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The Department of Energy and its Federal and contractor staff are responsible for some of the Nation's most sensitive national security assets and programs. The Department implemented the Human Reliability Program (Reliability Program) to ensure that individuals who occupy positions affording access to certain nuclear materials, facilities, and programs meet the highest standards of reliability and physical and mental suitability. One aspect of the Reliability Program requires that employees who are part of the program and who consume perception or behavior altering substances be restricted or removed from performing sensitive duties until the effects of those substances have abated.

Based on DOE/EA-1680, a FONSI for deepening an existing injection well in Geysers Management Area to harness produced steam as energy.

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. LANL operates in “unique” hazard environments, to include special nuclear materials, explosives, and hazardous chemicals, that create special fire suppression and emergency management challenges. To address these challenges, LANL must have a comprehensive approach to the protection of personnel, facilities, physical assets, and programmatic activities from fire and related dangers. LANL is managed for DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, which assumed responsibility for the management and operation of LANL on June 1, 2006. In December 1992, DOE directly acquired fire suppression and related services under a 5-year contract with the Incorporated County of Los Alamos (County). The Los Alamos County Fire Department (LAFD) provided fire suppression and related services to LANL and to the County. The contract expired in December 1997, but the Terms and Conditions and the Statement of Work of this contract were continued through a series of Pre-Contract Cost Agreements (PCCAs) between LANL and the County over approximately the next 11 years. During this period, DOE paid 100 percent of the cost of LAFD operations, totaling approximately $135 million.

Fire Suppression and Related Services at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Transmission Agency of Northern California Transmission Project

The INL Site EM CAB unanimously supports Alternative 3 in the Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (EE/CA) for decommissioning of TRA-632 hot cells

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act established a series of energy-related goals, one of which was to make Federal facilities more energy efficient. The use of the Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) concept, a mechanism for financing large scale energy improvements in Federal facilities, is likely to be an integral part of this effort. Under this arrangement, a private-sector energy services company (ESCO) develops and installs energy improvements in exchange for a share of future savings. Typical improvements include: energy efficient lighting; building management control systems; and, heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning system improvements. The Federal agency repays the ESCO for its capital investment over a period of years from the savings generated. Payments over the life of the ESPC, some extending for as long as 25 years, are based on projected energy use and estimated energy savings agreed to by the Government.

Management of Energy Savings Performance Contract Delivery Orders at the Department of Energy

Subject: DOE's Office of Science Research Applications By: Dr. Jehanne Gillo, Director Office of Facilities and Project Management, Office of Nuclear Physics, Office of Science

Subject: DOE's Office of Science Research Applications By: Dr. Anna Palmisano, Associate Director Office of Biological and Environmental Research Office of Science