June 14, 2018 – “The State University at Fredonia will receive a $13,235 Documentary Heritage Program grant to arrange and describe the Records of the Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes.” Link to article
Below are articles and other news published since the last West Valley Citizen Task Force Meeting. They relate to the West Valley Demonstration Project, nuclear waste cleanup or are otherwise relevant or of potential interest to stakeholders interested in the Project. After each Citizen Task Force Meeting, these articles are compiled into a single document and may be found with the meeting materials for that month.
June 14, 2018 – “The State University at Fredonia will receive a $13,235 Documentary Heritage Program grant to arrange and describe the Records of the Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes.” Link to article
June 27, 2018 – “EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project(WVDP) recently conducted first responder training on lifesaving interventions in the event of emergencies such as active shooter situations.” Link to article
June 21, 2018 – “Cost savings continue from two EM cleanup sites sharing highly specialized equipment for packaging and relocating nuclear waste to storage locations. When completed, the sharing of equipment between sites will help achieve a total savings valued at approximately $2.4 million.” Link to article
June 25, 2018 – “As work continues on a number of projects throughout Ashford, the town board heard updates on a proposed solar facility as well as the decommissioning work at the West Valley Demonstration Project at a meeting June 13.
Over the past few years, the Town of Ashford has been working with the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency to build a solar farm on the Western New York Nuclear Service Center property. Recently, an agreement between the town and NYSERDA has been drafted for the town’s use of the property, NYSERDA West Valley Program Director Paul Bembia said.” Link to article
June 22, 2018 – “Much-needed financial relief is on the way to the town of Ashford and the West Valley Central School District in the form of a $500,000 supplemental payment in lieu of taxes secured by state Sen. Catharine Young in the state budget.
The allocation, which is in addition to the town’s regular annual PILOT payment of $500,000, is intended to ease the financial strain on the locality and taxpayers resulting from the long-term loss of tax revenue from the West Valley Demonstration Project site. The school district will receive $280,000 of the allocation, with the remainder of $220,000 going to the town of Ashford.” Link to article
