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resolved as described in Section 5.9.4.1, the contractor prepares and forwards to the Operations Office

the Readiness to Proceed Memorandum described in Section 5.9.4.

4.2.7 DOE ORR. Following receipt of the responsible contractor's Readiness to Proceed

Memorandum, the Operations Office manager or designee concurs in the contractor's readiness, verifies

DOE management readiness including meeting the DOE prerequisites in the DOE POA, and recommends

to the authorization authority that the DOE ORR be conducted. At the direction of the authorization

authority, the DOE ORR is conducted and reported in accordance with the DOE ORR Implementation

Plan. The DOE ORR includes a detailed review of the contractor's ORR plus other performance

assessments in accordance with the approved scope. Following completion of the DOE ORR and

resolution of prestart findings, DOE management recommends to the authorization authority that startup

approval be granted.

4.3 Readiness Assessments. DOE O 425.1B requires that a Readiness Assessment (RA) may be

required whenever an ORR is not required to verify readiness to resume program work. The Order

requires the RA be conducted in accordance with Operations Office and contractor procedures which

should also specify when an RA is required. The Order further states that guidance in this standard

provides accepted methods and approaches for use in preparation of the Operations Office and

responsible contractor's procedures. Section 5.10 discusses Readiness Assessments including provisions

which should be included in the local procedures. Many principles of the ORR process apply to the RA.

A well defined graded approach is important to ensure the effort is adequate to verify readiness without

being excessive in terms of time or resources. It is particularly important that the individual

circumstances concerning each restart be carefully considered when defining the number and details of

the RA.

4.4 ORR Oversight. Throughout the ORR process various Headquarters, Operations Office, DOE

organizations and external oversight organizations may become involved in the process. To ensure that

proper liaison occurs, documentation from each step in the process must be provided to the appropriate

internal and external oversight groups for information and comment. In most cases, the documentation is

provided after approval by the appropriate management official. It must be stressed, however, that all

information must be provided in a timely manner if all organizations are to be able to execute their

responsibility without delaying critical steps in the process. Frequent liaison must occur between

management at each level and oversight organizations at each level, both internal and external, to ensure