Public Reading Room

Below are electronic versions of Golden Field Office Reading Room documents that were created after November 1, 1996, per the requirements of the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendment of 1996. Most documents are available in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). Download Acrobat Reader.

Any documents that are contained in the Golden Field Office Reading Room that pertain to Rocky Flats are NOT included electronically below. Please refer to the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site or call the main telephone number at 303-469-4435 for information on Rocky Flats documents.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

• Instructions and Frequently Asked Questions About Freedom of Information Act Requests at the Golden Field Office (PDF 139 KB)
• EERE Golden Field Office E-FOIA Online Request Form
• Mission Statement
• What is FOIA?
• How to Submit FOIA
• FOIA 10CFR
• FOIA Requester Service Centers, Public Liaisons and Web Pages

Requesters who have submitted FOIA requests to the Department of Energy’s Golden Field Office on or after December 31, 2008, may obtain the date received by this office and the estimated completion date by clicking here (PDF 24 KB). You will need to know your FOIA control number to identify your request on the listing.

U.S. Department of Energy’s Competition of the Contract to Manage and Operate the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Public Meeting September 18, 2007

Invitation (PDF 120 KB)
NREL Public Meeting Presentation (PDF 198 KB)
Public Meeting Transcript (PDF 30 KB)

Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Alliance) Documents

Prime Contract - Contact No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 effective July 29, 2008, between the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC and the U.S. Department Of Energy for the management and operation of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The basic contract DE-AC36-08GO28308 between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Alliance) (M000) was signed July 29, 2008. Shortly after award, the parties determined that the existing contract DE-AC36-99GO10337 between DOE and the Midwest Research Institute (MRI) would be terminated effective September 30, 2008, in order to allow Alliance to begin full management and operating activities on October 1, 2008. A complete copy of the current contract DE-AC36-08GO28308 between DOE and Alliance is posted below (M002), incorporating the revised start dates as well as other administrative changes. Modification A001, a funding modification, made no administrative changes to the contract and is not posted here. A separate copy of Modification M002, which identifies the specific changes mad, is also individually posted below.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Documents

Previous Contract

• Previous Contract - Contract No. DE-AC36-99GO10337, effective November 9, 1998 between the Midwest Research Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy; for the Management and Operation of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Environmental Performance Report for 2003 (Annual Site Environmental Report per DOE Orders 231.1 and 5400.5)

• Report Files

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Environmental Performance Report for 2004 (Annual Site Environmental Report per DOE Orders 231.1 and 5400.5)

• Report Files

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Environmental Performance Report for 2006 (Annual Site Environmental Report per DOE Orders 231.1 and 5400.5)

• Final Report (PDF 7 MB)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Environmental Performance Report for 2007 (Annual Site Environmental Report per DOE Orders 231.1 and 5400.5)

• Final Report (PDF 4 MB)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory 10 Year Site Plan

• FY2007 - FY2018 (PDF 6 MB)

Institutional Plan (FY 2001 - FY 2005)

• NREL Institutional Plan (PDF 3 MB)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory FY 2006 Performance Measures

• FY06 Performance Measures (PDF 1 MB)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory FY 2006 One-Year Plan

• FY06 One-Year Plan (PDF 2 MB)

Director's Discretionary Research and Development Program, Annual Report FY 2005

• FY05 Annual Report (PDF 8 MB)
• May 2007 Final Draft (PDF 6 MB)

Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs)

Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs) allow Federal agencies to accomplish energy savings projects without up-front capital costs and without special Congressional appropriations. See 42 U.S.C. § 8287, et seq.

Although the DOE Golden Field Office (Golden) awards and administers DOE’s Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) ESPCs, these “master umbrella contracts” establish only a broad statement of work and allow Federal agencies to issue ESPC delivery orders and/or task orders under them. Golden does not generally maintain copies of site-specific ESPC delivery orders, task orders, or modifications.

Rather, the Federal agency offices that award delivery and/or task orders under DOE’s IDIQ ESPC contracts are responsible for negotiating their terms and conditions and making any necessary payments to the contractor. Additionally, these Federal agency offices are responsible for maintaining a master copy of their delivery and/or task orders, as well as all associated modifications or deliverables. It is therefore our recommendation that FOIA requests for contracts covering specific ESPC projects be submitted to the particular site-specific agency.

