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Nation= al Nuclear Security Administration

July 15, 2005

The Honorable A. J. Eggenb= erger

Acting Chairman=

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

625 Indiana Avenue, N.W., = Suite 700

Washington, D.C. 20004-290= 1

Dear Dr. Eggenberger:=

This letter provides a sta= tus of two commitments in the Department’s implementation plan for Recommend= ation 2002-3 on administrative controls. Commitment 4.5 calls for document r= eviews of Specific Administrative Controls (SACs) and a report to the Secretary of Energy by December 30, 2004. Commitment 4.6.2 calls for implemen= tation reviews of SACs and a report to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) by June 30, 2005. The enclosed NNSA correspondence of November 25, 2003, describes how these revi= ews were to be conducted and documented.

As described in the Depart= ment’s implementation plan, the document reviews were integrated with the review a= nd approval of safety basis documents and/or annual updates and the implementa= tion reviews were integrated with normal safety basis implementation or operatio= nal oversight. NNSA sites conducted these re= views in a manner that ensured that all SACs in currently approved and implemente= d 10 CFR 830 Documented Safety Analyses were reviewed. A single data sheet for each SAC or logical grouping of SACs documented the scheduled completion, the audit tra= il and results of both reviews. = The enclosed Compact Disk (CD) contains the final data sheets.

The report of the 4.5 revi= ews to the Secretary will include NNSA’s assessment of the extent to which N= NSA relies upon SACs for nuclear safety and recommendations for reducing that r= eliance. The final report on 4.6.2 rev= iews will describe how NNSA will track corrective actions and reviews integrated into Readiness Assessments not yet conducted. The 4.6.2 submission will also outl= ine NNSA’s plans to evaluate the effectiveness of both reviews. We expect to transmit both delivera= bles by August 31, 2005.

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If you have any questions = about this submission or about our path forward on this or other NNSA obligations under the implementation plan, please contact me or have your staff contact Jeff Underwood at 301-903-8303.

Sincerely,

Thomas P. D’Agostino=

Acting Deputy Administrato= r

for Def= ense Programs

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