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Major Information Systems
Information Available for Public Inspection and Copying
[5 USC 552 (a)](2) Each agency, in accordance with published rules, shall make
available for public inspection and copying [the following document types:]
Final Opinions
- [5 USC 552 (a)(2)](A) final opinions, including concurring and dissenting opinions, as
well as orders, made in the adjudication of cases.
Statements of Policy and
Interpretation
- [5 USC 552 (a)(2)](B) those statements of policy and interpretation which have been
adopted by the agency and are not published in the Federal Register.
Administrative Staff
Manuals and Instructions
- [5 USC 552 (a)(2)](C) administrative staff manuals and instructions to staff that affect
a member of the public.
Other Records of Interest
- [5 USC 552 (a)(2)](D) copies of all records, regardless of form or format, which have
been released to any person . . . and which, because of the nature of their subject
matter, the agency determines have become or are likely to become the subject of
subsequent requests for substantially the same record.
If you have comments on this List of DOE Major Information Systems or know of other
links that should be provided, please call Howard Landon at (202) 586-6344 or contact him
by e-mail at howard.landon@hq.doe.gov.
Final Opinions
- [5 USC 552 (a)(2)](A) final opinions, including concurring and dissenting opinions, as
well as orders, made in the adjudication of cases.
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- Office of Hearings and Appeal - FOIA Appeals
- Initial agency determinations in response to FOIA and Privacy Act requests may be
appealed to the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA). Decisions of the OHA constitute the
agency's final determinations on requests made under either statute. OHA decisions issued
after January 1, 1995, are available from this page.
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Statements of Policy and Interpretation
- [5 USC 552 (a)(2)](B) those statements of policy and interpretation which have been
adopted by the agency and are not published in the Federal Register.
- Explorer
- Contains links to: DOE Directives*, DOE Office of Performance Excellence (formerly the
Office of Quality Management*), DOE Success Stories Input Form (DOE Only),
Success-thru-Sharing*, and Other DOE Documents. (*Also listed individually below)
- DOE Directives
- DOE Directives include Policies, Orders, Notices, Manuals, and Guides which are intended
to direct, guide, inform, and instruct employees in the performance of their jobs, and
enable them to work effectively within the Department and with agencies, contractors, and
the public.
- DOE Office of
Performance Excellence (formerly the Office of Quality Management)
- The Office of Performance Excellence serves as the corporate level catalyst for
accelerating the transformation of the DOE to a customer-centered, quality culture. It
provides the corporate quality framework, expertise, training, and information processes
in partnership with internal/external customers and stakeholders.
- Success-thru-Sharing
- Indexes and provides a single point of access to information repositories from around
the country and around the globe. The repositories fall under the following broad
categories: Benchmarking, Best Practices, Energy Efficiency, General, Lessons Learned,
National Security, Performance Measurements, and Procurement.
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Administrative Staff Manuals and
Instructions
- [5 USC 552 (a)(2)](C) administrative staff manuals and instructions to staff that affect
a member of the public.
- Explorer
- Contains links to: DOE Directives*, DOE Office of Performance Excellence (formerly the
Office of Quality Management), DOE Success Stories Input Form (DOE Only),
Success-thru-Sharing, and Other DOE Documents. (*Also listed individually below)
- DOE Directives
- DOE Directives include Policies, Orders, Notices, Manuals, and Guides which are intended
to direct, guide, inform, and instruct employees in the performance of their jobs, and
enable them to work effectively within the Department and with agencies, contractors, and
the public.
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Other
Records of Interest
- [5 USC 552 (a)(2)](D) copies of all records, regardless of form or format, which have
been released to any person . . . and which, because of the nature of their subject
matter, the agency determines have become or are likely to become the subject of
subsequent requests for substantially the same record.
- General DOE Documents
- General Search Indexes
- Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)
- Human Subject Research
- Environment, Safety, and Health
- Open, Declassified Documents
- Technical Information Services
(TIS)
- Technical Reports
- Other Links
General DOE
Documents
- Current Awareness
Electronic and Paper Publications
- Abstracts of publications within specific DOE R&D areas
- Department of Energy Home Page
- The DOE Home Page provides a point of entry through which users can access the
Department's information and a mechanism through which DOE can quickly make its
information available to the public. Types of information covered include scientific and
technical, research results, technology transfer, announcements of technology with
commercialization potential, strategic planning, and DOE administrative and operational
information. Additionally, it provides links to the Home Pages of the major programs and
initiatives of the Department.
- Other DOE and DOE sponsored
Information Resources
- People, Places and
Organizations
- DOE National Telephone Listings, mailing addresses of all of the DOE sites, and links to
the home pages of DOE Headquarters or Program Offices, DOE Operations Offices, DOE
Laboratories and Other Field Facilities, and other DOE Information Sources.
- R&D Project Summaries Web Database
- Access to over 12,000 R&D projects currently ongoing within the DOE can be found
within this application. Projects pertaining to Departmental activities in Energy
Research, Fossil Energy, Environmental Management, and Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, are some of the R&D disciplines found in the database.
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General Search
Indexes
- Congressional Questions and Answers
Database (QADB)
- The DOE Congressional Question and Answer/Testimony Database (QADB) is a WAIS database
containing the full-text of the Department's testimonies before Congressional Committees
and/or Subcommittees and pre- or post-Hearing questions and answers.
- Congressional QADB Search
- The search form for the QADB database.
- Coordination and Information Center
- The CIC collects and consolidates for long-term protection, historical documents and
data dealing with radioactive fallout from all US testing of nuclear devices. Records
relating to Human Radiation Experiments are also available. Over 310,000 documents are
available through the CIC at the Public reading Facility in Las Vegas, Nevada and through
abstracts accessed through OpenNet.
- Information Bridge
- The DOE Information Bridge, a component of DOE's EnergyFiles, provides free, convenient,
and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry,
materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and
information science, renewable energy, and other topics. For all features to work
properly, either Netscape 3.01 or greater or Microsoft Explorer 4.0 or greater is
required.
- OpenNet
- OpenNet is a database containing bibliographic citations that identify and provide a
source of availability for DOE documents declassified after October 1994 and made publicly
releasable. It includes some documents that were never classified but are of historical
interest. It was created to facilitate access to publicly releasable DOE information that
was previously classified or restricted or is of historical interest.
- OpenNet Search
- The OpenNet Database Search Form.
- Web Site Title Search
- Title search of DOE server from DOE Home Page.
- Management & Administration - The
Reference Desk
- Reference material, telephone numbers, DOE Directives, Strategic Plans, etc.
- EIA's Energy Applications
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Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board (DNFSB)
- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board provides an independent oversight of the
operation of Defense Nuclear Facilities operated by the Department of Energy. The
documents in this collection are the reports and assessments prepared by the DNFSB as part
of their responsibilities.
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- Office of the Representative to the DNFSB
- Departmental Representative to the DNFSB,
Information Archive
- Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- DNFSB Documents & Reports
- DNFSB Technical Reports
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Human Subject
Research
- Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) Program
- The DOE has developed the Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) Program to
provide public access to health and exposure data concerning DOE installations. Most of
the data are from epidemiologic studies conducted by DOE-funded researchers as part of the
DOE Worker Health and Mortality Study. Additionally, studies of populations residing near
DOE installations, and other studies of radiation health effects, such as classic studies
of atomic bomb survivors and the radium dial painters, are represented in CEDR.
- HREX (Human Radiation Experiments Database)
- The Human Radiation Experiments Information Management System was designed by Argonne
National Laboratory to allow users to search for imaged historical radiation documents
that have gone through the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) process. HREX currently
contains historical documents from the following agencies: Department of Defense (DoD),
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA), and
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Human Subjects Research Database
- The DOE Human Subjects Research Database contains information relating to research
projects involving human subjects that are currently funded by the DOE, or are performed
at DOE facilities with support from other sponsors, or performed by DOE personnel or DOE
contractor personnel. This database consists of a searchable interface, detailed
descriptions of each research project and a section that summarizes the information for
quick referencing.
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Environment,
Safety, and Health
- The Office of Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) is the Departmental advocate for
excellence in programs to protect the environment, as well as the health and safety of
workers at Department of Energy facilities and the public.
- Earth and Environmental
Science EES-3's Technical Reports, LANL
- A listing of Technical Reports available from the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Geophysics Group.
- Environmental Management Science
Program Research Projects
- Grants awarded under the DOE's Environmental Management Science Program. Congress
created the research initiative in 1995 to stimulate basic research and technology
development for cleanup of the nation's nuclear weapons complex. The principal goal of
this initiative is to fund basic research projects that will make the department's
environmental cleanup effort more effective, efficient and less costly.
- Environmental Management Technical
Reports Database
- The Environmental Management Technical Reports Database (EMTRD) provides the capability
to search, retrieve and browse bibliographic citations of environmental management
scientific and technical reports sponsored by the Office of Environmental Management,
published from Jan. 1989 - Sept. 1997. The database is cumulative and is updated annually
on a fiscal year basis.
- Environmental Sciences Division Database
- Abstracts from all programs supported in FY 1995 and FY96, and from a subset of programs
supported in FY 1994 comprise this database. ESD supports research in the following two
areas: Environmental Processes: Global Change Research and Environmental Remediation
Research.
