About 2 years ago, the U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) received funding from Congress to update databases for low-temperature geothermal resources of the western states. USDOE awarded a contract, by way of the University of Utah Research Institute and the Oregon Institute of Technology Geo-Heat Center, to the Division of Geology and Earth Resources (DGER) to update the geothermal database for Washington. DGER, in turn, awarded a small contract to the Washington State Energy Office (WSEO), and this enabled our two organizations to continue their long joint interest in assessing and encouraging the use of Washington's geothermal resources