Department of Energy: Management of Excess Property (Letter Report,
11/04/98, GAO/RCED-99-3).

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of
Energy's (DOE) efforts to identify and dispose of property that is
excess to its needs, focusing on the: (1) criteria the Department uses
to guide the identification and disposal of excess property; (2) extent
to which the Department's property records reflect what is no longer
needed to carry out its missions; and (3) challenges the Department
believes exist in identifying excess property and the innovative
approaches being used to dispose of this property.

GAO noted that: (1) federal property management regulations include
criteria to determine when real property is excess to an agency's needs;
(2) however, neither federal property management regulations nor DOE's
regulations and guidance include specific criteria to determine when
personal property is no longer needed; (3) when property has been
identified as excess, guidelines for the disposal process are well
defined for both real and personal property; (4) DOE's property records
do not consistently provide information that would help identify
property that is no longer needed; (5) recent changes to DOE's
regulations require that property records identify property that has
already been determined to be excess; (6) in July 1998, DOE modified its
real property records system to identify property that has been
determined to be excess; (7) this system also provides additional
information, such as the percentage of a facility currently in use, that
could be used to identify other property that is no longer needed; (8)
similarly, in May 1998, DOE revised its personal property management
regulations to require that contractors' records include information on
current usage, such as categorizing property as active, in storage, or
excess; (9) however, these regulations do not provide criteria for
determining when personal property should be placed in these categories;
(10) DOE acknowledges problems with its identification and disposal of
excess real and personal property; (11) Department officials cited, for
example, a lack of funding for the environmental cleanup of the current
inventory of excess real property and a lack of incentives to identify
property as excess; (12) because the costs associated with the
maintenance and storage of unneeded property are generally not
separately identified, little incentive exists to spend the resources
necessary to dispose of it; and (13) regardless of the problems, field
and program offices have developed some innovative approaches to dispose
of property, such as including a performance-based incentive in the site
management contract to encourage the contractor operating the site to
dispose of excess property during the fiscal year.

--------------------------- Indexing Terms -----------------------------

 REPORTNUM:  RCED-99-3
     TITLE:  Department of Energy: Management of Excess Property
      DATE:  11/04/98
   SUBJECT:  Federal property management
             Surplus federal property
             Property disposal
             Personal property
             Real property
             Inventory control systems

             
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Report to the Chairman, Committee on the Budget, House of
Representatives

November 1998

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY - MANAGEMENT
OF EXCESS PROPERTY

GAO/RCED-99-3

DOE's Excess Property

(141221)


Abbreviations
=============================================================== ABBREV

  DOE -

Letter
=============================================================== LETTER


B-280873

November 4, 1998

The Honorable John R.  Kasich
Chairman, Committee on the Budget
House of Representatives

Dear Mr.  Chairman: 

For fiscal year 1997, the Department of Energy reported that it had
$20.8 billion in property, some of which is no longer needed to carry
out the Department's missions now that the Cold War has ended.  The
Department reports, for example, that many of the buildings
originally designed and constructed to support its defense mission no
longer have any ongoing or planned mission.  The Department
acknowledges that it needs to reduce its inventories of property and
equipment and estimates that, for its largest environmental
management sites, it spends about 20 percent of its annual budget on
maintaining the facilities and infrastructure. 

You requested that we review the Department of Energy's efforts to
identify and dispose of property that is excess to its needs. 
Specifically, you asked us to determine (1) the criteria the
Department uses to guide the identification and disposal of excess
property, (2) the extent to which the Department's property records
reflect what is no longer needed to carry out its missions, and (3)
the challenges the Department believes exist in identifying excess
property and the innovative approaches being used to dispose of this
property. 


   RESULTS IN BRIEF
------------------------------------------------------------ Letter :1

Federal property management regulations include criteria to determine
when real property\1 is excess to an agency's needs.  However,
neither federal property management regulations nor the Department of
Energy's regulations and guidance include specific criteria to
determine when personal property is no longer needed.  When property
has been identified as excess, guidelines for the disposal process
are well defined for both real and personal property.  For example,
the Department's property management regulations include guidelines
for the screening of excess personal property for reuse within the
Department or other federal agencies; for the transferring of lab
equipment and computers to schools; and for the sale of property to
the public. 

