Timothy Frazier
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary (Acting)
Office of Fuel Cycle Management
Office of Nuclear Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington, D.C.

Tim,

I don’t mean to impose on your time by asking so many important questions. I do appreciate the time that you have spent with me on the telephone with your honest answers, and appreciate your assurance that you are working on answering the questions that I emailed to you. After you and I finished our conversation on the telephone, yesterday, I waited for a while for the telephone number that you told me you would email to me.

While I was waiting for your email, I searched through the DOE web site and found the Office of Safety, Health, and Security. I called this office, and explained our situation to Liz Ray.

I told Liz Ray about how packed the public meeting held by concerned citizens of Roswell and the greater Chaves County region (Concerned Citizens) was at the Roswell Public Library.

I told Liz Ray about EnergySolutions being scheduled to rent the Roswell Convention and Civic Center, next week, with our tax dollars, to hold a meeting (under the guise of a "Public Hearing") where they will be attempting to sell to the people of Roswell and the greater Chaves County region the idea of having a nuclear waste reprocessing plant.

I told Liz Ray what you said about the DOE giving a little more than a million dollars directly to EnergySolutions.

I told Liz Ray about my concern, which I expressed to you, pointing out the funding challenge that Concerned Citizens have in our effort to educate everyone in Roswell and the greater Chaves County region about health and safety issues that are often part of the lives of people in communities near nuclear waste reprocessing plants.

I asked Liz Ray whom, in the Department of Energy, I should talk to on behalf of Concerned Citizens. She told me that I should be talking to the Office of Nuclear Energy.

I explained to Liz Ray that you had told me that, although the Office of Nuclear Energy was providing EnergySolutions with more than a million dollars to "inform the public," and to accomplish other tasks involved in determining whether or not people living in Roswell, and in other communities in the greater Chaves County region will be chosen to live near the nuclear waste reprocessing plant, you didn’t know what part of the D[OE] would provide Concerned Citizens with equal funding to educate the public about health and safety issues.

Liz Ray responded to all of this by telling me that she would check around, and email me an answer. Below is a copy of her email to me.