DOE O 151.1C, Comprehensive Emergency Management System
Functional areas: Defense Nuclear Facility Safety and Health Requirement, Emergency Preparedness, Public relations, Safeguards, Security, and Emergency Management, Safety and Security
The Order establishes policy and assigns roles and responsibilities for the Department of Energy (DOE) Emergency Management System. Supersedes DOE O 151.1B. Superseded by DOE O 151.1D.
Related To:
Version history and related documents
Superseded by
A newer version replaces this document.
- DOE O 151.1DComprehensive Emergency Management System (Aug 11, 2016)
Supersedes
Earlier documents this one replaced.
- DOE O 151.1BComprehensive Emergency Management System (Nov 02, 2005)
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Section 1
AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: INITIATED BY:
www.directives.doe.gov Office of Emergency Operations
U.S. Department of Energy ORDER
Washington, D.C.
Approved: 11-2-05
SUBJECT: COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
1. OBJECTIVES.
a. To establish policy and to assign and describe roles and responsibilities for the
Department of Energy (DOE) Emergency Management System. The Emergency
Management System provides the framework for development, coordination,
control, and direction of all emergency planning, preparedness, readiness
assurance, response, and recovery actions. The Emergency Management System
applies to DOE and to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
b. To establish requirements for comprehensive planning, preparedness, response,
and recovery activities of emergency management programs or for organizations
requiring DOE/NNSA assistance.
c. To describe an approach to effectively integrate planning, preparedness, response,
and recovery activities for a comprehensive, all-emergency management concept.
d. To integrate public information and emergency planning to provide accurate,
candid, and timely information to site workers and the public during all
emergencies.
e. To promote more efficient use of resources through greater flexibility (i.e., the
graded approach) in addressing emergency management needs consistent with the
changing missions of the Department and its facilities.
f. To ensure that the DOE Emergency Management System is ready to respond
promptly, efficiently, and effectively to any emergency involving DOE/NNSA
facilities, activities, or operations, or requiring DOE/NNSA assistance.
g. To integrate applicable policies and requirements, including those promulgated by
other Federal agencies (e.g., stockpiling stable iodine for possible distribution as a
radiological protective prophylaxis) and interagency emergency plans into the
Department's Emergency Management System. In compliance with the statutory
requirements in 42 USC 7274k, DOE hereby finds that this Order is necessary for
the fulfillment of current legal requirements and conduct of critical administrative
functions.
h. To eliminate duplication of emergency management effort within the Department.
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2. CANCELLATIONS. The following Order is canceled: DOE O 151.1B, Comprehensive
Emergency Management System, of 10-29-03. Cancellation of an Order does not, by
itself, modify or otherwise affect any contractual obligation to comply with such an
Order. Canceled Orders incorporated by reference in a contract will remain in effect
until the contract is modified to delete the reference to the requirements in the canceled
Orders.
3. APPLICABILITY.
a. DOE Elements. Except for the exclusions listed in paragraph 3c, this Order
applies to all DOE/NNSA elements listed in Attachment 1.
The NNSA Administrator must assure that NNSA employees comply with their
respective responsibilities under this Order.
b. DOE Contractors. Except for the exclusions listed in paragraph 3c, the
Contractor Requirements Document (CRD), Attachment 2, sets forth
requirements of this Order that will apply to contracts that include the CRD.
c. Exclusions.
Section 2
(1) Generally accepted standards may be substituted for this Directive in
accordance with the modified directives process described in the
Secretarial Action Memorandum of 12-03-02 or appropriate successor
documents. The Cognizant Field Element must coordinate a proposed
alternative standard for emergency management with the Office of
Emergency Operations. After this coordination, the proposed alternative
standard, including any conditions added, must be approved by the
Cognizant Field Element and then submitted to the Office of Emergency
Operations and the Program Secretarial Officer(s) (PSO) for approval. If
the Director, Office of Emergency Operations and the PSO(s) jointly
approve the proposal, the alternative standard may be substituted. If the
Director, Office of Emergency Operations and the PSO(s) disagree, the
conflict must be elevated to the Deputy Secretary or designated
Departmental Chief Operating Officer for resolution.
(2) The facilities and activities of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and
the Power Marketing Administrations are exempt from the requirements
of this Order.
(3) All DOE/NNSA facilities subject to Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) license requirements are specifically exempted from the
requirements of this Order.
(4) If a DOE/NNSA element or contractor can demonstrate that it is subject to
emergency management program requirements under the authority of
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other Federal regulatory agencies, and those requirements are at least as
stringent as the requirements of this Order, then an exemption may be
requested.
(5) Requests for exemptions are approved jointly by Program Secretarial
Officers and the Director, Office of Emergency Operations, with conflicts
resolved by the Deputy Secretary or designated Departmental Chief
Operating Officer. Requests for exemptions must be submitted from the
Cognizant Field Element manager to the appropriate Program Secretarial
Officer(s) and the Director, Office of Emergency Operations.
4. REQUIREMENTS.
a. General.
(1) DOE/NNSA sites/facilities, including DOE/NNSA transportation
activities, DOE/NNSA offices in the field, and DOE Headquarters offices,
must develop and participate in an integrated and comprehensive
Emergency Management System to ensure that—
(a) the Department can respond effectively and efficiently to
Operational Emergencies and Energy Emergencies and can
provide Emergency Assistance so that appropriate response
measures are taken to protect workers, the public, the environment,
and the national security;
(b) emergencies are recognized, categorized and, as necessary,
classified (determine the emergency class) promptly, and
parameters associated with the emergency are monitored to detect
changed or degraded conditions;
(c) emergencies are reported and notifications are made; and
(d) reentry activities are properly and safely accomplished, and
recovery and post-emergency activities commence properly.
(2) Emergency planning must include identification of hazards and threats,
hazard mitigation, development and preparation of emergency plans and
procedures, and identification of personnel and resources needed for an
effective response.
(3) Emergency preparedness must include acquisition and maintenance of
resources, training, drills, and exercises.
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(4) Emergency response must include the application of resources to mitigate
consequences to workers, the public, the environment, and the national
security, and the initiation of recovery from an emergency.
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(5) Recovery must include planning for and actions taken following
termination of the emergency to return the facility/operations to normal.
(6) Readiness assurance must include assessments and documentation to
ensure that stated emergency capabilities are sufficient to implement
emergency plans.
(7) The Headquarters Operations Center must serve as the point of contact for
receipt of all emergency notifications and reports. Accordingly, the
Headquarters Operations Center receives, coordinates, and disseminates
emergency information to Headquarters elements and program office
emergency points of contact, the White House Situation Room, and other
Federal agencies.
