Dear Community Member:
The Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) is a volunteer
citizens panel that provides advice and recommendations to the U.S.
Department of Energy on its Oak Ridge environmental cleanup program. Because public comment is important to the ORSSAB study and
recommendation process, we’d like to hear your concerns and opinions
regarding cleanup issues related to the Oak Ridge
Reservation.
Please take a few moments to complete this short form.
If you have questions, please call
the ORSSAB support office at (865) 241-4583 or 241-4584.
Sincerely,
Steve Dixon, Chair
1. Please tell us which of the following apply to you (check all that
apply):
Oak Ridge resident
Anderson or Roane County resident
Knox County resident
DOE employee
DOE contractor/subcontractor
Other interested party
2. Which of the following best describe the primary ORSSAB mission:
Provide advice and recommendations to DOE regarding environmental
management
issues at the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR)
Solicit public opinions on ORR programs, and pass them along to DOE
Provide oversight, monitoring, and
surveillance of DOE activities in Oak Ridge
3. Please rate the top four (4) issues relative
to the ORR environmental cleanup program, with a rating of 4 being the
most important and 1 the least important to you:
Historic preservation at East Tennessee Technology Park (former K-25
site)
Long-term care (stewardship) of radioactive contamination left in place,
and waste placed in the environmental cleanup program’s disposal
facility
Contaminated groundwater monitoring, and reduction of contamination
being able to leave DOE property via groundwater
Economic development at East Tennessee
Technology Park (re-industrialization of the site)
Transportation of radioactive and chemically contaminated waste on
public roads and highways
Educating area students and the public at-large about the history of the
ORR as well as contamination that remains at the site
Demolition of several hundred buildings and facilities at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory and Y-12 that are no longer necessary (Integrated
Facility Disposition Program)
Cleanup of the Bear Creek Burial Grounds
Other concerns:
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