate infrastructure services with site and project mission requirements. Infrastructure support services on the site should be changed in a timely manner commensurate with the mission and infrastructure needs of the Hanford Site and shall include but not be limited to:

Essential Core Infrastructure Maintenance. These activities provide the minimal infrastructure necessary for the Hanford Site to maintain safe operations and progress toward the cleanup mission.

Surveillance, Maintenance, and Deactivation of Vacant General-Purpose Facilities. These activities provide Surveillance and Maintenance (S&M) of vacant general-purpose facilities, as well as utility isolation of facilities recently vacated. This also includes activities associated with maintaining Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) compliance for legacy equipment dispositions.

Disposition of Uncontaminated, Vacant, General-Purpose Facilities/Mortgage Reduction. These activities provide for demolition of vacant, general-purpose facilities and mortgage reduction opportunities.

Sitewide services include but are not limited to utilities, transportation, facilities, shops, crane and rigging, maintenance, custodial services, labs, information resource management, asset management, solid waste disposal, and emergency services.

Safeguards and Security

The Contractor shall:

Manage, operate, and integrate all Safeguards and Security services of the Hanford Site, except PNNL. This includes Material Control and Accountability, physical security, personnel security, information security, cyber security, and the Hanford Patrol and K-9 team. Hanford Patrol provides sitewide protective force services, including for Government assets of the PNNL. The K-9 force may be made available on a non mission interference basis to local and regional police departments and to school systems in response to threats of violence. A cost-effective, risk-based approach shall be used to provide for adequate protection of safeguards and security interests involving the use, possession, receipt, shipment, or storage of special nuclear material, classified material, and Government property. These services must interface directly with RL, and in the event of an emergency involving the Site Safeguards and Security Forces, RL may assume command and control of the Forces and the event, if the Emergency Operations Center is activated.

Ensure that all information or equipment originated or generated under this contract in a classified or potentially classified subject area shall be reviewed in accordance with classification regulations, and that the same shall be true for any subcontract or purchase order issued under this contract.

Site Traffic Manager

Serve as the Site Traffic Manager by coordinating onsite and offsite shipments. Serve as the agent for the Government as designated shipper for the site; inspect and sign for outbound hazardous materials to ensure they meet federal, state and local regulations, and inspect inbound shipments to ensure no problems come onto the site. Identify or develop transport containers (casks, etc.) to meet site needs; provide customers with transportation options for shipment either off or on site; manage the Department of Transportation program (DOT-7A) for DOE; relocate household goods for site personnel related to the work performed by the Contractor and subcontractors under this contract; manage the overnight small package delivery; manage export/import services with U.S. Customs and freight rate negotiations with carriers; and interface with DOT/NRC/DOE on containers needing certification.

Support RL management portion of the DOE Headquarters EM-directed transportation program, including services/activities that are used across the DOE complex such as, container needs assessment, packaging criteria and testing, training, stakeholder forums, and providing audit teams.

Architect Engineer/Construction Management

The Contractor shall provide architect engineering services via an established pool which can be accessed directly by all site Contractors as needed. Construction management services are provided by the site construction management Contractor. The Contractor shall provide and maintain an independent construction acceptance inspection service to support government inspection of construction.

Environmental Monitoring

The Contractor shall manage its facilities and operable units to assure compliance with environmental requirements and agreements. This includes providing legally and regulatory required air and liquid effluent and near facility environmental monitoring. The Contractor shall collect, compile, and/or integrate air and liquid effluent monitoring data from operations and activities under its control and from other Hanford Site contractors. The Contractor shall compare the monitoring data with regulatory and/or permit standards and provide reports to the other contractors for their use in assessing compliance with the standards. The data shall also be compiled, collated, and/or consolidated, as necessary, into the mandatory State and Federal environmental reports for the Hanford Site.

PNNL monitors the Hanford environment to protect public safety and Hanford Site ecological and cultural resources. This includes providing real time localized weather information for routine safety operations and emergency response, performing Hanford Site and off-site environmental monitoring, as well as determining radiological exposure to the public and the environment. The Contractor shall provide appropriate environmental data for its facility and operable units to support Hanford Site assessments and preparation of the Hanford Site Environmental Report.

PNNL is responsible for Hanford Site groundwater monitoring. The Contractor will be knowledgeable of actions PNNL completes to develop monitoring plans for Contractor facilities and operable units. The Contractor shall maintain regulatory capability to ensure that compliance for their facility and operable units is maintained, for the groundwater monitoring program by PNNL.

External/Internal Communications

The Contractor shall participate in the RL external/internal communications program to ensure that the full range of stakeholders receive information in a timely, accurate, complete, and professional manner. Contractor external/internal communications actions shall comply with DOE’s Openness Initiatives and Public Involvement Policy and will be approved in advance by DOE.

The Contractor shall periodically update the Integrated Hanford Communications Plan. The Contractor shall work with DOE to ensure that external/internal communications activities represent a singular and consistent DOE source of information about the Hanford Site and mission.

Contractor external/internal communications efforts and/or corporate communications not directly related to the DOE mission at Hanford, and/or approved by DOE, are not allowable costs under this contract.

The Contractor shall, when approved by DOE, keep the Hanford Site workforce related directly to the work performed by the Contractor and subcontractors under this contract informed in a timely manner of all significant issues that could impact those workers.

