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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

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Bechtel to pay $800,000 to feds

The Columbian
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KENNEWICK — An agreement for Bechtel National to pay $800,000 to the federal government recently has been anonymously entered in the Hanford court-enforced consent decree case being considered in federal court.

The payment and completion of several steps Bechtel has agreed to take through 2016 effectively ends a series of investigations that began in late 2011, according to the agreement.

At issue were safety questions because of design inconsistencies between early safety analyses and later work. There also were concerns about inadequate welds in tanks that would hold radioactive waste and the adequacy of programs to assure quality and make improvements when problems are found.

The agreement between Bechtel and the DOE Office of Enforcement did not include a finding of a violation by Bechtel after Bechtel analyzed the causes of issues being investigated and took action to correct problems. Bechtel reported the issues, the DOE contractor said.

Corrective actions also were identified by Bechtel and are well under way, said Bechtel spokesman Todd Nelson.

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