The Department of Energy's property records do not consistently
provide information that would help identify property that is no
longer needed.  Recent changes to the Department's regulations
require that property records identify property that has already been
determined to be excess.  In July 1998, the Department modified its
real property records system to identify property that has been
determined to be excess.  This system also provides additional
information, such as the percentage of a facility currently in use,
that could be used to identify other property that is no longer
needed.  Similarly, in May 1998, the Department revised its personal
property management regulations to require that contractors' records
include information on current usage, such as categorizing property
as active, in storage, or excess.  However, these regulations do not
provide criteria for determining when personal property should be
placed in these categories. 

The Department of Energy acknowledges problems with its
identification and disposal of excess real and personal property. 
Department officials cited, for example, a lack of funding for the
environmental cleanup of the current inventory of excess real
property and a lack of incentives to identify property as excess. 
Because the costs associated with the maintenance and storage of
unneeded property are generally not separately identified, little
incentive exists to spend the resources necessary to dispose of it. 
Regardless of the problems, field and program offices have developed
some innovative approaches to dispose of property, such as including
a performance-based incentive in the site management contract to
encourage the contractor operating the site to dispose of excess
property during the fiscal year. 


--------------------
\1 Real property includes land, improvements, structures, and
permanent fixtures.  Personal property includes all other property
except for real property and includes such things as government-owned
equipment, computers, and motor vehicles. 


   BACKGROUND
------------------------------------------------------------ Letter :2

Although most of the Department of Energy's (DOE) real and personal
property is under the control of its contractors, several DOE offices
have the responsibility for managing this property.  Overall, the
office of Field Management is responsible for real property
management and field oversight, and the office of Procurement and
Assistance Management is responsible for personal property.  In
addition, the Office of Worker and Community Transition directs
various efforts regarding the sale or disposition of surplus assets
and compiles reports for the Congress on unneeded real and personal
property and pilot projects relative to its overall responsibilities. 
In addition, DOE's program offices, such as the office of Defense
Programs, are responsible for declaring property excess to their
missions' needs.  One program office, Environmental Management, is
responsible for the cleanup of contaminated excess property before
its disposal.  DOE's field offices oversee the contractors' efforts
to manage the property and maintain the property records. 

In its fiscal year 1997 financial statements, DOE reported that it
held property, plant, and equipment valued at $20.8 billion\2 --$12.0
billion of real property and $5.2 billion of personal property, with
construction work in progress, natural resources, and software
accounting for the remaining $3.6 billion.  The property amounts
include only those items costing $25,000 or more.  Items that cost
less than $25,000 are expensed for financial statement purposes; DOE
contractors held an additional $3.4 billion of such personal property
at the end of fiscal year 1997. 

In DOE's fiscal year 1997 Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act
report accompanying its financial statements, the Department
indicated that it had extensive inventories of real and personal
property that is no longer necessary and that disposal of this
property could save future storage, security, and maintenance costs. 
In addition, DOE reported problems with the management of personal
property.  For example, the Rocky Flats Field Office in Colorado
identified problems that included a contractor's inadequate property
records systems, incomplete inventory records, and requests made for
new work space while comparable space at the site was being
designated as excess.  (See the bibliography for a list of GAO and
Inspector General reports on DOE property management issues.)


--------------------
\2 This represents the depreciated value of the property, plant, and
equipment; the acquisition costs were $46.9 billion. 


   FEDERAL REGULATIONS PROVIDE
   GUIDELINES FOR REAL PROPERTY
   BUT DOE'S GUIDANCE DOES NOT
   INCLUDE CRITERIA FOR
   DETERMINING WHEN PERSONAL
   PROPERTY IS EXCESS
------------------------------------------------------------ Letter :3

The federal property management regulations specify that executive
agencies should dispose of real and personal property that is excess
to their needs and include guidelines for determining when real
property is unneeded or underutilized.  However, neither the federal
regulations nor DOE's guidance includes similar specific guidelines
for determining when personal property is excess.  In the absence of
criteria in the federal regulations, it is left up to each agency to
develop guidelines.  DOE implements the overall federal regulations
for its real property and has issued supplemental regulations for
managing personal property.  However, DOE's regulations for personal
property include no criteria for determining when property is excess. 


