[United States Government Manual]
[May 30, 1997]
[Pages 252-261]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585
Phone, 202-586-5000
SECRETARY OF ENERGY Federico Pena
Deputy Secretary (vacancy)
Under Secretary (vacancy)
Associate Deputy Secretary for Energy Programs Kyle Simpson
Associate Deputy Secretary for Field Management Franklin G. Peters,
Acting
General Counsel Eric J. Fygi, Acting
Inspector General John C. Layton
Assistant Secretary, Congressional, Public, and Robert M. Alcock,
Intergovernmental Affairs Acting
Assistant Secretary, Policy and International Marc W. Chupka, Acting
Affairs
Assistant Secretary, Environment, Safety, and Tara J. O'Toole
Health
Assistant Secretary, Human Resources and Archer L. Durham
Administration
Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy Patricia Fry Godley
Assistant Secretary, Defense Programs Victor H. Reis
Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Christine A. Ervin
Renewable Energy
Assistant Secretary, Environmental Management Alvin L. Alm
Administrator, Energy Information Administration Jay E. Hakes
Director, Fissile Materials Disposition Howard R. Canter,
Acting
Director, Worker and Community Transition Robert W. DeGrasse,
Jr.
Director of Energy Research Martha A. Krebs
Director of Civilian Radioactive Waste Lake H. Barrett,
Management Acting
Director of Hearings and Appeals George B. Breznay
Director of Nonproliferation and National Kenneth E. Baker,
Security Acting
Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth E. Smedley,
Acting
Director of Nuclear Energy, Science, and Terry R. Lash
Technology
Director of Economic Impact and Diversity Corliss S. Moody
Director of Quality Management Archer L. Durham,
Acting
Executive Director of Secretary of Energy David W. Cheney,
Advisory Board Acting
Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Elizabeth Anne Moler
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The Department of Energy, in partnership with its customers, is
entrusted to contribute to the welfare of the Nation by providing the
technical information and the scientific and educational foundation for
the technology, policy, and institutional
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leadership necessary to achieve efficiency in energy use, diversity in
energy sources, a more productive and competitive economy, improved
environmental quality, and a secure national defense.
The Department of Energy (DOE) was established by the Department of
Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7131), effective October 1, 1977,
pursuant to Executive Order 12009 of September 13, 1977. The act
consolidated the major Federal energy functions into one Cabinet-level
Department.
Offices managing programs which require large budget outlays or
provide technical direction and support are structured to reflect the
principal programmatic missions of the Department: energy programs,
national security programs, environmental management programs, and
science and technology programs. The energy programs area includes the
Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, the Power Marketing
Administrations, and the Energy Information Administration. The national
security programs area includes the Assistant Secretary for Defense
Programs and the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security. The
environmental management programs area includes the Assistant Secretary
for Environmental Management, the Office of Fissile Materials
Disposition, and the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.
The science and technology programs area includes the Office of Energy
Research and the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology.
The Department's organization also includes the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, which is an independent regulatory organization
within the Department.
Office of the Secretary
Secretary The Secretary provides the overall vision, programmatic
leadership, management and direction, and administration of the
Department; decides major energy policy and planning issues; acts as the
principal spokesperson for the Department; and ensures that effective
communication and working relationships with State, local, and tribal
governments, the President, the Congress, other Federal agencies and
departments, the private sector, and the public are achieved. The
Secretary is the principal adviser to the President on energy policies,
plans, and programs.
Deputy Secretary The Deputy Secretary acts for the Secretary in the
Secretary's absence and assists the Secretary in deciding major energy
policy and planning issues and in representing the Department before
Congress and the public. The Deputy Secretary, assisted by the Under
Secretary, provides daily management guidance and decisionmaking and
coordinates the efforts of the energy, weapons/waste cleanup, and
science and technology programs to achieve the Department's goals by
delivering quality services to the public. The Deputy Secretary has
primary oversight responsibility for the Department's energy, national
security, and science and technology programs.
Under Secretary The Under Secretary has primary responsibility for the
Department's environmental and radioactive waste management programs,
the disposition of fissile materials, and the Office of Worker and
Community Transition.
Staff Offices
Field Management The Associate Deputy Secretary for Field Management
provides centralized responsibility for strategic planning, management
coordination, and oversight of the Department's field operations in
general; and, specifically, for coordinating program and project
planning, execution, and management assignments of the Department's
eight multipurpose operations offices and two field offices
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managing environmental restoration efforts.
