MOAB, Utah - EM has named Russell McCallister as the federal cleanup director for its Moab project in Utah, effective Dec. 10.
McCallister previously served as the quality assurance lead for EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office in Kentucky for 11 years. He brings more than 25 years of DOE experience in project management and contract oversight in remediation projects and programs and environmental laboratory and radioactive waste disposal operations. McCallister is lead auditor certified in Nuclear Quality Assurance-1 and International Organization for Standardization 14001.
McCallister worked on the development of cleanup standards and deactivation, decommissioning, and demolition activities for several nuclear facilities at the former Rocky Flats site in Colorado. At the Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico, McCallister led EM's effort in managing, planning, integrating, and implementing national transuranic (TRU) waste characterization activities at DOE facilities throughout the U.S. The TRU and TRU-mixed wastes are disposed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. He began his federal career as a research chemist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
EM extends its appreciation to Ellen Mattlin who served as acting federal project director since last May. Mattlin came to the Moab project from the Office of River Protection at Hanford where she returned in mid-December.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
