DOE announces new leadership of Yucca nuclear waste program

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By Erica Werner
ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:09 p.m. April 25, 2005

WASHINGTON – Management of the troubled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump project is changing hands for the second time in several months, the Energy Department announced Monday.

Theodore Garrish, who has been in charge of Yucca since February, is retiring May 13, the department said in a news release. He will be replaced by Paul Golan, who is currently principal deputy assistant secretary for environmental management at the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, the DOE office that handles Yucca.

Garrish's retirement is unrelated to recent problems with the government's plans for the underground nuclear waste dump in Nevada, including criminal investigations of whether workers on the project falsified data, said Energy Department spokeswoman Anne Womack Kolton."