[United States Government Manual] [June 01, 1999] [Pages 253-262] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov][[Page 253]] 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 [[Page 254]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [[Page 255]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] T185193.021 [[Page 256]] 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 [[Page 257]] 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 [[Page 258]] 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 [[Page 259]] 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 [[Page 260]] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Office/Address Telephone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Page 261]] 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. [[Page 262]] 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/.