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Nuclear Waste: Quality Assurance Auditors Need Access to Employee Records

RCED-91-7 Published: Jan 18, 1991. Publicly Released: Feb 19, 1991.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) efforts to identify and resolve problems stemming from the Privacy Act of 1974's restrictions on maintenance and disclosure of personnel information, focusing on the act's effect on the DOE quality assurance program for contractor personnel involved in the Yucca Mountain, Nevada, nuclear waste repository project.

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AuditsConfidential communicationsContractor personnelNuclear waste disposalPersonnel recordsPrivacy lawQuality assuranceRight of privacySite selectionNuclear waste