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Gary Snow named D4 Director at Washington Closure Hanford

07.28.2011

RICHLAND, Wash.—Washington Closure Hanford has named Gary B. Snow as the D4 Director. His responsibilities include decommissioning, deactivating, decontaminating and demolishing (D4) 312 radioactive and hazardous buildings and support structures along Hanford’s Columbia River corridor.

A native of Spokane, Washington, Snow began his career at Salisbury & Dietz. Although based in Spokane, he organized and managed drilling and construction projects throughout the western United States, Alaska and Africa.

In 1989, Snow went to work for Morrison Knudsen in Boise, Idaho. He worked for POWER Engineers in Boise from 2001 until 2005, when he came to Washington Closure as manager of discipline engineering. He subsequently served as senior project engineer at the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility and took over as the D4 deputy director in 2008.

Snow earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Gonzaga University in Spokane.

Washington Closure Hanford manages the 220-square-mile River Corridor Closure Project for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office at the 586-square-mile Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State. The $2.3 billion River Corridor Closure Project is the largest environmental cleanup closure project in the nation.

Washington Closure is a limited liability company owned by URS, Bechtel National and CH2M Hill. The company is responsible for demolishing 312 contaminated buildings, cleaning up an estimated 550 waste sites, placing two former plutonium production reactors and one nuclear facility in interim safe storage, and managing the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility.

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