Welcome to the US Department of Energys̀ Forecast of Contracting and Subcontracting Opportunities. This forecast, which is published pursuant to Public Low 100--656, B̀̀usiness Opportunity Development Reform Act of 1988, ̀̀is intended to inform small business concerns, including those owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and women-owned small business concerns, of the anticipated fiscal year 1995 contracting and subcontracting opportunities with the Department of Energy and its management and operating contractors and environmental restoration and waste management contractors. This document will provide the small business contractor with advance notice of the Departments̀ procurement plans as they pertain to small, small disadvantaged and women-owned small business concerns. Opportunities contained in the forecast support the mission of the Department, to serve as advocate for the notions̀ energy production, regulation, demonstration, conservation, reserve maintenance, nuclear weapons and defense research, development and testing, when it is a national priority. The Departments̀ responsibilities include long-term, high-risk research and development of energy technology, the marketing of Federal power, and maintenance of a central energy data collection and analysis program. A key mission for the Department is to identify and reduce risks, as well as manage waste at more than 100 sites in 34 states and territories, where nuclear energy or weapons research and production resulted in radioactive, hazardous, and mixed waste contamination. Each fiscal year, the Department establishes contracting goals to increase contracts to small business concerns and meet our mission objectives.