[United States Government Manual]
[May 30, 1997]
[Pages 252-261]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585
Phone, 202-586-5000

SECRETARY OF ENERGY                               Federico Pena
Deputy Secretary                                  (vacancy)
Under Secretary                                   (vacancy)
Associate Deputy Secretary for Energy Programs    Kyle Simpson
Associate Deputy Secretary for Field Management   Franklin G. Peters, 
                                                          Acting
General Counsel                                   Eric J. Fygi, Acting
Inspector General                                 John C. Layton
Assistant Secretary, Congressional, Public, and   Robert M. Alcock, 
        Intergovernmental Affairs                         Acting
Assistant Secretary, Policy and International     Marc W. Chupka, Acting
        Affairs
Assistant Secretary, Environment, Safety, and     Tara J. O'Toole
        Health
Assistant Secretary, Human Resources and          Archer L. Durham
        Administration
Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy                Patricia Fry Godley
Assistant Secretary, Defense Programs             Victor H. Reis
Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and        Christine A. Ervin
        Renewable Energy
Assistant Secretary, Environmental Management     Alvin L. Alm
Administrator, Energy Information Administration  Jay E. Hakes
Director, Fissile Materials Disposition           Howard R. Canter, 
                                                          Acting
Director, Worker and Community Transition         Robert W. DeGrasse, 
                                                          Jr.
Director of Energy Research                       Martha A. Krebs
Director of Civilian Radioactive Waste            Lake H. Barrett, 
        Management                                        Acting
Director of Hearings and Appeals                  George B. Breznay
Director of Nonproliferation and National         Kenneth E. Baker, 
        Security                                          Acting
Chief Financial Officer                           Elizabeth E. Smedley, 
                                                          Acting
Director of Nuclear Energy, Science, and          Terry R. Lash
        Technology
Director of Economic Impact and Diversity         Corliss S. Moody
Director of Quality Management                    Archer L. Durham, 
                                                          Acting
Executive Director of Secretary of Energy         David W. Cheney, 
        Advisory Board                                    Acting
Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission       Elizabeth Anne Moler

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The Department of Energy, in partnership with its customers, is 
entrusted to contribute to the welfare of the Nation by providing the 
technical information and the scientific and educational foundation for 
the technology, policy, and institutional

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leadership necessary to achieve efficiency in energy use, diversity in 
energy sources, a more productive and competitive economy, improved 
environmental quality, and a secure national defense.


The Department of Energy (DOE) was established by the Department of 
Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7131), effective October 1, 1977, 
pursuant to Executive Order 12009 of September 13, 1977. The act 
consolidated the major Federal energy functions into one Cabinet-level 
Department.
    Offices managing programs which require large budget outlays or 
provide technical direction and support are structured to reflect the 
principal programmatic missions of the Department: energy programs, 
national security programs, environmental management programs, and 
science and technology programs. The energy programs area includes the 
Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the 
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, the Power Marketing 
Administrations, and the Energy Information Administration. The national 
security programs area includes the Assistant Secretary for Defense 
Programs and the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security. The 
environmental management programs area includes the Assistant Secretary 
for Environmental Management, the Office of Fissile Materials 
Disposition, and the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. 
The science and technology programs area includes the Office of Energy 
Research and the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology.
    The Department's organization also includes the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, which is an independent regulatory organization 
within the Department.

Office of the Secretary

Secretary  The Secretary provides the overall vision, programmatic 
leadership, management and direction, and administration of the 
Department; decides major energy policy and planning issues; acts as the 
principal spokesperson for the Department; and ensures that effective 
communication and working relationships with State, local, and tribal 
governments, the President, the Congress, other Federal agencies and 
departments, the private sector, and the public are achieved. The 
Secretary is the principal adviser to the President on energy policies, 
plans, and programs.

