[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, CLEANUP: Energy Department Inspector General's report

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DOE inspector general recommends consolidating national labs

BRAC-style commission recommended on nuclear labs

By Douglas Birchemail
Center for Public Integrity
March 27, 2013

Department of Energy Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman has told Congress that the agency should launch a program patterned on the military’s BRAC base closure program to streamline, downsize or shut some of the Energy agency's 16 national laboratories.

The agency’s chief internal watchdog is pushing to overhaul some of its nuclear and energy research labs and programs, saying that it is “highly questionable” whether a business-as-usual approach can continue in a time of budget cuts.

In an appearance before the House Science Committee’s subcommittee on oversight March 14, Friedman also called on the DOE to focus its sponsored research programs on those that could yield maximum short-term benefits. And he said the agency should concentrate its $6 billion annual environmental cleanup program on a few high-risk, high-priority sites rather than spread the effort out over dozens of sites in multiple states.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/03/27/12390/doe-inspector-general-recommends-consolidating-national-labs

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