      REAL PROPERTY
---------------------------------------------------------- Letter :3.1

The federal property management regulations for the utilization and
disposal of real property state that each executive agency should
survey the real property under its control at least annually to
identify property that is not needed, is underutilized, or is not
being put to optimum use.  The regulations also include a list of 15
guidelines to be used by executive agencies in these annual reviews,
including whether operating and maintenance costs are excessive
compared with those of other similar facilities, whether all of the
property is essential for program requirements, and whether federal
use of the property would be justified if a rental charge equivalent
to commercial rates were added to the program costs for the
occupants.  Federal agencies are to maintain their inventory of real
property at the absolute minimum consistent with economical and
efficient operations and promptly report to the General Services
Administration any real property determined to be excess.  The
regulations then describe the disposal process to be used for any
property determined to be excess.  At many of DOE's facilities, the
excess property is contaminated by radiation or other hazardous waste
and must be cleaned up before the disposal process can begin. 

In addition to the federal property management regulations, DOE's
guidance on life cycle asset management requires the Department to
use formal planning methods for real property, including a method to
declare property excess.  The guidance further defines "excess" as
physical assets that are not required for DOE's needs and for
carrying out its missions but does not include any additional
criteria for making that determination.  According to officials in
DOE's office of Field Management, the field and program offices are
to use the guidelines in the federal property management regulations
in their planning process and in determining when real property is
excess to their needs. 


      PERSONAL PROPERTY
---------------------------------------------------------- Letter :3.2

Unlike for real property, neither the federal property management
regulations nor DOE's regulations and guidance include specific
criteria for determining when personal property is excess.  The
federal property management regulations define excess personal
property as that which is not required for an agency's needs and the
discharge of its responsibilities.  The regulations further state
that when property is determined to no longer be required for the
"purpose of the appropriation from which it was purchased or for the
use to which it has been applied," an executive agency should
reassign the property within its activities. 

DOE's supplemental property management regulations state that
management practices are to ensure the best possible use of personal
property and that supplies and equipment should generally be limited
to those items essential for carrying out DOE's programs efficiently. 
DOE's regulations also state that DOE offices and designated
contractors are responsible for continuously surveying property under
their control to ensure maximum use and promptly identify property
that is excess to their needs.  In addition, for laboratory and
research equipment, the regulations require a management walk-through
of all operating and storage areas at least every 2 years to identify
idle and unneeded personal property.  Equipment identified as idle
and unneeded is to be made available to others or listed as excess. 
However, there are no guidelines to be used in making these
determinations. 

After property has been determined to be excess, the regulations
state that the property must first be screened for reuse or transfer
to others before offering it for sale to the public.  Personal
property is first screened for reuse within DOE, then for transfers
to the Math and Science Education Gift Program (under Executive Order
12821) and to the Community Reuse Organizations/Economic Development
program (under P.L.  103-160).  Subsequent steps include making
property available to educational institutions such as colleges and
universities under the Used Energy Related Laboratory Equipment Grant
Program (P.L.  101-510) and to other federal agencies and state
donation programs.  Personal property that remains after the
screening process can be sold to the public or discarded. 


   DOE'S PROPERTY RECORDS DO NOT
   CONSISTENTLY REFLECT WHEN
   PROPERTY IS EXCESS
------------------------------------------------------------ Letter :4

DOE's recently revised guidance on property records requires
contractors to record property already identified as excess.  For
real property, the information contained in the property records
could be used to determine when additional real property may be
excess.  However, for personal property, without further guidance,
these records will not provide information to help identify other
personal property that is no longer needed. 


      REAL PROPERTY
---------------------------------------------------------- Letter :4.1

DOE currently maintains approximately 22,500 facilities, including
buildings, production facilities, and other structures.  Property
records for these facilities are maintained in DOE's Facilities
Information Management System and contain detailed information on
each facility.  The field offices are responsible for entering all
data into the system, which was implemented as DOE's agencywide
database.  This database contains information such as the location,
size, age, and acquisition cost of the property and the percentage of
a facility being used.  It also reflects building status as
determined by the DOE field offices, such as operational, standby, or
shutdown pending decontamination and decommissioning. 

In July 1998, DOE added a new requirement to its real property
records system by adding an "excess indicator" to show whether a
property has been determined to be excess.  In addition, there is a
new requirement to include "deferred maintenance" costs for each
facility, which are those costs necessary to restore a facility to
its operating condition.  Employing the federal property management
guidelines, DOE field offices and program managers can use
information in the database, such as the percentage of a facility
being used and its deferred maintenance costs, to identify other
facilities that may be excess. 


