Property Management Regulations

The Department of Energy (DOE) today publishes a final rule to reissue the Department of Energy Property Management Regulation (DOE- PMR) in its entirety. This rule updates the DOE-PMR by deleting obsolete and unnecessary material and incorporating policy and procedure changes issued previously by the Department through Personal Property Letters and DOE-PMR Bulletins. This action provides DOE organizations and DOE contractors an up-to-date, single source for guidance on personal property management matters peculiar to the Department. Specific material that is incorporated, revised, or deleted from the DOE-PMR was summarized in the ``Section-by-Section Analysis'' which appeared in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published in the Federal Register on September 11, 1996. Revisions which resulted from comments received on the proposed rulemaking are summarized in Section II ``Comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.''