Assessment Plan Development.

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By reviewing the above documents the assessment team can focus the assessment plan on the

areas of interest at the activity and identify the specific documents to review, personnel to

interview, and evolutions to observe.

5.4.2 Assessment Plan Development. Since an assessment is a "sampling" exercise,

assessment team members must plan how to start the assessment and target key areas to look at,

bearing in mind that following leads or observations will take up a large portion of assessment

time. In preparing for an assessment, team members develop an assessment plan. The

development of this plan is an individualized process in that the formality of the plan will vary

from team to team, and some assessors will need to develop more detailed plans than others.

Depending on the level of knowledge, skill, and style of the assessor, varying degrees of planning

are necessary.

It is important that leads developed during the assessment, not the plan, drive the conduct of the

assessment. This plan functions primarily as a list of starting points, not as a checklist, and must

be flexible enough to respond to unique or non-routine operations at the site.

5.4.2.1 Approach. The assessment team should develop a plan that lists each area that has

been chosen by the field element manager and the approach to be used for each area. The

general process for developing the plan involves three steps: (1) The team leader should assign

the chosen assessment areas to the assessment team members; (2) Assessors should identify the

initial observations, interviews, and document reviews necessary to assess the guidelines and

concepts for their assigned element of conduct of operations, operations-related radiological

control, activity drills and operations-related training and qualification; and (3) Specific