U.S. DOE's Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board: Public Engagement in Cleanup - 18709
- U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of Environmental Management, Office of Intergovernmental and Stakeholder Programs, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585 (United States)
This paper provides an overview of the U.S. DOE's Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) from its roots in the early 1990's at the Keystone Center to its current activities. The EM SSAB has a unique mandate to provide input regarding the cleanup of nuclear legacy sites in the United States. Chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the EM SSAB comprises eight local boards. The Office of Environmental Management (EM) has made public participation a fundamental component of its cleanup mission and has found that the EM SSAB has contributed greatly to bringing community input regarding values and priorities to the cleanup decision-making processes. Public participation that involves ongoing community engagement has inherent challenges; the EM SSAB operates with additional challenges that reflect the political and technical nature of U.S. DOE's work. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22977910
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--20-WM-18709
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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