Acceptable Procedural Exceptions to ORRs

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(5) The responsible contractor must inform the Operations Office of the startups which require RAs,

as well as an ORR. This should be done in the Startup Notification Report. It might also be

appropriate to recommend whether the Operations Office should conduct an independent RA or

monitor and approve the results of the contractor RA.

(6) Specified prerequisite conditions for the conduct of the RA should be identified either in a

contractor standing procedure for routine restarts or as part of the RA procedure for more complex

restarts.

(7) Readiness Assessment team members require technical and assessment qualifications to insure

the credibility of the results of the RA.

5.10.2 Acceptable Procedural Exceptions to ORRs. In the following areas, the Operations

Office may specify procedures that are different from those for the ORR process.

(1) In the case of routine restarts when little maintenance and few minor modifications have

occurred, but an RA is required, it may be appropriate for the responsible contractor to use a

preapproved checklist and have the results monitored or reviewed by a member of the Operations

Office. In these cases, a separate DOE RA might not be required; the responsible contractor could

be the restart authority; and the Operations Office review of the RA could be performed after

resumption of operations.

(2) The sequence of the contractor and Operations Office RAs could be more flexible when

authorized by the restart authority. Similarly, the contractor RA might be sequenced in parallel with

final actions to gain readiness to resume operations. The principle that the RA verifies areas in

which readiness has been gained remains critical to the process.

(3) The independence of the team members from management could be less rigorous for the RA.

The principle that no RA team member will review their own work shall be retained.