The Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank
Wastes was established in 1993 with the general objective of
addressing generic and specific issues relevant to the environmental
remediation of radioactive waste contamination
from a broad national perspective, including the use of systems
engineering and risk-based assessment by the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management
for planning and decision making. This objective
was a continuation of one addressed by a predecessor of the
committee, the Panel to Review Planned DOE Disposal of
Radioactive Waste in Single-Shell Tanks at Hanford, which
produced the report, Comments on Draft Systems Engineering
Study for Closure of Hanford Single-Shell Tanks, in February
1992