DOE: Missed cleanup milestones largely out of its control

The Savannah River Site missed more legally enforceable cleanup milestones in fiscal 1993 than any other Energy Department facility, failing to meet more than half of its 83 formal commitments, according to a recent DOE report. But the report says most of the seriously overdue milestones at the South Carolina facility are the result of delays by federal and state environmental regulators, not DOE. Altogether, the report said DOE's environmental cleanup program met 331, or 74.4 percent, of its 451 worsening of performance when compared to DOE's track record over the past five years, during which the department met 784, or 87 percent, of its 904 enforceable milestones