(8) The Cognizant Field Element, as designated by the Lead Program
Secretarial Officer, provides first (lowest) level of line management
oversight of DOE/NNSA facilities/sites/activities.
(9) The Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance provides
independent oversight of the Comprehensive Emergency Management
System.
(10) Implementation of a comprehensive emergency management program at a
DOE/NNSA site/facility/activity must be commensurate with the hazards
present at that site/facility/activity (i.e., it must be developed consistent
with a graded approach).
(11) Responsibilities must be established in accordance with Chapter I of this
Order.
(12) A Headquarters Emergency Management Team must be established, as
necessary, for Operational Emergencies, Energy Emergencies, and
Emergency Assistance. The Headquarters Emergency Management Team
Plan describes the activation, mission and functions of the Headquarters
Emergency Management Team.
(13) Each DOE/NNSA site/facility must have an Operational Emergency Base
Program that implements the requirements of applicable Federal, State,
and local laws/regulations/ordinances for fundamental worker safety
programs (e.g., fire, safety, and security). These requirements are not
unique to DOE/NNSA operations. See Chapter III.
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(14) In addition to the Operational Emergency Base Program, each
DOE/NNSA site/facility with hazardous materials (radioactive, chemical,
biological agents and toxins) in sufficient quantities (radioactive or
chemical materials) or representing specific biological agents/toxins,
which pose a serious threat to workers, the public, or the environment,
must develop and maintain a quantitative Emergency Planning Hazards
Assessment (EPHA) and meet more detailed emergency planning
requirements. See Chapter IV for specific requirements pertaining to
Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Programs.
(a) Hazardous materials are any solid, liquid, or gaseous material that
is toxic, flammable, radioactive, infectious, corrosive, chemically
reactive, or unstable upon prolonged storage in quantities that
could pose a threat to life, property, or the environment. Oil, as
defined in 33 USC 1321, is “oil of any kind or in any form,
including, but not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse,
and oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil.” Consistent
with Federal law, oil is not included in the definition of hazardous
materials used in this Order.
(b) Significant quantities of radioactive and chemical materials are
quantities that exceed the thresholds outlined in Chapter III,
paragraph 3b.
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(c) At a minimum, specific hazardous biological agents and toxins
must include Federally regulated agents and toxins identified in
lists published by the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) in 42 CFR 73 and the Department of Agriculture (USDA)
in 7 CFR 331 and 9 CFR 121. Toxins listed in 42 CFR 73 and
9 CFR 121 must exceed the minimum quantities specified to be
Federally regulated.
(d) The protective action criteria for releases of hazardous materials
are listed below.
1 For radioactive material - the Protective Action Guides
(PAGs) promulgated by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) must be used.
2 For chemicals, the protective action criteria, listed in order
of preference, must be used: Acute Exposure Guideline
Levels (AEGLs) promulgated by the EPA; Emergency
Response Planning Guidelines (ERPGs) published by the
American Industrial Hygiene Association; and Temporary
Emergency Exposure Limits (TEELs) developed by DOE.
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For these criteria, the exposure level to be used represents
no irreversible health effects.
3 For hazardous biological materials identified in Base
Order, paragraph 4a (14) (c), protective action criteria are
considered exceeded and immediate protective actions are
required for any actual or potential release of agents or
toxins outside of secondary containment barriers. Long-
term protective action criteria are specified by State or
local public health officials.
(15) To ensure protection of onsite worker health and safety and ensure
consistent interfaces with offsite Emergency Response Organizations
(EROs) during an emergency involving or affecting a leased facility
owned by DOE/NNSA, arrangements with lessees must effectively
integrate the activities of a leased facility into the DOE/NNSA site-wide
emergency management program. These arrangements also pertain to
Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensed facilities and must include-
(a) a description of how each of the lessee’s emergency management
program elements are integrated into the sitewide program; and
(b) a requirement that the tenant’s hazardous material inventories be
reported to the site emergency management organization annually.
The tenant must also report prior to significant changes to the
facility or to hazardous material inventories. For example,
significant changes are those changes, which would result in an
unreviewed safety question for nuclear facilities, as defined in
10 CFR 830, or in an unreviewed safety issue for accelerator
facilities, as defined in DOE O 420.2B.
(16) Each DOE closure site/facility must adjust its Operational Emergency
Hazardous Material Program to be commensurate with the hazards that
remain.
(17) Each DOE/NNSA site/facility must declare an Operational Emergency
when a major unplanned or abnormal event or condition occurs that:
involves or affects DOE/NNSA facilities and activities by causing or
having the potential to cause serious health and safety or environmental
impacts; requires resources from outside the immediate/affected area or
local event scene to supplement the initial response; and, requires time-
urgent notifications to initiate response activities at locations beyond the
event scene. In general, to be considered an Operational Emergency, an
event or condition involving the uncontrolled release of a hazardous
material must: immediately threaten or endanger personnel who are in
close proximity of the event; have the potential for dispersal beyond the
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immediate vicinity of the release in quantities that threaten the health and
safety of onsite personnel or the public in collocated facilities, activities,
and/or offsite; and have a potential rate of dispersal sufficient to require a
time-urgent response to implement protective actions for workers and the
public. Each DOE/NNSA site/facility must classify Operational
Emergencies involving the uncontrolled airborne release of hazardous
materials as an Alert, Site Area Emergency, or General Emergency, in
order of increasing severity. See Chapter V.
(18) The Department's Energy Emergency Program must encompass events or
conditions representing, causing, or having the potential to cause, a
substantial impact on energy supply or infrastructure in a limited local
area, region of the country, or the nation as a whole. See Chapter VI.
(19) As directed by Executive Order or other binding agreements, the
Department's Emergency Assistance Program must encompass a DOE
response to national security threats or other events or conditions
requiring DOE assistance, expertise, resources, or assets, and including
Continuity of Government and Continuity of Operations Programs.
Accordingly, the Emergency Assistance Program must include all
activities whereby Departmental resources, emergency response assets,
personnel, and/or facilities are used to support Federal Plans, Presidential
directions, and State, local, or Tribal agreements of mutual aid. See
Chapter VII.
(20) Each DOE/NNSA site/facility must notify DOE/NNSA (as appropriate),
and offsite officials when emergencies occur. The notification and
reporting requirements within this Order have been coordinated with DOE
requirements for non-emergency occurrence reporting. See Chapter VIII.
(21) Each DOE/NNSA site/facility must provide accurate, candid, and timely
information about emergencies to workers and the public. See
Chapter IX.
(22) Each DOE/NNSA site/facility must establish a readiness assurance
program to ensure that stated emergency capabilities are sufficient to
implement emergency plans. See Chapter X.
