DOE Differing Professional Opinions
DOE has established a variety of work processes for its employees (including DOE Federal, contractor, and subcontractor employees) to raise concerns so that they are assessed and appropriate actions are taken. Employees are to use these processes to resolve issues at the lowest possible level. In rare cases, an employee may decide that despite those efforts, there remains a concern about a technical issue with a potential for a significant impact on environment, safety or health.
If you have a concern involving a technical issue with potential significant impact to environment, safety and health and you have tried unsuccessfully to ensure that it is adequately addressed through lower-level processes, please consider whether you should file a Differing Professional Opinion (DPO) through the DPO process discussed on this page and in DOE O 442.2, Differing Professional Opinion for Technical Issues Involving Environmental, Safety, and Health Concerns. If you decide you should, please read the DPO process in the link below, complete the suggested form and the relevant information, and submit your concern to the appropriate DOE DPO Manager identified below.
Submit your DPO
| Table or Assigned DPO Managers |
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If your concern involves… |
Submit your
DPO to… |
By email to… |
Or by mail to… |
For National
Nuclear Security
Administration
(NNSA) facilities
| An NNSA facility |
Don Nichols
(202-586-3885) |
Don Nichols |
Don Nichols, Associate Administrator, Safety and Health (Acting)
National Nuclear Security Administration
U. S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington DC 20585 |
For DOE Office
of Science (SC)
facilities |
An SC hazard category 1, 2, or 3 nuclear facility 1 |
Carol Sohn
(509-375-2320) |
Carol Sohn |
Carol Sohn, Chief of Nuclear Safety
Office of Science
P.O. Box 350, MS K9-42
Richland, WA 99352
|
An SC facility
other than a
hazard category
1, 2, or 3 nuclear facility |
Kelli Markham (301-903-6800) |
Kelli Markham |
Kelli Markham, Director
Environment, Safety and Health Division
Office of Science
U. S. Department of Energy
19901 Germantown Road
Germantown, MD 20874 |
For DOE facilities
under the Office
of the Under
Secretary 2 |
A nuclear facility |
Ray Furstenau (208-526-0193) |
Ray Furstenau |
Ray Furstenau
Deputy Manager for Nuclear Energy
U. S. Department of Energy
Idaho Falls, Idaho 83403
|
A facility
other than a nuclear
facility |
William Eckroade (202-287-5403) |
William Eckroade |
William Eckroade
Principal Deputy Chief for Mission Support Operations
Office of Health, Safety and Security
U. S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20585 |
For DOE
facilities under the
purview of the Under
Secretary for Nuclear Security other than
NNSA facilities 3 |
A nuclear facility other than an NNSA facility |
Richard Lagdon (202-586-0799) |
Richard Lagdon |
Richard Lagdon
Chief of Nuclear Safety
Office of the Under Secretary
U. S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20585 |
| A non-nuclear facility other than an NNSA facility |
William Eckroade (202-287-5403) |
William Eckroade |
William Eckroade
Principal Deputy Chief for Mission Support Operations
Office of Health, Safety and Security
U. S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20585 |
For DOE facilities
other than under the
purview of SC,
the Under Secretary
for Nuclear Security,
or Office of the
Under Secretary of Energy 4
| All facilities |
William Eckroade (202-287-5403) |
William Eckroade |
William Eckroade
Principal Deputy Chief for Mission Support Operations
Office of Health, Safety and Security
U. S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20585 |
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1 See Title 10 Code of Federal Register Part 830, Nuclear Safety Management, for definitions of nuclear facility and hazard category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities.
2 Office of the Under Secretary includes facilities and activities under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Office of Fossil Energy, and the Office of Nuclear Energy.
3 i.e., Office of Environmental Management facilities
4 i.e., All other DOE facilities
For additional information regarding this page or feedback on its content, please contact: Mary Haughey at mary.haughey@hq.doe.gov or (301) 903-2867.
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DPO Submittal Form
