HMESC Pre-Solicitation Conference Tour

HMESC Pre-Solicitation Conference Tour

HMESC Pre-Solicitation Conference Tour

South of Wye Barricade

Tour Script

(2420 Steven Center / Conference Room 153)

December 11-12, 2017

Introductions commence after visitors are badged.

Day 1 – Introductions

(On Day 2 of the tour, visitors will board the bus directly and not meet in CR 153)

  • Good morning and welcome to the Hanford Mission Essential Support Contract (HMESC) Pre-solicitation conference, Hanford Site tour and one-on-one sessions this week, as interested parties in support of the upcoming procurement for the HMESC at the Hanford Site.
  • We are excited to have you here today. Thank you for taking time to learn more about the Hanford Site. My name is Garth Reed, I am with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Richland Operations Office (RL). With me today is Jay Glover with the DOE, Office of River Protection (ORP). We will be your tour guides for the next two days.
  • A tour guide packet has been provided to each of you this morning. If you have not received a tour packet, please see Peggy Sanders next to the sign-in table before boarding the bus. Both Jay and I will be reading from a tour script on the bus as we travel and reference material within the tour packet.
  • The tour packet includes tour agenda for both days of the tour, list of facilities on the tour, tour package Handouts, general site maps, Hanford Site operations overview, and 3x5 index cards. We will not discuss any of the information in the folder today, but is provided as visual aids to assist you in the tour. I recommend you refer to the packet information as we tour those respective facilities. If you have any questions, please use the 3x5 cards to jot down questions. Jay and I have extra cards available upon request. The cards will be collected at the end of the tour by Jay and me. Your questions may be answered during tomorrow’s pre-solicitation conference, placed on the HMESC Acquisition website, or considered as feedback for industry input. Please provide your name/contact information on the first card and name on all subsequent cards you turn in so we can contact you if we have any questions regarding your requested information. Additionally, there will be designated question and answer sessions during tomorrow’s pre-solicitation conference.
  • The tour is broken into two groups, Group A (green) and Group B (pink). You should have received a green or pink sticker on your badge that identifies the group you are in and the color-marked corresponding bus you will need to board this morning. Please refer to you tour packet for your respective agenda.
  • For today, Group A (green) will tour property south of the Wye Barricade and Group B (pink) will tour property north of the Wye Barricade. On day 2, the tour will be the reversed; Group A will tour property north of the Wye Barricade and Group B will tour property south of the Wye Barricade.
  • The list of facilities we will be touring today and tomorrow is provided in your tour packet. We will be driving by and referring you to either side of the bus to point out facilities of interest. We will also be walking through a few of the facilities. This is an industrial site and we asked that you stay together as a group and follow all verbal safety instructions given on the tour. Safety is a priority for everyone on the Hanford Site. The tour agenda and packet will placed on the HMESC Acquisition website the week following the pre-solicitation conference.
  • I would like to introduce Karen Sinclair as Group 2’s tour coordinator and Kelly Rae as Group 1’s tour coordinator. Karen Sinclair will take a few moments to go over tour logistics and then we will begin boarding the buses.

Begin discussion as the bus leaves 2420 Steven Center to point out 2430 Stevens Center. Turn right onto Stevens Drive.

(DRIVING)

  • Coming up to the right is the 2430 Steven Center. Both 2420 and 2430 provided office space for the DOE. On the first floor is the Correspondence Control operation for the Richland Operations Office (RL) portion of the DOE workforce. A similar function is conducted in the 2440 Steven Center for the Office of River Protection Federal staff.
  • Correspondence is received from and sent to a wide range of sources, both internal and external to the Hanford Site, including Site contractors, regulators, DOE-HQ, other federal, state and local agencies or organizations, stakeholders, media and private citizens.
  • The mission of this operation is to provide the management of incoming and outgoing correspondence. For incoming correspondence, the significant majority of the incoming correspondence is opened, evaluated, responsibility assigned and distribution made – within 10 hour of receipt. It also includes receipt and processing of electronic incoming correspondence from at least one on-site contractor. For outgoing correspondence, this organization makes distribution both hard copy and electronic formats.
  • At RL, From October 1, 2016 to September 2017, there were approximately 6,000 pieces of correspondence, which equates to processing approximately 180,000 images.
  • At ORP, there were approximately 3,200 pieces of correspondence, and approximately 123,000 images processed.
  • Commitment control functions are also completed here – identification, assignment, and closing of commitments are centralized here in this organization. In addition, receptionist support is provided in both 2420 and 2430 Steven Center.

