Re: US Energy Dep't cites nuclear lab over safety

["Raymond A. Hoover" <rayhoover@hotmail.com>]

I would agree with Mike.  In all my experience working for DOE contractors, 
nothing happened without DOE's approval (either implicit or explicit).


>From: "Mike Carstensen" <CarstensenM@edaw.com>
>Reply-To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
>To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: US Energy Dep't cites nuclear lab over safety
>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:17:38 -0600 (CST)
>
>ruth wrote:
>Most of the people doing the technical work are contractors, not direct
>employees of DOE.  The National Labs are "government owned, company
>operated" (GOCOs) and are no more interdependent with the DOE IG's Office
>than the citizens of, say, Albuquerque are with the Albuquerque police
>department or municipal court.
>
>Mike replies:
>
>The idea that a contractor is not interdependent on DOE because
>they are an autonomous business interest is not necessarily a sound
>one.  It has been my (albeit limited) experience that contractors
>are very receptive to the requests of the organization that holds the
>purse strings.  This is not to say that there is intentional misconduct
>or anything else actually going on.  I am simply observing that the
>contractor is certainly dependent on the client (in this case DOE).
>
>MC
>
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