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Platte River is proposing to add additional generation at its Rawhide Energy Station, located approximately 18 miles north of Fort Collins, to serve increasing demands for electricity. In order to deliver the additional power generation to customers, the electric transmission system in the Fort Collins area needs to be upgraded. These upgrades require adding new wires to existing power poles or, in some areas, rebuilding the existing transmission line (see Figure 1-1). The proposed upgrades and rebuilds will be within the rights-of-way (ROW) of existing lines. The ROW width of the existing lines are 75-120 feet. The ROWs for the proposed lines will be 75- 100 feet within the ROWs of the existing lines. Some of the transmission lines that need to be improved are owned by the U.S Department of Energy (DOE), Western Area Power Administration (Western).

Fort Collins 115kV Transmission Line Upgrade Project

In order to connect Otay Mesa Generating Project (OMGP) to the existing international transmission facilities, SDG&E proposes to construct a 5-acre switchyard within the fenced boundary of the new powerplant and to construct approximantely 0.1 miles of new 230-kV transmission line extending from the new switchyard to interconnect with the previosuly permitted Miguel-Tijuana transmission line. From the point where OGMP woudl be connected to the existing international transmission line north to SDG&E's Miguel Substation (a distance of approximately 9 miles), SDG&E propses to reconductor the existing facilites by adding an additional conductor to each existing conductor and to operate the bundled facilites as two circuits. The 1.5 mile portion of SDG&E's Miguel-Tijuana international transmission line south of the OMGD will remain unchanged.

Amendment of Presidential Permit (PP-68) for San Diego Gas and Electric Company for Interconnection of Otay Mesa Generating Project to Miguel-Tijuana 230-kV Transmission Line, San Diego, California

The Fiscal Year (FY) 1994 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the establishment of Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Training and Education Centers at Department of Energy sites to provide training for handling hazardous materials. The legislation envisioned HAMMER training centers as user facilities for the Department, other federal agencies, and regional response personnel. The only center built to date is located at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington. This center, opened in September 1997, has an average annual operating budget of $5.5 million. Fluor Hanford, Inc. (Fluor), which operates HAMMER under a contract with the Department's Richland Operations Office (Richland), maintains a small, in-house staff that is responsible for day-to-day operations of the center. Industry experts and other external sources provide the actual training. Since it was anticipated that Hanford employees would use only 50 percent of the training center's capacity, Fluor established a marketing department to attract non-Hanford customers. Through this mechanism, the Department and Fluor hoped to generate enough revenue to make the training center self-sustaining. The objective of the audit was to determine whether the marketing program for HAMMER has been effective.

Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response Training and Education Center's Marketing Program

Focused Safety Management Evaluation of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Inspection of Emergency Management at the Hanford Site

The INEEL CAB provides recommendations regarding the Yucca Mountain Preliminary Site Suitability Evaluation

The INEEl CAB provides recommendations regarding Deactivation, Decommissioning, and Dismantlement of CPP-603 Basin Project