This Deputy Secretary of Energy Memorandum for Heads of Departmental Elements, to foster transparency and participation in DOE’s NEPA process, established a policy of making draft EAs available for public review, whenever possible, concurrent with host state/tribal review. The policy stated that “when an Office makes a draft EA available for public review, in addition to its usual manner of [making it available], the Office shall make sure that the draft EA is posted on the Department's NEPA website … before the start of the public review period.” The policy was retired after its provisions were incorporated into DOE O 451.1B, Change 3 (2012 01 19).