Audit of the transfer of government-owned property at the Mound and Pinellas Plants
This report addresses the audit of the transfer of government-owned property at the Mound and Pinellas Plants. The end of the Cold War brought many changes to the Department of Energy (Department), including the reconfiguration of defense program activities and the closure of some operations. Public Law 103-160 allows the Department to transfer or lease, under specified conditions, Department-owned personal property to economic development initiatives. By encouraging economic development, the Department hopes to mitigate adverse impacts that plant closures would have on local economies. The objective of the audit was to determine whether the Department's interests were properly protected with regard to the transfer of equipment from weapons production use to economic development initiatives. The Mound Plant (Mound) and the Pinellas Plant (Pinellas) did not have property disposition plans that would properly protect Departmental interests. Specifically, Mound planned to make about $13.2 million of Government-owned property available to private businesses even through the property was needed by Defense Programs at other facilities and would cost less than $1 million to relocate. In addition, Mound and Pinellas planned to make available to economic development initiatives several hundred million dollars of Government-owned property without first determining whether it was needed by other Departmental elements. These conditions existed because neither Headquarters nor the Albuquerque Operations Office provided Mound and Pinellas adequate guidance, and Mound and Pinellas management believed that economic development initiatives could take precedence over some Departmental programs.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Office of Inspector General, Washington, DC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 6697712
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/IG-0360; ON: TI95004811
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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