Deputy Secretary  The Deputy Secretary acts for the Secretary in the 
Secretary's absence and assists the Secretary in deciding major energy 
policy and planning issues and in representing the Department before 
Congress and the public. The Deputy Secretary, assisted by the Under 
Secretary, provides daily management guidance and decisionmaking and 
coordinates the efforts of the energy, weapons/waste cleanup, and 
science and technology programs to achieve the Department's goals by 
delivering quality services to the public. The Deputy Secretary has 
primary oversight responsibility for the Department's energy, national 
security, and science and technology programs.

Under Secretary  The Under Secretary has primary responsibility for the 
Department's environmental and radioactive waste management programs, 
the disposition of fissile materials, and the Office of Worker and 
Community Transition.

Staff Offices

Field Management  The Associate Deputy Secretary for Field Management 
provides centralized responsibility for strategic planning, management 
coordination, and oversight of the Department's field operations in 
general; and, specifically, for coordinating program and project 
planning, execution, and management assignments of the Department's 
eight multipurpose operations offices and two field offices

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managing environmental restoration efforts.

For further information, contact the Director of Resource Management and 
Services. Phone, 202-586-7438.

Policy and International Affairs  The Assistant Secretary for Policy and 
International Affairs formulates and develops national and international 
energy policy, strategic plans, and integration of departmental policy, 
program, and budget goals; conducts integrated policy analyses; 
analyzes, develops, and coordinates departmental technology, 
environmental, and economic policy; leads the Department's bilateral and 
multilateral cooperation, investment, and trade activities; and develops 
and tests energy emergency plans so that the Department can respond to 
energy supply disruptions and catastrophic disasters.

For further information, contact the Director of Resource Management. 
Phone, 202-586-2555.

Environment, Safety, and Health  The Assistant Secretary for 
Environment, Safety, and Health provides independent oversight of 
departmental execution of environmental, occupational safety and health, 
and nuclear/nonnuclear safety and security laws, regulations, and 
policies; ensures that departmental programs are in compliance with 
environmental, health, and nuclear/nonnuclear safety protection plans, 
regulations, and procedures; exercises independent review and approval 
of environmental impact statements prepared within the Department; and 
carries out the legal functions of the nuclear safety civil penalty and 
criminal referral activities.

For further information, contact the Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Planning and Administration. Phone, 202-586-4704.

Departmental Representative to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety 
Board  The Office of the Departmental Representative to the Defense 
Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) manages the Department's 
interaction with DNFSB as mandated by law, including achievement of the 
mutual goal of ensuring protection of public and employee health and 
safety and the environment by appropriate and timely resolution of DNFSB 
recommendations and concerns.

For further information, contact the Departmental Representative to the 
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Phone, 202-586-3887.

Hearings and Appeals  The Office of Hearings and Appeals reviews and 
issues all final DOE orders of an adjudicatory nature, other than those 
involving matters over which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
exercises final jurisdiction. The Office is responsible for conducting 
hearings, considering, and issuing decisions on appeals from orders of a 
regulatory or adjudicative nature issued by DOE components and requests 
for exception or exemption from any regulatory or mandatory 
requirements. Its Board of Contract Appeals hears and resolves appeals 
pertaining to contract-related matters. The Board may act as the 
Department's Contract Adjustment Board, the Financial Assistance Appeal 
Board, or the Invention Licensing Appeal Board.

For further information, contact the Director of Management Operations. 
Phone, 202-586-6622.

Economic Impact and Diversity  The Office of Economic Impact and 
Diversity advises the Secretary on the effects of energy policies, 
regulations, and other actions of the Department and its components on 
minorities, minority business enterprises, and minority educational 
institutions, and on ways to ensure that minorities are afforded an 
opportunity to participate in energy programs of the Department; carries 
out policy, plan, and oversight functions under sections 8 and 15 of the 
Small Business Act relating to preferred programs for small businesses, 
disadvantaged business, labor surplus area concerns, and women-owned 
businesses; and administers the policy, procedures, plans, and systems 
of the Department's equal opportunity and civil rights activities.

