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12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Minor

Make the National Labs more accountable to the Secretary and Congress

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394 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions

“Increase the level of accountability. The National Laboratories need to be more directly accountable to the Secretary of Energy and Congress for their work and management.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    No instrument increasing the National Laboratories' accountability to the Secretary of Energy or to Congress was found: no contract-reform directive, no reporting requirement, no management order. Thirteen of the seventeen laboratories continue to report through the Under Secretary for Science and three through NNSA, as before.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Covered by the negative search run once for all the National Laboratories asks (#936, #937, #993, #995, #996, #997).

Action
other
Object
National Laboratories
ID
995