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12 2016 PAC Advisory Committee Award Larry Harmons waste management career began in 1976 at ERDAs Germantown Maryland facility where he was responsible for programs at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant ICPP. These programs included reprocessing a variety of reactor fuels to recover enriched uranium and managing the waste it produced. So where does one go to learn about radwaste They go to the Waste Management Conference of course. Larry attended his first WM Conference in 1979. He couldnt get it out of his blood and is still here today.LarrybecameProgramDirector for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant WIPP project in 1980. WIPP was on oxygen and defunded in late 1980. Along came President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and a nuclear-friendly Administration. By 1985 WIPP was on its way to completion. Larrys first Waste Management paper was published in 1985 titled A Supply Side Approach to Nuclear Waste Repositories. That paper included outlandish ideas like combining a repository with a major project like the Superconducting Supercollider for a willing host state. The state deal could include the basket of infrastructure manufacturing and research and development RD. This paper is available in the archives on the Waste Management Symposia website. In 1985 Larry set up Department of Energys DOE Transportation Management Division with fun projects like shipping TMI core rubble to Idaho and answering its associated hate mail. This job set him on a three-decade passion for Track 5 Packaging and Transportation. Some people still say Oh hes the packaging guy. Larry was in on the first days of DOEs Environmental Management Program EM in late 1989. He helped establish EMs Office of Technology Development as the Director for Program Support. From 1991 and until he retired from DOE in 1994 Larry was Director of the Office of Waste Operations. After a so-called retirement he signed on as a MACTEC Vice President in Germantown supporting DOE environmental and other programs across the complex. Retirement from MACTEC after 10 years didnt work either. Hes still consulting on a variety of DOE programs with Project Enhancement Corporation. Prior to his waste management career Larry worked for ALCOA and an Army Arsenal designing tank guns and other neat stuff. He was an Army Ordnance Officer and served in Korea in 1963. Larry holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering Master of Science in Management and a MBA all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Hes also a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces is a proud Eagle Scout. Larry continues his service on the WMS Board of Directors having joined the Board in 1994. Larry Harmon Project Enhancement Corporation