For a detailed listing of orders awarded under DOE’s ESPC IDIQ contracts, please access the website site below. You will be able to see all Energy Service Companies and the specific Federal agencies that awarded particular ESPC delivery orders and/or task orders.

• http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/pdfs/do_awardedcontracts.pdf
• In addition, a generic copy of DOE’s IDIQ ESPC contract is available for public view: (PDF 413 KB)
  

Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) Solicitations

• ESPC Solicitations -- the purpose of the solicitations is to select energy service companies to provide energy retrofits in federally owned facilities under the format of an ESPC

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the Demonstration of an Integrated Biorefinery System

The intent of this funding Opportunity is to conver lignocellulosic feedstocks such as agricultural products in the production of transportations fuels, electricity, heat and other useful products.

Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass of Kansas, LLC

• Award No. DE-FC36-07GO17028, Part 1 (PDF 1.5 MB)
• Award No. DE-FC36-07GO17028, Part 2 (PDF 1.5 MB)
• Abengoa, Mod No. M001 Contract No. DE-FC36-07GO17028 (PDF 1.5 MB)

Blue Fire Ethanol, Inc.

• Award No. DE-FC36-07GO17025 (PDF 14 MB)

POET Project Liberty, LLC

• Award No. DE-FC36-07GO17026, Part 1 (PDF 8 MB)
• Award No. DE-FC36-07GO17026, Part 2 (PDF 8 MB)
• Technology Investment Agreement (TIA) Award No. DE-FO36-08GO18121 (PDF 7 MB)

Range Fuels, Inc.

• Technology Investment Agreement (TIA) Award No. DE-FO36-08GO17027, Part 1 (PDF 7 MB)
• Technology Investment Agreement (TIA) Award No. DE-FO36-08GO17027, Part 2 (PDF 8 MB)

Navarro Research & Engineering, Inc. (Navarro)

• Contract No. DE-AC36-05GO25018 -- effective March 2, 2005 to provide specialized administrative and technical support services for the U.S. Department of Energy's Golden Field Office

NEPA Documents

Categorical Exclusion Determinations

• View Categorical Exclusions

Other NEPA Documentation

Wyandotte Municipal Services' Community Wind Project, Wyandotte, Michigan (DOE/EA 1703)

• Notice of Public Scoping (PDF 513 KB)

Geysers Power Company's Enhanced Geothermal System Demonstration Project, Northwest Geysers Geothermal Field, Sonoma County, California (DOE/EA )

• Notice of Public Scoping (PDF 513 KB)

Final Supplement-II to the Final Site-Wide Environmental Assessment of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's South Table Mountain Complex (DOE/EA 1440-S-II) and Finding of No Significant Impact

• Front Summary (PDF 79 KB)
• Chapter 1 - Introduction (PDF 1.6 MB)
• Chapter 2 - Proposed Action (PDF 1.5 MB)
• Chapter 3 - Impacts (PDF 4.0 MB)
• Chapter 4-6 - Cumulative Resources References (PDF 324 KB)
• Appendix A - Scoping Distribution (PDF 2.0 MB)
• Appendix B - Agency Consultation (PDF 20 MB)
• Appendix C - Bounding Events (PDF 583 KB)
• Appendix D - Camp George West (PDF 2.5 MB)
• Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF 2 MB)

BlueFire Fulton Renewable Energy Project, Fulton, Itawamba County, Mississippi (DOE/EA 1704)

• Notice of Scoping (PDF 5 MB)

Mount Wachusett Community College's Proposed Wind Energy Project, Gardner, Massachusetts (DOE/EA 1661)

• Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment (PDF 9.89 MB)
• Final Environmental Assessment Attachments and Supporting Documentation (PDF 14.4 MB)

South Central Oregon Economic Development District's Lakeview Geothermal Project, Lakeview, Oregon

• Notice of Public Scoping (PDF 482 KB)

Alaska Energy Authority's Proposed Sand Point Wind Installation Project, Sand Point, Alaska (DOE/EA 1584)

• Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment (PDF 12 MB)

AltaRock/NCPA Engineered Geothermal System Demonstration Project

• Final Environmental Assessment and Initial Study/Proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration (PDF 10 MB)
• DOE Management Review of AltaRock Project Final.pdf (PDF 47 KB)
• DOE AltaRock FONSI Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF 8 MB)

Wind Technology Testing Center, Boston, Massachusetts (DOE/EA 1652)

• FONSI and Final Environmental Assessment (PDF 11 MB)

White Earth Nation Wind Energy Project (DOE/EA 1648)

• Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment (PDF 11 MB)

For information on the Abengoa Biorefinery Project Environmental Impact Statement please visit the EIS Webpage.

