WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), chair of the House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, is set to speak at the 2016 National Cleanup Workshop, scheduled to be held Sept. 14-15 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Va. The workshop is being hosted by the Energy Communities Alliance, and cooperating organizations for the event include DOE and the Energy Facility Contractors Group. 

   Simpson joins a long list of planned participants for the workshop that will bring together senior DOE executives and site officials, industry executives, and other stakeholders to discuss DOE’s progress on the cleanup of the environmental legacy of the nation’s Manhattan Project and Cold War nuclear weapons program. 

   Additional information on the workshop, including how to register and the full preliminary agenda, can be found here.

   More than 350 people attended the inaugural workshop in late September last year. DOE made available the event's support materials, including links to 15 videos that captured addresses by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and DOE’s Office of Environmental Management Assistant Secretary Monica Regalbuto, along with roundtable sessions focusing on the cleanup program’s next five years and its major accomplishments. The presentations from the roundtable sessions, photos from the workshop, and a workshop attendee list are all available here.