In response to an energy crisis, Congress passed the DOE Organization Act in 1977, which consolidated various energy-related agencies into a Department of Energy.

In 1987, Congress amended the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and directed DOE to study only Yucca Mountain, which is already located within a former nuclear test site.

As a result, in October 2002, a U. S. District Court ordered DOE to disclose committee documents and to include a statement in the committees ' reports that the department had not complied with the Federal Advisory Committee Act ( FACA ).

* EIA-28, Financial Reporting System-Section 205 ( h ) of the DOE Organization Act.

* EIA-846A-C, Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey-Section 205 ( i ) of the DOE Organization Act ( the Act calls for a biennial survey ; however, this survey is done quadrennially due to resource constraints ).

* EIA-457A-G, Residential Energy Consumption Survey-Section 205 ( k ) of the DOE Organization Act ( the Act calls for a triennial survey ; however, this survey is done quadrennially due to resource constraints ).

* EIA-871A-F, Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey-Section 205 ( k ) of the DOE Organization Act ( the Act calls for a triennial survey ; however, this survey is done quadrennially due to resource constraints ).

First, the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act was extended to cover private and DOE plants and activities licensed through 2025.

Though the information was compiled from public domain sources, the DOE claimed that it fell under the " born secret " clause of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

DOE officials, first in phone calls and then in person, attempted to dissuade The Progressive from publishing the article on the grounds that it contained " secret restricted data " as defined by the Atomic Energy Act.

In 1995 EPA and DOE announced that they had entered into a joint policy agreement to assure that all DOE sites would be cleaned up to standards consistent with the EPA's Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) standards.

After a short court hearing in which the DOE argued that Morland's information was 1. likely derived from classified sources, 2. if not derived from classified sources, itself counted as " secret " information under the " born secret " clause of the 1954 Atomic Energy Act, and 3. was dangerous and would encourage nuclear proliferation.

LLNL also receives funding from DOE ’ s Office of Science, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and Office of Nuclear Energy.

FERC was also given added responsibility to hear appeals of DOE oil price control determinations and to conduct all " on the record " hearings for DOE.

DOE also sponsors more research in the physical sciences than any other US federal agency ; the majority of this research is conducted through its system of United States Department of Energy National Laboratories.

There is also a GPL-licensed version, called Maxima, based on the 1982 version of the DOE Macsyma, subsequently adapted for Common Lisp and enhanced by William Schelter.

The grand jury also wrote a report, intended for the public's consumption per their charter, lambasting the conduct of DOE and Rocky Flats contractors for " engaging in a continuing campaign of distraction, deception and dishonesty " and noted that Rocky Flats, for many years, had discharged pollutants, hazardous materials and radioactive matter into nearby creeks and Broomfield's and Westminster's water supplies.

The British journal Nature entitled its article " Report backs whistleblower ", and also noted conflicts of interest on the part of a DOE panel that assessed IFR research.

NREL is also an active organizer and sponsor in the DOE ’ s Solar Decathlon.

This was inaugurated on June 18, 2005 and attended by Former First Lady Imelda Marcos, Governor Bongbong Marcos, Former DOE Secretary Vincent Perez, Undersecretary Peter Abaya and Dr. Robert Yap, Jesuit priest and Project Director of CD4CDM project of klima, who also conducted the invocation and blessing of the wind turbines.

The Iowa DOE also maintains a list of non-public schools found here.

The financial aid staff hired by Molina and Leite were unable to fix the files, which were in complete disarray, to conform to DOE standards, and DOE investigation also revealed that the school failed to keep required records and could not account for large amounts of federal financial aid funds.

The Department of Education ( DOE ) regulations adopted pursuant to Title IX also allow such an exception for " the membership practices of social fraternities and sororities.

The Boeing Company, current owner of the SSFL site, the DOE are also invited.

The Iowa DOE also maintains a list of non-public schools found here.

The functions were then transferred to the Department of the Environment ( DOE ), and in 1995, PRONI became an executive agency within the DOE.

