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Professional Development Corps
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About Us
 As a result
of our nation’s development of its nuclear arsenal during the cold war, weapons
production and/or weapons plants around the country created a need for the
government to decontaminate these sites by cleaning up the residual from the
nuclear waste. In response to this need, in 1989 at the Department of Energy,
the Office of Environmental Management (EM) was created to assess and cleanup
inactive waste sites and facilities around the country. Our assessment and
cleanup efforts include ensuring the development and implementation of safe and
effective waste management operations, developing and implementing aggressive
applied waste management operations and applied waste research and development
programs that utilize innovative and cost effective environmental technologies
to address permanent disposal of high and low level nuclear waste.
Our Mission
To complete the cleanup of the contaminated nuclear weapons manufacturing and
testing sites across the United States.
Our Vision
Safely and cost effectively cleanup the legacy of the nation’s nuclear weapons
program using a highly qualified, motivated, and career oriented workforce that
manages at least 90 percent of its projects on cost and on schedule.
Message from the Assistant Secretary
 "Our desire is that at Headquarters and each site,
our key acquisition and technical personnel have knowledge of technical issues,
project management, and business management at an equivalent level of expertise
as their contractor counterparts to promote meaningful, cogent dialogue on
substantive issues. Our job as a federal agency is management and oversight, to
be responsible stewards of the public’s trust and resources. Therefore, we must
have a highly qualified and technically proficient management team and staff.
My aim is to have a high performing organization, sustained by a career
oriented workforce, driven to produce results that are important now and into
the future."
Statement of James A. Rispoli, Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Management, before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Committee on Armed
Services, U.S. House of Representatives, March 1, 2006
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