For further information, contact the Director of Resource Management and
Services. Phone, 202-586-7438.
Policy and International Affairs The Assistant Secretary for Policy and
International Affairs formulates and develops national and international
energy policy, strategic plans, and integration of departmental policy,
program, and budget goals; conducts integrated policy analyses;
analyzes, develops, and coordinates departmental technology,
environmental, and economic policy; leads the Department's bilateral and
multilateral cooperation, investment, and trade activities; and develops
and tests energy emergency plans so that the Department can respond to
energy supply disruptions and catastrophic disasters.
For further information, contact the Director of Resource Management.
Phone, 202-586-2555.
Environment, Safety, and Health The Assistant Secretary for
Environment, Safety, and Health provides independent oversight of
departmental execution of environmental, occupational safety and health,
and nuclear/nonnuclear safety and security laws, regulations, and
policies; ensures that departmental programs are in compliance with
environmental, health, and nuclear/nonnuclear safety protection plans,
regulations, and procedures; exercises independent review and approval
of environmental impact statements prepared within the Department; and
carries out the legal functions of the nuclear safety civil penalty and
criminal referral activities.
For further information, contact the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Administration. Phone, 202-586-4704.
Departmental Representative to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety
Board The Office of the Departmental Representative to the Defense
Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) manages the Department's
interaction with DNFSB as mandated by law, including achievement of the
mutual goal of ensuring protection of public and employee health and
safety and the environment by appropriate and timely resolution of DNFSB
recommendations and concerns.
For further information, contact the Departmental Representative to the
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Phone, 202-586-3887.
Hearings and Appeals The Office of Hearings and Appeals reviews and
issues all final DOE orders of an adjudicatory nature, other than those
involving matters over which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
exercises final jurisdiction. The Office is responsible for conducting
hearings, considering, and issuing decisions on appeals from orders of a
regulatory or adjudicative nature issued by DOE components and requests
for exception or exemption from any regulatory or mandatory
requirements. Its Board of Contract Appeals hears and resolves appeals
pertaining to contract-related matters. The Board may act as the
Department's Contract Adjustment Board, the Financial Assistance Appeal
Board, or the Invention Licensing Appeal Board.
For further information, contact the Director of Management Operations.
Phone, 202-586-6622.
Economic Impact and Diversity The Office of Economic Impact and
Diversity advises the Secretary on the effects of energy policies,
regulations, and other actions of the Department and its components on
minorities, minority business enterprises, and minority educational
institutions, and on ways to ensure that minorities are afforded an
opportunity to participate in energy programs of the Department; carries
out policy, plan, and oversight functions under sections 8 and 15 of the
Small Business Act relating to preferred programs for small businesses,
disadvantaged business, labor surplus area concerns, and women-owned
businesses; and administers the policy, procedures, plans, and systems
of the Department's equal opportunity and civil rights activities.
For further information, contact the Office of Economic Impact and
Diversity. Phone, 202-586-8383.
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Worker and Community Transition The Office of Worker and Community
Transition develops policies and programs necessary to plan for and
mitigate the impacts of changing conditions on the workers and
communities affected by the Department's mission changes; ensures that
those policies and programs are carried out in a way that guarantees
fair treatment of all concerned, while at the same time recognizing the
unique conditions at each site and in each contract; assists those
communities most affected by the changing missions at Department sites
by using the Department's resources to stimulate economic development;
and manages a program for disposition of departmental assets.
For further information, contact the Office of Worker and Community
Transition. Phone, 202-586-7550.
Secretary of Energy Advisory Board The Office of the Secretary of
Energy Advisory Board provides executive management to the Board by
advising the Secretary of Energy on issues related to the Department of
Energy and the Nation's future energy and national security needs, as
well as analysis of scientific, technical, and research and development
responsibilities, activities, and operations of the Department.
For further information, contact the Office of the Secretary of Energy
Advisory Board. Phone, 202-586-8979.
Quality Management The Office of Quality Management assists and
supports Department of Energy executives and managers in their charge to
implement the principles and culture of quality management within the
Department. The Office provides information and technical assistance to
departmental officials on customer identification, performance measures,
measurement of service quality, process improvement methods and tools,
and statistical analysis.
For further information, contact the Office of Quality Management. Phone
202-586-5363.
