Definitions - std55050016

DOE-EM-STD-5505-96

This limited technical standard does not establish any new requirements, but rather incorporates

and supersedes the existing criteria from:

Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Restoration and Waste Management

"Operations Assessment of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM)

Activities" memorandum of May 19, 1992;

Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Restoration and Waste Management

"Implementation of the Guidelines for the Conduct of Operations at DOE Facilities"

memorandum of July 20, 1992;

Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Restoration and Waste Management

"Conduct of Operations at EM Support Services Facilities" memorandum of July 20, 1993;

and

Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management "Operations Assessment

Program Reviews" memorandum of July 7, 1994.

This limited standard also updates information contained in the Operations Assessment Field

Handbook dated June 24, 1994. Therefore, this limited standard supersedes the above noted

memoranda and the Operations Assessment Field Handbook which can be discarded at this time.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Activity. Any operational process, system, structure, equipment, or group that fulfills a

programmatic purpose. Examples include, but are not limited to, storage areas, radioactive waste

disposal and processing systems, burial grounds, environmental restoration projects, tank farms,

characterization and decontamination projects, and analytical laboratories.

2.2 Concern. A determination of a programmatic breakdown or widespread problem

supported by one or more findings.