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The Department of Energy uses a formal process of security clearances to help prevent unauthorized access to sites and facilities that niaintain or store classified information and/or special nuclear material. As part of this process, security badges are issued to indicate whethcr the individual possesses a security clearance and, as a consequence, whctlier access to agency facilities is permitted. In addition, the Department maintains a Central Personnel Clearance Index to track security clearance information. In virtually all circumstances, policy requires that security clearances be terminated when an individual ends their association with the Department. A limited exception to that policy exists for contractor employees that arc to be reemployed within three months. Closely controlling security clearances and restricting access to facilities to authorized individuals arc essential to protecting the Department's valuable security and property assets. In May 2007, the Oftice of Inspector General issued a report on Thr De p~r t r n e t i tA~zl~tl it Resolutiotl ~rtrclF c~llolt~-~Prrpo cess (DOEIIG-0766). This audit disclosed, among other things, that security clearances at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) were being retained well beyond the three-month window allowed by Departmental policy. Because of the potential for terminated employees who retained active clearances to improperly access Departmental facilities, we initiated this audit to determine whether the practice of maintaining active security clearances at ETTP for terminated en~ployeesw as appropriate and/or necessary.

Selected Aspects of the East Tennessee Technology Park's Security Clearance Retention Process

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Kevin M. Kolevar today announced five projects that have been selected for negotiation of awards of up to $7.9 million in DOE funding to develop and integrate technologically- advanced controls and cyber-security devices into our electric grid and energy infrastructure.

Delays in issuing the Modified Industrial Solid Waste Landfill Permit for the Saltstone Disposal Facility (SDF), legal challenges to that Modified..

Remediation of Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory

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Public Law 109-364, dated OCT 17, 2006, Subtitle D-United States Defense Industrial Base Provisions

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