{
  "id": 11059,
  "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108520",
  "title": "Department of Energy: Efforts to Streamline Project Management at National Laboratories and Nuclear Sites",
  "summary": "What GAO Found A Secretary of Energy memorandum directed revisions to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) construction order (known as 413.3B) to (1) allow increased delegation of approval authority for projects estimated to cost up to $300 million; and (2) limit independent reviews for projects estimated to cost between $300 million and $1 billion. As of January 2026, DOE and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) were managing 80 capital asset projects at laboratories and sites where",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "policy",
  "topics": "environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-16T11:17:33.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-17T05:10:53.887Z",
  "source_slug": "x-us-gao-reports",
  "source_name": "US GAO Reports",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.gao.gov",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11059",
  "original_url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108520",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}