OAK RIDGE, Tenn.EM gave URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC (UCOR) a score of nearly 96 percent, allowing the contractor to earn over $4.4 million of the available fee of more than $4.6 million for the period from April to September 2015. UCOR is responsible for cleaning up the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), formerly the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, as well as other select sites on DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation under a contract valued at $2.4 billion.

   UCOR received high ratings across the board, including “excellent” marks for environmental management as well as project management and business systems.  

   “UCOR has continued to execute the scope under the East Tennessee Technology Park contract very well,” DOE’s Oak Ridge Environmental Management Office Manager Sue Cange said. “We are extremely pleased with our progress, and look forward to continuing our momentum as we begin a new year.”

   Each year, EM releases information relating to contractor fee payments — earned by completing the work called for in the contracts — to further transparency in its cleanup program.

   In its award letter, EM cited work on K-31, K-27 — the last two remaining gaseous diffusion buildings — and the 3042 Oak Ridge Research Reactor Pool. Also noted were significant design activities for the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility and timely shipments of contact-handled waste to the Transuranic Waste Processing Center.

   EM also highlighted continued improvement of UCOR’s safety culture initiative and noted that the contractor received STAR status in the DOE Voluntary Protection Program, which encourages and recognizes excellence in occupational safety and health protection. UCOR was also recognized for outstanding support to ongoing reindustrialization efforts at the ETTP site.

   Opportunities for improvement were noted, including recent incidents involving respiratory protection and industrial hygiene and management attention in the Nuclear Safety and Criticality Program and the Transportation Program.  

   View DOE's letter to UCOR on its award fee determination here.