Begin discussion as the bus turns onto Stevens Drive.

(DRIVING)

  • PLEASE REFER TO HANDOUT 1 AND HANDOUT 2 OF YOUR TOUR PACKET FOR A MAP OF THE HANFORD SITE AND FACILITIES WE WILL BE VISITING TODAY NORTH OF THE WYE BARRICADE.
  • YOUR TOUR PACKET ALSO INCLUDES INFOMRATION REGARDING DOE’S VISION, OPERATIONS OVERVIEW AND SEVERAL HANFORD SITE MAPS THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST OR ASSIT YOU ON THE TOUR.
  • The Hanford Site has operating areas, industrial sites. As we travel north on Route 4 south towards the operating areas of the Hanford Site 400 and 300 Areas, we will point out features of the 580-square-mile of the Hanford Site that you may have heard about or seen for yourself.
  • The Hanford Site facilities and activities are consolidated within “operating areas” that occupy about 6 percent of the site. Other improvements include electrical, road, rail, and water systems. There are also easements, leases, and permits to non-DOE parties to provide electrical, telecommunication and state road systems on the Hanford Site. About 4 percent of the Site is surface contaminated, and 30 percent of the Site overlays contaminated groundwater from the past production of defense nuclear materials. Continued DOE mission needs and residual contamination at certain sites will place limitations on the property for future development or release of property, such as:

Safety and security for the operation of existing facilities.

Waste sites and groundwater contamination

Deed restrictions from residual contamination left after cleanup.

Previous real estate rights granted by DOE to non-DOE parties.

  • The management of these activities required land use planning and management consistent with all the necessary landlord services you would expect for a large federal facility. It includes overseeing open areas of land, planning for new activities, managing borrow pits, performing surveillance and maintenance of cleaned up waste sites, supporting RL on real estate activities, and responding to situations occurring on federally owned land.

At Battle Boulevard start reading the following:

  • The Horn Rapids Road is the southern boundary of the Hanford Site as shown on Handout 1 in your tour packet.
  • The Horn Rapids Road makes up part of the southern boundary of the Hanford Site.
  • 1641 acres lying east of Route 4 South, and immediately north of Hanford Rapids Road was transferred to Tri-City Development Council, DOE’s Community Re-Use Organization for industrial-economic development.

As you approach the Horn Rapids Road, point to the Railroad on the left side of the bus.

HANDORD RAILROAD SYSTEM

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  • To the left of the bus is the DOE-owned railroad system that begins at the south right of way line by Horn Rapids road, consists of approximately 55 miles of track and signal systems and ends in the 200 East and 200 West areas.
  • Energy Northwest actively uses approximately seven (7) miles of the track from Horn Rapids Road into the Energy Northwest complex.
  • The remaining track is no longer in use and is not anticipated to be used again.

