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Boosting Cleanup Through US-UK Collaboration

Monica Regalbuto Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management

2016 Waste Management Symposium

March 7, 2016

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Shared Cleanup Challenges • Size, scope and complexity of mission • Constrained budgets • Multitude of stakeholders and regulators • Need for next generation workforce • Shared contractor community • Difficult technical challenges and similar technology needs

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Mutual Benefits of Collaboration

• Technical-to-technical exchanges result in cleanup progress

• Operational lessons

learned can save time and money

• Basic research to solve

most difficult cleanup challenges

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Looking Forward

The next steps are underway to extend our collaboration for another five years and discussions are ongoing as to how we can increase the potential benefits to best meet the future cleanup needs of both countries. We have achieved an enormous amount in the first 9 years and I have no doubt that we will achieve much more in the years to come.