[DOE
LETTERHEAD]
December 29, 2004
The Honorable John T. Conway
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite
700
Washington, DC 20004-2941
Dear Mr. Chairman:
The purpose of this letter is to
inform you that the Office of Environmental Management (EM) portion of
Commitment 4.2.3.3 in the Department of Energy’s Software Quality Assurance
(SQA) implementation plan of March 13, 2003, has been completed. This plan was in response to Board
Recommendation 2002-1,
Quality
Assurance Safety Software at Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Facilities.
Each EM site has completed an
assessment of their safety software. The
EM scope of assessments is consistent with that described in by letter of
January 29, 2004. These assessments are
being reviewed and we anticipate some follow-on activities (e.g., additional
assessments) as a result. Your staff has
received copies of these assessments and will be kept informed regarding the
progress of our review and followup activities.
If you have any questions,
please call me at (202) 586-0738 or Ms. Patrice Bubar, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Integrated Safety Management and Operations Oversight, at (202)
586-5151.
Sincerely,
Inés Triay
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Environmental Management
cc: Mark Whitaker, DR-1
John
Shaw, EH-1
Richard
Lagdon, EH-21
Patrice
Bubar, EM-3.2