Audit Report: IG-0657

August 11, 2004

The Department's Continuity Planning and Emergency Preparedness

The Department of Energy is responsible for some this Nation's most important and sensitve activities including: designing, producing, and maintaining the nation's nuclear weapons; conducting a broad range of efforts for national security applications; and, performing basic and applied research and development for potential defense and commercial applications. These activies are carreied out at laboratories and other facilities located at sites throughout the United States.