Performance Objective:

The objective of this assessment is to determine whether a Configuration Management Program (CM) is in place which allows for the availability and retrievability of accurate information, improves response to design and operational decisions, enhances worker safety, increases facility safety and reliability, increases efficiency of work efforts, and helps maintain integrity of interfacing orders.

Criteria:

The CM program supports DOE program implementation through the following:

  • It provides the mechanisms for identifying, cataloging, and maintaining the design requirements and design basis (established to satisfy DOE O 420.1 Facility Safety).
  • It carries forward the technical baseline established in the design and construction phase (in accordance with DOE O 412.1 Work Authorization System) into the operational phase and implements configuration management in the operational phase (as referenced by DOE O 412.1).  Thus, the CM program supports the activities necessary to achieve design control (as required by 10 CFR 830 Subpart A Quality Assurance).
  • It provides the mechanisms to catalog requirements and design basis related to the SAR, so that this information can be used to support the evaluation on nonconformances and proposed changes (as required by 10 CFR 830.202, .204 Safety Basis, Documented Safety Analysis).
  • It identifies and retrieves design requirements information and physical configuration information that supports operability determinations (as required by 10 CFR 830.202, .204 Safety Basis, Documented Safety Analysis).
  • It validates the change control mechanisms that (1) identify and review changes to the design, physical configuration, or facility documentation (as required by 10 CFR 830 Subpart A Quality Assurance) and (2) ensure the relationships among design requirements, physical configuration, and facility documentation.
  • It provides for the systematic identification and control of design and facility information that is important to management and operation (as required by 10 CFR 830.204(b)(5) (DOE 5480.19, Conduct of Operations), and 10 CFR 830 Subpart A Quality Assurance).
  • It supports operations control of equipment and systems status and equipment labeling (as required by 10 CFR 830.204(b)(5) (DOE 5480.19, Conduct of Operations)).