NumberQuestions
Can you provide a list of all boards, councils, commissions, working groups, and FACAs

1

currently active at the Department? For each, can you please provide members, meetingschedules, and authority (statutory or otherwise) under which they were created?

Programs Assigned
All Departmental Elements/
ES/ Karen Gibson

2

Can you provide a complete list of ARPA-E's projects?

34
5What statutory authority has been given to the Department with respect to cybersecurity?

CIO

What is the Department's role with respect to the development of offshore wind?

EECan you offer more information about the EV Everywhere Grand Challenge?

EE

ARPA-EEIA is an independent agency in DOE. How has EIA ensured its independence in your data and6analysis over the past 8 years? In what instances do you think EIA's independence was mostEIAchallenged?

78Part of EIA's charter is to do analyses based on Congressional and Departmental requests. Has
EIA denied or not responded to any of these requests over the last ten years?
EIA customarily has or had set dates for completions of studies and reports. In general, havethose dates been adhered to?

EIAEIAIn the Annual Energy Outlook 2016, EIA assumed that the Clean Power Plan should be in the9reference case despite the fact that the reference case is based on existing laws andEIA

regulations. Why did EIA make that assumption, which seems to be atypical of past forecasts?
EIA's assessments of levelized costs for renewable technologies do not contain back-up costs

10for the fossil fuel technologies that are brought on-line to replace the generation when thoseEIA

technologies are down. Is this is a correct representation of the true levelized costs?
11Has EIA done analysis that shows that additional back-up generation is not needed? How does
EIA's analysis compare with other analyses on this issue?

EIA

Renewable and solar technologies are expected to need additional transmission costs above
12

what fossil technologies need. How has EIA represented this in the AEO forecasts? What is themagnitude of those transmission costs?

EIA

There are studies that show that your high resource and technology case for oil and gas
13

represents the shale gas and oil renaissance far better than your reference case . Why has EIA
not put those assumptions in your reference case?

EIA

Can you describe the number of personnel hired into management positions at EIA from14

outside EIA and compare it to the number of personnel hired into management positions at EIA
who were currently serving at EIA?

EIA

15

How does EIA ensure quality in its data and analyses?

EIA

16

Where does EIA think most improvement is needed in its data and analyses?
We note that EIA added distributed solar estimations to your electricity data reports. ThoseEIA

17

numbers are not part of your supply/demand balance on a Btu basis. Why has that not been
updated accordingly?

EIA

18192021

How many vacancies does EIA have in management and staff positions? What plans, if any,
does EIA have to fill those positions before January 20?
Is the EIA budget sufficient to ensure quality in data and analyses? If not, where does it fallshort?
Does EIA have cost comparisons of sources of electricity generation at the national level?
What is the plan for funding cleanup of Portsmouth and Paducah when the current uranium
inventory designated for barter in exchange for cleanup services, is no longer available(excluding reinstating the UED&D fee on commercial nuclear industry or utilizing the USECfund)?

EIA
EIAEIAEM

22

What is the right funding level for EM to make meaningful progress across the complex andmeet milestone and regulatory requirements?

EM

23

What is the greatest opportunity for reduction in life cycle cost/return on investment?

EM

24

Describe your alternatives to the ever increasing WTP cost and schedule, whether technical orprogrammatic?

EM

25

With respect to EM, what program milestones will be reached in each of the next four years?

EM

26

Are there plans to add staff to EM? What are your staffing priorities?

EM

27

28

2930
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39

Can you provide a list of all Department of Energy employees or contractors who haveattended any lnteragency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon meetings? Can youprovide a list of when those meetings were and any materials distributed at those meetings,
emails associated with those meetings, or materials created by Department employees orcontractors in anticipation of or as a result of those meetings?
Did DOE or any of its contractors run the integrated assessment models (IAMs)? Did DOE pickthe discount rates to be used with the IAMs? What was DOE's opinion on the proper discountrates used with the IAMs? What was DOE's opinion on the proper equilibrium climate
sensitivity?
Which programs within DOE are essential to meeting the goals of President Obama's Climate
Action Plan?
What is the statutory charge to the Department with respect to efficiency standards? Whichproducts are subject to statutory requirements and which are discretionary to theDepartment?
Can you provide a list of all permitting authorities (and their authorizing statutes) currently
held by DOE and their authorizing statutes?
Are there statutory restrictions related to reinvigorating the Office of Civilian Radioactive
Waste Management?
Are there any statutory restrictions to restarting the Yucca Mountain project?
Does the Department have any thoughts on how to reduce the bureaucratic burden forexporting U.S. energy technology, including but not limited to commercial nuclear technology?
Can you provide a list of non-M&O procurements/awards that are currently pending and theirstatus?
Does DOE have a plan to resume the Yucca Mountain license proceedings?
Which Assistant Secretary positions are rooted in statute and which exist at the discretion anddelegation of the Secretary?
Can you provide a list of all Schedule C appointees, all non-career SES employees, and all
Presidential appointees requiring Senate confirmation? Can you include their current positionand how long they have served at the Department?
Is the number of Assistant Secretaries set by statute? Does the statute establish the number asa minimum or a maximum, or is it silent on the question?

