| Major Management Challenge |
Specific Performance Goal(s) |
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Y2K readiness. |
None. |
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Information security. |
None. |
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Contract management. |
Convert one management and operating contract awarded in FY 2000 to a performance-based service contract (PBSC) using the government-wide standards.
Convert one support services contract at each major site to PBSC using the government-wide standards.
Achieve 95% of contract professionals certified under DOE professional development standards. |
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Difficulty completing large projects. |
Complete independent project management reviews and forward the reports and Departmental position papers to Congress.
Verify progress against established scope, schedule, and cost baselines on projects valued at $5 million or more. |
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Slow transition to external regulations. Most DOE facilities are not licensed or inspected by independent regulators. |
Support regulatory transition of legislatively designated sites, accomplish necessary planning for appropriate classes of DOE facilities to be regulated, and report to Congress on the status of regulatory transition. |
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DOE’s ineffective organizational structure blurs accountability, allowing problems to go undetected and remain uncorrected. |
Develop annual performance-based budgets by using DOE’s corporate Strategic Management System to link resource requirements to 5-year plans, make independent project validations, and perform crosscutting program evaluations. |
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DOE’s staff lack technical and management skills. |
Improve federal technical workforce capabilities at defense sites by implementing the FY 2000 milestones of the Revised Implementation Plan for Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Recommendation 93-3.
Improve workforce skills and reduce training costs by implementing the FY 2000 milestones in the DOE Corporate Education, Training, and Development Plan. |
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Significant environmental compliance and waste management problems exist at DOE facilities. |
Examples:
Stabilize and safely store approximately 53 metric tons of heavy metal of spent nuclear fuel.
Complete remediation at 3 geographical sites, increasing the total completed to 71 of 113 sites.
Reduce routine waste generation by 50% by December 1999, based on 1993 waste generation rates.
Accomplish 60 innovative technology deployments. |
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Nuclear and occupational safety and health deficiencies impair DOE’s ability to ensure the health and welfare of workers and the public. |
Examples:
Provide medical screening to all DOE workers formerly exposed to beryllium during their employment at DOE facilities.
Accomplish the milestone of the FMFIA corrective action plan to complete the nuclear safety standards upgrade project.
Achieve at least 10 percent increased clean-up of hazardous wastes in communities impacted by DOE’s operations over 1999 levels. |
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DOE’s schedules for permanent disposal of radioactive waste generated by nuclear utilities and the weapons complex experienced significant delays. |
Examples:
Make disposal ready about 3,400 cubic meters of transuranic waste.
Dispose of about 15,000 cubic meters of mixed low level waste.
Dispose of about 79,000 cubic meters of low level waste. |
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The Department has extensive inventories of nuclear and nonnuclear materials that may no longer be necessary due to the end of the cold war or other mission changes. |
Adhere to schedules for the safe and secure dismantlement of approximately 375 nuclear warheads that have been removed from the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. |
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Much of DOE’s infrastructure is in poor condition. |
None. |
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DOE has significant deficiencies in its control over Government personal property. |
None. |
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Access to sensitive materials, areas, and information, and physical security. |
None. |