Energy Programs
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy The Assistant Secretary for
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is responsible for formulating
and directing programs designed to increase the production and
utilization of renewable energy (solar, biomass, wind, geothermal,
alcohol fuels, etc.) and improving the energy efficiency of the
transportation, buildings, industrial, and utility sectors through
support of long-term, high-risk research and development and technology
transfer activities. The Assistant Secretary manages the program and
facilities of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory through its
Golden, CO, field office. The Assistant Secretary also has
responsibility for administering, through a network of regional support
offices, programs that provide financial assistance for State energy
planning; weatherization of housing owned by the poor and disadvantaged;
the implementation of energy conservation measures by schools and
hospitals, local units of government, and public care institutions; and
the promotion of energy efficient construction and renovation of Federal
facilities.
For further information, contact the Director of Management and
Resources. Phone, 202-586-6768.
Fossil Energy The Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy is responsible
for research and development programs involving fossil fuels--coal,
petroleum, and gas. The fossil energy program involves applied research,
exploratory development, and limited proof-of-concept testing targeted
to high-risk and high-payoff endeavors. The objective of the program is
to provide the general technology and knowledge base that the private
sector can use to complete development and initiate commercialization of
advanced processes and energy systems. The program is principally
executed through the Federal Energy Technology Center located in the
field.
The Assistant Secretary also manages the Clean Coal Technology
Program, the
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Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale
Reserves.
For further information, contact the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Management. Phone, 301-903-2617.
Energy Information Administration The Energy Information Administration
is responsible for the timely and accurate collection, processing,
publication, and distribution of data in the areas of energy resource
reserves, energy production, demand, consumption, distribution, and
technology.
The Administration performs analyses of energy data to assist
government and nongovernment users in understanding energy trends.
Analyses are prepared on complex, long-term energy trends and the
impacts of energy trends on regional and industrial sectors. Special
purpose analyses are prepared involving competition within the energy
industries, the capital/financial structure of energy companies, and
interfuel substitution.
For further information, contact the Director, National Energy
Information Center. Phone, 202-586-1185. TDD, 202-586-1181.
National Security Programs
Defense Programs The Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs directs
the Nation's nuclear weapons research, development, testing, production,
and surveillance program, as well as the production of the special
nuclear materials used by the weapons program within the Department, and
management of defense nuclear waste and byproducts. The Office ensures
the technology base for the surety, reliability, military effectiveness,
and credibility of the nuclear weapon stockpile. The Office also manages
research in inertial confinement fusion.
For further information, contact the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Program Support. Phone, 301-903-4016.
Nonproliferation and National Security The Office of Nonproliferation
and National Security ensures that intelligence information requirements
of the Secretary and senior departmental policymakers are met and that
the Department's technical, analytical, and research expertise is made
available to support U.S. intelligence efforts. The Office directs the
development of the Department's policy, plans, procedures, and research
and development activities relating to arms control, nonproliferation,
export controls and safeguard activities; safeguards and secures
classified information and protects departmental and DOE contractor
facilities and installations; manages the Department's Emergency
Management System, which responds to and mitigates the consequences
resulting from operational, energy, and continuity-of-Government
emergencies; manages a personnel security program for sensitive
positions within the Department; and provides threat assessments and
support to headquarters and field offices.
For further information, contact the Director of Resource Management.
Phone, 202-586-4544.
Environmental Management Programs
Environmental Management The Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Management provides program policy guidance and manages the assessment
and cleanup of inactive waste sites and facilities, directs a program in
safe and effective waste management operations, and develops and
implements an aggressive applied waste research and development program
to provide innovative environmental technologies that yield permanent
disposal solutions at reduced costs. The Office provides centralized
management for the Department for waste management operations, and
applied research and development programs and activities, including
environmental restoration and waste management program policy and
guidance to DOE field offices in these areas, and develops plans for the
handling, storage, treatment, or disposal of DOE waste material.
For further information, contact the Director of Administrative
Services. Phone, 202-586-2661.
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management The Office of Civilian
Radioactive Waste
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Management has responsibility for the Nuclear Waste Fund and for the
management of Federal programs for recommending, constructing, and
operating repositories for disposal of high-level radioactive waste and
spent nuclear fuel; interim storage of spent nuclear fuel; monitored
retrievable storage; and research, development, and demonstration
regarding disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear
fuel.
For further information, contact the Director for Human Resources and
Administration. Phone, 202-586-9173.
