Roles and responsibilities for DOE Headquarters

DOE-STD-3006-95

5.3 Roles and responsibilities for DOE Headquarters. This section is divided into two parts.

The first (5.3.1) describes the roles and responsibilities of DOE Headquarters Line Management

personnel. The second part (5.3.2) describes the roles and responsibilities of the DOE Headquarters

Independent Oversight personnel (Office of Environment, Safety, and Health). The second part also

describes the conflict resolution process by which comments developed by the independent oversight

organization (EH) are resolved. One key purpose for the structured conflict resolution process is to

insure that resumptions are not delayed due to unresolved differences of opinion between line

management and EH.

5.3.1 Headquarters DOE Management. The following items are a summary of the

responsibilities of the Secretarial Officer. The specific items are further defined in other sections of

this standard or in DOE 0 425.1. The summary provides a listing which responsible managers can

use to verify that all necessary steps and decisions have been considered.

5.3.1.1 Obtain Secretary of Energy Approval. The Secretarial Officer must gain S-1 approval in

the following situations for startup or restarts of nuclear facilities when S-1 is the approval authority.

5.3.1.2 Implementing Procedures. Prepare implementing procedures as necessary to carry out the

requirements of the readiness review process in accordance with the requirements of DOE 0 425.1 and

the principles of this standard. In those cases where the Secretarial Officer intends to delegate the

approval responsibility for specific actions or individual circumstances, the delegation should be

specified in the implementing procedures to be provided by formal letter or memorandum.

5.3.1.3 Approve Responsible Contractors Startup Notification Report. This report should be

received periodically from each responsible contractor with recommended actions by the Operations

Office manager. DOE Headquarters management should receive and approve it, or approve with

modifications. Copies of the approved report are returned to the responsible contractor via the

Operations Office with additional copies sent to all interested internal and external oversight

organizations.

5.3.1.4 Approve the ORR Plan-of-Action. Each new start or restart will require both a

contractor and DOE ORR plan-of-action. Since each new start or restart is unique, the plan-of-