CARLSBAD, N.M. – Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Mark Whitney joined New Mexico officials and others to mark the completion of a new state-of-the-art Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Emergency Operations Center in a ribbon-cutting ceremony recently. The facility is among EM’s many significant improvements to ensure that WIPP will be able to resume waste emplacement operations safely later this year. Pictured, from left, are Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) Deputy Recovery Manager Tammy Reynolds; New Mexico Environment Department Secretary Ryan Flynn; New Mexico Energy and Natural Resources Secretary David Martin; NWP Emergency Management and Security Department Manager David Stuhan; New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez; Whitney; EM Carlsbad Field Office Manager Todd Shrader; and AECOM Nuclear and Environment Strategic Business Unit Acting General Manager Dr. Todd Wright.