(23) Each DOE/NNSA site/facility, along with other DOE/NNSA offices, must
document the emergency management program in an Emergency Plan.
See Chapter XI.
(24) To develop an effective and efficient emergency management organization
that meets the requirements of this Order and best meets local conditions,
the Cognizant Field Element Manager may approve a written request from
the contractor at a site with multiple facilities to place facility-specific
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requirements in the CRD of this Order on a site-/contractor-level
organization (such as a single, site-wide public information organization
rather than separate organizations at each facility.) The Cognizant Field
Element Manager may also decide to place facility-specific requirements
on the Cognizant Field Element organization. Placing facility-specific
requirements on the Cognizant Field Element or on a site-/contractor-level
organization does not require an exemption from this Order.
(a) Requirements placed on the Cognizant Field Element or a site-
/contractor-level organization must meet the requirements of the
Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program if the site
contains both Operational Emergency Base Program and
Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities.
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(b) The Cognizant Field Element Manager must notify the Program
Secretarial Officer(s) and the Director, Office of Emergency
Operations, in writing of any such variations. The Cognizant Field
Element Manager must ensure that the changes are noted in the
emergency plan at the facility, site/contractor, and Cognizant Field
Element levels, as appropriate, as well as in the program
description in the Emergency Readiness Assurance Plan (ERAP).
b. Planning and Preparedness. Each site/facility and DOE/NNSA element must
assess its emergency management needs to plan and implement a comprehensive
emergency management program commensurate with the hazards present (i.e.,
consistent with a graded approach).
(1) Operational Emergencies.
(a) Sites/Facilities/Activities. All Departmental elements and
contractors with responsibilities for site/facility operations and
activities must participate in the development of comprehensive
emergency management programs. Such programs must
contribute to the Department's Comprehensive Emergency
Management System by promoting effective and efficient
integration of all applicable requirements, including those
promulgated by other agencies.
(b) Cognizant Field Elements. Cognizant Field Elements must have
trained emergency response staff and must provide
sites/facilities/activities under their cognizance with the following:
1 direction to implement emergency management policy and
requirements;
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2 direction in emergency planning and preparedness
activities;
3 support and assistance during emergencies; and
4 support and assistance in resolving issues in
site/facility/activity emergency management programs, as
well as assessments of site/facility/activity emergency
management programs.
(2) Energy Emergencies. The Energy Emergency Program must be planned
to ensure that the Department is capable of assisting in the prevention and
mitigation of energy supply crises and their associated economic impacts.
The program also must provide for DOE assistance for Presidentially
declared emergencies invoking the Stafford Act (Public Law 93-288, as
amended) and as implemented through the National Response Plan. The
Energy Emergency Program may be implemented along with Emergency
Assistance.
(3) Emergency Assistance. Emergency Assistance planning and preparedness
must include preparation to deploy Departmental resources, emergency
response assets, and personnel, and/or use of facilities to support Federal
interagency plans and agreements, Presidential direction, and State, local,
or Tribal agreements of mutual aid. Emergency Assistance may be
implemented along with an Energy Emergency response.
(4) Headquarters.
(a) The Director, Office of Emergency Operations, is the single point
of contact and control for all emergency management activities,
and issues all policy, requirements, and guidance for the
Department's Emergency Management System.
(b) Program Secretarial Officers ensure implementation of policy and
requirements for activities conducted by sites/facilities and/or
Cognizant Field Elements under their authority.
(c) The Administrator, NNSA, provides programmatic direction for
the Department's radiological emergency response assets. The
Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management provides
programmatic direction for the Transportation Emergency
Preparedness Program (TEPP). The Director of Nuclear Energy,
Science, and Technology provides programmatic direction for
space nuclear system applications, including space launch and
space flight aborts. Programmatic direction for these programs
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must be provided in coordination with the Director, Office of
Emergency Operations.
c. Response.
(1) Operational Emergency Response.
(a) Site/Facility. Personnel and resources at the site/facility level
comprise the primary response capability for an Operational
Emergency.
1 Sites/facilities must direct appropriate emergency response
within the area under their control and at the scene of the
emergency, including effective coordination between the
incident commander at the event scene and the individual
in charge of overall management and coordination of
site/facility response activities.
2 Sites/facilities must promptly notify local, State, Tribal,
DOE/NNSA (as appropriate), and other regional Federal
agencies when events categorized as Operational
Emergencies occur.
(b) Cognizant Field Elements.
1 Cognizant Field Elements must monitor the facility
response, provide support, and assist with issue resolution.
2 Cognizant Field Elements must monitor the notification
process at the site/facility and make notifications of
applicable DOE/NNSA emergency events as necessary or
appropriate.
3 Cognizant Field Elements must coordinate interagency and
public information activities at the regional level and
coordinate directly with Headquarters.
4 The specific structure of Cognizant Field Element
Emergency Management Teams depends on the
relationship (contractual and geographic) to the
site/facility. All Cognizant Field Element Emergency
Management Teams must have a senior official who serves
as an emergency manager with decision-making authority
and responsibilities. Such individuals must be supported
by personnel with communications, technical, liaison, and
public affairs expertise.
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5 The Cognizant Field Element Emergency Management
Team may be activated for any emergency declaration.
(2) Energy Emergency Response. Response activities for Energy
Emergencies are normally concentrated at DOE Headquarters. DOE
responsibilities for Energy Emergencies are delineated within interagency
Federal response and recovery plans, Executive Orders, and international
agreements. DOE Headquarters must monitor Energy Emergencies for
changing requirements and brief the White House and congressional
offices when requested.
(3) Emergency Assistance Response. Response to events requiring
DOE/NNSA Emergency Assistance must be directed to appropriate
DOE/NNSA Headquarters elements. DOE/NNSA responsibilities for
Emergency Assistance are delineated within interagency Federal response
and recovery plans, Executive Orders, and/or international agreements.
DOE Headquarters must monitor such events for changing requirements,
brief the White House and congressional offices, and develop options for
continuing Departmental operations and missions.
(4) Headquarters. DOE Headquarters must receive information on the
facility, site, or area response; monitor the Cognizant Field Element
response; provide appropriate support and assistance; assist with issue
resolution; and coordinate interagency, congressional, and public
information activities at the national level.
(a) The Headquarters Emergency Management Team for Operational
Emergencies, Energy Emergencies, or Emergency Assistance must
be formed and managed in accordance with the provisions of the
Headquarters Emergency Response Plan. The Headquarters
Emergency Management Team is normally activated only for
emergencies that involve serious or potentially serious threats to
the health and safety of workers and the public, the environment,
or national security.
