Establishing a Design Authority

DOE-STD-1073-2003

Configuration Management

additional controls to ensure that newly generated design requirements and design

basis are maintained and available,

additional procedural guidance on sources of design requirements to ensure that

an adequate design basis review is performed for potential changes to the nuclear

activity,

additional procedural guidance to ensure that designers thoroughly research the

existing design basis before issuing new designs,

additional procedural guidance to ensure that the design process produces an

adequate set of design requirements and design basis for each new design or

design change,

actions to retain source documents containing design requirements and design

basis information, and

actions and controls to ensure that the knowledge of experienced engineering and

operations personnel regarding facility design requirements and design basis is

not lost when they transfer or retire (this includes actions to collect and record

design information from personnel who recently transferred, retired, or are near

retirement).

3.5

Establishing a Design Authority

Contractors should establish the design authority for each SSC. The design authority is

the single organization responsible for establishing and maintaining the design

requirements, ensuring that design output documents accurately reflect the design basis,

and maintaining design control and ultimate technical adequacy of the design process.

When facilities or systems are turned over from one organization to another, the design

authority may also change. This may occur over a period of time. Procedures should be

developed to govern this turnover. However, at any given time, there should be a single,

defined authority for each SSC.

3.6

Reviewing Design Requirements

When the design requirements are initially established for the configuration management

process, the contractor must perform a technical management review to determine the

adequacy of these requirements. The technical management review team must include

technical managers that have broad design backgrounds and experience and represent the

various design disciplines.

In deciding whether the design requirement documentation for the CM SSCs is adequate,

the team should base its determination on the completeness, accuracy, and level of

documentation. The team should also consider the results of applicable assessments,

especially any initial configuration management assessments when performing its

assessment.

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