U. S. Department of Energy Audit, Inspection, and Other Reports
DOE Proposed Rules:
Semi-annual agenda
GAO Report:
• Preventing Nuclear Smuggling: DOE Has Made Limited Progress in Installing Radiation Detection Equipment at Highest Priority Foreign Seaports
GAO Report:
• Nuclear Weapons: Preliminary Results of Review of Campaigns to Provide Scientific Support for the Stockpile Stewardship Program
GAO Report: Department of Energy: Further Actions Are Needed to Strengthen Contract Management for Major Projects
Memorandums of understanding between DOE and Interior: Implementation of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge Act.
GAO: Homeland Security: Performance of Foreign Student and Exchange Visitor Information System Continues to Improve, But Issues Remain
GAO Report: National Nuclear Security Administration: Contractors' Strategies to Recruit and Retain a Critically Skilled Workforce Are Generally Effective.
GAO Report: Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nonproliferation Programs Need Better Integration.
DOE Final Rule: Classified information security violations; civil penalties assessment procedural rules.
DOE Proposed Rule: Worker Safety and Health Program. Comments due April 26, 2005.
DOE proposed rule: Counterintelligence Evaluation Program; polygraph examinations use. Comments due March 8. Public hearing scheduled for March 2.
Pit 9 Decision. USDC upholds termination for default of Lockheed Martin as a subcontractor by the Idaho National Environmental and Engineering Laboratory (INEEL).
|
GAO Report:
Energy Employees Compensation: Many Claims Have Been Processed, but Action Is Needed to Expedite Processing of Claims Requiring Radiation Exposure Estimates |
GAO Correspondence:
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Further Improvements Needed to Strengthen Controls Over the Purchase Card Program
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Further Improvements Needed to Strengthen Controls Over the Purchase Card Program
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Enhancements Needed to Strengthen Controls Over the Purchase Card Program
• Sandia National Laboratories: Further Improvements Needed to Strengthen Controls Over the Purchase Card Program |
DOE IG:
Inspection Report on "Intelligence Oversight Activities at Selected Field Sites"
Inspection Report on "Internal Controls Over the Accountability of Computers at Sandia National Laboratory, New Mexico" |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "Management Controls Over Subcontract Administration at the National Security Laboratories" |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "The Stabilization of Nuclear Materials at Los Alamos National Laboratory" |
DOE IG:
Inspection Report on "Protective Force Response to a Security Incident at Sandia National Laboratory, California" |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "The Department's Continuity Planning and Emergency Preparedness"
Inspection Report on "Internal Controls Over Personal Computers at Los Alamos National Laboratory" |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "Management Controls Over the National Nuclear Security Administration's Enhanced Test Readiness Program" |
GAO Report:
Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE Needs to Take Action to Further Reduce the Use of Weapons-Usable Uranium in Civilian Research Reactors. |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "Groundwater Remediation Activities at Hanford" |
GAO Report:
Nuclear Waste: Absence of Key Management Reforms on Hanford's Cleanup Project Adds to Challenges of Achieving Cost and Schedule Goals |
DOE IG:
Inspection Report on "Unauthorized Handguns on National Nuclear Security Administration Aircraft"
Audit Report on "Management of Oak Ridge Radio Transition Projects" |
GAO Reports & Testimony:
Nuclear Security: Several Issues Could Impede Ability of DOE's Office of Energy, Science, and Environment to Meet the May 2003 Design Basis Threat, by Robin M. Nazzaro, director, natural resources and environment, before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform.
Homeland Security: Performance of Information Systems to Monitor Foreign Students and Exchange Visitors Has Improved but Issues Remain
Low-Level Radioactive Waste: Disposal Availability Adequate in the Short Term, but Oversight Needed to Identify Any Future Shortfalls
DOD Travel Cards: Internal Control Weaknesses Led to Millions of Dollars Wasted in Unused Airline Tickets.
