Privatization Working Group: Notice of Availability of the Report of the Privatization Working Group

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of the Secretary

Privatization Working Group: Notice of Availability of the Report

of the Privatization Working Group

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Privatization Working Group, established by the Secretary

of Energy to examine how privatization could help the Department

utilize its resources more efficiently, has completed its work and

provided its recommendations to the Secretary. This notice announces

the availability of the Working Group's report entitled, ``Harnessing

the Market: The Opportunities and Challenges of Privatization'' Report

#DOE/S-0120. It also requests the views of the public on the policy,

principles, and recommendations contained therein.

DATES: Comments should be submitted on or before May 19, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on Report # DOE/S-0120 should be sent to:

The Office of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Department of Energy,

Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Room 7E-054,

Washington, DC 20585.

Copies of this report, #DOE/S-0120 may be ordered from the Public

Inquiries Office, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, 1000

Independence Ave., SW, Room 1E-206 or by calling (202) 586-5575.

The report is also available on the Internet at: http://

www.doe.gov/privatization/report.

Additionally, this report is available for inspection in the Public

Reading Rooms at DOE Headquarters and in the Department's primary field

offices. The locations and telephone numbers of these Reading Rooms

are:

U.S. Department of Energy, Public Reading Room, 1000 Independence Ave.,

Room 1E-090, SW, Washington, DC 20585 (202) 586-5955

National Atomic Museum, Public Reading Room, 20358 Wyoming Boulevard

SE, Kirtland Air Force Base, NM 87117, 505-845-4378, Attn: Diane Zepeda

Chicago Operations Office, Public Reading Room, 9800 South Cass Avenue,

Argonne, IL 60439, 630-252-2010, Attn: Sandra Geib

Idaho Operations Office, Public Reading Room, 1776 Science Center

Drive, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, 208-526-1144, Attn: Gail Wilmore

Nevada Operations Office, Public Reading Room, 2621 Losee Rd. Bldg. B-3

Mail Stop 548, Las Vegas, NV 89030, 702-295-1628, 702-295-1128, Attn:

Janet Fogg

Oak Ridge Operations Office, Public Reading Room, Federal Building, 200

Administration Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, 423-576-1216, Attn: Jane

Greenwalt

Oakland Operations Office, Public Reading Room-Room 1H/EIC, 1301 Clay

Street, Oakland CA 94612, 510-637-1794, Attn: Lauren Noble

U.S. Department of Energy, Public Reading Room, University of South

Carolina-Aiken, 171 University Parkway, Second Floor Library, Aiken, SC

29801, 803-725-1408, Attn: Pauline Conner

U.S. Department of Energy, Public Reading Room, Ohio Field Office, 1

Mound Road, Miamisburg, OH 45342, 513-865-3174, Attn: Cindy Franklin-

1st Floor

U.S. Department of Energy, Public Reading Room, Richland Operations,

100 Sprout Road, Richland, WA 99352, 509-376-8583, Attn: Terri Traub

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Contract Reform Project Office,

U.S. Department of Energy, room GA-155, Washington, DC 20585 (202) 586-

0800, or the individual site offices as designated below:

Albuquerque Operations Office--Jim Hoyal (505) 845-5751

Chicago Operations Office--Jerry Zimmer (630) 252-2129

Federal Energy Technology Center--Carroll Labton (412) 892-6199

Golden Field Office--Jeff Baker (303) 275-4785

Idaho Operations Office--Jan Chavez (208) 526-5968

Nevada Operations Office-Rick Betteridge (702) 295-0520

Oak Ridge Operations Office--Steven Wyatt (423) 576-0885

Oakland Operations Office--Jim Hirahara (510) 637-1658

Ohio Field Office--Pete Greenwald (937) 865-3862

Richland Operations Office--Lief Erickson (509) 376-7272

Rocky Flats Field Office--Jeff Kerridge (303) 966-2866

Savannah River Operations Office--Chris Van Horn (803) 725-5313

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Former Secretary of Energy, Hazel R.

O'Leary, initiated a broad slate of strategic and managerial reform

initiatives to transform the Department to better meet the challenges

of the 21st Century. The reports that support these reforms

consistently identified privatization as a potentially powerful

management tool to enable institutional change. In recognition of this

and in support of the Clinton Administration's commitment to a

government that works better and costs less, the Secretary formed the

Privatization Working Group to examine how privatization could help

transform DOE.

The report of the Working Group, Harnessing the Market: The

Opportunities and Challenges of Privatization, provides an analysis of

the major issues that affect privatization within the Department of

Energy. The report includes 13 case studies that explore actual DOE

privatization efforts over the past two years. Additionally, it

summarizes the key legal authorities that govern each of the three

types of privatization opportunities discussed in the report. Finally,

the report makes a series of recommendations and outlines accompanying

actions that will help the Department seize the opportunities presented

by privatization and confront its challenges. The report stresses that

when wisely considered and carefully implemented, privatization is a

powerful strategic management tool.

The Department is interested in the views of stakeholders on the

report's recommendations and action items.

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Issued in Washington, DC on March 12, 1997.

Dan W. Reicher,

Chief of Staff, Department of Energy.

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