January 14, 2004, Department letter reporting completion of Commitment 25 in implementation plan 2000-2, Configuration Management, Vital Safety Systems, which requires the issuance of direction to site offices for implementing the revised Nuclear Air Cleaning Handbook

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January 14, 2004

The Honorable John T. Conway

Chairman

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

625 Indiana Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20004-2941

Dear Mr. Chairman:

The National Nuclear Security Administration and the Office of Environmental Management have issued the attached memoranda to their site offices requesting review and implementation of the recently revised Nuclear Air Cleaning Handbook (DOE-HDBK-1169-2003). These memoranda are a deliverable as part of the Department’s Implementation Plan in response to Board Recommendation 2000-2, Configuration Management, Vital Safety Systems. This completes the Department’s actions to fulfill commitment 25 of the 2000-2 Implementation Plan.

If you have questions in this regard, please call me at (301) 903-0124.

Sincerely,

Edward B. Blackwood

Director

Office of Regulatory Liaison

Attachments

cc: Beverly A. Cook, EH-1

Mark B. Whitaker, DR- 1