United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2007-11-15 monographic deposited born digital 14 p. GA 1.13:GAO-08-277T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-277T P0b002ee1803747e6 f:d08277t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-277T machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-277T GAO-08-277T Cost analysis Decontamination Environmental cleanups Hazardous waste disposal Hazardous waste sites Hazardous wastes Nuclear energy Nuclear facilities Nuclear facility decommissioning Nuclear fuel plants Nuclear powerplants Nuclear waste disposal Radioactive waste disposal Schedule slippages Uranium Cost estimates Program goals or objectives Program implementation Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund Testimony A78188 Cleaning up the nation's three uranium enrichment plants will cost billions of dollars and could span decades. These plants--located near Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Paducah, Ky.; and Portsmouth, Ohio--are contaminated with radioactive and hazardous materials. In 1992, the Energy Policy Act created the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund (Fund) to pay for plant cleanup. Fund revenues come from an assessment on domestic utilities and federal government appropriations. In 2004, GAO reported on the Fund's sufficiency to cover authorized activities. GAO recommended that Congress consider reauthorizing the Fund for 3 more years, to 2010, and require the Department of Energy (DOE) to reassess the Fund's sufficiency before it expired to determine if further extensions were needed. Because decisions not yet made by DOE could affect the cost of cleanup and the Fund's sufficiency, GAO also recommended that DOE develop decontamination and decommissioning plans for the Paducah and Portsmouth plants that would identify the most probable time frames and costs for completing the cleanup work. This testimony is based on GAO's 2004 report. It summarizes the extent to which the Fund may be sufficient to cover authorized activities and the status of DOE's progress in developing decontamination and decommissioning plans for the Paducah and Portsmouth plants. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-277T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-277T.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-277T/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-277T.pdf GAO-08-277T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-277T Testimony GAO-08-277T; Uranium Enrichment: Extension of Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund May Be Needed to Cover Projected Cleanup Costs; Cost analysis Decontamination Environmental cleanups Hazardous waste disposal Hazardous waste sites Hazardous wastes Nuclear energy Nuclear facilities Nuclear facility decommissioning Nuclear fuel plants Nuclear powerplants Nuclear waste disposal Radioactive waste disposal Schedule slippages Uranium Cost estimates Program goals or objectives Program implementation Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund