A April 2026 DOE Office of Hearings and Appeals FOIA ruling (document FIA-26-0026) formally confirmed the internal DOE UAP jurisdiction structure. A FOIA requester sought DOE records on UAPs covering intelligence coordination, security and counterintelligence, emergency response, and scientific oversight. The General Counsel searched DOE headquarters offices. OFFICIAL FINDINGS: EHSS (Environment, Health, Safety and Security) — December 16, 2025: explicitly stated “does not have any equities” in UAP related FOIA requests. Office of Science — April 14, 2026: confirmed it “has no jurisdiction over UAP related issues.” The NNSA was separated out and will respond to the UAP FOIA request independently. WHAT THIS CONFIRMS: Within the entire DOE — which oversees every US nuclear laboratory including LANL, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, KCNSC, Y-12, Nevada National Security Site, and Savannah River Site — UAP jurisdiction is EXCLUSIVELY NNSA’s. The science offices have zero jurisdiction. The safety and security offices have zero equities. Only the nuclear weapons administration handles UAPs. This is the bureaucratic proof of UAP Gerb’s core thesis: DOE UAP classification is nested inside NNSA nuclear weapons classification, making it immune to standard FOIA and congressional oversight. Under the Atomic Energy Act, anything with nuclear adjacency can be classified at NNSA’s discretion — with no sunset clause and no required presidential review. This April 2026 ruling is the most recent official confirmation of that structure. Source: energy.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/FIA-26-0026.pdf