Contractor Declaration of Readiness to Proceed.

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formally approved; and, in the opinion of the Operational Readiness Review team maintain adequate

protection of the public health and safety, worker safety, or the environment.

The ORR Final Report should include a section describing the lessons learned during the ORR, including

a discussion of both the process and the technical issues identified. Section 5.8 of this standard further

discusses lessons learned.

The ORR Final Report should include a section that provides the ORR team members the opportunity to

discuss differing professional opinions, non-judgmental general comments, and observations. The ORR

Final Report is described in more detail in Section 5.9.3.

5.1.12 Contractor Declaration of Readiness to Proceed. Once the contractor ORR process has been

completed, the contractor should develop an action plan which provides the methodology and the

schedule for resolution of the findings from the ORR. Prior to forwarding the Readiness to Proceed

Memorandum to DOE, the prestart findings shall be resolved and the action plan, including schedule of

completion for the remaining findings, should be prepared. DOE will not begin the DOE ORR until the

contractor's Readiness to Proceed Memorandum has been received and accepted. Once the DOE ORR

process has been completed and all DOE findings and comments are satisfactorily resolved, formal

approval to start the facility is granted in accordance with the requirements approved in the ORR plan-of-

action. The Readiness to Proceed Memorandum is described in more detail in Section 5.9.4.

5.2 Roles and responsibilities for the DOE Field Activities including Area Offices and Operations

Offices. The following items are a compilation of the responsibilities of the Operations and Area Offices

in the execution of the new start and the restart readiness review process. Each action or responsibility is

described in more detail elsewhere in this standard or in DOE O 425.1B. The purpose of this section is

to collect the applicable requirements in one place. The unique circumstances of the individual situation

determine the specific applicability of any individual requirement.

5.2.1 DOE Prepares Implementing Procedures. Prepare implementing procedures as necessary to

carry out the requirements of the readiness review process (both ORR and RA) in accordance with the

requirements of DOE O 425.1B and the guidance of this standard. In those cases where the Operations

Office manager intends to delegate the decision authority for specific actions or individual