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(b) In accordance with the provisions of the Headquarters Emergency
Response Plan, the Emergency Management Team must use a
matrix approach to provide technical and support personnel from
appropriate Headquarters elements. The Headquarters Emergency
Management Team must also coordinate any support needed from
other Federal agencies and prepare Departmental briefings on the
emergency.
(5) Response Termination. In general, response activities are terminated
when the situation has been stabilized. At this point, potential threats to
workers, the public, the environment, and national security have been
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characterized; conditions no longer meet established emergency
categorization criteria; and it appears unlikely that conditions will
deteriorate. In coordination with response organizations, the emergency is
then declared terminated and activities focus on recovery.
d. Recovery. Mitigative, cleanup, and restoration activities may begin prior to
response termination. However, excluding recovery planning, recovery activities
fully begin following response termination. Recovery activities require the
coordinated efforts of the affected site/facility; its line management; the Office of
Emergency Operations; the Office of Environment, Safety and Health; the Office
of Environmental Management; General Counsel; and the Office of
Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. Specific recovery requirements
and procedures are established on a case-by-case basis.
5. RESPONSIBILITIES. See Chapter I.
6. IMPLEMENTATION.
a. Full compliance with the changes made to this Order must be accomplished
within 1 year of its issuance.
b. If compliance is not or cannot be completed within 1 year from issuance of this
Order, an implementation schedule must be developed by the Cognizant Field
Element and submitted to the Program Secretarial Officer with the Emergency
Readiness Assurance Plan due October 1, 2006.
c. Non-mandatory implementation guidance for this Order is published separately in
the multi-volume DOE G 151.1-1 series of Emergency Management Guides (or
replacements). DOE G 151.1-1 provides non-mandatory, supplemental
information about preferred methods for implementing requirements, including
lessons learned, suggested practices, instructions, and suggested performance
measures.
7. CONTACT. For assistance regarding this directive, contact the Director, Office of
Emergency Operations, at 202-586-9892.
SAMUEL W. BODMAN
Secretary of Energy
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CONTENTS
Chapter I. RESPONSIBILITIES
1. DEPUTY SECRETARY ..................................................................................................I-1
2. NNSA ADMINISTRATOR..............................................................................................I-1
3. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF EMERGENCY OPERATIONS.............................................I-1
4. STANDING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE ......I-2
5. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE .....................................I-2
6. HEADQUARTERS EMERGENCY MANAGER ...........................................................I-3
7. HEADQUARTERS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAM ......................................I-3
8. PROGRAM SECRETARIAL OFFICERS .......................................................................I-4
9. COGNIZANT FIELD ELEMENT MANAGERS............................................................I-5
10. SITE/FACILITY MANAGERS .......................................................................................I-7
11. INITIATORS OF PROCUREMENT REQUESTS ..........................................................I-8
12. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ENERGY ASSURANCE.......................................................I-8
13. DIRECTOR, HEADQUARTERS OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT, BUDGET, AND
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EVALUATION.................................................................................................................I-8
14. DIRECTOR, HEADQUARTERS OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS...............................I-8
Chapter II. Reserved
Chapter III. OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY BASE PROGRAM
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS ..................................................................................... III-1
2. RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS ................................................................. III-1
3. PLANNING PHASE ..................................................................................................... III-2
a. Hazards Survey .................................................................................................. III-2
b. Hazardous Material Screening Process.............................................................. III-3
c. Existing Plans .................................................................................................... III-5
d. Planning Requirements ...................................................................................... III-5
4. PREPAREDNESS PHASE............................................................................................ III-6
a. Training and Drills............................................................................................. III-6
b. Exercises ............................................................................................................ III-7
5. RESPONSE PHASE...................................................................................................... III-7
a. Response ............................................................................................................ III-7
b. Termination and Recovery................................................................................. III-7
Chapter IV. OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY HAZARDOUS MATERIAL PROGRAM
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS ..................................................................................... IV-1
2. RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS ................................................................. IV-1
3. PLANNING PHASE ..................................................................................................... IV-2
a. Emergency Planning Hazards Assessment ........................................................ IV-2
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b. Planning Requirements ...................................................................................... IV-3
4. PREPAREDNESS PHASE............................................................................................ IV-6
a. Training and Drills............................................................................................. IV-6
b. Exercises ............................................................................................................ IV-6
5. RESPONSE PHASE...................................................................................................... IV-8
a. Response ............................................................................................................ IV-8
b. Termination and Recovery................................................................................. IV-9
Chapter V. OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY EVENTS AND CONDITIONS
1. GENERAL...................................................................................................................... V-1
2. EVENTS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE CLASSIFICATION.......................................... V-1
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a. Health and Safety................................................................................................ V-1
b. Environment........................................................................................................ V-2
c. Security and Safeguards...................................................................................... V-2
d. Offsite DOE Transportation Activities ............................................................... V-3
e. Hazardous Biological Agents or Toxins............................................................. V-3
3. EVENTS REQUIRING CLASSIFICATION................................................................. V-3
a. Alert .................................................................................................................... V-4
b. Site Area Emergency .......................................................................................... V-4
c. General Emergency............................................................................................. V-5
Chapter VI. ENERGY EMERGENCY PROGRAM
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS .....................................................................................VI-1
2. RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS .................................................................VI-1
3. PLANNING PHASE .....................................................................................................VI-1
a. Hazards Assessment...........................................................................................VI-1
b. Planning Requirements ......................................................................................VI-1
4. PREPAREDNESS PHASE............................................................................................VI-2
5. RESPONSE PHASE......................................................................................................VI-2
Chapter VII. EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS ....................................................................................VII-1
2. RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS ................................................................VII-1
3. PLANNING PHASE ....................................................................................................VII-1
4. PREPAREDNESS PHASE...........................................................................................VII-2
5. RESPONSE PHASE.....................................................................................................VII-3
Chapter VIII. COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS
