Environmental Protection | Projects

Washington Closure Hanford’s Environmental Protection organization helps protect workers and the environment by ensuring cleanup work is performed within applicable state and federal environmental laws and guidelines.

The Environmental Protection organization provides subject matter expertise in environmental regulatory compliance; waste management shipping and transportation; natural, cultural, and historical compliance and mitigation; risk assessment and site closure and close-out verification and data management.

For resolution of significant environmental compliance issues, Environmental Protection serves as the principle interface between Washington Closure and U.S. Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office, state and federal regulators, other Hanford contractors, Native American tribes and other important stakeholders.

Work on the River Corridor Closure Project is governed by the Washington Closure Hanford Environmental Protection and Compliance Policy.

Mission Completion

Environmental Protection Mission Completion (MC) (formerly the End State and Final Closure Project) is chartered to plan, execute, and control work resulting in (1) a determination that no further action is needed to protect human health and the environment and (2) obtaining a proposed “finding of suitability to transfer ” and to support transition of transfer Hanford’s River Corridor to long-term stewardship. The Integration and Assessment, Long-Term Stewardship, and Sample Design and Cleanup Verification tasks within the MC project are structured to fulfill these goals.

Ongoing, open communication among the many parties interested in Hanford Site cleanup continue as the work progresses under these tasks. This website has been created to provide an information repository and includes links to documents available for review and comment, administrative information, and dates for public involvement opportunities.

For more information contact:

Jamie Zeisloft - U.S. Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office
Program Manager, Remedial Investigation and Integration
(509) 372-0188

John Sands - U.S. Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office
Program Manager, RCBRA Source and Groundwater Component
(509) 372-2282

Jeff Lerch - Washington Closure Hanford
Environmental Protection Mission Completion Manager
2620 Fermi Avenue
MSIN H4-22
Richland, WA 99354
(509) 372-9633

Chris Cearlock - Washington Closure Hanford
Long Term Stewardship Manager
2620 Fermi Avenue
MSIN H4-22
Richland, WA 99354
(509) 372-9207

  • Long-Term Stewardship Planning
  • Orphan Sites Evaluation
  • Remedial Action Reports

Jeff Lerch - Washington Closure Hanford
Assessment and Integration Manager
2620 Fermi Avenue
MSIN H4-22
Richland, WA 99354
(509) 372-9206

  • River Corridor Baseline Risk Assessment, Source and Groundwater Component
  • Remedial Investigation of Hanford Site Releases to the Columbia River
  • Integration

Megan Proctor - Washington Closure Hanford
Sample Design & Cleanup Verification Manager (Acting)
2620 Fermi Avenue
MSIN H4-22
Richland, WA 99354
Cell (509) 521-9622
Office (509) 372-9227

  • Work Instructions for Remaining Sites
  • RSVPs for No Action Sites
  • RSVPs/CVPs for Burial Grounds/Failed Orphan and Remaining Sites
Hanford Construction Camp

Remedial Action at the Hanford Trailer Camp Landfill and the Hanford Construction Camp Burn Pits 
On December 21, 2006, the Keeper of the National Register, U.S. Department of the Interior, determined that the Hanford Construction Camp Burn Pits (Waste Site 600-202) was eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

The Keeper noted that “the site is associated with a significant theme in 20th century American history, the Manhattan Project.”

The determination also noted that the site was eligible for listing under Criterion D “for its potential to provide information otherwise unrepresented about the people who lived and worked at the Hanford Construction Camp during its period of significance – 1943-1946 – and about World War II-era culture and consumer culture and behavior.”

The Hanford Trailer Camp Landfill (Waste Site 600-109) is a sister facility located at the opposite end of the Construction Camp. It was in operation from 1943 to 1945. It shares the association with the Manhattan Project and an equal potential to yield information “otherwise unrepresented.”

Before Washington Closure Hanford personnel began remediation of the waste sites, they conducted historical and archeological investigations at the sites under the direction of the U.S. Department of Energy and in agreement with the Washington State Historic Preservation Office and the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

Research topics included worker lifeways (i.e., social history); waste management; recycling; and chronology.

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