DOE Management: Implementing the Environmental Restoration Management
Contractor Concept (Testimony, 12/01/93, GAO/T-RCED-94-86).

As part of its effort to reform contract management, the Department of
Energy (DOE) is now pilot testing at its Fernald, Ohio, and Hanford,
Washington, sites a new environmental restoration management contractor
approach.  DOE hopes that this approach will lower cleanup costs,
accelerate cleanups, and strengthen DOE management control over
contractors.  GAO testified that the environmental restoration
management contractor concept, with its ambitious goals and use of an
invoice approach, offers the promise of better DOE oversight of cleanup
contractors.  Several constraints, however, may make it difficult to
realize the concept's goals.  GAO continues to believe that a thorough
and careful evaluation should be a major component of the pilot tests.
More importantly, the success of the pilot tests could be seriously
jeopardized unless DOE meets its own estimates of the number of
qualified staff and adequately trains them to oversee the contractors.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-RCED-94-86
     TITLE:  DOE Management: Implementing the Environmental Restoration 
             Management Contractor Concept
      DATE:  12/01/93
   SUBJECT:  Human resources training
             Environmental monitoring
             Contract monitoring
             Nuclear waste disposal
             Hazardous substances
             Nuclear weapons plants
             Contractor performance
             Personnel management
             Nuclear facility safety
             Cost control
IDENTIFIER:  DOE Environmental Restoration Management Contractor Program
             
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