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Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";">On April 3rd, 2011,
Paul Golan assumed the role of Acting Manager of the Oak Ridge
Office overseeing all operations (with the exception of the
National Nuclear Security Administration operations) on the
Oak Ridge Reservation. With this detail, Paul was given the
responsibility to review and evaluate how the Oak Ridge Office
does business and how it can become a more efficient
organization in order to maximize the effectiveness of the
Department's mission in Oak Ridge. Four key themes have been
identified that are essential in accomplishing the goal of
improving efficiency within the Oak Ridge Office: (1) realign
the organization to focus on and drive the mission, (2) stop
doing things that are of low value to our customers, (3)
reduce unnecessary administrative costs and (4) revitalize and
incentivize the federal workforce. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";">Consistent with
these themes, the Department has decided to reorganize the Oak
Ridge Office to realign the organization and eliminate a layer
of management; the Environmental Management, Science and
Nuclear Energy program Assistant Managers will report directly
to their Headquarters program offices and decision making will
be pushed down in the organization to the lowest level
consistent with good management practices. The Contracts and
Finance Divisions will be recombined under the Oak Ridge Chief
Financial Officer. The Oak Ridge Office will retain
responsibility for the Integrated Support Center (Oak Ridge
Office), the Oak Ridge Reservation and will continue to be the
Department's representative to the community. I want to
clearly state that both the Secretary and I strongly support
this initiative. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";">Bill Brinkman,
Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
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