As you cross Horn Rapids Road, point to the PNSO and 300 Area:

PNNL Site and 300 Area

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  • PLEASE REFER TO HANDOUT 3 OF YOUR TOUR PACKET FOR A MAP OF THE PNNL SITE AND 300 AREA.
  • To the right of the bus, you will see the Pacific Northwest Site Office (PNSO) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Site facilities to the east towards the Columbia River and then further north the Hanford Site 300 Area.
  • Most of the 300 Area facilities and underlying waste sites have been cleaned up. CHPRC is preparing the 324 Building for demolition.
  • The PNNL uses four facilities (Buildings 325, 318, 350 and 331) that are owned by RL and managed by PNSO located in 300 Area in support of their mission.
  • PNSO is responsible for the operation of the 300 Area water and sewer systems.
  • The potable water supply comes from the City of Richland, and the Sanitary Sewer effluent is likewise taken and treated by the City of Richland.
  • MSA is responsible for surveillance and monitoring of post cleanup waste sites.
  • Richland Operations Office maintains four structures, three of which support Information Management and IT functions. The fourth is the Hanford Fire Department 300 Area Fire Station. We will drive by these facilities later today.

Bus continues on Route 4 South. Ask the bus driver to watch for mile marker 16, and upon reaching it, point out Energy Northwest to the right.

  • On your right is a portion of land leased to Energy Northwest (ENW) who owns and operates the Northwest’s only operating commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, which produces electricity for the Bonneville Power Administration.
  • Energy Northwest is not affiliated with Hanford cleanup.
  • Columbia Generating Station produces more than 1,150 megawatts of electricity enough electricity to serve the needs of a city the size of Seattle.

Bus continues on Route 4 South. Ask the bus driver to watch for mile marker 19, and upon reaching it, turn left on Kentucky Blvd., and proceed to the 400 Area. Turn left on Route 40/Alabama Blvd, drive slowly.

As the bus approaches the 400 Area, begin reading the Script:

400 Area

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  • PLEASE REFER TO HANDOUT 4 OF YOUR TOUR PACKET FOR A MAP OF THE PNNL SITE AND 400 AREA.
  • Coming up is the 400 Area. The 400 Area is where the deactivated Fuels and Materials Examination Facility, Maintenance (FMEF) and Storage Facility, and Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) are located and managed by Plateau Remediation Contract (PRC). Both the FMEF and FFTF facilities have been placed in long-term surveillance with no power, except for fire detection at FFTF.
  • The remainder of the 400 Area is managed by the Mission Support Contract (MSC) which includes warehouse facilities, body (paint) Shop, fleet maintenance facility, centralized consolidate recycling center, fire station, and electrical system.
  • PRC manages the water and sewer collection systems. However, the sewer effluent is captured in a tank that must be pumped and hauled by the MSC to the sewer lagoon in 200 West.

Bus continues on Route 40/Alabama Blvd, point to Building 4704 North and 4704 South

  • To the right of the bus is the 400 Area Fire Station 94, Building 4704S. The fire station is not manned, but houses equipment that is ready to serve in the event of a fire. The plan is to build a new South fire station in the 400 Area and deactivate the 300 Area Fire Station.
  • Connected and north of this building is Building 4704N, which consists of approximately 8,000 square feet of space managed by MSC and used for furniture storage.

Bus Continues on Route 40/Alabama Blvd, point to the Building 4732C and 4732A and read the following script.

  • To the right of the bus is Buildings 4732C, and 4732B are used as warehouse space. These facilities are unmanned with the exception of the Material Coordinators performing work package staging in the 4732A.

 The closets warehouse facility is 4732C Warehouse, which consists of approximately 20,000 square feet operated by MSC and used primarily for convenience storage inventory belonging to WRPS or PRC.

 The adjacent warehouse facility to the north is 4732A Warehouse, which consists of approximately 15,000 square feet, of which, 9,000 square feet is used for primarily for convenience storage inventory, and 6,000 square feet for work package material staging area for MSC projects.

Bus turns right onto Grant Avenue to enter the 400 Area. Continue straight ahead, the road turns to gravel. Take the first left onto South Dakota Street and pass slowly by substation 451B. Read the following script:

  • Coming up and to the left is substation 451B, which serves the 400 Area from a 115kV line owned and maintained by the Bonneville Power Administration. The station serves a line owned and maintained by the Benton Public Utilities District that serves LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory. LIGO makes up the majority of the load on this substation.
  • LIGO is located approximately 1.5-miles northwest of the 400 Area. LIGO is located on land leased to the National Science Foundation and operated by the California Institute of Technology.