Fissile Materials Disposition The Office of Fissile Materials
Disposition is responsible for all activities of the Department relating
to the management, storage, and disposition of fissile materials from
weapons and weapon systems that are excess to national security needs of
the United States. The Office coordinates the development of Department
of Energy policy regarding these fissile materials and oversees the
development of technical and economic analyses and related research and
development for this effort.
For further information, contact the Office of Fissile Materials
Disposition. Phone, 202-586-2695.
Science and Technology Programs
Energy Research The Office of Energy Research manages the Department's
program of basic and applied physical and energy research and
development, as well as financial assistance and budgetary priorities
for these activities.
The Office manages the basic energy sciences, high energy physics,
and fusion energy research programs; administers DOE programs supporting
university researchers; funds research in mathematical and computational
sciences critical to the use and development of supercomputers; and
administers a financial support program for research and development
projects not funded elsewhere in the Department. The Office also manages
a research program directed at determining the generic environmental,
health, and safety aspects of energy technologies and programs.
The Office monitors DOE research and development programs for
deficiencies or duplications and, in conjunction with the Assistant
Secretary for Congressional, Public, and Intergovernmental Affairs,
monitors the international exchange of scientific and technical
personnel.
For further information, contact the Associate Director of Resource
Management. Phone, 301-903-4944.
Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology The Office of Nuclear Energy,
Science, and Technology manages the Department's research and
development programs associated with fission and fusion energy. This
includes programs relating to nuclear reactor development, both civilian
and naval, nuclear fuel cycle, and space nuclear applications. The
Office manages a program to provide radioactive and stable isotope
products to various domestic and international markets for medical
research, health care, and industrial research. In addition, the Office
conducts technical analyses and provides advice concerning
nonproliferation, assesses alternative nuclear systems and new reactor
and fuel cycle concepts, and evaluates proposed advanced nuclear fission
energy concepts and technical improvements for possible application to
nuclear powerplant systems.
For further information, contact the Director of Policy and Analysis.
Phone, 202-586-6630.
Independent Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission An independent, five-member
commission within the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission sets rates and charges for the transportation and
sale for resale of natural gas, and for the transmission and sale at
wholesale of electricity. It also licenses hydroelectric power projects.
In addition, the Commission establishes rates or charges for the
transportation of
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oil by pipeline, as well as the valuation of such pipelines.
For further information, contact the Office of External Affairs. Phone,
202-208-0055.
Field
Structure
DOE Operations Offices and Contractor-Operated Field Installations
The vast majority of the Department's energy and physical research and
development, nuclear weapons research and development, testing and
production, environmental restoration, and waste management activities
are carried out by contractors who operate Government-owned facilities.
Management and administration of Government-owned, contractor-operated
facility contracts are the major responsibility of the Department's
eight operations offices and two special purpose field offices.
Department operations offices provide a formal link between
Department headquarters and the field laboratories and other operating
facilities. They also manage programs and projects as assigned from
headquarters. Routine management guidance, coordination, and oversight
of the operations and field offices is provided by the Office of the
Associate Deputy Secretary for Field Management. Daily specific program
direction for the operations offices is provided by the cognizant
Assistant Secretaries and the Director or program officer.
Operations and Field Offices--Department of Energy
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Office/Address Telephone
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Operations Offices
Albuquerque, NM (P.O. Box 5400, 87185)................. 505-845-6049
Chicago, IL (9800 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439)..... 708-252-2110
Idaho Falls, ID (785 Doe Pl., 83401)................... 208-526-1322
Las Vegas, NV (P.O. Box 98518, 89193-8518)............. 702-295-3211
Oak Ridge, TN (P.O. Box 2001, 37831)................... 423-576-4444
Oakland, CA (1301 Clay St., 94612-5208)................ 510-637-1801
Richland, WA (P.O. Box 550, 825 Jadwin Ave., 99352).... 509-376-7395
Savannah River, SC (P.O. Box A, Aiken, SC 29802)....... 803-725-2277
Field Offices
Miamisburg, OH (P.O. Box 3020, 45342-3020)............. 513-865-3977
Rocky Flats, CO (P.O. Box 928, Golden, CO 80402-0928).. 303-966-2025
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Power Administrations
The marketing and transmission of electric power produced at Federal
hydroelectric projects and reservoirs is carried out by the Department's
five Power Administrations. Management oversight of the Power
Administrations is the responsibility of the Deputy Secretary.
Bonneville Power Administration The Administration markets power
produced by the Federal Columbia River Power System at the lowest rates,
consistent with sound business practices, and gives preference to public
entities.
