The Office of Environmental Management (OEM) has set its priorities for 2022, according to a release. 

They include project construction, planned cleanups, acquisition and other projects to advance EM’s environmental and risk-reduction mission.

“Our many accomplishments in 2021 positioned EM to achieve an equally challenging slate of priorities in 2022,” OEM Senior Advisor William 'Ike' White said in the release. “Our 2022 priorities underscore our goals to accomplish cleanup that is safe and protective of our workforce, the public and the environment, and in a manner that is transparent to the communities that host and support our sites.”

Some of the projects planned are: Processing the first 100 liquid waste containers at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site; beginning construction of the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative in Aiken, South Carolina; completing cold commissioning of the first melter at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant and beginning operation of the Tank-Side Cesium Removal system at the Hanford Site in Washington state; completing demolition of Building X-326 at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio; and completing the removal of another one million tons of uranium mill tailings from the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project in Utah. 

Another priority is to complete 30 shipments of transuranic waste from the OEM Los Alamos Field Office to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico as well as implement the Justice 40 Initiative pilot project.