U.S. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, P.O. Box 98518, Las Vegas, NV 89193-8518

B -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT IN THE AREA OF SITE CHARACTERIZATION ACTIVITIES Contact Birdie Hamilton-Ray, Contracting Officer, (702) 794-7599. The U.S. Department of Energy intends to award a contract to Atomics Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) to provide technical support in the areas of: material testing, field demonstration and testing of grout and sealing systems, engineered barriers design, modeling long-term behavior of waste forms, waste package design and performance modeling, integration of undergound experimental programs with construction activities, system modeling and performance assessment, radioncuclide migration, and gas migration and isotopic exchange. See Note 22. (040)

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