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Follow-up Review of Emergency Management Programs in the Department of Energy Complex

As part of Public Law 105-119 (Act), which was enacted in November 1997, the Department of Energy is to convey tracts of land at or in the vicinity of Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos) to the Incorporated County of Los Alamos (County) and the Department of Interior, in trust for the Pueblo of San Ildefonso (Pueblo). According to the Act, the conveyed lands shall be used for historic, cultural, or environmental preservation purposes, economic diversification purposes, or community self-sufficiency purposes. The Department of Energy (Department) identified ten tracts of land or approximately 4,000 acres to be transferred. The objective of this audit was to determine whether the Department validated the cost estimates associated with the conveyance and transfer of land at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Land Conveyance and Transfer at Los Alamos National Laboratory

In July 1995, the Department of Energy implemented a $2 million corporate database which was to contain up-to-date, reliable and comprehensive real property information. The specific intent was to provide the Department’s decisionmakers at Headquarters and in the field with the data needed to make informed judgments regarding the management of the Department’s real property inventory. At the time of our audit, the database, the Facilities Information Management System (FIMS), included over 100 million gross square feet of building space, 2 million acres of land, $7 billion worth of other structures and facilities, and $900 million of deferred maintenance items. With its multi-billion dollar inventory of real property at sites throughout the nation, maintaining complete and accurate information on these holdings is critical. Accordingly, the objective of this audit was to determine if FIMS was a reliable source of information.

Facilities Information Management System

Minutes of the April 26, 2000 Board meeting at Hotel Loretto Presentation DOE, Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Restoration, Ted Taylor

Semiannual Report to Congress October 1, 1999, to March 31, 2000

Inspector General Semiannual Report to Congress, October 1, 1999, to March 31, 2000