# Presentation: 726290

## Terri Hall
2008 Federal Environmental Symposium – East
June 2-4, 2008
Bethesda, Maryland

**2008 Federal Environmental Symposium – East**
**June 2-4, 2008**
**Bethesda, Maryland**

**Business Center for Precious Metals Sales and Recovery**

## 5/5/95 Mission Established
5/5/95 Executive Committee on Assets Trust Created
9/26/95 Joseph Vivona, CFO on behalf of Executive Committee on Asset Trust, created the Business Center for Precious Metals Sales and Recovery in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

**5/5/95 Executive Committee on Assets Trust Created**
**9/26/95 Joseph Vivona, CFO on behalf of Executive Committee on Asset Trust, created the Business Center for Precious Metals Sales and Recovery in Oak Ridge, Tennessee**

**Program History****	**

## Mission

**To recover US DOE precious metals from contaminated and non-contaminated scrap and excess equipment and make this metal available to DOE and its prime contractors at no cost.**
**To sell DOE excess precious metals and return proceeds to the US Treasury**
**Maintain a central tracking system for DOE-owned precious metals**

## Precious Metals

**Gold ****	****(Au)**
**Silver****	****(Ag)**
**Platinum ****	****(Pt)**
**Rhodium ****	****(Rh)**
**Iridium ****	****(Ir)**
**Palladium ****	****(Pd)**
**Osmium ****	****(Os)**
**Ruthenium (Ru)**

## Current Processes

**Reclaim precious metals from **
**Scrap (pure metal and alloys)**
**Demilitarized weapon components **
**Low-grade precious metals (silver and alloys)**
**Precious metals with RCRA constituents (depleted plating solution, cyanides, sludges, wiping rags, paste, etc.)**
**Equipment**

## Business Center Program Financial Data ($m)

**	****	**** ****	****	****	****	****Market Value****	**
**	****	****	****	****Market Value****	****of Metal**
**	****	****Program****	****of Metal****	****	****Given to ****	****Savings to**
**	****	**_**Cost**_**	****	**_**Reclaimed**_**	**_**Contractors**_**	**_**DOE**_**	**
**2003****	****$0.953****	****$1.453****	****$1.233****	****$0.280**
**2004****	****$0.766****	****$3.814****	****$2.593****	****$1.826**
**2005****	****$0.661****	****$2.010****	****$3.107****	****$2.447**
**2006****	****$0.474****	****$3.470****	****$3.153****	****$2.679**
**2007****	****$0.814****	****$5.888****	****$5.483****	****$4.670**

## DOE/NNSA Contractors

**Ames Laboratory – Ames IA**
**Argonne National Laboratory – Argonne, IL**
**Battelle energy Alliance – Idaho Falls, ID**
**Battelle Pacific NW Laboratory – Richland, WA**
**Bechtel Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory – West Mifflin, PA**
**Brookhaven National Laboratory – Upton, NY**
**BWXT – Amarillo, TX**
**B&W Technical Services – Oak Ridge, TN**
**CH2M WG Idaho – Idaho Falls, ID**
**Fermi Laboratory – Chicago, IL**
**Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies – Kansas City MO**
**Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory – Berkley, CA**
**Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Livermore, CA**
**Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory – Schenectady, NY**
**Los Alamos National Laboratory – Los Alamos, NM**
**National Securities Technologies – Las Vegas, NV**
**New Brunswick Laboratory – Argonne, IL**
**Oak Ridge Associated Universities – Oak Ridge, TN**
**Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN**
**Princeton University – Princeton, NJ**
**Sandia National Laboratory – Albuquerque, NM**
**Sandia Livermore National Laboratory – Livermore, CA**
**Stanford Linear Accelerator – Stanford CA**
**Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator – Newport News, VA**
**Washington Savannah River Company – Aiken, SC**

## Contacts	

**NNSA – YSO****	****         B&W Y-12**
**Becky Eddy****	****	****          Terri Hall**
**NNSA****	****	****              Business Center Mgr.**
**865.576.4119   ****	****        865.574.0068**
_**[eddybg@yso.doe.gov](mailto:eddybg@yso.doe.gov)**__**              **__**[hallth@y12.doe.gov](mailto:hallth@y12.doe.gov)**_
**Business Center Homepage****http://www.y12.doe.gov/pmetal**