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The purpose of this Memorandum is to ensure that all federal and non-federal cooperating agencies are identified on the cover sheet of each Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) prepared by your agency. In his Memorandum of July 28, 1999, George T. Frampton, Jr., the CEQ Chair, urged all agencies to more actively solicit the participation of state, tribal and local governments as cooperating agencies in implementing the environmental impact statement process under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

In 1997, a Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection concluded that the national critical infrastructures – energy, banking, transportation, vital human services, and telecommunications – were vulnerable to attack through the malicious use of commonly available tools. On May 22, 1998, as a result of the Commission's findings, the President issued Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD 63), Critical Infrastructure Protection. PDD 63 required Federal agencies to take action to eliminate significant vulnerabilities, especially cyber-related, and to assure the continuity and viability of the nation's critical infrastructures. The objective of our audit was to determine whether the Department's implementation of PDD 63, Critical Infrastructure Protection, was achieving its intended purpose.

The Department's "Implementation of Presidential Decision Directive 63, Critical Infrastructure Protection"

Since the cessation of underground testing of nuclear weapons in the early 1990’s, the Department of Energy's responsibility to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile has been met through its Stockpile Stewardship Program. This program includes a wide range of activities: stockpile surveillance, stockpile maintenance, non-nuclear experimentation and testing, and computational simulation.

Management of the Nuclear Weapons Production Infrastructure

The INEEL CAB recommends that DOE not restart the Waste Experimental Reduction Facility Incinerator

The INEEL CAB provides recommendations regarding the Draft EIS for expanded nuclear research and isotope production missions in the united states

The Department of Energy (DOE), Albuquerque Operations Office, has prepared a Supplemental Analysis (SA) to determine if the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operations of Los Alamos National Laboratory (SWEIS) adequately addresses the environmental effects of a proposal for modifying current methods utilized to receive and manage certain offsite unwanted radioactive sealed sources at Los Alamos National Laboratory or if additional documentation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is needed.The proposal is entitled Offsite Source Recovery Project (OSRP).

Continued Operations of Los Alamos National Laboratory

Application from Tucson Electric Power Company to construct, operate and maintain electric transmission facilities at the U.S. - Mexico Border: Federal Register Notice.