managing environmental restoration efforts. For further information, contact the Director of Resource Management and Services. Phone, 202586-7438. Policy and International Affairs The Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs formulates and develops national and international energy policy, strategic plans, and integration of departmental policy, program, and budget goals; conducts integrated policy analyses; analyzes, develops, and coordinates departmental technology, environmental, and economic policy; leads the Department's bilateral and multilateral cooperation, investment, and trade activities; and develops and tests energy emergency plans so that the Department can respond to energy supply disruptions and catastrophic disasters. For further information, contact the Director of Resource Management. Phone, 202-586-2555. Environment, Safety, and Health The Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Health provides independent oversight of departmental execution of environmental, occupational safety and health, and nuclear/nonnuclear safety and security laws, regulations, and policies; ensures that departmental programs are in compliance with environmental, health, and nuclear/ nonnuclear safety protection plans, regulations, and procedures; exercises independent review and approval of environmental impact statements prepared within the Department; and carries out the legal functions of the nuclear safety civil penalty and criminal referral activities. For further information, contact the Deputy Departmental Representative to the 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 contractrelated 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, 202-5868383. 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; and assists those communities most affected by the changing missions at Department sites by using the Department's resources to stimulate economic development. For further information, contact the Office of Worker and Community Transition. Phone, 202586-7550. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board The Office of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board provides executive management to the Board by advising the Secretary of Energy on issues related to the Department of Energy and the Nation's future energy and national security needs, as well as analysis of scientific, technical, and research and development responsibilities, activities, and operations of the Department. For further information, contact the Office of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Phone, 202– 586-8979 Quality Management The Office of Quality Management assists and supports Department of Energy executives and managers in their charge to implement the principles and culture of quality management within the Department. The Office provides information and technical assistance to departmental oficia's on customer ident fication gevormance measures measurement of sce quad process improvement rechocs and tools, and statistical For further intormation, contact the Office of Quater Management, Phone 202-biar 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 longterm, 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 and gas. The fossil energy program involving fossil fuels-coal, petroleum, involves applied research, exploratory development, and limited proof-ofconcept 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 two Energy Technology Centers located in the fed The Assistant Secretary also manages the Clean Coal Technology Program, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves. For further information, contact the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management. Phone, 301903-2617. Energy Information Administration The Energy Information Administration is responsible for the timely and accurate collection, processing, publication, and distribution of data in the areas of energy resource reserves, energy production, demand, consumption, distribution, and technology. The Administration performs analyses of energy data to assist government and nongovernment users in understanding energy trends. Analyses are prepared on complex, long-term energy trends and the impacts of energy trends on regional and industrial sectors. Special purpose analyses are prepared involving competition within the energy industries, the capital/financial structure of energy companies, and interfuel substitution. For further information, contact the Director, National Energy Information Center. Phone, 202586-1185; (TDD) 202-586–1181. National Security Programs Defense Programs The Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs directs the Nation's nuclear weapons research, development, testing, production, and surveillance program, as well as the production of the special nuclear materials used by the weapons program within the Department, and management of defense nuclear waste and byproducts. The Office ensures the technology base for the surety, reliability, military effectiveness, and credibility of the nuclear weapon stockpile. The Office also manages research in inertial confinement fusion. For further information, contact the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Support. Phone, 301-903-4016. Nonproliferation and National Security The Office of Nonproliferation and National Security ensures that intelligence information requirements of the Secretary and senior departmental policymakers are met and that the Department's technical, analytical, and research expertise is made available to support U.S. intelligence efforts. The Office directs the development of the Department's policy, plans, procedures, and research and development activities relating to arms control, nonproliferation, export controls and safeguard activities; safeguards and secures classified information and protects departmental and DOE contractor facilities and installations; manages the Department's Emergency Management System, which responds to and mitigates the consequences resulting from operational, energy, and continuity-of-Government emergencies; manages a personnel security program for sensitive positions within the Department; and provides threat assessments and support to headquarters and field offices. For further information, contact the Director of Resource Management. Phone, 202-586-4544. Environmental Management 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, 202586-9173. Fissile Materials Disposition The Office of Fissile Materials Disposition is responsible for all activities of the Department relating to the management, storage, and disposition of fissile materials from weapons and weapon systems that are excess to national security needs of the United States. The Office coordinates the development of Department of Energy policy regarding these fissile materials and oversees the development of technical and economic analyses and related research and development for this effort. For further information, contact the Office of Fissile Materials Disposition. Phone, 202-586-2695. Science and Technology Programs Energy Research The Office of Energy Research manages the Department's program of basic and applied physical and energy research and development, as well as financial assistance and budgetary priorities for these activities. The Office manages the basic energy sciences, high energy physics, and fusion energy research programs; administers DOE programs supporting university researchers; funds research in mathematical and computational sciences critical to the use and development of supercomputers; and administers a financial support program for research and development projects not funded elsewhere in the Department. The Office also manages a research program directed at determining the generic environmental, health, and safety aspects of energy technologies and programs. The Office monitors DOE research and development programs for deficiencies or duplications and, in conjunction with the Assistant Secretary for Congressional, Public, and Intergovernmental Affairs, monitors the international exchange of scientific and technical personnel. For further information, contact the Associate Director of Resource Management. Phone, 301903-4944. Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology The Office of Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology manages the Department's research and development programs associated with fission and fusion energy. This includes programs relating to nuclear reactor development, both civilian and naval, nuclear fuel cycle, and space nuclear applications. The Office manages a program to provide radioactive and stable isotope products to various domestic and international markets for medical research, health care, and industrial research. In addition, the Office conducts technical analyses and provides advice concerning nonproliferation, assesses alternative nuclear systems and new reactor and fuel cycle concepts, and evaluates proposed advanced nuclear fission energy concepts and technical improvements for possible application to nuclear powerplant systems. For further information, contact the Director of 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 Field Structure DOE Operations Offices and The vast majority of the Department's energy and physical research and development, nuclear weapons research and development, testing and production, environmental restoration, and waste management activities are carried out by contractors who operate Government-owned facilities. Management and administration of Government-owned, contractor-operated facility contracts are the major responsibility of the Department's eight operations offices and two special purpose field offices. Department operations offices provide a formal link between Department headquarters and the field laboratories and other operating facilities. They also manage programs and projects as assigned from headquarters. Routine management guidance, coordination, and oversight of the operations and field offices is provided by the Office of the Associate Deputy Secretary for Field Management. Daily specific program direction for the operations offices is provided by the cognizant Assistant Secretaries and the Director or program officer. Operations and Field Offices- 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, 503230-5101. 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. |