[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 
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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, 
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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/.