Department of Energy Performance Plan for FY 1999 APPENDIX B B OBJECTIVES & BUDGET MATRIX The following table is a composite of the tables presented with each business line. This table indicates which budgeted program/decision units support which of the business line objectives. Resources, in both funds and Full Time Equivalent staff (FTEs), are shown. FTEs are often budgeted as a group for an office and not distributed over the programs. They are shown where budgeted. U.S. Department of Energy THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY IS... The Department of Energy is a major government enterprise. If included among the Nation's Fortune 500 firms, it would rank in the top 50. Its $16.5 billion appropriation comprises close to 3 percent of total Federal discretionary spending. The Department of Energy (DOE) funds the largest environmental cleanup in history, and research and development that supports the Nation's defense and its energy and economic security. DOE employs over 11,000 Federal employees and about 108,000 contract employees. The Department of Energy owns and manages over 50 major installations located on 2.4 million acres in 35 States and is the fourth largest Federal landowner in the United States. The Department of Energy is an energy policy, supply, and technology enterprise. It invests in developing a secure, clean, and sustainable energy system. It helps the Nation meet its environmental challenges by administering the largest pollution prevention and energy efficiency program in the world, with partners from every sector of the economy. It enhances the Nation's energy security by increasing the diversity of energy, and fuel choices and sources; bringing renewable energy sources into the market, strengthening domestic production of oil and gas, maintaining the U.S. nuclear energy option, and increasing the efficiency with which we use energy and generate electricity. The Department also maintains the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and operates five Power Marketing Administrations that sell and distribute over $3 billion of electric power generated at Federal hydroelectric plants. The Department of Energy is a national security enterprise. It is a key player in the Administration's furtherance of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and its overall goal of reducing the global danger from nuclear weapons. It ensures the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without underground testing. At the same time, it manages and safely dismantles excess nuclear weapons, disposes of surplus fissile nuclear materials, and ensures the security of vital Departmental nuclear assets. It provides policy and technical assistance to curb global proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, emphasizing U.S. nonproliferation, arms control, and nuclear safety objectives in the states of the former Soviet Union and worldwide. Further, it develops and ensures the safety and reliability of nuclear reactor plants to power US. Navy warships. The Department of Energy is an environmental remediation enterprise. It cleans up the 50-year environmental legacy left at the industrial complexes where nuclear weapons were designed and manufactured. It manages the problems associated with the large quantities of various types of radioactive wastes, surplus nuclear materials, and spent nuclear fuels that remain at the sites of the Nation's nuclear weapons facilities and at nuclear energy research and development sites. In addition, it must address the growing inventory of spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear reactors that is awaiting disposal. These wastes must be dealt with responsibly to ensure the safety and health of the public. The Department of Energy is a science and technology enterprise. At the center of all we do are our 27 laboratories, our additional scientific user facilities, and our researchers at the Nation's universities. These form the backbone of U.S. scientific leadership by conducting and facilitating breakthrough research in energy sciences and technology, high energy physics, global climate change, genomics, superconducting materials, accelerator technologies, environmental sciences, and super-computing in support of DOE's mission. The laboratories, described as the crown jewels of the Nation's science establishment, and the Department's funding of research at universities have resulted in 66 Nobel prize winners, including three in 1996. The Department is also an investor in the Nation's most precious resource-its youth-by supporting science and mathematics education in our schools through grants, educational programs, and fellowships. The Department of Energy is a global enterprise. The outcome of our work is the technology that stimulates the private market for the expansion of clean energy to meet national and global energy requirements of almost 500 quadrillion Btu's by the year 2010-a staggering 36 percent increase over 1995. Overseas energy market needs include coal, nuclear power, oil and gas exploration, energy efficiency, and renewable energy technologies that are available for export now or that will soon be available for the international marketplace. The Department of Energy supports the export of U.S. energy services and technologies by assisting the nations in Asia, South America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, and the states of the former Soviet Union in developing private markets for environmentally responsible, sustainable energy. These alliances support U.S. competitiveness in a global economy of growing energy infrastructure requirements and create jobs in the United States at U.S. Department of Energy MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY I am proud to present the second Department of Energy Strategic Plan. Its publication coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the Department's creation in 1977. During the past two decades, the world has undergone many significant political, technical, and economic changes. Most recently, the government itself has embarked on a process of "reinvention" that emphasizes customer service, performance-based management, delivery of results, and accountability. These events have had major impacts on our critical mission areas and how we conduct our business operations. With the end of the Cold War and the election of President Clinton, the Department of Energy set a new course which began with the publication of its first departmental strategic plan in April 1994. Entitled Fueling a Competitive Economy, it provided the framework and shared vision for meeting our responsibilities in energy. national security, environmental quality, and science and technology. The strategic plan was the guidepost for the formulation of the Department's FY 1996, FY 1997, and FY 1998 budgets and was critical to the development of the Department's Strategic Alignment Initiative, designed to save $1.7 billion over five years. This current plan, which has been significantly improved through a very close consultation process with Congress and our customers and stakeholders, takes us to the next important performance level by being more directly linked to actions and results. It defines a strategic goal for each of the Department's four business lines and, in the spirit of the Government Performance and Results Act and the National Performance Review, identifies a fifth goal addressing corporate management. Reengineering our business practices, managing for results, being "open" with our neighbors and stakeholders, and ensuring the safety and health of our workers and the public are, and will continue to be, among the highest of our priorities. Over the coming years, we plan to achieve our strategic goals through specific identifiable strategies. Each business line has clear objectives and straightforward ways of defining whether we have succeeded in meeting those objectives. I look forward to working with our Federal and contractor employees, other Federal, State, local, and Tribal governments, the Congress, and our customers and stakeholders to make this strategic plan a reality. |