The two regulatory agencies are reluctant to postpone analysis deadlines for much of the 54 million gallons of radioactive waste in central Hanford's 177 underground tanks. Some tank waste analysis work will be cut, said Jackson Kinzer, DOE's assistant manager for the tank farms, and Jon Peschong, DOE's tank farm budget director. DOE and the regulatory agencies plan to negotiate changes in the Tri-Party Agreement where DOE would ensure the most essential analyses would still be done by the 1999 deadline to provide a springboard for future tank work, Kinzer and Peschong said. Other programs besides the tank farm have also been tackling their shortfalls. But DOE has not gathered and crunched overall figures since early January, she said.
Indirect costs are mostly overhead costs with some shared equipment costs added.
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