1. GENERAL.................................................................................................................. VIII-1
2. PLANNING PHASE .................................................................................................. VIII-1
3. PREPAREDNESS PHASE......................................................................................... VIII-1
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4. RESPONSE PHASE................................................................................................... VIII-1
a. Initial Emergency Notifications...................................................................... VIII-1
b. Emergency Status Updates ............................................................................. VIII-3
c. Responder Communications ........................................................................... VIII-3
d. Final Emergency Report ................................................................................. VIII-3
e. Recovery Reporting ........................................................................................ VIII-3
f. Review for Classified and Unclassified Controlled Information.................... VIII-3
g. Energy Emergencies and Emergency Assistance Response........................... VIII-3
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Chapter IX. PUBLIC AFFAIRS POLICY AND PLANNING REQUIREMENTS
1. GENERAL..................................................................................................................... IX-1
2. PLANNING PHASE ..................................................................................................... IX-1
3. PREPAREDNESS PHASE............................................................................................ IX-2
4. RESPONSE PHASE...................................................................................................... IX-2
Chapter X - READINESS ASSURANCE
1. GENERAL...................................................................................................................... X-1
a. Evaluations.......................................................................................................... X-1
b. Improvements ..................................................................................................... X-1
c. Emergency Readiness Assurance Plans (ERAPs) .............................................. X-1
2. Evaluations...................................................................................................................... X-1
a. Program Evaluations........................................................................................... X-1
b. Exercise Evaluations........................................................................................... X-2
c. Performance Indicators ....................................................................................... X-2
d. No-Notice Exercises ........................................................................................... X-2
3. IMPROVEMENTS......................................................................................................... X-2
a. Program Assistance............................................................................................. X-2
b. Corrective Actions .............................................................................................. X-2
c. Lessons Learned ................................................................................................. X-3
4. EMERGENCY READINESS ASSURANCE PLANS (ERAPs) ................................... X-3
a. Facilities and Activities ...................................................................................... X-3
b. Cognizant Field Element .................................................................................... X-3
c. ERAP Submittal and Approval........................................................................... X-4
Chapter XI. PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
1. PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS.................................................................................XI-1
2. REVIEW FOR CLASSIFIED OR UNCLASSIFIED CONTROLLED
INFORMATION............................................................................................................XI-1
3. EMERGENCY PLANS .................................................................................................XI-1
4. EMERGENCY PLAN IMPLEMENTING PROCEDURES.........................................XI-1
5. EMERGENCY OPERATING RECORDS PROTECTION PROGRAM .....................XI-1
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ATTACHMENT 1. PRIMARY DOE ORGANIZATIONS TO WHICH DOE O 151.1C IS
APPLICABLE
ATTACHMENT 2. CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT
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Chapter I
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. DEPUTY SECRETARY. Serves as senior Departmental emergency management
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official.
2. NNSA ADMINISTRATOR. Serves as the NNSA senior emergency management
official.
3. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF EMERGENCY OPERATIONS. Serve as DOE’s primary
point of contact for all emergency management activities.
a. Issues all policy, requirements, and guidance for the DOE/NNSA Emergency
Management System.
b. Coordinates all emergency management activities, including intra- and inter-
Departmental and international activities, Departmental commitments, and
exercise and response activities.
c. Ensures the Emergency Management System provides a comprehensive and
integrated approach to emergency management, including planning, preparedness,
response, and recovery.
d. Ensures emergency management program integrity through integration of all
programs, systems, assets, capabilities, training, and response.
e. Conducts emergency management program assistance.
f. Establishes, charters, administers, convenes, and chairs the Standing Emergency
Management Coordinating Committee.
g. Establishes, charters, administers, convenes, and chairs the Emergency
Management Advisory Committee.
h. Serves as budget and staffing advocate for emergency management programs.
i. Prepares and maintains the Headquarters Emergency Management Team Plan and
corresponding implementing procedures for the Headquarters Emergency
Management Team, in coordination with Program Secretarial Officers, and
conducts appropriate Headquarters Emergency Management Team training.
j. In accordance with the provisions of the Headquarters Emergency Management
Team Plan, serves as the Emergency Manager or designates the Emergency
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Manager for all initial activations of the Headquarters Emergency Management
Team.
k. Maintains a trained cadre of experts capable of supporting a Headquarters
response to an Operational Emergency and/or an emergency requiring Emergency
Assistance resources and capabilities.
l. In coordination with the Program Secretarial Officers and the Cognizant Field
Element managers, supports a readiness assurance program, consisting of
evaluations, improvements, and ERAPs.
m. Manages the development of implementing policies, plans, and procedures for
emergency response activities worldwide associated with nuclear weapons
programs and facilities, and all radiological and nuclear emergencies on behalf of
the United States Government.
n. Provides an annual status report on DOE and NNSA readiness assurance.
o. Ensures that effective communication systems and protocols are coordinated and
maintained between the Headquarters Operations Center, the Program Secretarial
Officer, and the Cognizant Field Element during emergencies.
4. STANDING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE.
a. Members include Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) or Associate Deputy
Assistant Secretaries (ADAS) or equivalent level from Environmental
Management; Science; Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology; Fossil Energy;
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Civilian Radioactive Waste
Management; and the Deputy or Associate Deputy Administrator of Defense
Nuclear Nonproliferation and Defense Nuclear Programs. DAS or ADAS, or
equivalent level, from Policy and International Affairs; Security and Safety
Performance Assurance; and Environment, Safety and Health serve as ex officio
members.
b. Identifies and resolves emergency management issues, or as necessary, refers
issues to the Executive Committee for resolution.
5. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
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a. Members include representatives appointed by Headquarters Program Secretarial
Officers and Cognizant Field Element managers.
b. Provides support to the Director, Office of Emergency Operations, in identifying
and resolving Department-wide emergency management issues.
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6. HEADQUARTERS EMERGENCY MANAGER.
a. Leads the Headquarters Emergency Management Team and, in conjunction with
Cognizant Secretarial Officer organizations, designates the membership of the
Team.
b. Activates the Headquarters Emergency Management Team at the direction of the
Deputy Secretary.
c. Recommends to the Deputy Secretary when the Headquarters Emergency
Management Team should be deactivated and if a recovery team is needed.
7. HEADQUARTERS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAM.
a. Provide strategic direction for the overall Departmental response.
b. Support the field response, if appropriate.
c. Serve as the Departmental point-of-contact for national level coordination.
d. Collect and analyze information about the emergency and response operations.
e. Brief senior Departmental management about the emergency.
f. Identify and address HQ-level concerns resulting from the emergency and its
impacts.
g. Coordinate HQ-level Public Affairs and Congressional Affairs-related activities.
h. Provide advice and strategic level direction on both technical and programmatic
issues.
8. PROGRAM SECRETARIAL OFFICERS.
a. Ensure implementation of emergency management policy and requirements;
maintain programs and systems consistent with policy and requirements.
b. Ensure that budget submissions for facilities and activities (including
transportation activities) are adequate for the effective implementation and
maintenance of emergency management programs, emergency response assets
and capabilities.
c. In coordination with the Director, Office of Emergency Operations, and the
Cognizant Field Elements, support a readiness assurance program, consisting of
evaluations, improvements, and ERAPs.
