[DOE LETTERHEAD]
November 30, 2005
The Honorable A.
J. Eggenberger
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Suite
700
Washington, DC 20004-2901
Dear Mr. Chairman:
I am forwarding you the enclosed
Office of Environmental Management (EM) Quality Assurance Program Plan (QAPP)
that demonstrates satisfactory completion of Commitment 10A
in the Department’s
2004-1 Implementation Plan for Oversight of Complex, High-Hazard Nuclear Operations.
The deliverable for this
commitment also calls for “approved paths forward and schedules for achieving
full implementation, including revision and implementation of field element
QAPs”. The EM QAPP will be fully
implemented within 1 year, including completion of applicable training. Currently, all EM Field Offices have approved
QAPs but because of the timing of these approvals, most are written to
Department of Energy (DOE) O 414.1B and two are written to the latest revision,
DOE O 414.1C. All EM Field Office QAPs
will be updated to be compliant with DOE O 414.1C by March 2006. After updating to the latest revision,
completion of implementation at Field Offices will be achieved within 6 months.
If you have any comments or
feedback, please call me at (202) 586-0738 or Mr. Dae Y. Chung, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Integrated Safety Management and Operations Oversight,
at (202) 586-5151.
Sincerely,
Dr. Inés R. Triay
Chief Operating Officer for
Environmental Management
cc: Mark B. Whitaker, Jr., DR-1