      PERSONAL PROPERTY
---------------------------------------------------------- Letter :4.2

DOE's contractors hold approximately 95 percent of the Department's
personal property.  Of the approximately 744,000 items of personal
property held by the contractors, about 89,000 items cost $25,000 or
more; the remaining 655,000 items cost less than $25,000 each and are
expensed for the purposes of DOE's financial statements.  Contractors
are required to maintain property control records for every
accountable item of personal property and individual item records for
each sensitive item (i.e., those items of personal property
considered susceptible to being stolen, such as portable computers or
portable power tools). 

A contractor's property records system must be approved by a DOE
contracting office.  DOE's May 1998 property management regulations
specify the minimum requirements for a property records system.  For
example, the individual property record for each item should include
such information as a description, acquisition cost, physical
location, and the status of the item.  Status is defined as "active,
[in] storage, excess, etc.," but no further explanation of these
terms is given.  However, in the absence of criteria, the information
in these records such as date of purchase and cost do not aid in
determining what personal property is excess. 


   WHILE DOE FACES CHALLENGES,
   SOME FIELD AND PROGRAM OFFICES
   HAVE INITIATED LOCAL SOLUTIONS
------------------------------------------------------------ Letter :5

According to DOE officials, the Department faces challenges in
identifying and disposing of excess property.  The challenges cited
by DOE officials include a lack of funding for the decontamination
and decommissioning of excess real property and the existence of few
incentives for program and field offices to identify property as
excess.  Nevertheless, field and program offices have made some
innovative efforts to dispose of excess real and personal property. 


      CHALLENGES IN THE
      IDENTIFICATION AND DISPOSAL
      OF EXCESS PROPERTY
---------------------------------------------------------- Letter :5.1

In January 1996, DOE issued a report on 10 categories of nuclear and
nonnuclear materials in inventory, including uranium, lead, and
chemicals.\3 DOE reported that it had large quantities of the
materials that no longer had clearly defined or immediate uses; if
left unattended, much of the material could present environmental,
safety, and health risks; and maintaining these materials in a safe
condition cost millions of dollars annually, although the exact cost
was unknown.  Although this report specifically addressed materials,
the Director of the Office of Policy Analysis, Environmental
Management, told us that the concerns about the identification and
disposal of excess materials should also be applied to real and
personal property.  Among the problems noted in the report were that
(1) DOE lacks policies and criteria for determining when materials
are excess to the Department's needs and (2) the function of
declaring materials excess usually rests with program managers at
DOE's sites, who have little or no incentive to address the problem
and who lack the resources and funding to identify and dispose of
excess materials.  Similarly, other DOE officials with the Office of
Contract and Resource Management and the office of Field Management
told us that with real and personal property, the Department faces
challenges because of a lack of funding and incentives. 

Cleaning up excess facilities represents a funding challenge for DOE. 
Since the Department's Environmental Management program was created
in 1989 to clean up and dispose of contaminated excess facilities, a
backlog of over 10,000 facilities has developed.  Because of funding
concerns, Environmental Management stopped accepting new facilities
about 2 years ago and has had to set cleanup priorities based on such
criteria as relative risk.  According to DOE's fiscal year 1997
financial report, the cleanup program for Environmental Management
facilities and "legacy" wastes represents an unfunded liability of
$141 billion.  While the Environmental Management program seeks to
complete its long-term cleanup strategy for those facilities, DOE
anticipates that by the year 2006, up to another 1,500 facilities
will be declared excess, almost half of them contaminated. 

As with materials, program managers have little or no incentive to
identify real and personal property as excess.  According to DOE
officials in the office of Procurement and Assistance Management and
in the Defense Programs, Environmental Management, and Energy
Research program offices, managers are reluctant to commit scarce
program funding to identify excess property.  Program managers do not
see all of the costs associated with unneeded property because some
of the costs to maintain and store unneeded property are included in
overhead costs and are not separately identified.  DOE estimates that
for its largest Environmental Management sites, it is spending about
20 percent of its overall budget on maintenance and surveillance of
facilities and infrastructure.  However, without the program
managers' knowing the actual costs to maintain their property, there
is little incentive to spend the resources necessary to dispose of
it.  In addition, DOE noted that declaring property excess may
require initiating costly programs to decontaminate or decommission
the property.  Funds for such programs are not generally available
because mission or compliance requirements are funded first. 


--------------------
\3 Taking Stock:  A Look at the Opportunities and Challenges Posed by
Inventories From the Cold War Era (DOE/EM-0275, Jan.  1996). 


