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      "id": 105443,
      "date": "1999-10-28",
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      "title": "Department of Energy: Programs and Reorganization Proposals",
      "summary": "Created in response to the energy crisis of the 1970s, the Department of Energy (DOE) survived\nan\nattempt to dismantle it early in the Reagan Administration, and another in the 104th Congress. Now\nthe agency is again the subject of reorganization legislation, this time because of concern about the\nsecurity of its nuclear weapons program. An amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act for\nFY2000 ( H.R. 1555 ) was adopted by the Senate to create the Agency for Nuclear\nStewardship within DOE. The head of that agency would report directly and only to the Secretary\nof Energy. The agency would have responsibility for all defense related activities within DOE and\nbe responsible for all DOE facilities in which defense related programs are the sole or primary\nactivity. A similar initiative, creating a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) within\nDOE, was included by a House-Senate Conference Committee on the FY2000 Department of\nDefense Authorization bill ( S. 1059 ), reported August 5, 1999. That bill, including the\nprovision creating NNSA, was signed into law October 5 ( P.L. 106-65 ), but the Administration\nindicated dissatisfaction with some of its provisions and asked the Congress to modify them.\n  This report, a revision of an earlier CRS review of DOE programs, consists of an introductory\ndiscussion of the agency and its mission as a whole, and a description of its major programs as\nindependent entities. Many of DOE's original energy-related missions have disappeared or changed\nradically. In addition, with the end of the Cold War, DOE's nuclear weapons-related programs, almost\ntwo-thirds of the total budget, are undergoing modification. However, regardless of the outcome of\nthe debate on DOE's future, many of its present functions will continue in one location or another.\n  In presenting DOE's present structure and a detailed description of its individual programs, the\nreport analyzes the effect of the proposed legislation on the nuclear weapons program. In addition,\nit addresses two primary issues: the effect of restructuring on the original mission of the department\n-- enhancing national energy security in the face of dangerous interruptions in oil imports in the 1970s\n-- and its effect on DOE's energy R&D, basic research and environmental restoration programs.",
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