Location: LLNL Conference Rm, Bell Meade Building, Germantown, MD

Date: Tuesday April 16, 1996

Industrial Hygiene Manpower Survey - Janet Torma-Krajewski - Janet is still waiting for software she wants to process the collected data.

ACTION: Torma-Krajewski will seek contractor help to continue this project and will assemble draft report which will be distributed to the committee for review before the next meeting in July.

Proposed HAZWOPER Provisions for 10 CFR 830 - John Serocki/Steve Bertness - Bertness and Irv Spickler will attend meeting on Wednesday. EM preparing to publish a nuclear safety management rule (10 CFR 830) which is still being written. The intent appears to be to include nuclear facility clean-up activities under HAZWOPER standards rather than under nuclear safety rules, i.e., a SAR wouldn't be required. Spickler and Bertness have been working on this.

DNFSB 95-2 Implementation Plan Update - Charles O'Dell. EM-4. (Handouts and Department Implementation Plan provided.) EM-4 was set up to attend to urgent risks and to keep the undersecretary from being blind sided. DNFSB noted that S&H is not integrated into operations from outset. Hence Recommendation 95-2. O'Dell reviewed the DOE Implementation Plan. DNFSB has come out with an additional report (Tech 10) which is critical of DOE personnel competence. An 8 to 10 person implementation team will be established headed by a field person to prepare a guidance document for the implementation plan.

IH Implementation Guide Rewrite - Don Harvey (Monty Herr) Herr presented proposed changes to the Implementation Guide. The Committee reviewed them and suggested changes.

ACTION: Herr will incorporate changes and provide a copy of the revised Guide to Grasso by 16 May for distribution and final review.

Lessons Learned - Asbestos Work in Areas with Loose Radioactive Surface Contamination - Raj Sundram - Radcon personnel decontamination requirement were found in conflict with HAZWOPER training Asbestos workers are trained to keeping respirators on until in shower. At Fernald, respirators are removed prior to shower due to radiological control requirements. Sundram emphasized the necessity of having training correspond to actual conditions.

DOE Ergonomic Program Status - Janet Torma-Krajewski - (Handouts provided.) Reviewed ergonomics efforts by EH-412 and FEOSH and a TRADE survey. She then provided recommendations.

ACTION: IHCC should identify someone in committee interested in assembling a resource guide. Committee members should identify relevant materials for such a guide.

Develop Guidelines for Industrial Hygiene Performance Measures - Harvey Grasso - Harvey sent copies of the Kodak and CMA performance measures guides to all PSO's, Ops Offices, and field elements under his signature as chairman and the Oakland Operations Office letterhead.

Exposure Assessment Implementation Guide Review and Comments.

ACTIONS:

1. IHCC members should provide additional comments on the Exposure Assessment Implementation Guide Review to Grasso by 15 May.
2. Grasso will provide comments to EH by 1 June.

EM OSH Desk Reference - John Serocki/Randy Mosebrook.(Argonne/EPI) (Handouts provided.)

ACTION: Grasso will provide draft list of recommended ERPGs for TLV materials to IHCC members.

Wednesday April 17, 1996

10:30-12:00

Don Ross Award - Ms. Torma-Krajewski/Jackie Rogers - Jackie is the EH champion for the award. IHCC will request nominations at the DOE session at the AIHCE and select awardee. EH will support the award and supply funding. There may not be funding after this year.

ACTIONS:

1. HR will provide plaques.
2. Rogers will make arrangements with HR for the plaque.
3. Torma-Krajewski will provide the name of the HR contact to Grasso and Rogers.
4. Torma-Krajewski will prepare a nomination form and get it to Grasso by 28 April.
5. Torma-Krajewski will send applications out with a letter and a copy to HR.

DOE IH Meeting at the AIHCE - Harvey Grasso/Jackie Rogers. Schedule for 22 May at the Grand Hyatt in the afternoon. IHCC has an hour on the agenda. Possible presenters include Singh, Torma-Krajewski, Grasso, and Suiter. There will be 3 speakers.

ACTION: Grasso will provide information concerning speakers/topics to Jackie by 3 May, 1996.

Next Meeting Site and Date Selection - The committee decided to meet next on July 23-25 in Germantown.

