    [United States Government Manual]
    [June 01, 1999]
    [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                               Bill Richardson
    Deputy Secretary                                  T.J. Glauthier
    Under Secretary                                   Ernest Moniz
    General Counsel                                   Mary Anne Sullivan
    Inspector General                                 Gregory H. Friedman
    Assistant Secretary, Congressional and            John C. Angell
            Intergovernmental Affairs
    Assistant Secretary, International Affairs        Calvin R. Humphrey,
                                                              Acting
    Assistant Secretary, Environment, Safety, and     David M. Michaels
            Health
    Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy                Robert W. Gee
    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
    Assistant Secretary, Nonproliferation and         Rose E. Gottemoeller
            National Security
    Administrator, Energy Information Administration  Jay E. Hakes
    Director, Field Integration                       John M. Wilczynski
    Director, Fissile Materials Disposition           Laura S.H. Holgate
    Director, Public Affairs                          Brooke D. Anderson
    Director, Worker and Community Transition         Robert W. DeGrasse,
                                                              Jr.
    Director of Science                               Martha A. Krebs
    Director of Civilian Radioactive Waste            Lake H. Barrett,
            Management                                        Acting
    Director of Hearings and Appeals                  George B. Breznay
    Director of Intelligence                          Lawrence H. Sanchez
    Director of Counterintelligence                   Edward J. Curran
    Director of Policy                                Mark J. Mazur
    Director of Management and Administration         Richard T. Farrell
    Chief Financial Officer                           Michael L. Telson
    Chief Information Officer                         John M. Gilligan
    Director of Nuclear Energy, Science, and          William D. Magwood IV
            Technology
    Director of Economic Impact and Diversity         Sarah J. Summerville,
                                                              Acting
    Director, Contract Reform and Privatization       Walter S. Howes
            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, and the Office of Fissile
    Materials Disposition. The environmental quality programs area includes
    the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management and the Office of
    Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. The science programs area
    includes the Office of Science 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.

    Staff Offices

    Field Integration  The Office of Field Integration 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

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    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.

    International Affairs  The Office of the Assistant Secretary for
    International Affairs formulates and develops international energy
    policy leads the Department's bilateral and multilateral cooperation,
    investment, and trade activities; and promotes international science and
    technology cooperation.

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

    Policy  The Office of the Director of Policy formulates, analyzes,
    develops, and coordinates Departmental energy policy, science and
    technology policy, environmental policy including global change policy,
    and economic policy. The Office oversees the execution of the
    Department's strategy for communicating the Administration's and the
    Department's policies to Congress, stakeholders, and the general public.

    For further information, contact the Director of Resources 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, 202-426-1441.

    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
    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

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    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 Administrative Officer, 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 Office of 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 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
    Operations. Phone, 202-586-6768.

    Fossil Energy  The Office of 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 Office of Communications. Phone,
    202-586-6503.

    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

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    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; manages depleted uranium hexafluoride
    activities, highly enriched uranium downblend, natural uranium sales,
    and uranium enrichment legacy activities; 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 Management Planning and
    Analysis. Phone, 301-903-3796.

    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, 202-586-6537.

    National Security Programs

    Defense Programs  The Office of 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 the Assistant
    Secretary for 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 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

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    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 Quality Programs

    Environment, Safety, and Health  The Office of 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, 202-586-9024.

    Environmental Management  The Office of 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.
    Phone, 202-586-5975.

    Science Programs

    Science  The Office of Science 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

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    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 and Field 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 lead
    headquarters program offices. Routine management guidance, coordination,
    and oversight of the operations and field offices is provided by the
    Office of Field Integration. 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, 87185-5400)............     505-845-6050
    Chicago, IL (9800 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439-4802)     630-252-2110
    Idaho Falls, ID (850 Energy Dr., 83401-1563)...........     208-526-5665
    Las Vegas, NV (P.O. Box 98518, 89193-8518).............     702-295-3211
    Oak Ridge, TN (P.O. Box 2001, 37831-8763)..............     423-576-4444
    Oakland, CA (Rm. 700N, 1301 Clay St., 94612-5208)......     510-637-1800
    Richland, WA (P.O. Box 550, 825 Jadwin Ave., 99352-         509-376-7395
     0550).................................................
    Savannah River, SC (P.O. Box A, Aiken, SC 29802-0900)..     803-725-2405

                                  Field Offices

    Miamisburg, OH (P.O. Box 3020, 45343-3020).............     937-865-3977
    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
    four 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,
    905 NE. Eleventh Avenue, Portland, OR 97232-4169. 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,
    Samuel Elbert Building, 2 Public Square, Elberton, GA 30635-1850. Phone,
    706-213-3805.

    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,
    Suite 1600, Williams Center Tower One, One West Third Street, Tulsa, OK
    74103-3532. Phone, 918-595-6601.

    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,
    1627 Cole Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401-3305. Phone, 303-275-1513.

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    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-
    586-1234.
    Freedom of Information Act  To obtain administrative and technical
    support in matters involving the Freedom of Information, Privacy, and
    Computer Matching Acts, call 202-586-5955.
    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, 175 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge,
    TN 37830-7255. Phone, 423-576-1188.
    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/.