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Remediation and Closure of the Ashtabula Environmental Management Project

The Department of Energy (DOE) issues science and technology (S&T) grants to advance scientific research in fields important to DOE and the nation's welfare, such as health, the environment, fusion energy, high energy physics, scientific computing, and basic energy science. Grantees are to document the scientific and technical information (STI) that results from their work in technical reports—interim and final—and provide the reports to DOE. DOE's goal is to make the STI available to the scientific community and the general public. Three principal offices within DOE are involved in carrying out S&T grant activities. Typically, Headquarters program offices, such as the Office of Science, have management responsibilities, including soliciting and selecting recipients for grant awards, and evaluating grant results. DOE field offices, such as the Oakland Operations Office (Oakland), have administrative responsibilities, including preparing and issuing the grant document, monitoring grantee compliance with the terms and conditions of the grant, and closing out the grant. DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is responsible for preserving grantee technical reports and making the reports available to the public. Recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) audits at the Albuquerque Operations Office (Albuquerque) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) disclosed problems with collecting grantee deliverables and forwarding research results to OSTI. A September 2001 audit report showed that Albuquerque was not receiving many of the reports specified in the grants. The audit at EMSL disclosed that most of the results of nonproprietary research done at the laboratory were not collected and forwarded to OSTI. The OIG performed this audit of grants administered by Oakland to determine whether DOE was receiving technical reports specified in its S&T grants and making the grant results available to the public.

Grant Administration at the Oakland Operations Office

The Department of Energy's Advanced Radioisotope Power Systems (ARPS) program maintains the sole national capability to produce radioisotope power systems for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of Defense (DOD). The Department's policy is to pay only the cost of maintaining the capability to produce the power systems, and to recover mission-specific development and hardware costs from NASA and DOD. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2001, ARPS program funding included $31.8 million from the Department, $20 million from NASA, and $4.7 million from DOD.

Advanced Radioisotope Power Systems Program

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management supports the development and deployment of innovative environmental cleanup technologies. Environmental Management's Office of Science and Technology (OST) manages and directs a national program that provides the scientific foundation, new approaches, and new technologies that are intended to significantly reduce the risk, cost, and schedule for completion of the Department's cleanup mission. OST's policy is to perform peer reviews to evaluate the technical merit and plausibility of new technologies prior to expending Department resources on field tests.

Passive Magnetic Resonance Anomaly Mapping at Environmental Management Sites

Order Authorizing Western Systems Power Pool to export electric energy to Canada

Order Authorizing Western Systems Power Pool to export electric energy to Canada

Issued to Fluor Fernald, Inc., related to Unplanned Radiation Exposures and Quality Improvement Deficiencies at the Fernald Environmental Management Project, EA-2001-06