[DOE LETTERHEAD]
December 23, 2002
The Honorable John T. Conway
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
Dear Mr. Chairman:
The Office of Environment, Safety and Health
(EH) has the responsibility for implementing Department of Energy (DOE) Policy
411.1, Safety Management Functions, Responsibilities and Authorities,
and a major portion of this duty is maintaining the Department’s
corporate-level Functions, Responsibilities, and Authorities Manual (FRAM). As required by this manual, each
Departmental office having environment, safety, and health functions must
maintain an office-level document outlining the assignments within that office
of the responsibilities the office holds under the FRAM.
The recently revised EH Functions,
Responsibilities and Authorities (FRA) document is enclosed.
The EH FRA document addresses the safety
management activities assigned to EH in the draft of the FRAM (Draft DOE Manual
411.l-1C) that is currently being coordinated within the Department’s
Directives system. We issued the EH FRA
document before the issuance of the revised FRAM because we believe that no
further changes will occur to the EH responsibilities it contains during the
remainder of the coordination process.
Both the EH FRA document and the draft FRAM were available to your staff
for review and comment.
If you have any questions, please contact me at (202)
586-5161.
Sincerely,
Beverly A. Cook
Assistant Secretary
Environment, Safety and Health
cc: M. Whitaker, S-3.1