[DOE LETTERHEAD]
June 14, 2006
The Honorable A. J. Eggenberger
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20004-2941
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Thank
you for your letter of April 24, 2006, discussing some of the remaining activity-level
work planning and control implementation issues by Fluor Hanford, Inc., at Richland. I was pleased to hear that Mr. Dae Y. Chung, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Safety Management and Operations and your senior staff
were able to meet to discuss Environmental Management’s approach and continuing
efforts to strengthen work planning and control programs at our sites,
including the lessons learned from the National Nuclear Security Administration sites.
If
you have any questions, please call me at (202) 586-7709, or Dr. Inés Triay, Chief Operating Officer for Environmental
Management at (202) 586-0738.
Sincerely,
James
A. Rispoli
Assistant
Secretary for
Environmental Management
cc: Charles Anderson, EM-2
Inés Triay, EM-3
Dae Chung, EM-60
Mark Whitaker, DR-1