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d. Ensure full coordination with the Director, Office of Emergency Operations, and,
when necessary, the Lead Program Secretarial Officer and the Cognizant
Secretarial Officer, on all emergency management activities.
e. Within areas of programmatic responsibility, ensure the following.
(1) Readiness assurance activities are performed, and emergency
preparedness activities, including emergency response exercises, are fully
coordinated with the Director, Office of Emergency Operations.
(2) A system/program is established and maintained for 24-hour initial receipt
and further dissemination of emergency notifications, and a current listing
of personnel designated to perform the function is maintained and
routinely provided to the Headquarters Operations Center.
(3) Specialized technical representatives and subject matter experts are
provided when a Headquarters Emergency Management Team is
convened.
(4) Training and response is adequate in Cognizant Field Element programs.
f. Conduct line management reviews of program-specific emergency management
activities in coordination with the Director, Office of Emergency Operations.
g. Coordinate with the Director of Public Affairs and the Director, Office of
Emergency Operations, to provide for the handling and control of information on
emergency situations.
h. Assign the following:
(1) Deputy Assistant Secretary or Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary or
equivalent level to serve on the Standing Emergency Management
Coordinating Committee.
Section 14
(2) Deputy Assistant Secretary or Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary or
equivalent to serve as the senior Program Office representative on the
Headquarters Emergency Management Team.
(3) Senior representatives for the Emergency Management Advisory
Committee.
9. COGNIZANT FIELD ELEMENT MANAGERS. Function as the first (lowest)
DOE/NNSA line management level.
a. Implement emergency management policy and requirements and maintain
programs and systems consistent with policy and requirements.
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b. Establish and maintain an effective, integrated emergency management program.
c. In coordination with the Director, Office of Emergency Operations, and the
Program Secretarial Officers, support a readiness assurance program, consisting
of evaluations, improvements, and ERAPs. Ensure appropriate measures of the
effectiveness of contractor site/facility emergency management programs are
incorporated in contractual arrangements.
(1) Approve site Emergency Plans, including annual updates, and submit
approved site Emergency Plans to the Director, Office of Emergency
Operations and the Program Secretarial Officer(s).
(2) Approve and submit approved Emergency Planning Zones to the Director,
Office of Emergency Operations, and the Program Secretarial Officer(s).
(3) Assess the Cognizant Field Element emergency management program
annually and record the results of the self-assessment in the Cognizant
Field Element portion of the ERAP.
d. Coordinate with the Program Secretarial Officer(s) to ensure resources are
available to implement this Order for facilities and activities under their
cognizance.
e. Ensure development of appropriate emergency plan implementing procedures for
timely and accurate emergency classification, notification, and reporting of
emergency events for facilities under their cognizance. Establish pre-
authorization criteria when possible.
f. Ensure emergency public information planning is integrated with the development
and maintenance of Emergency Plans.
g. Ensure effective communication systems and protocols are coordinated and
maintained with the Headquarters Operations Center regarding emergencies
involving or affecting facilities or materials under DOE/NNSA jurisdiction or
requiring DOE/NNSA assistance.
h. Review and approve Emergency Readiness Assurance Plans (ERAPs) that cover
facilities under their supervision; prepare the Cognizant Field Element annual
ERAP; submit it to the Program Secretarial Officer and the Director, Office of
Emergency Operations, for inclusion in the annual report on the status of the
Emergency Management System.
i. Where applicable, pre-designate a DOE/NNSA employee as—
(1) the On Scene Coordinator when DOE/NNSA is the lead agency for
Federal responses under the National Contingency Plan or its replacement,
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(2) the Senior Federal Official when DOE/NNSA is the Coordinating Agency
under the Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex of the National Response
Plan (NRP) or its replacement, and/or
(3) the Senior Energy Official to coordinate Departmental activities under
appropriate Federal plans.
j. Participate in the development and implementation of mutual assistance
agreements with State, Tribal, and local authorities.
Section 15
k. Ensure that Emergency Planning Hazards Assessments (EPHAs) and Hazards
Surveys for emergency planning purposes are adequately performed and
documented. Ensure EPHAs and Hazards Surveys are updated every three years,
and prior to significant changes to the site/facility or to hazardous material
inventories. For example, significant changes are those changes which would
result in an unreviewed safety question for nuclear facilities, as defined in
10 CFR 830, or in an unreviewed safety issue for accelerator facilities, as defined
in DOE O 420.2B. Review and approve EPHAs and Hazards Surveys and
forward the approved EPHAs and/or Hazards Surveys to the Program Secretarial
Officer(s) and the Director, Office of Emergency Operations.
l. Ensure Cognizant Field Element personnel and contractors participate in a
continuing emergency preparedness program of training, drills, and exercises.
m. Conduct assessments of facility emergency management programs at least once
every three years and review contractor self-assessment programs annually to
ensure compliance with DOE directives and policy; provide the
results/conclusions to the Program Secretarial Officer(s) and the Director, Office
of Emergency Operations.
n. During an emergency, conduct appropriate and necessary emergency actions.
o. Implement corrective actions lessons learned from actual emergency responses
and based on findings from evaluations, assessments, and appraisals.
p. Establish and maintain an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to respond to
emergency events if not collocated with the contractor’s command center. To
maintain continuous operations, an alternate facility must be available to replace
the EOC.
q. Ensure that emergency plans and procedures are prepared, reviewed annually, and
updated, as necessary, for all facilities under their purview and are integrated
within the overall Cognizant Field Element emergency preparedness program.
r. Assign senior representatives to the Emergency Management Advisory
Committee.
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s. Comply with the requirements of the DOE 5530-series Orders or their
replacements, which establish requirements for the radiological emergency
response assets programs.
t. Integrate applicable policies and requirements, including those promulgated by
other Federal agencies (e.g., stockpiling stable iodine for possible distribution as a
radiological protective prophylaxis) and interagency emergency plans into
appropriate DOE/NNSA emergency plans.
u. Notify contracting officers of affected contracts to incorporate the CRD of this
Order into those contracts.
v. Effectively integrate the activities of a leased facility and Nuclear Regulatory
Commission licensed facilities into the DOE/NNSA sitewide emergency
management program, and ensure that lease arrangements include: a description
of how each of the lessee’s emergency management program elements is
integrated into the sitewide program; and, a requirement that tenant hazardous
material inventories are reported to the site emergency management organization
annually or when inventories change.
w. Approve site exercise packages prior to the exercise.
10. SITE/FACILITY MANAGERS. The manager of a government-owned, government-
operated site/facility must:
a. Develop, implement, maintain, and update, as necessary, an emergency
management program, commensurate with the facility-specific hazards and
consistent with Departmental directives and standards of performance.
