    [United States Government Manual]
    [June 02, 1998]
    [Pages 253-262]
    [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. Internet, http://www.doe.gov/.
    SECRETARY OF ENERGY                               Federico Pena
    Deputy Secretary                                  Elizabeth A. Moler
    Under Secretary                                   Ernest Moniz
    General Counsel                                   Eric J. Fygi, Acting
    Inspector General                                 Gregory H. Friedman,
                                                              Acting
    Assistant Secretary, Congressional and            John C. Angell
            Intergovernmental Affairs
    Assistant Secretary, Policy and International     Robert W. Gee
            Affairs
    Assistant Secretary, Environment, Safety, and     Peter N. Brush, Acting
            Health
    Assistant Secretary, Human Resources and          Thomas T. Tamura,
            Administration                                    Acting
    Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy                Patricia Fry Godley
    Assistant Secretary, Defense Programs             Victor H. Reis
    Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and        Dan W. Reicher
            Renewable Energy
    Assistant Secretary, Environmental Management     James M. Owendoff,
                                                              Acting
    Administrator, Energy Information Administration  Jay E. Hakes
    Director, Field Management                        G. Thomas Todd
    Director, Fissile Materials Disposition           Howard R. Canter,
                                                              Acting
    Director, Public Affairs                          Brooke D. Anderson
    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         Rose E. Gottemoeller
            Security
    Director of Intelligence                          Notra Trulock, Acting
    Director of Counterintelligence                   Edward Curran
    Chief Financial Officer                           Michael L. Telson
    Chief Information Officer                         Howard E. Lewis, Jr.,
                                                              Acting
    Director of Nuclear Energy, Science, and          William D. Magwood IV,
            Technology                                        Acting
    Director of Economic Impact and Diversity         Corliss S. Moody
    Director, Contract Reform and Privatization       (vacancy)
            Project Office
    Executive Director of Secretary of Energy         Skila S. Harris
            Advisory Board
    Departmental Representative, Defense Nuclear      Mark B. Whittaker
            Facilities Safety Board
    Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission       James J. Hoecker

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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 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 Office of Nuclear Energy,
    Science, and Technology, the Power Marketing Administrations, and the
    Energy Information Administration. The national security programs area
    includes the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, the Office of
    Nonproliferation and National Security, the Office of Intelligence, the
    Office of Counterintelligence, and the Office of Fissile Materials
    Disposition. The environmental management programs area includes the
    Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Health, the Assistant
    Secretary for Environmental Management, and the Office of Civilian
    Radioactive Waste Management. The science and technology programs area
    includes the Office of Energy Research and the Laboratory Operations
    Board and the Research and Development Council, which have been
    established under the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board to provide
    advice regarding the strategic direction for the Department's
    laboratories, and to coordinate and integrate research and development
    across the Department, respectively.
        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 environmental
    management and crosscutting programs and shares responsibility with the
    Under Secretary for energy and national security programs.

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    Under Secretary  The Under Secretary has primary responsibility for the
    Department's science and technology programs and shares responsibility
    with the Deputy Secretary for energy and national security programs.

    Staff Offices

    Field Management  The Office of 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 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.

    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.

    Worker and Community Transition  The Office of Worker and Community

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    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, which
    advises 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.

    Contract Reform and Privatization  The Contract Reform and Privatization
    Project Office guides and coordinates the implementation of the
    Department of Energy's privatization and contract reform initiatives.
    Privatization includes the divestiture and transfer of assets and
    functions of the Department and its contractors to the private sector.

    For further information, contact the Contract Reform and Privatization
    Project Office. Phone, 202-586-0800.

    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 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.

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    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.

    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 directs the development of the Department's
    policy, plans, procedures, and research and development activities
    relating to arms control, nonproliferation, export controls, and
    international nuclear safety 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.

    Intelligence  The Office of Intelligence 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 ensures effective use of the U.S. Government's
    intelligence apparatus in support of the Department of Energy's needs
    for information on global nuclear weapons development, nonproliferation,
    and

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    foreign hydrocarbon, nuclear, and other energy production and
    consumption.

    For further information, contact the Office of Intelligence. Phone, 202-
    586-2610.

    Counterintelligence  The Office of Counterintelligence develops and
    implements an effective counterintelligence program to identify,
    neutralize, and deter foreign government or industrial intelligence
    activities directed at or involving DOE programs, personnel, facilities,
    technologies, classified information, and unclassified sensitive
    information. The Office approves, conducts, and coordinates all policy
    and investigative matters with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in
    headquarters and the field.

    For further information, contact the Office of Counterintelligence.
    Phone, 202-586-5901.

    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.

    Environmental Management Programs

    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.

    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 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.

    Science and Technology Programs

    Energy Research  The Office of Energy Research manages the Department's

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    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.

    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
    transportation of 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 Field
    Management. Daily specific program direction for the operations offices
    is provided by the cognizant Assistant Secretary, Office 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

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    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 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

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    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 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 Public Affairs, Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue
    SW., Washington, DC 20585. Phone, 202-586-4940. Internet, http://
    www.doe.gov/.