Energy Minister Chris Wright announced on Thursday that “facilitating the contactless rules for the construction of the country's nuclear weapons facilities and the national laboratory.
Wright immediately indicated that the “Osha -Plus” frame of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for subcontracted construction projects in the laboratories must be expanded with the goals Increase the competition and reduce the costs while maintaining a safe work environment. He also ordered a cost-benefit analysis to remove provisions for construction contracts from laboratory contracts.
In addition, Wright indicated that DOE requires order 413.3b, which DOE and NNSA required to transmit projects and within the budget. In particular, he indicated that the delegated project authority for management and operating contracts is expanded from $ 50 million to 300 million US dollars and adapt this order to the order in order to only demand project examinations for “critical decision points” for projects between $ 300 million and $ 1 billion.
“Unfortunately, over the years, the stressful regulations delayed the important work in our national laboratories,” said Wright in a press release. He added that many of the weapon development locations are dependent on institutions that end up in the Manhattan project of the 1940s.
“By reforming the permissible rules and regulations for our national laboratories, we can accelerate critical improvements in the infrastructure and make the energy department a better administrator of the taxpayer dollars,” said Wright.