Integrated Management of the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management Program Available to Purchase

The Office of Environmental Management of the United States Department of Energy has responsibility for the largest environmental management program in the world — the cleanup and long-term stewardship of the legacy of 50 years of U.S. government nuclear operations, research and weapons production. This unique cleanup-stewardship effort is expensive, technologically complex, and closely regulated. The projected costs of the many cleanup-stewardship commitments made to the public are dramatically greater than the anticipated funding available. To make up the shortfall, an unprecedented cooperative “integration” effort among the sites has been developed, creating the potential to save billions of dollars and accelerate cleanup by as much as 30 years.