DOD Travel Cards: Internal Control Weaknesses Led to Millions of Dollars in Improper Payments.
DOD Travel Cards: Control Weaknesses Led to Millions of Dollars in Waste, Improper Payments, and Fraud, by Gregory D. Kutz, director, Financial Management and Assurance, and John J. Ryan, director, Office of Special Investigations, before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Nuclear Regulation: NRC's Liability Insurance Requirements for Nuclear Power Plants Owned by Limited Liability Companies
Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE's Effort to Close Russia's Plutonium Production Reactors Faces Challenges, and Final Shutdown Is Uncertain
Energy Employees Compensation: Even with Needed Improvements in Case Processing, Program Structure May Result in Inconsistent Benefit Outcomes
Homeland Security: DHS Needs a Strategy to Use DOE's Laboratories for Research on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Detection and Response Technologies
|
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "Management of the Department's Personnel Security and Access Control Information Systems" |
DOE IG:
• Inspection Report on "Internal Controls Over Methamphetamine Precursor Chemicals at the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory"
• Investigation of "Allegations Involving Occupational Medical Services and Tank Farm Vapor Exposures at the Hanford Site"
Audit Report on "Major Clean-Up Projects at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory"
|
| DOE IG: Audit Report on "The Department's Reporting of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses" |
GAO Testimony
Department of Energy: Achieving Small Business Prime Contracting Goals Involves Both Potential Benefits and Risks, by Robin M. Nazzaro,director, natural resources and environment, before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources |
GAO Report
Yucca Mountain: "Persistent Quality Assurance Problems Could Delay Repository Licensing and Operation" |
GAO Report
Nuclear Security: "DOE Needs to Resolve Significant Issues Before It Fully Meets the New Design Basis Threat" |
DOE IG
Audit Report on "System Development Activities at Selected Management Contractors" |
GAO Report
"Department of Energy: Certain Postretirement Benefits for Contractor Employees Are Underfunded and Program Oversight Could Be Improved" |
DOE IG
Audit Report on "The National Nuclear Security Administration's Enhanced Surveillance Campaign"
Inspection Report on "Contractor Compliance with Deemed Export Controls" |
DOE IG
Special Report on "Los Alamos National Laboratory's Purchase Card Program Corrective Actions" |
| GAO Report: Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Has Made Some Progress in Cleaning Up the Paducah Site, but Challenges Remain |
GAO Report: Department of Energy: Mission Support Challenges Remain at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
|
DOE IG
Audit Report on "Design of the Uranium Storage Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex" |
DOE IG
Audit Report on "Management Controls over Subcontract Administration by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory" |
DOE IG
Audit Report on "Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion" |
DOE IG
Audit Report on "Management Controls over Subcontract Administration by the Argonne National Laboratory" |
DOE IG
Audit Report on "The Department's Basic Protective Force Training Program" |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "The Department's Audit Resolution Process" |
DOE IG:
Inspection Report on "Protective Force Performance Test Improprieties" |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "Safeguards Over Sensitive Technology" |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "Central Office Expenses for the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility" |
Public Meeting scheduled December 10, 2003 to receive comments on three draft reports to the SEAB.
Federal Register Notice
SEAB Reports:
FSP Report -- Critical Choices: Science, Energy, and Security: Final Report of the Task Force on the Future of Science Programs at the Department of Energy, dated October 13, 2003.
LOB Report -- Management Best Practices for the National Laboratories, dated September 9, 2003.
