Dr. Triay, how many EM sites has EM cleaned up?

Dr. Triay, I understand that most of the stimulus funds will be used to clean up the old plutonium operations facility at Los Alamos or TA-21.

Dr. Triay, what activities does the EM program conduct that support the mission of the NNSA?

Dr. Triay, Los Alamos is a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) site and the NNSA directs the cleanup operations there. Does this pose a difficulty for you?

Mr. D'Agostino, do you support replacing the aging facilities for the NNSA service center at Kirtland Air Force Base?

I think the most important thing is our desire to get DOE's reputation back on track, with respect to large facilities.

Dr. Triay, will EM meet its milestones at WIPP and Los Alamos?

My understanding is that for this year the effort will examine principally the non-nuclear components.

Dr. Triay, the NNSA fiscal year 2011 budget request lists the demolition and decontamination of the old Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) Replacement facility between $200 to $350 million.

Mr. D'Agostino, you list out-year cost estimates of the B-61 gravity bomb totaling approximately $1.68 billion.

You testified to this subcommittee, last year, that the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSC) was an important tool to help maintain the stockpile.

There has been a lot of interest and concern there in northern New Mexico about this issue of possible contamination of water.

We canceled the approach that the lab was proposing to the Federal Government, which was a third-party-financed approach.

I expect, in calendar year 2012--whether it bridges into fiscal year 2012 or 2013--I'd have to double check.

On this issue of NNSA's authority and your efforts to accomplish the requirements that you have for EM there, would it make more sense to have a separate EM contract for the cleanup work at Los Alamos, instead of having to go through the…

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