The EPA responded to this announcement by claiming that the DOE was not subject to EPA regulation due to the fact that the DOE existed as a separate entity under the executive branch of the federal government, and refused take steps to force DOE adherence to the 1995 agreement.

Although there are small-scale ( 2, 000, 000 barrels ) heating oil reserves in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey under the aegis of the Department of Energy ( DOE ), the federal government maintains no gasoline reserves on anything like the scale of the SPR.

Strategic Center for Natural Gas and Oil ( SCNGO ) handles all the DOE ’ s research and development related to natural gas and oil to resolve the environmental, supply, and reliability constraints of producing and using oil and gas resources.

In 2010, Caltech, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and headed by Professor Nathan Lewis, established a DOE Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight.

United States Department of Energy ( DOE ) testing of commercial LED lamps designed to replace incandescent lamps or CFLs showed that average efficacy was still about 46 lm / W in 2009 ( tested performance ranged from 17 lm / W to 79 lm / W ).

In turn, many studies from MIT, Black & Veatch and the DOE -- see natural gas -- will account for a larger portion of electricity generation and heat in the future.

As of 2010, 11 remain open, mostly due to safety improvements and help from international safety agencies such as the DOE.

Funding to support LLNL's global security and homeland security work comes from the DOE / NNSA Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation as well as the Department of Homeland Security.

* Initial text taken from a public domain document at DOE

In the United States, all nuclear weapons deployed by the United States Department of Defense ( DoD ) are actually on loan to DoD from the DOE / NNSA, which has federal responsibility for the design, testing and production of all nuclear weapons.

Savings from daylighting can cut lighting energy use in some buildings by up to 80 %, according to the U. S. Department of Energy's ( DOE ) Federal Energy Management Program.

* Enerkem, a Quebec-based biofuels company, has received a grant / loan from the DOE to build a plant near Tupelo to convert municipal waste into ethanol fuel.

The Department of Energy ( DOE ) estimates that it has over 100 million U. S. gallons of highly radioactive waste and of spent fuel from the production of nuclear weapons and from research activities in temporary storage.

Dr. Chapman was actively involved in the NASA / DOE SPS Concept Development and Evaluation Program ( CDEP ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s and has since continued contributions to the literature on power from space.

Waxman, as the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, oversaw the case of Solyndra, a solar company that filed for bankruptcy after receiving a $ 535 million loan guarantee from the DOE.

But even as the purchase of Lighthouse was going through, Sun was already turning their attention from DOE / NEO on the back-end and OpenStep on the front-end to " Java everywhere ".

In addition to NSF sponsorship, funding includes grants from and contracts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ), National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the Department of Defense ( DOD ), Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ), Department of Energy ( DOE ), Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), and other agencies and organizations.

After several months of collecting evidence both from workers and via direct measurement, the FBI informed the DOE on June 6, 1989 that they wanted to meet to discuss a potential terrorist threat.

As a result of these concerns, and because of positive indications of interest from a southern New Mexico community, the DOE relocated the site of the proposed nuclear waste repository to the Delaware Basin salt beds located in New Mexico.

It accepts transuranic waste generated from DOE activities.

Stafford assembled teams of 40 full-time and 150 part-time members from the DOD, DOE and NASA, and completed the study called America at the Threshold, a road map for the next 30 years of U. S. manned spaceflight.

The initial plans had called for DOE to pay based on a percentage of the total cost, and their portion had risen from about $ 620 million to about $ 1. 33 billion.

In a Well-to-Wheels analysis, the DOE estimated that fuel cell electric vehicles using hydrogen produced from natural gas would result in emissions of approximately 55 % of the CO < sub > 2 </ sub > per mile of internal combustion engine vehicles and have approximately 25 % less emissions than hybrid vehicles.

Beginning in 2005 Unit 2 was loaded with BLEU ( Blended Low Enriched Uranium ) recovered by the DOE from weapons programs.

Under the CORBA model, different objects, like those from DOE or SOM, would be able to interact by sharing a common interface.