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MARET Center at Crowder College, Neosho, Missouri

DOE Response to 2008-02, Received October 10, 2010

Issued to Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group, Inc., related to the Hand Injury Event that occurred during Crane Lubrication at the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site

Issued to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC related to a Nitric Acid Spill Event and an Electrical Arc Flash Injury Event at the Savannah River Site

Speaker: Kenneth Feinberg - Founder, Managing Partner, Feinberg Rozen, LLP

Parker-Gila Structure MaintenanceCX(s) Applied: B1.3Date: 10/07/2010Location(s): La Paz and Yuma Counties, ArizonaOffice(s): Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region

GE urges the department engage in rulmaking to amend the clothes washer test procedure to reflect efficiency standards of large-capacity residential clothes washer machines. GE also urges the DOE to adopt recommended approaches to deal with manufacturers and products impacted by adjusting clothes test load sizes.

Establish, Maintain, and Monitor Long-Term LysimetersCX(s) Applied: B3.1Date: 10/07/2010Location(s): Aiken, South CarolinaOffice(s): Savannah River Operations Office

Shipping Savannah River Site Heavy Water to Atomic Energy of Canada LimitedCX(s) Applied: A7, B1.30Date: 10/07/2010Location(s): Aiken, South CarolinaOffice(s): Savannah River Operations Office

The Department of Energy's largest Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), Bonneville, Western Area, and Southwestern, provide wholesale electric power to utilities for use in homes, hospitals, financial institutions and military installations. Serving the electricity supply needs of millions of citizens in the western part of the United States, these PMAs maintain an elaborate and extensive infrastructure that includes electrical substations, high-voltage transmission lines and towers, and power system control centers. To protect these assets, the PMAs follow safety and security requirements established by the Department, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and the Department of Homeland Security (Homeland Security). Under established policy, the PMAs are required to conduct vulnerability and risk assessments of their most critical assets to: evaluate existing security systems; analyze current threat information; identify security enhancements needed to reduce risk; and, document the level of risk PMA management is willing to accept on individual critical assets. In 2003, the Office of Inspector General reported in our Audit of Power Marketing Administration Infrastructure Protection (OAS-B-03-01, April 2003) that Bonneville had initiated, but not yet completed vulnerability and risk assessments; Western had conducted inadequate assessments; and, Southwestern had not conducted any assessments. Given the importance of these efforts to safeguarding the Nation's electrical infrastructure, we initiated this audit to determine whether the PMAs had conducted vulnerability and risk assessments.