August 2014

The U.S. Department of Energy?s (DOE) Office of Environment, Safety and Health Assessments, within the DOE Office of Independent Enterprise Assessments (IEA) (formerly the Office of Health, Safety and Security), conducted an independent oversight review of the Integrated Waste Treatment facility contractor readiness assessment (C-RA) at the Idaho Site from January 14-20, 2014. The C-RA activity that IEA observed officially concluded with a final report being issued on March 9, 2014, following a period during which it was suspended. This assessment was intended to assess the effectiveness of the C-RA process as implemented for the IWTU restart.