[DOE LETTERHEAD]

October 5, 1999

The Honorable John T. Conway
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW
Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20004

Dear Mr. Chairman:

Enclosed is a computer print-out report from the Department's Corrective Action Tracking System (CATS). This report is a deliverable to you under Commitment 5.3.3 of the Department's Recommendation 98-1 Implementation Plan (IP). As discussed in the IP, the print-out reflects the accumulated issues and actions for the Department's legacy oversight reports, as well as oversight reports produced by the Office of Oversight since December 1998. The report is sub-divided into two sections which highlight which corrective actions have been completed and which remain open.

The Department has worked to provide your staff with ready access to the CATS database, which is greater than 92% populated. The Department continues to work toward fill population of the database, and believes that it has completed actions related to Commitment 5.3.3 in the Recommendation 98-1 Implementation Plan. The Department proposes closure of this commitment. If you have any questions concerning this information, please contact me at (202) 586-1418 or Joe Hassenfeldt at (202) 586-1643.

Sincerely,

Theodore A. Wyka
Director, Safety Management
Implementation Team

Enclosure

cc: Mark B. Whitaker, Jr., S-3.1