Dissemination of technical information from the oil-shale program
Auditors found cause to believe that DOE was not receiving technical information from a jointly financed demonstration project in Colorado to produce shale oil means of the modified in-situ process. The governments right to use and disseminate technical information developed under the Cooperative Agreement is seen a a contractual right spelled out in the Agreement for cost sharing. Enforcement is necessary to lessen vulnerability to charges of subsidy of private research and development without adequate benefits to the public. This final report was prepared after sending the draft report to the Assistant Secretaries of Fossil Energy (FE) and of Resource Applications (RA) for comments. IG still takes issue with some of the comments by FE, which are attached. Comments by IR, also appended, point out operational changes at the DOE Technical Information Center, Oak Ridge, TN that will improve, its publication operations time.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Inspector General
- OSTI ID:
- 6495951
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/IG-124; ON: DE83006322
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Report to the Secretary, Deputy Secretary
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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