Non-Government Standards Body (NGSB)

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standards mandated by law, or standards of individual organizations for their internal use.

[DOE O 1300.2A]

377.

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]

378.

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]

379.

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]

380.

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:

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