Responsible Contractor Startup Notification Report

DOE-STD-3006-2000

Integrated Safety Management System includes a standards flowdown and implementation element

that will be evaluated during the ORR.

c. The contractor's ORR should provide a structured and independent appraisal of the facility's readiness

to startup/restart. The ORR is a confirmation that line management responsible for the facility has

successfully achieved a state of readiness to commence facility operations. The ORR should not be

used as a management technique to achieve a state of readiness to commence facility operations.

An effective ORR process provides assurance that these objectives are accomplished and documented.

The confirmation of these objectives is accomplished by performance-based evaluations, which include

(but are not limited to) review of documentation, field observations, interviews, observation of training

evolutions, integrated system checkouts or cold run demonstrations, walkdowns of procedures, etc.

5.1.2 Responsible Contractor Startup Notification Report. Periodically as specified by Operations

Office procedures (recommended to be quarterly), the responsible contractor should develop a startup

notification report or change to an existing report that identifies all known facility new starts and restarts.

The report identifies the facility, specifies whether an ORR or a readiness assessment is required to

verifies readiness to commence or resume operations. The remarks should describe the basis for the

recommended actions based on the requirements in DOE O 425.1B. For the Startup Notification Report

(SNR) to be an effective tool for managing the startup and restart process and assuring agreement in the

process between the contractor and the DOE, procedures governing these reports should contain the

following elements:

An SNR is submitted periodically by the contractor that updates information from a previous period

for startups/restarts that have not yet occurred and adds information for each startup/restart that has

been identified since the last report. The SNR should project startups/restarts at least one year ahead.

The purpose is to establish early and at the appropriate level (the authorization authority) the

appropriate review methodology for the startup/restart. Changes late in the process routinely lead to

delays and additional problems.

Minimum information to be included in the SNR for each startup/restart should include a description

of the facility or program work; reason for non-operation (e.g. maintenance or modification outage,

no program work, new facility, shutdown for safety concerns, etc.); the approximate date operations