      EXAMPLES OF INNOVATIVE
      APPROACHES TO IDENTIFYING
      AND DISPOSING OF EXCESS
      PROPERTY
---------------------------------------------------------- Letter :5.2

Innovative approaches to the identification and disposal of excess
property have been developed at the field and program office levels. 
Examples include requiring a contractor to reduce surplus property at
a site, establishing a group to dispose of excess property and
funding its efforts through the sale of that property, creating a
computer-based system to facilitate the reuse of materials within
DOE, and establishing pilot projects that sought to allow the
proceeds from property sales to be retained to fund future disposal
efforts. 

The most recent contract for the management of the Hanford site in
Washington State includes provisions for reducing the site's overall
infrastructure to support its current missions and states that the
contractor is expected to use innovative approaches to accomplish
this objective.  In addition, several of the contract's
performance-based incentives required the contractor to increase the
utilization of the space in its facilities; reduce inventory
management costs, including carrying costs; and dispose of $50
million of excess personal property.\4

The contractor at the Hanford site established a group to dispose of
excess property through donation programs, transfers to other sites
or agencies, and public auctions and negotiated sales.  In addition,
this group opened a retail store that sells such items as surplus
computers and office equipment to the public; sales at this store
average $5,000 per week.  The proceeds from the public auctions,
negotiated sales, and retail store must cover the group's costs of
operation; it receives no additional funding from DOE.  Any proceeds
that exceed the group's costs are returned to DOE. 

The office of Energy Research has developed an innovative system to
better reuse materials within DOE.  Although the system currently
covers only materials, program officials told us they plan to expand
it to include a link to the personal property system.  This
computer-based system, called the Exchange, is accessible to DOE
program personnel on the Internet.  By sharing information about
materials that are excess at various sites or needed by other sites,
the Exchange allows materials to be reused more efficiently.  For
example, the Idaho Falls site needed sturdy packing boxes in Idaho to
ship instruments for repair and calibration, and the Pantex site had
about 250 excess boxes in Texas that met this need.  The Idaho Falls
site estimated that using the Exchange saved it about $50,000 over
the cost of new boxes. 

As part of its responsibility for the disposition of excess assets,
the Office of Worker and Community Transition proposed six pilot
projects for fiscal year 1998 to dispose of excess real and personal
property.  Under these pilot projects, DOE sought to overcome its
funding constraints by asking for congressional approval to retain
the proceeds generated by the pilot projects and to use them to fund
further disposal efforts.  These projects included the sale of heavy
water\5 at the Savannah River site in South Carolina; the sale of
precious metals at Oak Ridge in Tennessee; the leasing of facilities
at the Hanford and Savannah River sites; the sale of approximately
100,000 pieces of machinery, tools, and equipment at Rocky Flats in
Colorado; and a program at Oak Ridge to refurbish and sell excess
electronic equipment.  Although DOE's request was denied, the
conference report accompanying DOE's appropriations urged the
Department to proceed with implementation under the current
guidelines that allow DOE to retain proceeds from the sales and
leases to the extent needed to cover the administrative costs
associated with the sales or leases.  DOE will evaluate these pilot
projects at the end of the fiscal year and report the results to the
Congress. 


--------------------
\4 Personal property is carried in the contractors' property records
at its acquisition cost, which is what the $50 million figure
represents.  Because of the age, condition, or possible obsolescence
of the excess property, its current value is likely to be much less. 

\5 Heavy water contains deuterium, a naturally occurring isotope of
hydrogen, and is used in production reactors. 


   AGENCY COMMENTS
------------------------------------------------------------ Letter :6

We sent a draft of this report to the Department of Energy for its
review and comment.  The Department's primary comments related to our
characterization of the criteria for determining when personal
property is no longer needed.  DOE generally disagreed with our
assessment of the extent to which criteria exist.  The Department
cited several references to regulations that it believes provide
specific criteria for identifying unneeded personal property. 
However, these regulations are general in nature and do not provide
any specific guidance similar to that found in the real property
regulations.  For example, one of the references cited by DOE states
that equipment identified as idle and unneeded should be redeployed
or declared excess, as appropriate.  However, this does not provide
program managers any guidance that defines when an item is to be
classified as idle and unneeded.  For real property, program managers
have 15 guidelines to be used in their annual reviews to help
determine when property is not needed, underutilized, or not put to
its optimal use.  Because the personal property regulations do not
provide specific guidance to program managers, we therefore did not
revise the report. 