BRC Report -- Competing the Management and Operations Contracts for DOE's National Laboratories: Report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Use of Competitive Procedures for the Department of Energy Laboratories, dated November 24, 2003.
|
DOE IG:
Special Report on "Management Challenges at the Department of Energy" |
DOE IG:
Inspection Report on "Reporting of Security Incidents at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory"
Audit Report on "Transuranic Waste Retrieval and Processing at the Hanford Site"
Audit Report on "Reindustrialization of the East Tennessee Technology Park"
|
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "The Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility Contract at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory"
Inspection Report on "Firearms Internal Controls at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory"
Evaluation Report on "The Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program-2003"
Inspections Report on "The Security Afforded Selected Tritium Reservoir Shipments (U)" |
| DOE IG: Audit Report on "Savannah River Site's Waste Solidification Building" |
| GAO Report: Nuclear Security: Federal and State Action Needed to Improve Security of Sealed Radioactive Sources. |
| DOE IG: Audit Report on "Security Over Wireless Networking Technologies" |
DOE IG: Audit Report on "Oversight of Shock Sensitive Chemicals at the Department's Ames Laboratory"
|
DOE IG: Audit Report on "National Nuclear Security Administration's Planning, Programming Budget, and Evaluation Process"
|
| GAO Report: Nuclear Weapons: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Budgeting, Cost Accounting, and Management Associated with the Stockpile Life Extension Program |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "Disposal of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant"
|
House Energy & Water Appropriations Bill for FY 2004
• Bill
• Committee Report |
GAO:
LETTER REPORT
Nuclear Waste: Challenges to Achieving Potential Savings in DOE's High-Level Waste Cleanup Program.
TESTIMONY
Nuclear Waste: Challenges and Savings Opportunities in DOE's High-Level Waste Cleanup Program. |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "Disposal of the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site's Low-Level Mixed Waste"
Audit Report on "Waste Reduction Plans for the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory" |
GAO Testimony:
Contract Reform: DOE's Policies and Practices in Competing Research Laboratory Contracts, by Robin M. Nazzaro, director, natural resources and environment, before the Subcommittee on Energy, House Committee on Science. |
GAO Testimony:
Nuclear Security: DOE Faces Security Challenges in the Post-September 11, 2001 Environment, by Robin M. Nazzaro, director, natural resources and environment, before the SubCommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform. |
GAO Report:
"Nuclear Security: NNSA Needs to Better Manage Its Safeguards and Security Program" |
DOE IG Report:
"The Department of Energy's Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters and Transportation Casks"
|
DOE IG Report:
"Plutonium-238 Production" |
DOE IG Report:
"Management of Sensitive Equipment at Selected Locations"
|
DOE IG Report:
"National Nuclear Security Administration's Ability to Meet the Aircraft Requirements of the Joint Technical Operations Team"
|
DOE IG: Audit Report on "Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory's Strategic Initiative Fund"
• IG Report |
DOE IG: Audit Report on the "Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test Facility" at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
• IG Report |
GAO: "Department of Energy: External Regulation Savings in Safety and Health Activities at DOE Science Laboratories"
• GAO Report |
GAO: "Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE Action Needed to Ensure Continued Recovery of Unwanted Sealed Radioactive Sources"
•GAO Report |
DOE IG: "Infrastructure Improvements at the Hanford Site"
• DOE IG Report |
DOE IG critical of NNSA implementation of Facility and Infrastructure Recapitalizationt Program
• DOE IG Report |
DOE Notice on Reimbursable Work for the Department of Homeland Security
• DOE N 481.1A |
DOE IG: "Status of the National Ignition Facility Project"
• IG Report |
DOE IG: "Inspection of Internal Controls Over Personal Computers at Los Alamos National Laboratory"
• IG Report |
DOE IG critical of certain cost expenditures at LANL totalling $14 million
• IG report
• University/LANL Response |
IG Reports
•"Beryllium Oxide Operations at the Y-12 National Security Complex"
•"Emergency Medical Coordination Memorandum of Agreement at Brookhaven National Laboratory"
• "Concerns Related to the Office of International Material Protection and Emergency Cooperation"
•"Actions Taken in Response to Missing Hazardous Waste Containing Cyanide"
|
2003 Price-Anderson Act reauthorization bills
Comparsion Table |
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act: Funding May Be Inadequate
•GAO Report |
UC/LANL Announces Results of Procurement Review
• Press Release
• Report |
DOE IG: Transfer of Excess Personal Property from the Nevada Test Site to the Community Reuse Organization
• IG Report |
DOE IG: Treatment of Mixed Incinerable Waste
• IG Report |
| DOE Notice 481.1 – Reimbursable Work for the Department of Homeland Security |
| DOE and Homeland Security Memorandum of Agreement, February 28, 2003 |
DOE IG :Inspection of Firearms Internal Controls at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• IG Report |
DOE IG :Inspection of 2001 Safeguards and Security Survey of Los Alamos National Laboratory
• IG Report |
DOE IG :Inspection of Implementation of Corrective Actions Resulting from Force-on-Force Performance Tests
• IG Report |
DOE Proposed Implementation of DFNSB recommendation 2002-3. Comments due March 3, 2003.