EPSA

EPSA

EPSA

GCGCGCGCGCGCGCHCHCHC

40
41
42
43

4445

Can you provide a list of Department employees or contractors who attended any of theConference of the Parties (under the UNFCCC) in the last five years?
Can you provide a list of the Loan Program Office's outstanding loans, including the parties
responsible for paying the loan back, term of the loan, and objective of the loan?
Can you provide a list of the Loan Program Office's outstanding loans, including the parties
responsible for paying the loan back, term ofthe loan, and objective of the loan?
Can you provide a full accounting of DOE liabilities associated with any loan or loan guarantee
programs?
The Department recently announced the issuance of $4.5 billion in loan guarantees for electricvehicles (and perhaps associated infrastructure). Can you provide a status on this effort?
Is there an assessment of the funds it would take to replace aging infrastructure in theIALPLPLP

LP

MA

53

complex? Is there a priority list of which facilities to be decommissioned?
Can you provide a list of all current open job postings and the status of those positions?
Can you provide a list of outstanding M&O contracts yet to be awarded for all DOE facilities
and their current status?
What secretarial determinations/records of decisions are pending
What should the incoming Administration do to balance risk, performance and ultimately
completion in contracting?
What should this Administration do differently to make sure there are the right incentives toattract qualified contractors?
Can you provide a list of reports to Congress or other external parties that are due in 2017?
How can the DOE support existing reactors to continue operating as part of the nation's
infrastructure?
What can DOE do to help prevent premature closure of plants?

54

How do you recommend continuing to supporting the licensing of Small Modular Reactors?

NE

55

How best can DOE optimize its Advanced Reactor R&D activities to maximize their value
proposition and work with investors to development and commercialize advanced reactors?

NE

56

What is the Department's role with respect to JCPOA? Which office has the lead for theDepartment?

NNSA

46
47
48
49
50
51
52

MA
MAMAMA
MAMA/ESNENE

57
58
59

Can you provide a copy of any Participation Agreement under Section 1221 of EPAct signed bythe Department?
What is the goal of the grid modernization effort? Is there some terminal point to this effort?
Is its genesis statutory or something else?
Who "owns" the Mission Innovation and Clean Energy Ministerial efforts within theDepartment?

OEOE
S460

Does or can the Department delineate research activities as either basic or applied research?

S461

Is there a readily available list of any technologies or products that have emerged from DOE
programs or the labs that are currently offered in the market without any subsidy?

S462

If DOE's topline budget in accounts other than the 050 account were required to be reduced
10% over the next four fiscal years (from the FY17 request and starting in FY18), does theDepartment have any recommendations as to where those reductions should be made?

S463

How many fusion programs, both public and private, are currently being funded worldwide?

SC64
65

What mechanisms exist to help the national laboratories commercialize their scientific andtechnological prowess?
Which activities does the Department describe as commercialization programs or programswith the specific purpose of developing a technology for market deployment?

TTTT

Questions on labs
66

What independent evaluation panels does the lab have to assess the scientific value of itswork? Who sits on these panels? How often do they hold sessions? Do they publish reports?
Labs have boards/advisory panels that review the Lab strategy for the contractor, and also
review programs/facilities for the contractor/Lab Management. The people areexperienced, subject-matter experts in the fields being reviewed. Frequency depends on theLab and program. Some meet a few times per year, others meet every other/3rd year, andothers are ad hoc. They do not publish reports as a matter of course, but they do provide
findings to the contractor. DOE also conducts program reviews of the Lab's programs
using a combination of federal and non-federal experts.

Labs

67

Can you provide a list of cooperative research and development grants (CRADAs) for thepast five years? Please provide funding amounts, sources, and outcomes?

OTT

68

Can you provide a list of licensing agreements and royalty proceeds for the last five years?
See question 67.
Can you provide a list of the top twenty salaried employees of the lab, with total
remuneration and the portion funded by DOE?
DOE does not collect this information. This would require a data call to the Labs, and theinformation is not available publically.
Can you provide a list of all peer-reviewed publications by lab staff for the past three years?
OSTI collects this, and it is publically available.
Can you provide a list of current professional society memberships of lab staff?
DOE does not collect this information. This would require a data call to the Labs, and theinformation is not available publically.
Can you provide a list of publications by lab staff for the past three years?
Like 70, OSTI will have this.

OTT

69

70
71

72,.

Labs

OSTI
Labs

OSTI

73

Can you provide a list of all websites maintained by or contributed to by laboratory staff
during work hours for the past three years?
DOE does not collect this information. This would require a data call to the Labs, and theinformation is not available publically.

Labs

74

Can you provide a list of all other positions currently held by lab staff, paid and unpaid,
including faculties, boards, and consultancies?
DOE does not collect this information. This would require a data call to the Labs, and theinformation is not available publically. Each Lab has a conflict of interest policy, and thosepolicies that are available publically can be provided.

Labs