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Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management Report 2 (2022) / Chapter Skim
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4 Outcomes and Prioritization Strategies
Pages 41-45

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... These findings and recommendations focus on performance measures that can be used to assess progress toward achieving desired cleanup outcomes, including performance measures for the schema in DOE-EM's Program Management Protocol (DOE, 2020)
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... Outputbased metrics are important for managing the cleanup program but do not measure absolute progress toward completing site cleanup. Tracking such progress requires the use of outcomes-based performance measures.
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... should incorporate sched ule performance measures into project baselines, including a change management process and metrics to track and document schedule slippages against both original and revised baselines over project lifetimes. DOE-EM should periodically review baseline schedule slippages to understand their causes and identify and implement fixes to prevent future slippages.
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... establishes several criteria for prioritizing cleanup activities, referred to as schema, to be used for strategic planning, life-cycle cost and schedule estimating, and budget requests: First and foremost, EM seeks to address any issues posing an immediate risk to human health or the environment. EM then addresses issues based on achieving the highest risk reduction benefit per radioactive content (activities are focused on wastes that contain the highest concentrations of radionuclides and sites with the highest radionuclide contamination)
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... 2020. "Environmental Management Program Management Protocol." Washington, DC: Office of Environmental Management.
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