New DOE Orders/Implementation Guides Status Report - Joe Hopkins. Phil Wilhelm presented. DOE 440.1 is not yet implemented. DNFSB requires a revised cross-walk to see where requirements from the old order system are found in the new order system. Jackie Rogers is performing the task. Radiation protection requirements are covered by a DOE Notice for one year until a revised 10 CFR 835 including requirements from the Rad Con Manual is completed.

Industrial Hygiene Technical Qualifications Study Guide - Harvey Grasso/Yvonne Garbe (Represented by Julia Myers) Lead site for preparing materials is the Ohio Field Office with Tulanda Brown leading the effort. A design plan and a project management plan for the study guide was distributed. The new draft of the study guide will be out this month. There will also be draft reference lists and exams.

ACTION: Myers/Garbe will provide materials to Grasso. When Grasso receives drafts of these items, he will distribute them to IHCC members.

Proposed HAZWOPER Provisions for 10 CFR 830 - John Serocki/Steve Bertness/Irv Spickler. 10 CFR 830.120 is the quality assurance rule. Because of Price-Anderson, DOE is required to set up nuclear safety rules to protect contractors. Preliminary Phase 1 rules were published in 1992. They covered QA, SARs, TSRs, USQs, Training and Qualification, etc. 10 CFR 834 covers Radiation Protection of the public. 10 CFR 835 covers Radiation Protection of workers. 10 CFR 820 is the enforcement rule. 10 CFR 830 is nuclear safety management. 10 CFR 830.120 is the quality assurance rule. Final publication of 10 CFR 834 will be soon. The reporting rule being held back due to get some with experience reporting order. Modifications were made in rules regarding environmental restoration. The evolution of rules to date have focused on enclosed facilities. HAZWOPER was designed for non-facility conditions. Writers are trying to get HAZWOPER requirements into 10 CFR 830 to cover these. Revisions were distributed. In conditions where an active facility is being transitioned from active to shut-down, operations are covered by a BIO (Basis for Interim Operation).

HQ Working relationships - Harvey Grasso/Marty Mathamel - No IH group exists in EH. Now IH is part of projects (other than Rogers who has a specific program). IH is included in line items such as HAZWOPER, FEOSH, VPP, Necessary and Sufficient (which contains many technical disciplines), Enhanced Work Planning, and D&D. These changes are due to Congressional budget pressures. EH's budget went from $30M to $15M with a recission on top of that. They are not presently cutting FTEs. EH must show how they are saving money or producing efficiencies. A broad ranging discussion of IH-IHCC-Field-HQ communication issues followed. EH no longer has a centralized policy-making role.

ACTIONS:

1. Mathamel will raise the issue with Fitzgerald of travel funding for an EH representative (Weitzman) to IHCC meetings.
2. Mathamel will provide information to Grasso on EH contacts and programs/projects who will provide to IHCC members.

Thursday April 18, 1996

8:30 - 11:30

Breaking Stove Pipes by Establishing Communications with other ES&H Specialties - Harvey Grasso. If EH is going to provide a reduced level of technical guidance and policy than in the past, it will be increasingly important for groups like IHCC to fill the void and it will be useful to form bonds with other advising and coordinating groups such as TMAC, FCOG, IH SIG, OS SIG, RCCC, SCAPA, the DOE ERPG committee, OSHCC, Fire Protection Committee, Beryllium Monitoring Subcommittee, Explosives Safety, etc.

ACTIONS:

1. Singh will seek to determine who are the leaders of these various organizations.
2. Garcia will provide information to Grasso who will provide information to IHCC member re TMAC.
3. Slawski will do the same with the Beryllium Monitoring Subcommittee.
4. The IHCC will issue the IH Implementation Guideline as a committee document.
5. At the next IHCC meeting, Singh will have a session on how field DOE members interact with the contractor IH activities under their responsibility.
6. Don Harvey will discuss with Mathamel the possible continuing status OSHCC as an umbrella Worker Protection committee.

Non-Nuclear Facility Safety Analysis Reports - Ken Young/Don Harvey. Risk Assessment for Worker Protection distributed. The Presidential Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management draft report due to be released 9 May. This report should be the catalyst for subsequent risk management activities. Risk analysis is getting more attention nationally. Key to this is an integrated, comprehensive hazard analysis.

Chairman Elect balloting. Don Harvey elected.

ACTIONS:

1. Singh will inform Don Harvey of his selection.
2. Grasso will serve as voluntary secretary for the next year.
3. Grasso will distribute mission and vision statement by e-mail to IHCC members.
4. Grasso will prepare an annual summary report of IHCC activities.