[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 25 (Friday, February 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6170-6171]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3004]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Hearings and Appeals


Issuance of Decisions and Orders; Week of November 17 Through 
November 21, 1997

    During the week of November 17 through November 21, 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

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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, DC 20585-0107, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 
1 p.m. and 5 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: January 29, 1998.
George B. Breznay,
Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Department of Energy

Office of Hearings and Appeals

[Decision List No. 60]

Week of November 17 Through November 21, 1997

Appeal

Los Alamos Study Group, 11/19/97, [VFA-0346]

    OHA granted in part an Appeal filed by the Los Alamos Study Group 
(the Study Group) from a FOIA determination issued by the Albuquerque 
Operations Office (Albuquerque). OHA remanded this matter because the 
determination letter issued by Albuquerque was based upon: (1) A 
misunderstanding of the scope of the Study Group's request for 
classified documents, and (2) the incorrect assumption that the five 
facilities named in the Study Group's FOIA request were located at Los 
Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). OHA also found that the staff of the 
DOE Los Alamos Area Office and LANL performed an adequate search for 
responsive unclassified documents.

Personnel Security Hearings

Personnel Security Hearing, 11/17/97, [VSO-0159]

    A Hearing Officer found that an individual had not successfully 
mitigated security concerns arising from his use of alcohol. 
Accordingly, the Hearings Officer recommended in the Opinion that the 
individual's access authorization not be restored.

Personnel Security Hearing, 11/18/97, [VSO-0167]

    A Hearing Officer found that an individual had not successfully 
shown rehabilitation from his alcohol dependence. Accordingly, the 
Hearing Officer recommended in the Opinion that the individual's access 
authorization not be restored.

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.

City of Harrisburg.......................................  RF272-76720                                  11/19/97
Crude Oil Supple Dist....................................  RB272-00126                                  11/19/97
Gulf Oil Corporation/Western Mountain Oil Co., Inc.......  RF300-16557                                  11/19/97
Helen Lois Thomas et al..................................  RK272-04673                                  11/19/97
Lewis R. & Janice Zeit et al.............................  RK272-04590                                  11/21/97
Lucian Cox Transfer Service..............................  RK272-04635                                  11/19/97
Mrs. George L. Reeves et al..............................  RK272-01929                                  11/21/97
                                                                                                                

Dismissals

    The following submissions were dismissed.

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                     Name                               Case No.        
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University Gulf..............................  RR300-00290              
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[FR Doc. 98-3004 Filed 2-5-98; 8:45 am]
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