Contractor Approved Funding for Own Government Contract

The Department of Energy, overseer of the nation’s most toxic cleanup operation, allowed a private contractor to authorize its own payments for work billed to the government, according to the department’s inspector general (IG). The audit that turned up this big no-no discovered other important responsibilities that Energy officials had ceded to the company, Project Assistance Corporation (PAC), which has been helping to dispose of plutonium at the old Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington. Located near the Columbia River, the Hanford site is considered the most challenging clean up project left over from the Cold War, with more than 53 million gallons of highly radioactive waste located on the sprawling facility that once produced plutonium for America’s nuclear arsenal.
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