•Federal Register Notice |
GAO releases Major Management Challenges and Program Risks for the Department of Energy
• GAO Report
|
DOE IG: Special Inquiry Report on Operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• IG Report |
DOE IG: Personnel Security Clearances and Access Controls at Selected Field Locations
• IG Report |
DOE IG: Management of Beryllium Metal Supply
• IG Report |
DOE Price Anderson Enforcement Action 2002-05: Violations of nuclear safety rules and procedures involving the storage of nuclear waste materials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Preliminary Notice of Violation |
Homeland Security: Management Challenges Facing Federal Leadership
• GAO Report |
DOE IG:
Audit Report on "The Department's Unclassified Foreign Visits and Assignments Program"
Report IG-0579
Inspection Report on "Inspection of Explosives Safety at Selected Department of Energy Sites"
Report IG-0578
"Planned Characterization Capability At The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant"
Report IG-0577 |
GAO -- Few, if any, contractors would be determined "non-responsible" under revoked FAR rule on business integrity
• GAO Report |
DOE IG critical of NNSA follow-up on questions of nuclear weapons stockpile readiness
• IG Report |
DOE IG raises concerns about DOE plans to reduce capability to produce isotopes
• IG Report |
GAO issues appropriations decision counter to authority relied on by OMB in FAR proposed rule to eliminate GPO monopoly.
• Appropriations Decision
|
DOE IG raises concerns about DOE planning for Remote Treatment Facility in Idaho
• Report |
OFPP issues contract bundling report; outlines planned strategies to limit bundling and enhance small business awards.
• Report |
GAO issues report on techonology transfer in the federal government
• GAO Report
|
GAO Report released: Employee Privacy: Computer-Use Monitoring Practices and Policies of Selected Companies.
|
Yucca Mountain EIS.
• Federal Register Notice
|
GAO reports DOE Contractor overhead is about 40%
• GAO Report
|
Brookhaven National Laboratory sitewide environmental report
• Report
|
DOE IG raises concerns about cost overruns in Idaho Settlement Agreement Activities.
• IG Report
|
FY03 - Continuing Resolution Guidance from DOE CFO
|
DOE IG criticizes Depleted Uranium Operations at Y-12
• IG Report
|
DOE IG is critical of controls on unauthorized remote access of unclassified information
• IG Report
|
GAO reports DOE made progress on Contract Reform
• GAO Report
|
DOE IG raises cautions about NNSA's Test Readiness program.
