[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 91 (Monday, May 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25945-25946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12357]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Hearings and Appeals


Notice of Issuance of Decisions and Orders During the Week of 
April 14 Through April 18, 1997

    During the week of April 14 through April 18, 1997, the decisions 
and orders summarized below were issued with respect to appeals, 
applications, petitions, or other requests filed with the Office of 
Hearings and Appeals of the Department of Energy. The following summary 
also contains a list of submissions that were dismissed by the Office 
of Hearings and Appeals.
    Copies of the full text of these decisions and orders are available 
in the Public Reference Room of the Office of Hearings and Appeals, 
Room 1E-234, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, 
Washington, D.C. 20585-0107, Monday through Friday, between the hours 
of 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., except federal holidays. They are also 
available in Energy Management: Federal Energy Guidelines, a 
commercially published loose leaf reporter system. Some decisions and 
orders are available on the Office of Hearings and Appeals World Wide 
Web site at http://www.oha.doe.gov.

    Dated: May 5, 1997.
George B. Breznay,
Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Decision List No. 29; Week of April 14 Through April 18, 1997

Appeals

Information Focus on Energy, Inc., 4/17/97, VFA-0280

    Information Focus on Energy, Inc. (IFE) filed an Appeal from a 
determination by the Assistant Inspector General for Resource 
Management of the Office of Inspector General (Assistant IG) of the 
Department of Energy (DOE). In that determination, the Assistant IG 
partially granted a request for information filed by IFE. In 
considering the Appeal, the DOE ordered the Assistant IG to search for 
and release documents containing titles, report numbers, and issue 
dates of all DOE Inspector General Reports, including inspection 
reports, for the years 1988 through September 1996, or provide a 
detailed explanation for withholding any such information.

Nancy Donaldson, 4/14/97, VFA-0271

    Nancy Donaldson filed an Appeal challenging the adequacy of a 
search for documents conducted by the Bonneville Power Administration 
(BPA) in connection with a request she filed under the Freedom of 
Information Act (FOIA). Specifically, Ms. Donaldson claimed that she 
should have been provided with the results of asbestos testing that was 
done prior to 1985 at BPA locations, and with documents having to do 
with the presence of transite paneling at those locations. In 
considering the Appeal, the Department of Energy found that the absence 
of pre-1985 test data was not evidence of an inadequate search. 
However, the matter was remanded to the BPA so that a search for 
documents having to do with the presence of transite paneling at BPA 
locations could be performed.

Refund Applications

    The Office of Hearings and Appeals issued the following Decisions 
and Orders concerning refund applications, which are not summarized. 
Copies of the full texts of the Decisions and Orders are available in 
the Public Reference Room of the Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Aurora Casket Company....................................  RG272-604............................         4/16/97
Crude Oil Supple Ref.....................................  RB272-00101..........................         4/17/97
Herring Farm et al.......................................  RK272-01792..........................         4/17/97
Horn Trucking Co. et al..................................  RK272-02263..........................         4/17/97
Legler Farms, Inc. et al.................................  RK272-01330..........................         4/18/97
Minnie Dyk et al.........................................  RK272-2002...........................         4/16/97
                                                                                                                

Dismissals

    The following submissions were dismissed.

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                     Name                               Case No.        
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Northern Farmers Cooperative Society.........  RG272-00717              
OSU Motor Pool...............................  RF272-86826              
Personnel Security Hearing...................  VSO-0134                 
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