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Alaska-Tribe-Ivanof Bay Tribal CouncilCX(s) Applied: A9, B2.5, B5.1Date: 12/20/2010Location(s): Ivanof Bay, AlaskaOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Alaska-Tribe-Bristol Bay Native AssociationCX(s) Applied: A9, A11, B2.5, B5.1Date: 12/20/2010Location(s): Bristol Bay, South DakotaOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

In February 2009, the President signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) into law. Part of the Recovery Act's purpose, relevant to the Department of Energy (Department), was to invest in environmental protection. Accordingly, the Department's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (EM) received $216 million of Recovery Act funds to perform environmental cleanup activities at the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12). These funds were allocated to seven projects addressing material disposition, deactivation and demolition, and remediation. Y-12 is managed and operated by Babcox &Wilcox Y-12 Technical Services, LLC (B&W Y-12). The NNSA Y-12 Site Office (Site Office) is responsible for overseeing B&W Y-12, including its management of these projects. Due to the importance of the Recovery Act's investment in environmental protection, we initiated this audit to determine whether Y-12 is effectively managing its environmental cleanup activities funded by the Recovery Act. During the audit we reviewed three of Y-12's seven EM Recovery Act funded projects, which accounted for $164 million of the $216 million total funding. As of August 2010, Y-12 had awarded 428 subcontracts with a total value of $39 million to support the three projects we reviewed. We analyzed nine of these subcontracts valued at a total of $10 million.

Audit of Environmental Cleanup Projects Funded by the Recovery Act at the Y-12 National Security Complex

Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposed to authorize the expenditure of federal funding to U.S. Geothermal Nevada, Inc. (USGN) to validate the use of innovative geothermal technologies to locate large aperture fractures (LAFs) and to drill two (2) production diameter geothermal wells on BLM administered public lands in the San Emidio resource area. The innovative geothermal technologies would include using a three-component long-offset surface seismic survey, permanent scatter synthetic aperture radar interferometry (PSInSAR) and structural kinematic analysis to locate and map the LAFs. The U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Black Rock Field Office (BLM) is the lead federal agency with DOE as a cooperating agency.

San Emidio Geothermal Exploration Project, Washoe County, Nevada

Order authorizing The Royal Bank of Scotland plc to export electric energy to Canada

Order authorizing The Royal Bank of Scotland plc to export electric energy to Canada