[DOE LETTERHEAD]
July 28,
2005
The Honorable A. J. Eggenberger
Chairman
Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite
700
Washington, DC 20004-2901
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Commitment 4.6 of the Department
of Energy's (DOE) implementation plan for Recommendation 2002-3, Requirements
for the Design, Implementation, and Maintenance of Administrative Controls, calls for Environmental
Management (EM) to review the field implementation of existing critical
administrative controls to ensure they are developed, implemented and
maintained in accordance with DOE expectations and to develop a report
detailing field reviews, lessons learned, and plans and schedules to resolve
outstanding implementation deficiencies. The EM actions for Commitment 4.6 have been
completed and are documented in the enclosed Office of Environmental
Management Implementation of Specific Administrative Controls Final Report, July 2005.
This report utilized information
derived from the previous EM Headquarters assessments in support of Commitment
4.5 on the derivation of Specific Administrative Controls with information from
more recent site self-assessments. The
self-assessments were performed as part of the normal safety assessment practices
at the sites and supplemented with specific assessments to support the implementation
plan of this Recommendation.
If you have any questions,
please call me at (202) 586-0738 or have your staff call Dr. Robert Goldsmith
at 301-903-4954.
Sincerely,
Inés Triay
Chief Operations Officer
Environmental Management