Continue west on South Dakota Street and turn left on Taft Street. Turn Left onto Iowa

Street, continue to Grant Avenue and take a left onto Illinois Street.

As the pus takes a left onto Illinois Street, point to the Buildings 4709A, 4722C, 4734C, and 3734B as the bus slowly drives along Illinois Street and read the reading script:

Building 4709A Telecommunication Facility

  • To the left of the bust is Building 4709 Telecommunication Facility that serves for 400 Area.

Building 4722C Paint Shop

  • To the left of the bus is 4722C Paint Shop, which is operated by MSC.

Building 4734C Storage Facility

  • To the left of the bust is 4734C which is approximately 8,000 square feet. The facility is managed by MSC, but currently used by Tank Operations Contract (TOC) for furniture storage.

Bus continues on Illinois Street and drives around Building 4734C.

Point to the Building 4734B and read the :

Building 4734B Centralized Consolidated Recycling Center

  • Coming up and to the right of the bus is the Building 4734B, Centralized Consolidated Recycling Center.
  • The facility is approximately 8,000 square feet of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) compliant warehouse space with 2,000 square feet for accumulation of universal wastes and about 1,200 square feet of Storage for Disposal for non-radioactive polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
  • The Centralized Consolidated Recycling Center was established in 1995 through the efforts of DOE-Richland Operations Office, its contractors and the Washington State Department of Ecology. It has grown from the original three recycle streams and today accepts lead acid batteries, 19 types of small batteries, lighting ballasts, crushed and intact fluorescent, sodium, mercury and incandescent lamps, mercury and mercury-containing equipment, aerosol cans, used oil, spent antifreeze, used shop towels, and chemicals for exchange.
  • The mission of the Centralized Consolidated Recycling Center is to minimize hazardous waste disposal through reuse of chemicals and/or recycling performed by offsite vendors. This center is currently used by all contractors as a matter of convenience, but not required.

Bus continues on Illinois Street, turns left onto Grant Avenue, turns left onto Route 40/Alabama Blvd., turns right onto Route 40 Kentucky Blvd., and right onto Route 4 South to the 300 Area.

At the 300 Area, the bus turns left onto Cypress Street, turns left onto Vail Street, and turns left onto Vader Lane.

As the bus approaches Vander Lane, read the following .

FIRE DEPARTMENT

300 AREA STATION (STATION 93)

BUILDING 3709A

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  • PLEASE REFER TO HANDOUT 5 OF YOUR TOUR PACKET FOR A MAP OF THE 300 AREA.
  • Coming up and then to the right of the bus is the 300 Area Station, Building 3709A, which currently provides “first due” fire protection, emergency medical services (EMS), hazardous materials response, and special rescue services. These services are provided to 300 Area personnel and facilities/buildings and the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF). Fire protection, EMS, and hazardous materials response services are provided outside the Hanford boundaries to maintain mutual aid agreements. Rangelands located within this geographic area are also protected by this station as well as services to the 400 Area. The 300 Area Station currently supports the majority of mutual aid responses, including the Cites of Richland and West Richland.
  • This building is scheduled for closure under the Fire Station Consolidation Plan. Construction of the new South Fire Station is scheduled to take place in Fiscal Year 2019. Once completed, all assets and personnel will move operations to a new fire station located in the 400 Area.

Bus parks in front of the Building 3220. Read the following on bus:

3220 Telephone Exchange Building

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  • To the right of the bus is the 3220, Telephone Exchange Building that houses the phone switches for the on-site portion of Hanford. The Hanford operators and maintenance personnel occupy this facility. The equipment provides the phone services for all Hanford contractors, except for the Waste Treatment Plant’s contractor Bechtel National Incorporated. The system supports approximately 9,000 staff on the Hanford Site, via fiber optic cables. There is a generator backup outside the building.

3212 Records Holding Facility

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