For further information, contact the Office of Economic Impact and 
Diversity. Phone, 202-586-8383.


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Worker and Community Transition  The Office of Worker and Community 
Transition develops policies and programs necessary to plan for and 
mitigate the impacts of changing conditions on the workers and 
communities affected by the Department's mission changes; ensures that 
those policies and programs are carried out in a way that guarantees 
fair treatment of all concerned, while at the same time recognizing the 
unique conditions at each site and in each contract; assists those 
communities most affected by the changing missions at Department sites 
by using the Department's resources to stimulate economic development; 
and manages a program for disposition of departmental assets.

For further information, contact the Office of Worker and Community 
Transition. Phone, 202-586-7550.

Secretary of Energy Advisory Board  The Office of the Secretary of 
Energy Advisory Board provides executive management to the Board by 
advising the Secretary of Energy on issues related to the Department of 
Energy and the Nation's future energy and national security needs, as 
well as analysis of scientific, technical, and research and development 
responsibilities, activities, and operations of the Department.

For further information, contact the Office of the Secretary of Energy 
Advisory Board. Phone, 202-586-8979.

Quality Management  The Office of Quality Management assists and 
supports Department of Energy executives and managers in their charge to 
implement the principles and culture of quality management within the 
Department. The Office provides information and technical assistance to 
departmental officials on customer identification, performance measures, 
measurement of service quality, process improvement methods and tools, 
and statistical analysis.

For further information, contact the Office of Quality Management. Phone 
202-586-5363.

Energy Programs

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy  The Assistant Secretary for 
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is responsible for formulating 
and directing programs designed to increase the production and 
utilization of renewable energy (solar, biomass, wind, geothermal, 
alcohol fuels, etc.) and improving the energy efficiency of the 
transportation, buildings, industrial, and utility sectors through 
support of long-term, high-risk research and development and technology 
transfer activities. The Assistant Secretary manages the program and 
facilities of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory through its 
Golden, CO, field office. The Assistant Secretary also has 
responsibility for administering, through a network of regional support 
offices, programs that provide financial assistance for State energy 
planning; weatherization of housing owned by the poor and disadvantaged; 
the implementation of energy conservation measures by schools and 
hospitals, local units of government, and public care institutions; and 
the promotion of energy efficient construction and renovation of Federal 
facilities.

For further information, contact the Director of Management and 
Resources. Phone, 202-586-6768.

Fossil Energy  The Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy is responsible 
for research and development programs involving fossil fuels--coal, 
petroleum, and gas. The fossil energy program involves applied research, 
exploratory development, and limited proof-of-concept testing targeted 
to high-risk and high-payoff endeavors. The objective of the program is 
to provide the general technology and knowledge base that the private 
sector can use to complete development and initiate commercialization of 
advanced processes and energy systems. The program is principally 
executed through the Federal Energy Technology Center located in the 
field.
    The Assistant Secretary also manages the Clean Coal Technology 
Program, the

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Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale 
Reserves.

For further information, contact the Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Management. Phone, 301-903-2617.

Energy Information Administration  The Energy Information Administration 
is responsible for the timely and accurate collection, processing, 
publication, and distribution of data in the areas of energy resource 
reserves, energy production, demand, consumption, distribution, and 
technology.
    The Administration performs analyses of energy data to assist 
government and nongovernment users in understanding energy trends. 
Analyses are prepared on complex, long-term energy trends and the 
impacts of energy trends on regional and industrial sectors. Special 
purpose analyses are prepared involving competition within the energy 
industries, the capital/financial structure of energy companies, and 
interfuel substitution.

For further information, contact the Director, National Energy 
Information Center. Phone, 202-586-1185. TDD, 202-586-1181.

