New members of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) are benefiting from a return to an in-person orientation and tour of major cleanup across the Oak Ridge Reservation for the first time since the coronavirus.

“We’re thrilled to be able to hold the new member orientation tour again," said Melyssa Noe, ORSSAB's deputy designated federal officer. "Many of our members have little or no prior knowledge of EM’s work on the Oak Ridge Reservation when they first join the board, and this gives them an opportunity to see that work firsthand and see how it relates to the site as a whole.”

More than a dozen attendees joined board staff and Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) representatives on April 6 for the event, which included an informational overview followed by a guided tour of the 32,000-acre site.

OREM Regulatory Affairs Specialist Roger Petrie discussed the program's history, ongoing projects and future plans before the group loaded a bus and headed to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

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