POET Project LIBERTY Proposed Commercial Scale Lignocellulosic Ethanol Plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa (DOE/EA 1628)

• Final Environmental Assessment and Notice of Wetlands Involvement (PDF 19 MB)
• Mitigated Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF 2 MB)
• Mitigation Action Plan (PDF 8 MB)

Oregon Institute of Technology's Proposed Deep Geothermal Well and Power Plant Project, Klamath Falls, Oregon (DOE/EA - 1621)

• Final Environmental Assessment (PDF 7 MB)
  

University of Las Vegas Research Institute's Proposed Solar Technology Center, Boulder City, Nevada (DOE/EA - 1622)

• Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment (PDF 8 MB)

Chrysler LLC/BP America's Proposed Construction and Operation of an Upgraded Hydrogen Fueling Station for the City of Burbank, California (DOE/EA-1620)

• Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment (PDF 9 MB)

Final Supplement to the Site-Wide Environmental Assessment of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's South Table Mountain Complex (DOE/EA 1440-S-1)

• Final DOE/EA 1440-S-1 (PDF 7 MB)
• Mitigation Action Plan (PDF 3 MB)

2009 Golden Field Office Annual NEPA Planning Summary

• GO 2009 Annual NEPA Planning Summary (PDF 2.8 KB)

Range Fuels, Inc., Proposed Construction and Operation of a Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in Treutlen County, Georgia (DOE/EA-1597)

• Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF 2 MB)
• Final Environmental Assessment (PDF 10 MB)
• Final Supplemental Environmental Assessment (PDF 3 MB)
• Finding of No Significant Impact for the Supplemental Environmental Assessment (PDF 2 MB)
  

Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment of Three Site Development Projects at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory South Table Mountain Site (DOE/EA 1573)

• FONSI and Final EA (PDF 5 MB)

Final Site-Wide Environmental Assessment of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) South Table Mountain Complex (DOE/EA 1440)

• Environmental Assessment Files

Environmental Assessment of the Proposed In Search of Truth Canby District Heating Project, Modoc County, California (DOE/EA 1460)

• Environmental Assessment Files

Chariton Valley Biomass Project -- Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) of the Switchgrass Co-Fire Testing at the Ottumwa Generating Station, Chillicothe, Iowa (DOE/EA 1475)

• Environmental Assessment (PDF 16 MB)
• Notice of Availability of a Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF 243 KB)

Changing World Technologies' Thermal Conversion Process Commercial Demonstration Plant, Weld County, Colorado (DOE/EA 1506)

• Notice of Availability of a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) (PDF 2 MB)
• Environmental Assessment (PDF 1 MB)
  • Figure 2-2 of Environmental Assessment (PDF 505 KB)
  • Appendix A (PDF 3 MB)
  • Appendix B (PDF 250 KB)
  • Appendix C (PDF 2 MB)
  • Appendix D (PDF 1 MB)

Iroquois Bio-Energy Company, Proposed Fuel Ethanol Plant in Rensselaer, Indiana (DOE/EA 1517)

• Notice of Availability of a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) (PDF 443 KB)
• Environmental Assessment (EA) (PDF 4 MB)

Environmental Assessment of Clipper Windpower, Inc. Low Wind Speed Turbine Demonstration Project, Carbon County, Wyoming (DOE/EA 1516)

• Environmental Assessment Files

Final Environmental Assessment for the Ohio State 4-H Center with Green Building Technologies in Franklin County, Ohio (DOE/EA 1571)

• Final Environmental Assessment Files

Other Documents

DOE Openness

• Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Building Public Trust

Federal Financing of Green Energy: Developing Green Industry in a Changing Energy Marketplace

• Article by John A. Herrick, Chief Counsel, Golden Field Office. Published in Public Contract Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, Winter 2002 (PDF 229 KB)

Objective Merit Review: Democracy in Action

• by David M. Blanchfield, Assistant Manager for Project Management, Golden Field Office. Linked with permission by and published in Chemical Engineering Progress, October 2002

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