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or damage to a facility or to the environment (without regard to the likelihood or

credibility of accident scenarios or consequence mitigation).

3.10 Hazardous Materials. (DOE O 420.1) Any solid, liquid, or gaseous material that is

chemical, toxic, explosive, flammable, radioactive, corrosive, chemically reactive, or

unstable upon prolonged storage in quantities that could pose a threat to life,

property, or the environment.

3.11 Interim Qualification. Specific requirements that must be met prior to a Facility

Representative being assigned to provide limited coverage in a facility for which he

or she is not fully qualified.

3.12 Line Organization. The unbroken chain of command that extends from the Secretary

through the Under Secretary, to the Secretarial Officers who set program policy and

plans and develop assigned programs, to the Program and Field Element Managers

who are responsible for execution of these programs, and to the contractors who

conduct the programs. Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) are integral parts of

each program. Accordingly, responsibility for ES&H functions resides with the line

organizations.

3.13 Nonreactor Nuclear Facility. (10CFR830.3) Nonreactor nuclear facility means those

activities or operations that involve radioactive and/or fissionable materials in such

form and quantity that a nuclear hazard potentially exists to the employees or the

general public. Incidental use and generating of radioactive materials in a facility

operation (e.g., check and calibration sources, use of radioactive sources in research

and experimental and analytical laboratory activities, electron microscopes, and

X-ray machines) would not ordinarily require the facility to be included in this

definition. Transportation of radioactive materials, accelerators and reactors and their

operations are not included. The application of any rule to a nonreactor nuclear

facility shall be applied using a graded approach. Included are activities or operations

that:

(a) Produce, process, or store radioactive liquid or solid waste, fissionable materials,

or tritium;

(b) Conduct separations operations;

recovery operations;

(d) Conduct fuel enrichment operations;

(e) Perform environmental remediation or waste management activities involving

radioactive materials; or

(f) Design, manufacture, or assemble items for use with radioactive materials and/or

fissionable materials in such form or quantity that a nuclear hazard potentially exists.

3.14 Nuclear Facility. (10CFR830.3) Nuclear facility means reactor and nonreactor

nuclear facilities.