National Security Programs

Defense Programs  The Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs directs 
the Nation's nuclear weapons research, development, testing, production, 
and surveillance program, as well as the production of the special 
nuclear materials used by the weapons program within the Department, and 
management of defense nuclear waste and byproducts. The Office ensures 
the technology base for the surety, reliability, military effectiveness, 
and credibility of the nuclear weapon stockpile. The Office also manages 
research in inertial confinement fusion.

For further information, contact the Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Program Support. Phone, 301-903-4016.

Nonproliferation and National Security  The Office of Nonproliferation 
and National Security ensures that intelligence information requirements 
of the Secretary and senior departmental policymakers are met and that 
the Department's technical, analytical, and research expertise is made 
available to support U.S. intelligence efforts. The Office directs the 
development of the Department's policy, plans, procedures, and research 
and development activities relating to arms control, nonproliferation, 
export controls and safeguard activities; safeguards and secures 
classified information and protects departmental and DOE contractor 
facilities and installations; manages the Department's Emergency 
Management System, which responds to and mitigates the consequences 
resulting from operational, energy, and continuity-of-Government 
emergencies; manages a personnel security program for sensitive 
positions within the Department; and provides threat assessments and 
support to headquarters and field offices.

For further information, contact the Director of Resource Management. 
Phone, 202-586-4544.

Environmental Management Programs

Environmental Management  The Assistant Secretary for Environmental 
Management provides program policy guidance and manages the assessment 
and cleanup of inactive waste sites and facilities, directs a program in 
safe and effective waste management operations, and develops and 
implements an aggressive applied waste research and development program 
to provide innovative environmental technologies that yield permanent 
disposal solutions at reduced costs. The Office provides centralized 
management for the Department for waste management operations, and 
applied research and development programs and activities, including 
environmental restoration and waste management program policy and 
guidance to DOE field offices in these areas, and develops plans for the 
handling, storage, treatment, or disposal of DOE waste material.

For further information, contact the Director of Administrative 
Services. Phone, 202-586-2661.

Civilian Radioactive Waste Management  The Office of Civilian 
Radioactive Waste

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Management has responsibility for the Nuclear Waste Fund and for the 
management of Federal programs for recommending, constructing, and 
operating repositories for disposal of high-level radioactive waste and 
spent nuclear fuel; interim storage of spent nuclear fuel; monitored 
retrievable storage; and research, development, and demonstration 
regarding disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear 
fuel.

For further information, contact the Director for Human Resources and 
Administration. Phone, 202-586-9173.

Fissile Materials Disposition  The Office of Fissile Materials 
Disposition is responsible for all activities of the Department relating 
to the management, storage, and disposition of fissile materials from 
weapons and weapon systems that are excess to national security needs of 
the United States. The Office coordinates the development of Department 
of Energy policy regarding these fissile materials and oversees the 
development of technical and economic analyses and related research and 
development for this effort.

For further information, contact the Office of Fissile Materials 
Disposition. Phone, 202-586-2695.

Science and Technology Programs

Energy Research  The Office of Energy Research manages the Department's 
program of basic and applied physical and energy research and 
development, as well as financial assistance and budgetary priorities 
for these activities.
    The Office manages the basic energy sciences, high energy physics, 
and fusion energy research programs; administers DOE programs supporting 
university researchers; funds research in mathematical and computational 
sciences critical to the use and development of supercomputers; and 
administers a financial support program for research and development 
projects not funded elsewhere in the Department. The Office also manages 
a research program directed at determining the generic environmental, 
health, and safety aspects of energy technologies and programs.
    The Office monitors DOE research and development programs for 
deficiencies or duplications and, in conjunction with the Assistant 
Secretary for Congressional, Public, and Intergovernmental Affairs, 
monitors the international exchange of scientific and technical 
personnel.

For further information, contact the Associate Director of Resource 
Management. Phone, 301-903-4944.

Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology  The Office of Nuclear Energy, 
Science, and Technology manages the Department's research and 
development programs associated with fission and fusion energy. This 
includes programs relating to nuclear reactor development, both civilian 
and naval, nuclear fuel cycle, and space nuclear applications. The 
Office manages a program to provide radioactive and stable isotope 
products to various domestic and international markets for medical 
research, health care, and industrial research. In addition, the Office 
conducts technical analyses and provides advice concerning 
nonproliferation, assesses alternative nuclear systems and new reactor 
and fuel cycle concepts, and evaluates proposed advanced nuclear fission 
energy concepts and technical improvements for possible application to 
nuclear powerplant systems.

For further information, contact the Director of Policy and Analysis. 
Phone, 202-586-6630.

Independent Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  An independent, five-member 
commission within the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission sets rates and charges for the transportation and 
sale for resale of natural gas, and for the transmission and sale at 
wholesale of electricity. It also licenses hydroelectric power projects. 
In addition, the Commission establishes rates or charges for the 
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oil by pipeline, as well as the valuation of such pipelines.

For further information, contact the Office of External Affairs. Phone, 
202-208-0055.

Field 
Structure

DOE Operations Offices and Contractor-Operated Field Installations

The vast majority of the Department's energy and physical research and 
development, nuclear weapons research and development, testing and 
production, environmental restoration, and waste management activities 
are carried out by contractors who operate Government-owned facilities. 
Management and administration of Government-owned, contractor-operated 
facility contracts are the major responsibility of the Department's 
eight operations offices and two special purpose field offices.
    Department operations offices provide a formal link between 
Department headquarters and the field laboratories and other operating 
facilities. They also manage programs and projects as assigned from 
headquarters. Routine management guidance, coordination, and oversight 
of the operations and field offices is provided by the Office of the 
Associate Deputy Secretary for Field Management. Daily specific program 
direction for the operations offices is provided by the cognizant 
Assistant Secretaries and the Director or program officer.

           Operations and Field Offices--Department of Energy           
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                     Office/Address                         Telephone   
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                           Operations Offices                           
Albuquerque, NM (P.O. Box 5400, 87185).................     505-845-6049
Chicago, IL (9800 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439).....     708-252-2110
Idaho Falls, ID (785 Doe Pl., 83401)...................     208-526-1322
Las Vegas, NV (P.O. Box 98518, 89193-8518).............     702-295-3211
Oak Ridge, TN (P.O. Box 2001, 37831)...................     423-576-4444
Oakland, CA (1301 Clay St., 94612-5208)................     510-637-1801
Richland, WA (P.O. Box 550, 825 Jadwin Ave., 99352)....     509-376-7395
Savannah River, SC (P.O. Box A, Aiken, SC 29802).......     803-725-2277
                                                                        
                              Field Offices                             
Miamisburg, OH (P.O. Box 3020, 45342-3020).............     513-865-3977
Rocky Flats, CO (P.O. Box 928, Golden, CO 80402-0928)..     303-966-2025
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Power Administrations

The marketing and transmission of electric power produced at Federal 
hydroelectric projects and reservoirs is carried out by the Department's 
five Power Administrations. Management oversight of the Power 
Administrations is the responsibility of the Deputy Secretary.

Bonneville Power Administration  The Administration markets power 
produced by the Federal Columbia River Power System at the lowest rates, 
consistent with sound business practices, and gives preference to public 
entities.
    In addition, the Administration is responsible for energy 
conservation, renewable resource development, and fish and wildlife 
enhancement under the provisions of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power 
Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 839 note).

For further information, contact the Bonneville Power Administration, 
P.O. Box 3621, 1002 NE. Holladay Street, Portland, OR 97208. Phone, 503-
230-5101.

Southeastern Power Administration  The Administration is responsible for 
the transmission and disposition of surplus

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electric power and energy generated at reservoir projects in the States 
of West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
    The Administration sets the lowest possible rates to consumers, 
consistent with sound business principles, and gives preference in the 
sale of such power and energy to public bodies and cooperatives.