- The Environmental, Safety and Health
Researchers Workstation
- A source for locating records concerning Cold War activities of the DOE and its
predecessors. The site provides research tools to help navigate the ES&H records
dispersed across multiple DOE sites. While the site does not contain copies of the
records, it provides finding aids and research aids to help locate records collections and
provides pointers to some on-line collections. A list of related ES&H Web sites is
also available at this site.
- Facility Profile Information Management System
(FPIMS)
- The Office of Information Management has designed and implemented the ES&H Facility
Profile Information Management System, which is the central repository for oversight
documents consisting of Baseline Compliance Assessments, Action Plans, the follow-on
Progress Assessments, other site specific information such as maps, fact sheets and
profiles, as well as other relevant DOE oversight-related documents.
- National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) Analyses
- The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to consider
environmental values and factors in agency planning and decision-making. This site
provides access to Environmental Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, and other
DOE NEPA-related documents.
- Occurrence Reporting
Program
- The DOE's Occurrence Reporting Program provides timely notification to the DOE complex
of events that could adversely affect: public or DOE worker health and safety, the
environment, national security, DOE's safeguards and security interests, functioning of
DOE facilities, or the Department's reputation. DOE analyzes aggregate occurrence
information for generic implications and operational improvements. Note: Access to the
ORPS Data Base requires prior registration.
- Office of International Health
Program's Virtual File Cabinet
- This database contains documents related to the program areas of our office: Europe
(radiation effects research in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, France, and Spain); Japan
(support of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation); and Marshall Islands (medical
surveillance and environmental monitoring). Some examples of the types of documents that
can be found in this file cabinet are agreements, correspondence, progress reports,
protocols, and trip reports.
- Operating
Experience Weekly Summary
- The Office of Environment, Safety and Health, through its Office of Nuclear and Facility
Safety, publishes the Operating Experience Weekly Summary.
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Open, Declassified Documents
- OpenNet
- OpenNet is a database containing bibliographic citations that identify and provide a
source of availability for DOE documents declassified after October 1994 and made publicly
releasable. It includes some documents that were never classified but are of historical
interest. It was created to facilitate access to publicly releasable DOE information that
was previously classified or restricted or is of historical interest.
- OpenNet Search
- The OpenNet Database Search Form.
- Hanford Declassified Document
Search
- The Richland Operations Office (RL) initiated the Hanford Declassification Project (HDP)
to declassify sensitive DOE documents. The declassified documents are scanned and the
images made available directly through this homepage or via OpenNet. The intent is to
provide easy and timely access to recently declassified Hanford documents, including
documents declassified in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
- Historical Records Review Database
- The Historical Records Review database makes available to the American Public
characterization data that will assist researchers in locating records in the National
Archives and Records Administration and the DOE Headquarters' History Division. This
database provides details regarding the contents of the records in a box containing
information from the Atomic Energy Commission including records that predate the Manhattan
Project.
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Technical Information Services (TIS)
- Technical Information Services (TIS) is a collection of information services that
provides safety and health professionals with reliable, accurate and current information
to assist them in performing their jobs. There is a:
- Graphical Interface and a Text Interface.
- In addition, some links to TIS information resources are provided directly below.
- InfoCenter Navigation Map
- Through the ES&H InfoCenter, an experienced research staff provides multi-media
access to Federal, industry and international information sources.
- Internet Resource Directory
- To help locate information relevant to job responsibilities, the Technical Research and
Applications Center (TRAC) has compiled an ES&H Internet Resource Directory. The
Directory is a list of ES&H-related resources accessible via the TIS Home Page and
contains hyperlinks to individual entries.
- Lessons Learned Search
- The DOE has established a team to review the utilization and sharing of information
relative to improving the health and safety at it's facilities, and to make
recommendations for improvement. The information contained within this directory is part
of a pilot program to share such information. Information being made available here is
complementary to existing reporting systems presently used within the DOE.
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Technical Reports
- Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) Program
- The DOE has developed the Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) Program to
provide public access to health and exposure data concerning DOE installations. Most of
the data are from epidemiologic studies conducted by DOE-funded researchers as part of the
DOE Worker Health and Mortality Study. Additionally, studies of populations residing near
DOE installations, and other studies of radiation health effects, such as classic studies
of atomic bomb survivors and the radium dial painters, are represented in CEDR.
- DNFSB Technical Reports
- Selected reports published by the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board.
- Earth and
Environmental Science EES-3's Technical Reports, LANL
- A listing of Technical Reports available from the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Geophysics Group.
- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Database (EREN)
- This bibliographic database is a subset of the Energy Science and Technology Database
(EDB) created and maintained by the Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and
Technical Information (OSTI). The database contains all unlimited, unclassified scientific
and technical information relating to energy efficiency and renewable energy topics
processed at OSTI that is DOE sponsored or published in the United States.
- EnergyFiles Subject Path
- At this site you will find a vast array of information and resources pertaining to
energy science and technology. Sponsored, developed, and maintained by the DOE's Office of
Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) under the auspices of the Department's
Scientific and Technical Information Program, EnergyFiles provides information, tools, and
technologies to facilitate the use of scientific resources and capabilities in planning
and conducting energy-related research. The EnergyFiles' goal is to maximize access to and
usefulness of the vast body of knowledge that exists in the energy community, establishing
the foundation for a National Library of Energy Science and Technology.
- Energy Science and Technology
Software Center (ESTSC)
- The Energy Science and Technology Software Center Database includes citations to the
latest in federal technology that has solved many problems in energy, science,
environment, administration, mathematics, and computing. It also contains selected
software obtained from the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). Software packages contained in the collection range
from those designed to run on personal computers and work stations to those designed for
mainframes and supercomputers. Many of the packages have multiple versions available in
order to facilitate usage on a variety of computers with varying operating systems. The
Database was created to facilitate access to federally-funded software developed by DOE
national laboratories and other facilities, contractors of DOE, and the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC).
- Energy Science and Technology Software
Center (ESTSC) Search
- The search form for ESTSC information.
- Environmental Management Technical
Reports Database
- The Environmental Management Technical Reports Database (EMTRD) provides the ability to
search, retrieve and browse bibliographic citations of environmental management scientific
and technical reports sponsored by the Office of Environmental Management, published from
Jan. 1989 - Sept. 1997. The database is cumulative and is updated annually on a fiscal
year basis.
- Historical
Nuclear Weapons Test Films
- The DOE, in cooperation with the Department of Defense, has begun an effort to
declassify a series of historical films on the nuclear weapons program. They are being
converted to videotape format to help preserve the films and to facilitate the
declassification and release process. These films document the history of the development
of nuclear weapons, starting with the first bomb tested at Trinity Site in southeastern
New Mexico in July 1945. This is the first time the films have ever been edited for
declassification and public release. (Portions of some of these films were previously
released.)
- Information Bridge
- The DOE Information Bridge, a component of DOE's EnergyFiles, provides free, convenient,
and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry,
materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and
information science, renewable energy, and other topics. For all features to work
properly, either Netscape 3.01 or greater or Microsoft Explorer 4.0 or greater is
required.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory -
Technical Report Collection
- A listing of the unclassified Technical Reports available from LANL.
- National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) Analyses
- The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to consider
environmental values and factors in agency planning and decision-making. This site
provides access to Environmental Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, and other
DOE NEPA-related documents.
- OCRWM Technical Publications
Database
- Use the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) Technical Publications
Database to search for recent information pertaining to the management of commercial spent
nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The database contains abstracts of OCRWM's
scientific and technical reports published in the past year.
- OCRWM Technical Publications Search
- The search form for the OCRWM Technical Publications Database.
- Reports Bibliographic Database
- The DOE Reports Bibliographic Database contains citations for DOE sponsored scientific
and technical reports published, announced, and made available in full-text to the public
via the Government Printing Office (GPO) Depository Libraries (in microfiche) and the
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) (in paper copy) from January 1, 1994 through
the present. It is a locator for publicly available DOE sponsored research results and was
created to facilitate access to that information.
- Technical Standards
- Full-text DOE technical standards (also available through Explorer).
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Other Links
- The Electronic Resource Library
(sponsored by the Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium)
- The Electronic Resource Library (ERL) is being constructed and administered through the
Document Exchange Laboratory at the Lynn Library Learning Center on the Amarillo College
campus in Amarillo, TX. Funded by a grant from the Amarillo National Resource Center for
Plutonium, it is the first electronic, subject-specific library on the
Internet--collecting, scanning, processing, and electronically exchanging information on
plutonium. It is designed to support the scientific and technical projects of the
researchers and scientists funded by the Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium,
but many of its services and resources are of interest to elected officials and
policy-makers, K-16 math and science teachers and students, and the interested citizen.
All these interest groups may access the ERL through the World Wide Web (WWW). Every title
in the library has passed through a screening process that selects only scientific and
technical research topics concerning storage, use, disposition, transportation,
environmental aspects, health and safety aspects, and the history of plutonium. This
information has become invaluable as the nation moves toward final disposition of weapons
plutonium.
- The Executive Secretariat/History
Division Publications
- List of publications available electronically and in hardcopy.
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