Release

DOE-HDBK-XXXX-2005

06/30/2005

RELEASE. Any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging,

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injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or otherwise disposing of substances into the

environment. This includes abandoning/discarding any type of receptacle containing

substances in an unenclosed containment structure. [EH62dd1]

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RELIABILITY CENTERED MAINTENANCE (RCM). A proactive systematic decision

logic tree approach to identify or revise preventive maintenance tasks or plans to preserve

or promptly restore operability, reliability and availability of facility structures, systems,

and components; or to prevent failures and reduce risk through types of maintenance

action and frequency selection to ensure high performance. Reliability centered

maintenance is the performance of scheduled maintenance for complex equipment,

quantified by the relationship of preventive maintenance to reliability and the benefits of

reliability to safety and cost reduction through the optimization of maintenance

task/frequency intervals. The concept relies on empirical maintenance task/frequency

intervals to make determinations about real applicable data suggesting an effective

interval for task accomplishment. The approach taken to establish a logical path for each

functional failure is that each functional failure, failure effect, and failure cause be

processed through the logic so that a judgement can be made as to the necessity of the

task, and includes: (1) reporting preventive maintenance activities, plans and schedules;

(2) optimizing/calculating the preventive maintenance interval by balancing availability,

reliability and cost; (3) ranking preventive maintenance tasks; (4) accessing preventive

maintenance information from piping and instrument drawings (P&IDs); (5) accessing

preventive maintenance and other maintenance data; (6) listing recurring failure

modes/parts, including failure to start and failure to run; (7) calculating and monitoring

structure, system, and component availability; (8) accessing preventive maintenance

procedures, and (9) keeping track of preventive maintenance cost. [DOE G 433.1-1]

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REMEDY. Any action necessary or appropriate to rectify, prevent, or penalize a

violation of the Act, a Nuclear Statute, or a DOE Nuclear Safety Requirements, including

the assessment of civil penalties, the requirement of specific actions, or the modification,

suspension or recision of a contract. [10 CFR 820.2]

REPORTABLE OCCURRENCE. Events or conditions to be reported in accordance with

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the criteria defined in this Order. [DOE O 5000.3B] [EH62dd1]

REPORTABLE QUANTITY. Any Comprehensive Environmental Response

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Compensation and Liability Act hazardous substances, including radionuclides and

Superfund Amendments and reauthorization Act Title 3 extremely hazardous substances,

with quantities established in 40 CFR Part 302 and Part 355 respectively, release of

which requires notification unless Federally permitted. [DOE M 232.1-1A]

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