Heads of Headquarters Elements and Heads of Field Organization

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their purview that participate in NGS development

activities. The list is to include name, title, company,

address, standards committee(s) supported, and level of

support (meetings per year); and

(8)

Ensure that contractors involved in program, project or

facility design or safety documents, specify the

appropriate standards consistent with the complexity and

functional requirements of each unit (e.g., material,

component, structure, system, process, or facility).

Heads of Headquarters Elements and Heads of Field Organizations

(the senior ranking DOE official at a DOE office location)

shall include in the procurement request package, for each

procurement requiring application of this Order, the following:

(1) identification of the Order, and (2) identification of the

specific requirements with which a contractor or other awardee

is to comply. For application to awarded M&O contracts, heads

of headquarters elements and heads of field organizations may

state this information in a written communication to the

contracting officer rather than in a procurement request

package.

Director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program:

Presidential Executive Order

12344, statutorily prescribed by

Public Law 98-525, 42 U.S.C. 7158 note (1984), establishes

the responsibilities and authorities of the Director, Naval

Nuclear Propulsion Program (who is also the Deputy Assistant

Secretary for Naval Reactors within the Department) over all

facilities and activities which comprise the Program, a joint

Navy-DOE organization. These executive and legislative actions

establishes that the Director is responsible for all matters

pertaining to naval nuclear propulsion for all Program

facilities and activities. Accordingly, the provisions of this

Order do not apply to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.

REQUIREMENTS .

DOE Technical Standards Program:

(1) All DOE facilities, programs, and projects shall use NGSs

in their design, construction, testing, modification,

operation, decommissioning, decontamination, and

remediation when such standards are adequate and

appropriate for the intended application. If there is a

conflict of requirements between the NGSs and the

requirements or policy of the Department as established

in Directives, Rules, Safety Guides, DOE standards,

limited standards, or other Departmental policy documents

such that the DOE requirements are more conservative or