[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 51 (Friday, March 22, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S2590]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO CONNIE FLOHR

  Mr. RISCH. Mr. President, with my colleagues Senator Mike Crapo and 
Congressman  Mike Simpson, I rise today to recognize the career and 
service of Connie Flohr, manager for the Idaho Cleanup Project. For 
more than 22 years, Flohr has been a key member of the Department of 
Energy--DOE--and the Idaho Cleanup Project, ICP.
  Flohr joined DOE's Office of Environmental Management--EM--in 2001 as 
a program analyst, before moving into positions as chief financial 
officer, EM budget director, and EM Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Resource Management. In these roles, she managed the budget, planning, 
strategic analysis, human resources, and information technology 
activities for EM's 1,450 Federal employees and over 20,000 contractor 
employees.
  Since moving to Idaho in 2017 and taking on roles at the Idaho 
Cleanup Project, Flohr has served as deputy manager and as the ICP 
manager since March 2020. She consistently delivered results, saved 
taxpayers millions of dollars, protected the Snake River Plain Aquifer, 
and removed substantial risks for the people of Idaho.
  Along with these accomplishments as project manager, she is known as 
an agent of positive change for her influence in improving morale, 
developing and motivating staff to creatively identify and resolve 
issues, and effectively incentivizing contractors to make substantial 
and lasting progress in cleaning up the Department's legacy nuclear 
waste. Flohr is responsible for all management and disposition of high-
level, transuranic, mixed low-level waste, and spent nuclear fuel--
SNF--at the Idaho National Laboratory--INL--Site, providing management 
oversight and leadership for an annual budget of $470 million, 52 
Federal employees, and over 1,900 contractors.
  It is our great honor to congratulate Connie Flohr on this 
accomplishment, and thank her for her years of service. We wish her the 
best of luck following her retirement from DOE and the Idaho Cleanup 
Project.

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