[DOE LETTERHEAD]
November 29, 2004
The Honorable John T. Conway
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite
700
Washington, DC 20004-2941
Dear Mr. Chairman:
The purpose of this letter is to
inform you that the Office of Environmental Management (EM) portion of
Commitment 4.1.4 in the Department of Energy’s Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
implementation plan of March 13, 2003, has been completed. This plan was in response to Board
Recommendation 2002-1, Quality
Assurance for Safety Software at Department
of Energy Defense Nuclear Facilities.
Each EM non-closure site now has
at least one qualified SQA person available. As delineated in my letter of October 1, 2004,
the EM closure sites’ offices (Rocky Flats and Ohio) will not maintain a fully
qualified Subject Matter Expert; SQA services will be provided by qualified
personnel as needed. Headquarters has
three people that have met 9 of the 12 competencies, and one person is fully
qualified in SQA.
If you have any questions,
please call me at (202) 586-0738 or Ms. Patrice Bubar, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Integrated Safety Management and Operations Oversight, at (202)
586-5151.
Sincerely,
Inés Triay
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Environmental Management
cc: Patrice Bubar, EM-3.2
Mark
Whitaker, DR-1
John Shaw,
EH-1