[DOE LETTERHEAD]
National
Nuclear Security Administration
November 10, 2004
The Honorable John T. Conway
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite
700
Washington, DC 20004-2901
Dear Mr. Chairman:
In his July 13, 2004 letter to
you on Facility Representative (FR) staffing and training deficiencies,
Ambassador Brooks tasked me to lead a team to develop guidance for continuing
FR training and a more rigorous FR staffing analysis model.
The team completed its work on the
two commitments in early October. Members of your staff were involved in the
team’s deliberations. Mr. Jerald Paul,
Principal Deputy Administrator for NNSA, forwarded the documents to NNSA site
managers on October 13, 2004 and directed that both the implementation of the
guidance and staffing analysis be completed by December 15, 2004. A copy of Mr.
Paul’s letter is attached.
The Administrator’s July 13,
2004 letter directed that Mr. John Evans and I conduct an assessment of site
implementation of the guidance and staffing analysis two months after implementation.
Accordingly with the December 15, 2004
due date established by Mr. Paul, I expect to commence our review in mid
February 2005 and complete all NNSA sites by the end of March 2005.
Sincerely,
Emil D. Morrow
Senior Technical Advisor
For Safety and Operations NNSA
cc: Mark Whitaker DR-1