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Within the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Nuclear OBJECTIVES Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Office of Secure Transportation (OST) is responsible for providing the safe and secure transport of nuclear weapons, special nuclear materials, and weapons components between DOE production facilities and Department of Defense facilities via surface and air modes of transportation. OST uses the Department’s Nevada Test Site (NTS), which is located near Las Vegas, Nevada, for various training and related exercises. The NNSA’s Nevada Site Office is responsible for the management of the NTS. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) received allegations from an OST official related to the transport of handguns by OST-affiliated personnel between Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Nevada, in conjunction with a Joint Training Exercise involving OST that was held at the NTS. One allegation involved two contractor employees transporting privately owned and Government owned handguns on board an NNSA flight from Albuquerque to Las Vegas in October 2003. We addressed this allegation in our report entitled “Unauthorized Handguns on National Nuclear Security Administration Aircraft” (DOE/IG-0654, July 2004).

Unauthorized Handguns on the Nevada Test Site

The Department’s Federal Purchase Card Program at Headquarters

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos) has been involved in the development, production, and maintenance of the Nation's nuclear weapons stockpile for over six decades. Research, development, and fabrication of weapons components produced a massive quantity of waste material, including over 40,000 drums of transuranic waste. This waste is composed primarily of protective clothing, tools, equipment, and sludges contaminated with manmade radioactive elements such as plutonium. Materials contaminated with transuranic elements pose health and safety risks that require storage and disposal in highly regulated facilities, such as the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP).

Transuranic Waste Management at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Docket No. EO-05-01: PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. and PEPCO Holdings, Inc. is hereby providing you with additional information concerning reliability impacts under various system conditions associated with the unavailability of the Potomac River Generating Station to serve load in the D.C. area. Also enclosed as part of this submittal is material provided by PEPCO (balance of sentence redacted) In addition, there is a discussion concerning the impacts of demand side response in addressing this situation.

Docket No. EO-05-01: PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. and PEPCO Holdings, Inc. is hereby providing you with additional information concerning reliability impacts under various system conditions associated with the unavailability of the Potomac River Generat...

Presidential Permit authorizing Vermont Electric Power Company, Inc. to construct, operate and maintain electric transmission facilities at the U.S. - Canada Border.