DOE also noted that the cleanup of its excess facilities is actually
broader in scope than reflected by the $141 billion in its annual
report, which represented Environmental Management facilities and
legacy wastes.  Total environmental liabilities reported in the
financial statements were $181 billion.  Because our report addresses
the environmental cleanup of real property, we did not revise it to
reflect the broader environmental costs.  DOE also noted a new effort
to collect individual facility maintenance and deferred maintenance
cost information at the headquarters level that is designed to enable
program managers to identify costs to maintain their real property. 
We did not revise our report because this effort is just getting
under way and is not to be completed until fiscal year 2000. 

DOE also offered several technical corrections that were
incorporated.  DOE's comments are included in appendix I. 


   SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
------------------------------------------------------------ Letter :7

To determine what criteria DOE uses to guide the identification and
disposal of excess property and whether DOE's property records
reflect what is no longer needed to carry out its missions, we
reviewed the federal property management regulations and DOE's
property management regulations and guidance.  In addition, we
interviewed officials from DOE's offices of Worker and Community
Transition, Procurement and Assistance Management, Field Management,
Environmental Management, Energy Research, and Defense Programs, and
we reviewed documentation provided by them.  We also interviewed
officials from DOE and contractor property management organizations
at the Hanford site and reviewed their procedures. 

To determine what challenges DOE encounters in identifying excess
property and to identify innovative approaches being used to dispose
of this property, we reviewed DOE's fiscal year 1997 Federal
Managers' Financial Integrity Act report and supporting
documentation, reports from DOE's Office of the Inspector General,
and the January 1996 materials in inventory report.  We interviewed
officials from DOE's offices of Worker and Community Transition,
Procurement and Assistance Management, Field Management,
Environmental Management, Energy Research, and Defense Programs.  We
also interviewed officials from DOE and contractor property
management organizations at the Hanford site and reviewed
documentation they provided. 

We performed our review from July 1998 through September 1998 in
accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. 


---------------------------------------------------------- Letter :7.1

As arranged with your office, unless you publicly announce its
contents earlier, we plan no further distribution of this report
until 30 days after the date of this letter.  At that time, we will
send copies to the Secretary of Energy.  We will also make copies
available to others on request. 

Please call me at (202) 512-7106 if you or your staff have any
further questions.  Major contributors to this report were Jeffrey E. 
Heil, Carole J.  Blackwell, and Kathleen A.  Gilhooly. 

Sincerely yours,

Susan D.  Kladiva
Associate Director, Energy, Resources,
 and Science Issues




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BIBLIOGRAPHY
============================================================ Chapter 0


   GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
---------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 0:1

Department of Energy:  Property Management Has Improved at DOE's
Rocky Flats Site (GAO/RCED-96-39, Dec.  28, 1995). 

Energy Downsizing:  Criteria for Community Assistance Needed
(GAO/RCED-96-36, Dec.  27, 1995). 

Managing DOE:  Government Property Worth Millions of Dollars Is
Missing (GAO/T-RCED-94-309, Sept.  19, 1994). 

Department of Energy:  Status of DOE's Property Management Program
(GAO/RCED-94-154FS, Apr.  7.  1994). 

Department of Energy:  The Property Management System at the Rocky
Flats Plant Is Inadequate (GAO/RCED-94-77, Mar.  1, 1994). 


   INSPECTOR GENERAL, DEPARTMENT
   OF ENERGY
---------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 0:2

The U.S.  Department of Energy's Facility Reuse at the Rocky Flats
Environmental Technology Site (DOE/IG-0425, Aug.  20, 1998). 

Personal Property at the Oak Ridge Operations Office and the Office
of Scientific and Technical Information (ER-B-98-07, Apr.  6, 1998). 

Audit of the Deactivation, Decontamination, and Disposal of Surplus
Facilities at the Savannah River Site (ER-B-98-01, Oct.  23, 1997). 

Audit of the Use of Hanford Site Railroad System (WR-B-97-04, Mar. 
20, 1997). 

Audit of the U.S.  Department of Energy's Identification and Disposal
of Nonessential Land (DOE/IG-0399, Jan.  8, 1997). 

Special Audit Report on the Department of Energy's Arms and
Military-Type Equipment (DOE/IG-0385, Feb.  1996). 

Audit of Light Vehicle Fleet Management in the Department of Energy
(DOE/IG-0362, Dec.  1994). 

Audit of the Transfer of Government-Owned Property at the Mound and
Pinellas Plants (DOE/IG-0360, Nov.  1994). 

Summary Report on DOE's Management of Personal Property (DOE/IG-0344,
Mar.  1994). 


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