Department Of Energy Property Management Practices

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Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book Department of Energy Property Management Practices written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Department of Energy Property Management Practices: Hearing Before the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress Second Session, September 19, 1994 In 1983, this Subcommittee held hearings on series of management problems involving the Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. One of the more serious problems was property management. DOE's contractors were missing over $700, 000 worth of property. An additional $2.09 million worth of property on hand was not in the contractors inventory data bases and millions of dollars worth of equipment was being stored outside, exposed the elements, and literally rusting and corroding away. Property management was simply not a priority with Doe or its contractors. Here we are more than a decade later. And the property management problems at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve may have improved, but in today's hearing the Subcommittee will once again hear about millions of dollars worth of government-owned property that is missing. Once again, we will hear about millions of dollars worth of government-owned property that is literally rusting and corroding away. And once again, we will hear evidence that the management of property purchased with taxpayers money is simply not a priority with Doe or its contractors. DOE's fifty management and operations (M&O) contractors are currently responsible for $11.5 billion worth of personal property from personal computers to automobiles to one-of-a-kind scientific or nuclear weapons production equipment. Additional billions of dollars worth of property have passed through their hands over the last decade. And untold amounts of property- -apparently in the hundreds of millions of dollars- are unaccounted for, lost, stolen, or written off at the taxpayers expense. Hundreds of millions of dollars more sit unused in contractor-run warehouses, laboratories, and outside storage lots depreciating and deteriorating. Throughout, Doe has been at best disinterested, and at worse, culpable in this waste and abuse. The Doe Inspector General, the General Accounting Office, and DOE's own property management auditors have repeatedly reported problems throughout the Doe complex with little result. To make matters worse, the end of the Cold War has brought about the end of many Doe missions and resulted in numerous project terminations. Some Doe facilities now have only one mission, to decommission and decontaminate themselves. The result is a dramatic increase in the amount of government-owned property that needs to be processed, reutilized, and sold. As we will hear today, Doe lacks procedures to insure that our economic and national security interests are protected in the process. The recent disclosure that Doe contractors at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory sold nuclear fuel reprocessing equipment in the absence of safeguards to prevent its export to a foreign country, along with other examples we will hear about today, arc indeed signs that the property management at Doe is on the verge of being out of control. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.