Non-Government Standards Body (NGSB) - doe-hdbk-1188-20060061

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381.

NON-GOVERNMENT STANDARDS BODY (NGSB). A national or international

scientific, technical, or professional, industry, or other organization, society, or association not

organized for profit that conducts standardization activities and develops, establishes, or

coordinates, non-government standards. [DOE O 1300.2A]

382.

NON-GOVERNMENT STANDARDS BODY SUPPORT. The types of support included

are:

1) Direct financial support (e.g., sustaining membership, grants, and contracts);

2) Technical support (e.g., cooperative testing for standards evaluation and participation of

DOE representatives in the activities of standards-developing groups);

3) Administrative support (e.g., travel costs associated with meetings, hosting of meetings,

and secretarial functions);

4) Planning support (e.g., joint planning with non-government standards bodies to facilitate

a coordinated effort); and

5) Other funding support (e.g., travel funds and per diem costs for qualified consumer

participation when such participation will improve the development of a standard).

[DOE O 1300.2A] [EH62dd1]

383.

NONREACTOR NUCLEAR FACILITY. Those facilities, activities or operations that

involve, or will involve, radioactive and/or fissionable materials in such form and quantity that a

nuclear or a nuclear explosive hazard potentially exists to workers, the public, or the

environment, but does not include accelerators and their operations and does not include

activities involving only incidental use and generation of radioactive materials or radiation such as

check and calibration sources, use of radioactive sources in research and experimental and

analytical laboratory activities, electron microscopes, and X-ray machines. [10 CFR 830.3]

[DOE G 433.1-1]

384.

NONREACTOR NUCLEAR FACILITY. An operational area (e.g., building, holding,

storage, or disposal area) dedicated to activities or operations (handling, storing, or

transporting) that involve radioactive or fissionable materials, or both, in such form and quantity

that a nuclear hazard potentially exists to the employees or the general public. Included are

activities or operations that:

A. Produce, process, or store radioactive liquid or solid waste, fissionable materials, or tritium;