•IG Report
|
DOE IG critical of Brookhaven procurement
• IG report
|
GAO reports on NNSA work in Nuclear Non-Proliferation
• GAO Report
|
DOE IG critical of Sandia Labs procurement card program
• IG Report
|
GAO critical of DOE position on "external regulation" of SC Labs
• Testimony
|
Office of Science restructuring plan announced
• Presentation
• Project Report
|
COFC denies indemnification claim as prohibited by the Anti-Deficiency Act
• Union Pacific case
|
GAO supports external regulation of DOE SC laboratories
• GAO report
|
DOE authorizes release of the Hamre Commission Report on Science and Security
• DOE Press Announcement
• Executive Summary of Hamre Commission Report
• DOE Accomplishments by Recommendation
• DOE Actions or Planned Actions
|
President establishes a Homeland Security transition office in OMB
• Federal Register notice
|
President's Homeland Security Plan - click here
|
Price-Anderson enforcement action against INEEL for drum-venting incident
• Press release
|
DOE IG says DOE has problems in tracking nuclear materials
• IG Report
|
DOE IG says Congressional goal of Fernald closure in FY 2006 may not be met
• IG Report
|
Senate Energy Committee approves Yucca Mountain
• Text of S.J.Res. 34 |
| GAO gives testimony on uncertainties of the Yucaa Mountain Project |
| GAO releases April 2002 report on actions needed to strengthen EEO oversight at DOE weapons laboratories |
| Omer Brown paper: Price-Anderson Act Reauthorization |
Rep. Markey (D-MA) asks for GAO investigation of DOE reimbursement of contractor legal costs
• Press Release |
| MOCAA submits comments to State Department on ITAR rules. |
GAO releases reports, testimony of interest...
• Government Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Expose Agencies to Fraud and Abuse
• Lessons to Be Learned from Implementing NNSA’s Security Enhancements
• Improving the Sourcing Decisions of the Government
• Group Purchasing Organizations: Pilot Study Suggests Large Buying Groups Do Not Always Offer Hospitals Lower Price
• Technology Transfer: Several Factors Have Led to a Decline in Partnerships at DOE's Laboratories |
| "Roadmap" to new nuclear power plants by 2010 available |
| DOE Order 413.1A issued - Management Control Program |
DOE proposes merger of PAP and PSAP programs
• Draft DOE directive |
GAO recommends GSA take stronger role in federal real property inventory management
• GAO report |
| GAO testifies on uncertainties surrounding Yucca Mountain |
| DOE announces its Industry Interactive Procurement System (IIPS)...details |
DOE IG says DOE's Pit Production Project "at risk"
• IG Report
|
DOD withdraws proposed rule on exclusive teaming arrangements for contracts.
Federal Register item
|
FPMR revised; federal employees may keep frequent flier benefits
• Federal Register item
|
| GAO issues letter report on DOE contractor litigation costs |
DOE IG asserts DOE excess property program not satisfactory.
• IG Report
|
DOE IG believes there are improvements required for accountability and control of sealed radioactive sources at 6 DOE sites
• DOE IG Report
|
DOE IG disputes whether Brookhaven RHIC was "on time and on budget"
• DOE IG Report
|
Daschle-Bingaman introduce Senate Energy Bill, including Price-Anderson Reauthorization.
• Text of Price-Anderson Reauthorization (Title V, Sec 501-508)
• Text of analysis of Sec 501-508
• Text of entire Energy Bill
• Text of analysis of full Bill
|
| DHHS publishes list of approved drug testing laboratories for use by federal agencies. |
| DOE IG issues report on lessons learned regarding DOE's purchasing card programs |
DOE recommends using Yucca Mountain as a Nuclear Waste Site
• Federal Register Notice |
DOE National Nuclear Security Administration reorganizes
• News Release
• Fact Sheet
• Report to Congress
• GAO Testimony
|
| S. 1360 - Price-Anderson reauthorization introduced in the Senate on August 3, 2001 |
| Patriot Day Joint Resolution |
| Notice of Proposed Rulemaking -- Conditional Payment of Fee, February 1, 2001 |
| Extension of period for comment on Conditional Payment of Fee, March 6, 2001 |
| Request fpr comments on policy-based export control, November 7, 2001 |
| Presidential direction to review and suspend regulations, January 24, 2001 |
| Notice of Proposed Rulemaking -- Legal Management Requirements, October 25, 2000 |