Section 16
b. Prepare and maintain emergency plans, procedures, and technical resource
capabilities that address emergency classification, notification, reporting,
response actions, training and drills, exercises, emergency public information,
outreach and coordination, accident investigation, and applicable Federal statutes,
State and local laws, DOE Orders, and implementing regulations and guidance.
c. Prepare and submit the following to the Cognizant Field Element manager for
approval: Hazards Surveys and EPHAs, documentation to establish Emergency
Planning Zones, Emergency Plans, and ERAPs.
d. Direct and/or support appropriate emergency response actions within the area
under their control and at the scene of the emergency.
e. Participate in the development of mutual assistance agreements with State, Tribal,
and local authorities.
f. Ensure the effectiveness of a continuing emergency preparedness program.
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g. Establish and maintain an internal assessment program to ensure the readiness of
emergency response capabilities, including developing and conducting a self-
assessment program, as well as establishing systems and measures to monitor and
evaluate line performance.
11. INITIATORS OF PROCUREMENT REQUESTS must specify in procurement requests
if the requirements in the Contractor Requirements Document for this Order are to be
applied to the award or subaward resulting from the procurement request.
12. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ENERGY ASSURANCE develops and maintains the DOE
Energy Emergency Program and necessary plans and implementing procedures. Provide
copies of the plans to the Director, Office of Emergency Operations.
13. DIRECTOR, HEADQUARTERS OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT, BUDGET AND
EVALUATION develops and maintains the DOE (and NNSA) Headquarters Occupant
Emergency Program and necessary plans and implementing procedures.
14. DIRECTOR, HEADQUARTERS OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. In coordination with
the NNSA Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs, develop and maintain the DOE
Headquarters Emergency Public Information Plan and necessary implementing
procedures. Provide copies of the plan to the Program Secretarial Officers and the
Director, Office of Emergency Operations.
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Chapter II - [Reserved]
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Chapter III
OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY BASE PROGRAM
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS. Each DOE/NNSA site/facility must have an Operational
Emergency Base Program that provides the framework for response to serious events
involving health and safety, the environment, safeguards, and security. These events are
not unique to DOE/NNSA operations. Any event involving the release of oil is within
the scope of the Operational Emergency Base Program.
2. RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS. The Operational Emergency Base Program
must provide for compliance with the following regulations and plans developed by other
Federal Agencies and DOE/NNSA Offices, and with those State and local planning and
preparedness requirements that apply.
a. Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements for employee
evacuation plans (29 CFR 1910.38) and notification systems
(29 CFR 1910.165).
b. Federal property management regulations for occupant emergency programs
(41 CFR 102-74.235 to 102-74.260) and accident and fire prevention
(41 CFR 102-74-360).
c. Federal Emergency Management Agency requirements for emergency
operations plans for State and local governments (44 CFR 302) that address
similar hazards.
Section 17
d. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requirements for emergency plans
(18 CFR 12.20) to protect the health and safety of members of the public
upstream and downstream of water projects (dams).
e. Environmental Protection Agency requirements implementing the Clean Water
Act through the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (40 CFR 104
through 129). (Of particular note are requirements for contingency planning for
oil spills through the 40 CFR 112 series, which mandates preparation of Spill
Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plans).
f. Environmental Protection Agency requirements implementing the provisions of
the Safe Drinking Water Act (40 CFR 141-142).
g. Environmental Protection Agency requirements implementing the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, embodied in the
40 CFR 300 series, including Title III, the Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act, embodied at 40 CFR 355.
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h. Department of Transportation requirements for emergency response information
(49 CFR 172.600 series) and hazardous materials training
(49 CFR 172.700 series).
i. DOE O 420.1A, Facility Safety, dated 5-20-02, which addresses requirements for
fire protection programs. Some requirements must be incorporated into the
facility emergency plan, including response by DOE/NNSA or local community
fire departments.
j. DOE O 440.1A, Worker Protection for DOE Federal and Contractor Employees,
dated 3-27-98, which addresses requirements for planning for treatment of the
injured during emergency or disaster situations.
k. DOE O 470.1, Safeguards and Security Program, Chg 1, dated 6-21-96, which
addresses requirements for appropriate protection levels for DOE interests and
documentation in facility-specific Site Safeguards and Security Plans.
l. DOE N 473.9, Security Conditions, dated 7-8-04, which ensures that the
Department uniformly meets the protection requirements specified in Presidential
Decision Directive 39, U.S. Policy on Counterterrorism (U).
m. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),
which restricts access to individual medical information.
3. PLANNING PHASE.
a. Hazards Survey. A Hazards Survey must be used to identify the conditions to be
addressed by the comprehensive emergency management program. Much of the
Hazards Survey should already have been done in the course of meeting other
DOE and Federal agency requirements.
(1) Each Hazards Survey must—
(a) identify (e.g., in matrix or tabular form) the emergency conditions
(e.g., fires, work place accidents, natural phenomena, etc.);
(b) describe the potential health, safety, or environmental impacts;
(c) indicate the need for further analyses of hazardous materials in an
EPHA, based on the results of the hazardous material screening
process described in paragraph 3b below; and
(d) identify the planning and preparedness requirements that apply to
each type of hazard.
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(2) A Hazards Survey may cover multiple facilities. One Hazards Survey
may be prepared to cover an entire site.
(3) Hazards surveys must be updated every three years, and prior to
significant changes to the site/facility or to hazardous material
inventories. For example, significant changes are those changes which
would result in an unreviewed safety question for nuclear facilities, as
defined in 10 CFR 830, or in an unreviewed safety issue for accelerator
facilities, as defined in DOE O 420.2B. Changes that result in a
reduction of hazards with no adverse effect on safety or emergency
preparedness or response may be included in the next scheduled review
and update.
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b. A Hazardous Material Screening Process must identify specific hazardous
materials and quantities that, if released, could produce impacts consistent with
the definition of an Operational Emergency. The potential release of these
materials to the environment requires further analysis in an EPHA. The release of
hazardous materials less than the quantities listed below does not require
quantitative analysis in an EPHA.
(1) In general, to meet the definition of an Operational Emergency [See
Chapter V], the release of a hazardous material must: immediately
threaten or endanger personnel and emergency responders who are in
close proximity of the event; have the potential for dispersal beyond the
immediate vicinity of the release in quantities that threaten the health and
safety of onsite personnel or the public in collocated facilities, activities,
and/or offsite; and have a potential rate of dispersal sufficient to require a
time-urgent response to implement protective actions for workers and the
public.
(2) The hazardous material screening process must identify all hazardous
materials in a facility/activity that require further analysis in an EPHA.
