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10. Cognizant Secretarial Officer (CSO): Heads of DOE offices who have responsibility for specific facilities.

These include the Assistant Secretaries for Conservation and Renewable Energy, Nuclear Energy, Defense

Programs, Fossil Energy; and the Directors of Energy Research, Civilian Radioactive Waste Management,

New Productions Reactors, and Environmental Management.

11. Condition: Any as-found state, whether or not resulting from an event, which may have adverse safety,

health, quality assurance, security, operational, or environmental implications.

12. Consequence: The result or effect (especially projected doses or dose rates) of a release of radioactive or

hazardous materials to the environment.

13. Consequence Assessment: The evaluation and interpretation of radiological or other hazardous materials

measurements and other information to provide a basis for decision making.

14. Contractor: A non-Federal party to a DOE contract, engaging in activities or operations involving hazards

which could potentially affect the health and safety of employees or the public or the quality of the

environment.

15. Corrective Actions: Those measures taken to terminate or mitigate the consequence of an emergency at or

near the source of the emergency.

16. DOE Field Element: DOE operations offices, and where applicable, DOE area offices subordinate to an

operations office.

17. Drill: A supervised, hands-on instruction period intended to test, develop, and/or maintain a specific

emergency response capability. A drill is often a component of an exercise.

18. Emergency: An emergency is the most serious event and consists of any unwanted operational, civil,

natural-phenomenon, or security occurrence which could endanger or adversely affect people, property, or

the environment.

19. Emergency Action Level (EAL): Specific, predetermined, observable criteria used to detect, recognize, and

determine the emergency class of Operational Emergencies. An EAL can be: an instrument reading; an

equipment status indicator; a measurable parameter, onsite or offsite; a discrete, observable event; results

of analyses; or another observed phenomenon that indicates entry into a particular emergency class.

20. Emergency Class: A subset under the categories of emergency (Operational, Energy, Continuity of

Government). The class further differentiates an emergency by the degree of severity, depending on the

actual or potential consequence of the emergency situation. For the Operational and Energy Emergency

subcategories, the classes are: Alert, Site Area Emergency, and General Emergency. For the Continuity of

Government (COG) subcategory, the three classes are: Crisis Monitoring, Emergency Response, and

Recovery and Reconstitution.

21. Emergency Management: The development, coordination, and direction of planning, preparedness, and

readiness assurance activities.

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