[DOE LETTERHEAD]
National
Nuclear Security Administration
July 26, 2005
The Honorable A. J. Eggenberger
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, N.W.
Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20004-2901
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This is the final evaluation
required to satisfy the first commitment in your November 3, 2004, letter. Enclosed is a memorandum from the Livermore
Site Office (LSO) that forwards the report on LSO’s evaluation of the
application of configuration management specific to the vital safety systems in
the remaining defense nuclear facilities (Buildings 331,
334, 239, 251 and Radioactive Hazardous Waste
Management). On December 22, 2004, LSO
transmitted to you the Building 332 Vital Safety System Evaluation. LLNL will complete its resource-loaded
schedule for implementing a configuration management program for vital safety
systems in Building 332 by September 1, 2005. LLNL will complete its resource-loaded
schedule for implementing a configuration management program for vital safety
systems in other LLNL defense nuclear facilities no later than September 15,
2005. We will transmit these schedules
to you when they are complete. If you
have any questions please contact me or have your staff contact Mike Thompson
at 301-903-5648.
Sincerely,
Thomas P. D’Agostino
Acting Deputy Administrator
for Defense Programs
cc: Camille Yuan-Soo Hoo, LSO Manager
M.
Whitaker, DR-1