At DOE’s direction, the Contractor shall:

Provide timely and consistent support for inter-Governmental liaison activities, including activities with Federal, State, local and Native American Governments.

Provide logistical support for the Hanford Advisory Board and other public meetings.

Respond in a timely fashion with information as requested by DOE in support of Freedom of Information Act and/or Privacy Act requests.

External/Internal Communications activities shall include, but not be limited to:

Public Information

Public Involvement

Emergency Communications Activities

Media Relations

Site Tours, including transportation for tours

Preparation/Maintenance of public information Audio/Video Products and Printed Materials

The Contractor shall provide a portion of the cost support for the Hanford Technical Library run by PNNL. The exact amount will be determined annually by DOE.

Training

The Contractor shall:

Develop, implement, and manage a training program that maintains a qualified workforce in sufficient numbers and skill levels to meet the Hanford Site requirements and that fulfills the DOE Implementation Plan for Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Recommendation 93-3. Work scope includes identification of known requirements, definition of training standards, implementation of program training classes, certification of required skills, and verification of ongoing job qualifications. Integrate the training database into “People Soft.”

Manage the Volpentest HAMMER Training and Education Center to provide training and education programs for hazardous material, waste management, and emergency response. This training is provided to Hanford workers as a first priority but is also for workers nationwide. The facility hosts, brokers, and integrates the capabilities of its partnering organizations to ensure the delivery of state-of-the-art training and educational curricula.

Emergency Preparedness

The Contractor shall provide technical and administrative emergency management services to Hanford Emergency Preparedness. The work scope includes maintaining the Hanford Emergency Management Plan and Implementing Procedures, managing the Hanford Site Emergency Exercise Program, maintaining the site emergency response organization and facilities, training site emergency response organization members, managing the Radiological Assistance Program, assisting RL in program management and Hanford contractor overview, assisting in the off-site interface program, and assisting with the emergency public information program.

The Contractor shall provide an emergency response capability for facilities under its control that implements the Hanford Emergency Management Plan (DOE/RL-94-02, Rev. 2), as modified from time to time.

Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI)

Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI), under a separate prime contract, operates the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL is one of five Office of Science multi-program laboratories which conduct research and development activities under prime contracts to DOE. Some of the programs conducted in the Laboratory are part of the Office of Science laboratory system and require no integration with Hanford’s Environmental Management (EM) programs; however, many of the research and technology development programs have direct relevance to the Hanford cleanup mission. As applicable, the Contractor is encouraged to utilize the scientific and technical capabilities available from PNNL and shall work directly with PNNL to maximize the benefit to Hanford from the National research and development program.

Workscope in support of Hanford EM programs conducted by PNNL shall be integrated into site planning and sitewide program and project baselines.

Hanford Environmental Health Foundation (HEHF)

The Hanford Environmental Health Foundation (HEHF), under a separate prime contract, manages the Site Occupational Medical Contract to provide occupational health services through health risk management and occupational health services to personnel at Hanford. Through these services, HEHF strives to maximize the health and safety of Hanford personnel while minimizing personal and occupational health risks. HEHF’s Health Risk Management program teams with the site in identifying and analyzing the hazards that Hanford personnel face in the work environment and brings an awareness of health and safety issues to Hanford’s personnel. In support of DOE and all prime contractors, HEHF’s occupational health services provide occupational medicine and nursing, medical surveillance, ergonomics assessment, exercise physiology, case management, psychology and counseling, fitness for duty evaluations, health education, infection control, immediate health care, industrial hygiene, and health, safety, and risk assessments.

Lockheed Martin Hanford Corporation (LMHC)

Lockheed Martin Hanford Corporation (LMHC), under a separate prime contract to DOE as managed by the Office of River Protection, is responsible for managing the River Protection Project. Lockheed Martin Hanford is responsible for safely managing and retrieving for disposal the radioactive waste stored in 177 underground tanks and related facilities.

BNFL, Inc. (BNFL)

BNFL, Inc. (BNFL), under a separate prime contract to DOE as managed by the DOE Office of River Protection, is responsible for Privatization Project. This is an active measure to reduce the threat to neighboring communities, the environment, and the Columbia River, through the removal of the waste from the tanks, treatment, and its immobilization, constituting a lasting solution to this complex challenge and problem.

Bechtel Hanford Incorporated (BHI)

Bechtel Hanford Incorporated (BHI), under a separate prime contract, is the Environmental Restoration Contractor at Hanford Site. BHI plans, manages, executes, and integrates a full range of activities for the cleanup of groundwater, contaminated soils, and inactive nuclear facilities under DOE’s Environmental Restoration Program. These activities include decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) of old production facilities; performing integrated sitewide planning for Groundwater/Vadose Zone Project, managing remedial action projects; developing an Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF); and providing technology demonstration projects.

Johnson Controls Incorporated (JCI)

Johnson Controls Incorporated (JCI), under a separate prime contract, is responsible for the Energy Savings Performance Contract. JCI is responsible to reduce energy consumption to comply with Executive Order 12902 and Energy Policy Act 1992, replace 50-year-old steam plants and improve ability to measure, monitor and manage energy use. JCI can also propose additional energy conservation measures. These include lighting system upgrades, water system modernization and automation, ventilation systems upgrade and addition of Utility Monitoring and Control Systems.