In addition, the Administration is responsible for energy
conservation, renewable resource development, and fish and wildlife
enhancement under the provisions of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power
Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 839 note).
For further information, contact the Bonneville Power Administration,
P.O. Box 3621, 1002 NE. Holladay Street, Portland, OR 97208. Phone, 503-
230-5101.
Southeastern Power Administration The Administration is responsible for
the transmission and disposition of surplus
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electric power and energy generated at reservoir projects in the States
of West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
The Administration sets the lowest possible rates to consumers,
consistent with sound business principles, and gives preference in the
sale of such power and energy to public bodies and cooperatives.
For further information, contact the Southeastern Power Administration,
Elberton, GA 30635. Phone, 706-283-9911.
Alaska Power Administration The Administration is responsible for
operating and marketing power for the Eklutna and Snettisham
Hydroelectric Projects in Alaska, including transmission systems serving
the Anchorage and Juneau areas.
For further information, contact the Alaska Power Administration, Suite
2B, 2770 Sherwood Lane, Juneau, AK 99801. Phone, 907-586-7405.
Southwestern Power Administration The Administration is responsible for
the sale and disposition of electric power and energy in the States of
Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.
The Southwestern Power Administration transmits and disposes of the
electric power and energy generated at Federal reservoir projects,
supplemented by power purchased from public and private utilities, in
such a manner as to encourage the most widespread and economical use.
The Administration sets the lowest possible rates to consumers,
consistent with sound business principles, and gives preference in the
sale of power and energy to public bodies and cooperatives.
The Administration also conducts and participates in the
comprehensive planning of water resource development in the Southwest.
For further information, contact the Southwestern Power Administration,
P.O. Box 1619, Tulsa, OK 74101. Phone, 918-581-7474.
Western Area Power Administration The Administration is responsible for
the Federal electric power-marketing and transmission functions in 15
central and western States, encompassing a geographic area of 1.3
million square miles. The Administration sells power to cooperatives,
municipalities, public utility districts, private utilities, Federal and
State agencies, and irrigation districts. The wholesale power customers,
in turn, provide service to millions of retail consumers in the States
of Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah,
and Wyoming.
The Administration is responsible for the operation and maintenance
of transmission lines, substations, and various auxiliary power
facilities in the aforementioned geographic area and also for planning,
construction, and operation and maintenance of additional Federal
transmission facilities that may be authorized in the future.
For further information, contact the Western Area Power Administration,
P.O. Box 3402, Golden, CO 80401. Phone, 303-231-1513.
Sources of
Information
Contracts and Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Activities
Information on business opportunities with the Department and its
contractors is available electronically through the Internet, at http://
www.pr.doe.gov/prbus.html. For assistance, call 202-634-4511. For
information on existing DOE awards, call 202-586-9051.
Electronic Access Information concerning the Department is available
through the Internet, at http://www.doe.gov/.
Employment Most jobs in the Department are in the competitive
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service. Positions are filled through hiring individuals with Federal
civil service status, but may also be filled using lists of competitive
eligibles from the Office of Personnel Management or the Department's
special examining units. Contact the Office of Personnel. Phone, 202-
586-8676.
Freedom of Information Act To obtain administrative and technical
support in matters involving the Freedom of Information, Privacy, and
Computer Matching Acts, call 202-586-6025.
Inspector General Hotline Persons who wish to raise issues of concern
regarding departmental operations, processes, or practices or who may be
aware of or suspect illegal acts or noncriminal violations should
contact the hotline. Phone, 202-586-4073.
Office of Scientific and Technical Information The Office manages a
system for the centralized collection, announcement, and dissemination
of and historical reference to the Department's scientific and technical
information and worldwide energy information. Contact the Office of
Scientific and Technical Information, P.O. Box 62, Oak Ridge, TN 37831.
Phone, 423-576-1323.
Public Information Issuances, Press Releases, and Publications For
media contacts, call 202-586-5575.
Public Reading Room For information materials on DOE and public access
to DOE records, call 202-586-3142.
Whistleblower Assistance Federal or DOE contractor employees wishing to
make complaints of alleged wrongdoing against the Department or its
contractors should call 202-586-8289.
For further information concerning the Department of Energy, contact the
Office of Communications, Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue
SW., Washington, DC 20585. Phone, 202-586-4940. Internet, http://
www.doe.gov/.