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On January 8, 2001, a leak of 6700 gallons of mineral oil was detected at the Atlas Facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Request to testify on the major performance and management challenges confronting the Department of Energy (Department). Recently, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a special report on Management Challenges at the Department of Energy (DOE/IG-0491, November 2000). In that report, we categorized the most serious challenges facing the Department as follows: · Startup of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)· Information Technology · Contract Administration · Infrastructure · Energy Supply/Demand Technology· Property Controls and Asset Inventories · Environmental Remediation · Safety and Health. · Human Capital · Security

Statement of Gregory H. Friedman Inspector General Department of Energy Subject: Performance and management challenges confronting the Department of Energy

The Department of Energy’s Office of Transportation Safeguards (OTS) maintains a liaison program to communicate with State, Tribal, and local officials in the event of an accident or terrorist attack involving an OTS shipment of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons components, or special nuclear materials (nuclear shipment). The purpose of the liaison program is to, among other things, ensure that officials know what actions to take in response to a request for assistance from OTS.

Inspection of Selected Coordination Activities by the Department of Energy’s Office of Transportation Safeguards

The National Nuclear Security Administration is responsible for managing the high-explosive firing facilities used by the Stockpile Stewardship Program. In 1995, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory justified the need for a firing facility at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The Big Explosives Experimental Facility (BEEF), under the direction of the Nevada Operations Office (Nevada), was designed and operated to perform large-load, high-explosive experiments that could not be done at other Department of Energy (DOE) firing facilities. The objective of this audit was to determine if the BEEF needed to operate on a full-time basis.

Utilization of the Big Explosives Experimental Facility

The Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), received information that the Savannah River Operations Office (Savannah River) continued to develop, implement, and market a human resource information system, despite the establishment of a Departmental information system entitled the “Corporate Human Resource Information System” (CHRIS). We recently sent you our audit report of the Department’s “Corporate and Stand Alone Information Systems Development” (DOE/IG-0485). In that audit, we concluded that the Department has spent at least $38 million developing duplicative information systems. Also, despite efforts to implement several corporate-level applications, duplicative and/or redundant computer systems exist or were under development at virtually all organizational levels within the Department. Further, many organizations continued to invest in custom or site-specific development efforts that duplicated corporate systems. This was despite Departmental guidance to the contrary. This inspection report compliments our audit by addressing one significant sitespecific development effort and by providing additional details concerning challenges facing the Department’s implementation of corporate-level applications./pjp

Inspection of Concerns Relating to the Management of the Savannah River Operations Office LEARN/POWER Information System

Response to several FOIA requests - Renewable Energy, SCHEDULE FOR CHIEF OF STAFF Monday, March 12, 2001