For further information, contact the Southeastern Power Administration, 
Elberton, GA 30635. Phone, 706-283-9911.

Alaska Power Administration  The Administration is responsible for 
operating and marketing power for the Eklutna and Snettisham 
Hydroelectric Projects in Alaska, including transmission systems serving 
the Anchorage and Juneau areas.

For further information, contact the Alaska Power Administration, Suite 
2B, 2770 Sherwood Lane, Juneau, AK 99801. Phone, 907-586-7405.

Southwestern Power Administration  The Administration is responsible for 
the sale and disposition of electric power and energy in the States of 
Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.
    The Southwestern Power Administration transmits and disposes of the 
electric power and energy generated at Federal reservoir projects, 
supplemented by power purchased from public and private utilities, in 
such a manner as to encourage the most widespread and economical use. 
The Administration sets the lowest possible rates to consumers, 
consistent with sound business principles, and gives preference in the 
sale of power and energy to public bodies and cooperatives.
    The Administration also conducts and participates in the 
comprehensive planning of water resource development in the Southwest.

For further information, contact the Southwestern Power Administration, 
P.O. Box 1619, Tulsa, OK 74101. Phone, 918-581-7474.

Western Area Power Administration  The Administration is responsible for 
the Federal electric power-marketing and transmission functions in 15 
central and western States, encompassing a geographic area of 1.3 
million square miles. The Administration sells power to cooperatives, 
municipalities, public utility districts, private utilities, Federal and 
State agencies, and irrigation districts. The wholesale power customers, 
in turn, provide service to millions of retail consumers in the States 
of Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, 
Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, 
and Wyoming.
    The Administration is responsible for the operation and maintenance 
of transmission lines, substations, and various auxiliary power 
facilities in the aforementioned geographic area and also for planning, 
construction, and operation and maintenance of additional Federal 
transmission facilities that may be authorized in the future.

For further information, contact the Western Area Power Administration, 
P.O. Box 3402, Golden, CO 80401. Phone, 303-231-1513.

Sources of 
Information

Contracts and Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Activities  
Information on business opportunities with the Department and its 
contractors is available electronically through the Internet, at http://
www.pr.doe.gov/prbus.html. For assistance, call 202-634-4511. For 
information on existing DOE awards, call 202-586-9051.

Electronic Access  Information concerning the Department is available 
through the Internet, at http://www.doe.gov/.

Employment  Most jobs in the Department are in the competitive

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service. Positions are filled through hiring individuals with Federal 
civil service status, but may also be filled using lists of competitive 
eligibles from the Office of Personnel Management or the Department's 
special examining units. Contact the Office of Personnel. Phone, 202-
586-8676.

Freedom of Information Act  To obtain administrative and technical 
support in matters involving the Freedom of Information, Privacy, and 
Computer Matching Acts, call 202-586-6025.

Inspector General Hotline  Persons who wish to raise issues of concern 
regarding departmental operations, processes, or practices or who may be 
aware of or suspect illegal acts or noncriminal violations should 
contact the hotline. Phone, 202-586-4073.

Office of Scientific and Technical Information  The Office manages a 
system for the centralized collection, announcement, and dissemination 
of and historical reference to the Department's scientific and technical 
information and worldwide energy information. Contact the Office of 
Scientific and Technical Information, P.O. Box 62, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. 
Phone, 423-576-1323.

Public Information Issuances, Press Releases, and Publications  For 
media contacts, call 202-586-5575.

Public Reading Room  For information materials on DOE and public access 
to DOE records, call 202-586-3142.

Whistleblower Assistance  Federal or DOE contractor employees wishing to 
make complaints of alleged wrongdoing against the Department or its 
contractors should call 202-586-8289.

For further information concerning the Department of Energy, contact the 
Office of Communications, Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 
SW., Washington, DC 20585. Phone, 202-586-4940. Internet, http://
www.doe.gov/.