Office of Legacy Management

Office of Legacy Management

Government Administration

About us

The U.S. Department of Energy is committed to managing its responsibilities associated with the legacy of World War II and the Cold War. This legacy includes radioactive and chemical waste, environmental contamination, and hazardous material at over 100 sites across the country. The Department has taken major steps toward fulfilling our commitments to clean up this environmental legacy by successfully implementing an accelerated environmental remediation program. For the first time, the Department is faced with larger scale closings of a series of entire facilities. In order to effectively manage remaining legacy responsibilities and to fulfill commitments to our former contractor work force, the Department established the Office of Legacy Management (LM).

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https://energy.gov/lm/office-legacy-management
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Updates

  • The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management (LM) will play a prominent role at the annual Waste Management Symposia (WMS), happening March 9-13, 2025, in Phoenix. With a panel, 12 presentations, and a poster session, LM’s contributions at this premier global forum will explore innovation, collaboration and transformative solutions in nuclear waste management. https://bit.ly/3EHSmrj 📷: At the Waste Management Symposia in March 2024, LM Director Carmelo Melendez, second from right, and Tania Smith Taylor, right, talk with their German counterparts, Wismut GmbH Managing Director Michael Paul and Dr. Mandy Schipek.

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  • The Maxey Flats site is an inactive, low-level radioactive waste disposal site located in eastern Kentucky that is owned and managed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The site started accepting waste in 1963 and continued until 1977. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated it a Superfund site in 1986. EPA signed a Record of Decision in 1991. In 2016, the commonwealth of Kentucky completed site remediation with the placement of the final cap on the disposal cell. https://bit.ly/3DumMcp

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  • Monthly Bird Walk: North Woods Saturday, Jan. 25 • 8-11 a.m. Join us at the Fernald Preserve on a new series of bird walks around the preserve. This month we will be exploring the north woods of the hickory trail. Red-headed woodpeckers and fox sparrows are regulars in this area in the winter and purple finches are found occasionally as well! This 3-mile hike on flat, but unpaved trails is a great experience year-round! Fernald Preserve Visitors Center 7400 Willey Road, Hamilton, OH 45013 All programs begin in the visitors center. To preregister, please email fernald@lm.doe.gov or call (513) 648-3330 and leave your name, contact number and the date of your request. 📷 credit: Fern Kofron

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  • Sports touch every aspect of the American Midwest, even the Feed Materials Production Center at Fernald, current site of Fernald Preserve, outside Hamilton Ohio. Fred Brandel Sr. was hired in 1953 and worked in Plant 6 as an inspector. He played college football and basketball for the University of Dayton from 1929 to 1931. His son, Fred Brandel Jr., worked in metallurgy over his summer breaks from Purdue University in 1957 and 1958. He was a defensive lineman from 1957 to 1959 and was named AP Lineman of the Week in October 1957 after recovering a fumble that led Purdue to a major upset against Michigan State.

  • Short-Eared Owl Walk Saturday, Jan. 25 • 5-6 p.m. Everyone’s favorite wintertime visitor should be back and prowling the prairies of Fernald Preserve at sunset! Come join us on a 1-mile walk in the former production area as we look for the short-eared Owls. We recommend wearing sturdy shoes for this as the trails are unpaved and sometimes uneven. Fernald Preserve Visitors Center 7400 Willey Road, Hamilton, OH 45013 All programs begin in the visitors center. To preregister, please email fernald@lm.doe.gov or call (513) 648-3330 and leave your name, contact number and the date of your request.

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  • Jan. 1 – 31 Cold War Technology Self-Guided Hike The Feed Materials Production Center at Fernald was at the forefront of uranium-metals processing in the site’s Pilot Plant. This innovation, however, was not limited to Fernald. During the Cold War, the nation needed an entrepreneurial spirit to come out on top in the event of a war with the Soviet Union. Walk along our Weapons-to-Wetland Trail (0.25-mile paved trail) to see what inventions we still interact with today that spawned from a certain demand during the Cold War. Fernald Preserve Visitors Center 7400 Willey Road, Hamilton, OH 45013 All programs begin in the visitors center. To preregister, please email fernald@lm.doe.gov or call (513) 648-3330 and leave your name, contact number and the date of your request.

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