EVENTS CALENDAR

ETEBA Events:

Membership meeting host opportunities: Take advantage of this marketing opportunity! Hosts have a table for display of materials and are invited to provide a brief overview of their company and its capabilities. Cost for TN Chapter meetings is $500; contact Steve Priest, Vice President, Tennessee Chapter by email at SLPRIEST@energysolutions.com. NM Chapter is $300; contact Al Cobb at acobb@pajaritoscientific.com to sign up or for more information. 

Near-term Events

2010

--Mar 9-10: The Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) Project’s second Suppliers Outreach Event is in the final planning stages.  Registration now open: http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/events/upfoutreach/

--Mar 10, 6p: Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board meeting, DOE Information Center, Oak Ridge, The meeting will feature an update on Building 3019 uranium-233 processing. The Building 3019 project was developed by DOE to resolve safety and security issues associated with the continued storage of U-233, primarily in the form of uranium oxides, in Building 3019. The objective is to process the U-233 inventory into a form suitable for final disposal, thereby reducing costs at ORNL and eliminating any possibility of a criticality incident.

--Mar 11, 8-9a: House Cleanup Caucus briefing on the Idaho National Laboratory, 1334 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC

--Mar 11: Budget Hearing: Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, “Fiscal Year 2011 Budget: Department of Energy” with Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, room TBD, information at http://appropriations.senate.gov .

--Mar 16, 8-9a: House Cleanup Caucus briefing on the DOE Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, 1334 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

--Mar 16: Budget Hearing: House Appropriations Subcommittee on

Energy and Water Development, “Fiscal Year 2011 Budget: Department of Energy” with Asst. Secretary for Environmental Management Ines Triay; Rayburn 2362 B; http://appropriations.house.gov/Subcommittees.

--Mar 16-17: 2010 East TN Environmental Conference, Meadowview Conference and Resort Center in Kingsport, TN, more information at http://www.tnenvironment.org/

--Mar 16, 5p: SEMA meeting, SRNS and SRR provide tips for contracting and outlook for future procurements, reservations are $25 and will be taken through noon on Friday, March 12.  Please email Catherine Thomas at catherinethomas@sema-csra.org and indicate your choice of chicken or pork.

--Mar 18, 8-10a: ORBSP Quarterly Safety Forum, sponsored by ORAU, featuring nationally acclaimed safety speaker John Drebinger, at the Oak Ridge American Museum of Science and Energy; free and open to the public.

--Mar 18, 8-9a: House Cleanup Caucus Briefing on the Savannah River Site, 1334 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

--Mar 20: Annual Einstein Gala, Sheraton Uptown Hotel in Albuquerque, NM, dinner, dancing and silent auction to benefit the National Atomic Museum Foundation.  For information about attending, go to the museum web site:  www.nuclearmuseum.org and click on ‘Events’.

--Mar 22-25: Argonne National Laboratory will conduct another session of its training course "Facility Decommissioning" March 22-25, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV with a tour of the NTS.  This training course is an open registration session.  Space is limited.  Full details can be found at the website www.dd.anl.gov/ddtraining/

--Mar 24: Budget Hearing, House Armed Services Committee, “FY 2011 Budget: DOE”, with Undersecretary for Nuclear Security Thomas D’Agostino and Assistant Secretary for EM Ines Triay, information: http://armedservices.house.gov

--Mar 24-26: Global Venture Challenge at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, www.globalventurechallenge.com

--Mar 25, 8-9a: House Cleanup Caucus Briefing on the DOE Office of River Protection, 1334 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D .C.

--Mar 25, 5:30p: ETEBA Tennessee membership meeting, Holiday Inn Cedar Bluff

--Mar 25-26: NEI’s Nuclear Manufacturing Outreach Workshop, at the Irvine Marriott in Irvine, CA.  This is an opportunity to meet with engineering, procurement and construction companies, more details at http://nei.org/newsandevents/conferencesandmeetings/mowca

--Mar 29-31: 8^th Annual AFCEA Belvoir Industry Days, “Enterprise Transformation,” Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD, http://www.fbcinc.com

--April 6-9: 2010 Air Force Restoration Technology Transfer Workshop, www.afcee.af.mil/resources/technologytransfer/technologytransferworkshop

Workshop Coordinator, Erica Becvar, AFCEE/TDV, erica.becvar.1@us.af.mil

--April 13-14: SEMA 12^th Annual Conference, Savannah Rapids Pavilion, Augusta, GA

--April 21: 2010 OSDBU Procurement Conference, www.fbcinc.com/osdbu, Chantilly, VA

--April 29, 5:30p: ETEBA Tennessee membership meeting, Holiday Inn Cedar Bluff, DOE ORO Assistant Manager, Environmental Management John Eschenberg will be the speaker

--April 24-29: EFCOG 20^th Annual Safety Analysis Workshop, Knoxville, TN, https://www.ornl.gov/efcogWorkshop/index.shtml

--May 4-7: SAME Joint Engineer Training Conference and Expo 2010, Atlanta, GA, register here: http://www.same.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=5048

--May 10-12: DOE Small Business Conference, Atlanta, GA, for more information, please visit the event website.

--May 10-13: 9^th Annual Carbon Capture & Sequestration Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, http://www.carbonsq.com/

--May 25-27: Tennessee Valley Corridor National Technology Summit, L’Enfant Plaza, Washington, DC, more information coming soon

--May 27, 5:30p: ETEBA Tennessee membership meeting, Holiday Inn Cedar Bluff

--June 3: NRC public seminar on government contracting, http://www.nrc.gov/

--June 11-12: Inaugural “Today’s Woman Expo”, Anderson County High School, Clinton, TN, for more information contact the Anderson County Chamber at 865-457-2559

--June 14-17: Environment, Energy Security & Sustainability (E2S2) Symposium & Exhibition Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, www.ndiae2s2.com

--June 22-24: EPRI International Low-level Waste Conference, Westminster, CO, http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/

--Aug 3-6: Air and Waste Management Association Southern Section, 2010 Annual Meeting and Technical Conference, Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel in Mobile, AL, for more information please contact: jmanning1@bellsouth.net  

--Sept 2: NRC public seminar on government contracting, http://www.nrc.gov/

--Sept 13-17: 2010 Integrated Safety Management Workshop, Augusta Marriott Hotel and Suites, Augusta, GA, sponsored by DOE Savannah River Office, registration will open April 1 and continue through August 5, more information is available at www.srs.gov/general/ism2010.

--Nov 8-10: 11^th Annual Business Opportunities Conference, Knoxville Convention Center

--Dec 2: NRC public seminar on government contracting, http://www.nrc.gov/

--Dec 6-9: ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services) 2010 Conference, Phoenix, AZ, www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/aces