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b. The responsible contractor and DOE shall conduct their respective ORRs only when the approved

prerequisites have been achieved. However, there may be circumstances or events, such as periodic

Emergency Preparedness drills or complex system testing, when the review team may monitor the

event rather than cause a similar event to occur during the period of the review. This early review is

appropriate. The activity must be documented in the report of the ORR. It is also appropriate for the

ORR teams to conduct pre-ORR activities necessary to gain a familiarization, understanding, and

qualification necessary to prepare the ORR Implementation Plan and conduct the ORR prior to

prerequisites being met.

c. ORRs shall be conducted by personnel qualified in the technical matters involved. The number of

ORR team members will vary with the scope of the ORR and the size and complexity of the facility.

The senior members of an ORR shall not be from offices assigned direct line management

responsibility for the work being reviewed by the startup or restart authority: any exceptions require

approval of the startup or restart authority. All ORR team members must have demonstrated

assessment expertise in addition to technical expertise. No ORR team member shall review his or her

own work or that for which they are responsible.

d. As a minimum, the DOE and responsible contractor ORR reports shall be maintained in auditable

form. This should include the ORR finding closure records.

e. The contractor and DOE readiness review process must have a provision to record and retain

lessons learned for future use. Lessons learned should be documented in the ORR report.

f. The process flow diagram in Appendix 5 depicts the sequence of requirements to achieve startup

authorization. The diagram includes a reference to the Section(s) of the ORR standard that describe

the requirements of each step or element.

4.6 Exemptions. DOE O 425.1 specifies that the exemption provisions of DOE O 251.1 and

DOE M 251.1-1 are applicable. Obtaining an exemption to ORR requirements might be appropriate

in those situations when a short duration, one-time activity is to be conducted for which the

requirements for an ORR are not warranted. Examples of this situation include one-time, unique

operations to clean out systems or components incident to D&D or short duration actions necessary to