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Department of Energy facilities, including those managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), use a fonllal security clearance process to authorize einployees with a "need to know" to access classified information or special nuclear material. The NNSA Service Center (Service Center) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the cognizant authority for NNSA personnel security clearances. ~ I fIis cal year 2007, the Service Center spent about $21 million to process approximately 52,000 personnel security clearances for NNSA facilities. This included Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore) and Sandia National Laboratory- California (Sandia), where about 9,200 individuals held clearances and approximately $3.6 million of the $2 1 million was expended. During this same period, the Service Center had a backlog of over 2,500 personnel security clearance requests that it was unable to process. Clearances within the Department is time and resource intensive. and processing backlogs have been a concern within the Department. Ensuring security clearances are requested only when truly recluired is a matter of policy and will help reduce un-guarantee expenditures and the clearance backlog. We initiated this inspection to determine if security clearance justifications at Livermore and Sandia met the Department's requirements.

Security Clearances at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory-California

Transcript of the Electricity Advisory Committee Meeting held on December 11, 2008 including a discussion and approval of the final energy storage technologies white paper, discussion and approval of the final smart grid white paper, discussion and approval of the final committee report on electricity supply adequacy, and discussion of the year two work plan.

Transcript of the Electricity Advisory Committee Meeting held on December 11, 2008 including a discussion and approval of the final energy storage technologies white paper, discussion and approval of the final smart grid white paper, discussion and app...

COMPILATION OF MEMORANDA OF EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT COMMITMENTS SYSTEM (ESECS), ESECS_December_11_2008.pdf

Surplus Plutonium Disposition: Waste Solidification Building

Information Request, "THE REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS BY THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY ON THE NEED FOR A SECOND REPOSITORY". December 10, 2008. Information_Request_December_10_2008.pdf

This report is prepared pursuant to Section 161 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, which requires the Secretary of Energy to report to the President and to the Congress on or after January 1, 2007, but not later than January 1, 2010, on the need for a second repository. In preparing this report, the Department has considered the relevant statutory provisions of the NWPA, the current and projected inventories of SNF and HLW, and the projected capacity of the proposed Yucca Mountain repository.

The Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) provides electrical power to millions of custoniers in eight states in the Pacific Northwest. To support this critical function, Bonneville makes extensive use of a number of information systems to conduct various activities, including financial management, operation of extensive electricity transmission systems, and marketing and transferring wholesale electrical power. Some of Bonneville's most sensitive systems are used to help control the flow of electricity to the power grid. Should any of these control systems be rendered inoperable for an extended period, Bonneville's customer base could be adversely impacted.