(a) Radioactive Materials:
1 All radioactive materials in a facility/activity must be
subjected to a hazardous material screening process.
2 Radioactive materials that may be excluded from further
analysis in an EPHA include: sealed radioactive sources
that are engineered to pass the special form testing
specified by the Department of Transportation (DOT) or
the American National Standards Institute (ANSI);
materials in solid form for which there is no plausible
dispersal mechanism; materials stored in DOT Type B
shipping containers with overpack, if the Certificates of
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Compliance are current and the materials stored are
authorized by the Certificate; and, materials used in
exempt, commercially available products.
3 Radioactive hazardous materials that require further
analysis in an EPHA include the radioactive materials
listed in DOE-STD-1027-92 in quantities greater than the
Category 3 values given in Attachment 1, Table A.1 of that
Standard.
(b) Chemicals:
1 All chemicals in a facility/activity with known or suspected
toxic properties must be subjected to a hazardous material
screening process.
2 Chemicals that may be excluded from further analysis
in an EPHA include: materials used in the same form,
quantity, and concentration as a product packaged for
distribution and use by the general public; materials
that have a Health Hazard rating of 0, 1 or 2 based on
NFPA 704; or solid or liquid materials that, because of
their physical form or other factors (e.g., plausible
dispersal mechanisms), do not present an airborne
exposure hazard.
3 Chemical hazardous materials that require further
analysis in an EPHA include chemicals with an assigned
Health Hazard rating of 3 or 4 based on National Fire
Protection Association (NFPA) 704 in quantities greater
than a quantity that can be “easily and safely
manipulated by one person” [see 29 CFR 1910.1450(b)].
Chemicals without an assigned Health Hazard rating
require further analysis in an EPHA if the quantity is
greater than a quantity that can be “easily and safely
manipulated by one person.” Quantities of chemical
hazardous materials considered to be "easily and safely
manipulated by one person" can be locally-determined in
accordance with the provisions of
29 CFR 1910.1450(b).
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(c) Biological Hazardous Agents and Toxins. Hazardous biological
agents and toxins identified in Base Order paragraph 4a (14) (c)
require an EPHA and a Hazardous Material Program.
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(d) The possibility that excluded materials could initiate, through fires
or explosions, the release of other hazardous materials must be
considered.
(3) If the screening process identifies at least one hazardous material requiring
further analysis, the Hazards Survey must indicate that an EPHA is needed
for that facility or activity.
(4) A description of the screening process and the results of its application to
the hazardous materials in the facility/activity must be included in the
Hazards Survey or incorporated by reference into supporting
documentation.
(a) For facilities/activities requiring an EPHA, this documentation
must be referenced or included in the EPHA.
(b) If the quantitative analysis indicates that all events would be
classified as less than an Alert, an EPHA is not required to be
maintained. The results of the hazardous material screening
process and the quantitative analysis may be incorporated directly
into the Hazards Survey or may be incorporated by reference in the
Hazards Survey.
c. Existing Plans. Existing plans, such as catastrophic earthquake plans or mass
casualty plans detailing compliance with Federal, State, and local standards, may
be incorporated directly into the Operational Emergency Base Program or
invoked by reference.
d. Planning Requirements. The Operational Emergency Base Program must provide
for integrated planning to meet the response requirements identified in the
Hazards Survey. At a minimum, the Operational Emergency Base Program must
address the following:
(1) Emergency Response Organization. Assignment of an individual (e.g.,
building or facility manager or similar position) to manage and control all
aspects of the site/facility response.
(2) Offsite Response Interfaces. Coordination with State, Tribal, and local
agencies and organizations responsible for offsite emergency response
(e.g., "911" emergencies) and for protection of the health and safety of the
public.
(3) Emergency Categorization.
(a) Establishment of criteria for determining quickly if an event is an
Operational Emergency. See Chapter V.
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(b) An event must be categorized as an Operational Emergency as
promptly as possible, but no later than 15 minutes after event
recognition/identification/discovery.
(4) Communications. Prompt initial notification of workers, emergency
response personnel, and response organizations, including DOE/NNSA
elements and State, Tribal, and local organizations, and continuing
effective communication among response organizations throughout an
emergency. See Chapter VIII.
(5) Protective Actions. Evacuation or sheltering of employees, along with
provisions to account for employees after emergency evacuation has been
completed; protection of workers involved in response and clean-up
covered by 29 CFR 1910.120.
(6) Medical Support. In accordance with DOE O 440.1A, provision of
medical treatment and planning for mass casualty situations. Sharing
patient information between onsite and offsite health care providers during
emergencies must be coordinated in advance and consistent with the
requirements of HIPAA.
(7) Public Information. See Chapter IX.
Section 20
(8) Emergency Facilities and Equipment. Provision of facilities and equipment
adequate to support emergency response, including the capability to notify
employees of an emergency to facilitate the safe evacuation of employees
from the work place, immediate work area, or both.
(9) Program Administration. See Chapter XI.
4. PREPAREDNESS PHASE.
a. Training and Drills.
(1) Initial training and periodic drills must be provided to all workers who
may be required to take protective actions (e.g., shelter-in-place;
assembly, evacuation). This training is required when they are employed,
when their expected actions change, or when the emergency plan changes.
(2) Refresher training must be provided annually to certified operators and
supervisors and those workers who are likely to witness a hazardous
material release and who are required to notify proper authorities of the
release.
(3) Emergency-related information and training on site-specific conditions
and hazards must be made available to offsite personnel who may be
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required to participate in response to an emergency at the DOE/NNSA
site/facility.
b. Exercises.
(1) At a minimum, each site/facility must conduct building evacuation
exercises consistent with Federal regulations [e.g., (41 CFR 102-74-360)],
local ordinances, or National Fire Protection Association Standards.
Exercises must be conducted at least annually to ensure that employees
are able to safely evacuate their work area.
(2) For each site or facility, as applicable, the organization responsible for
communications with DOE Headquarters, the Cognizant Field Element,
and offsite agencies must test communications systems at least annually or
as often as needed to ensure that communications systems are operational.
5. RESPONSE PHASE.
a. Response.
(1) Each site/facility must conduct activities to resolve the emergency
situation.
(2) Reentry planning must include contingency planning to ensure the safety
of reentry personnel, such as planning for the rescue of reentry teams. All
individuals involved in reentry must receive a hazards/safety briefing prior
to emergency response activities consistent with Federal, State, and local
laws and regulations.
(3) Events exceeding the threshold levels for Operational Emergencies as
detailed in Chapter V require notification in accordance with
Chapter VIII.
b. Termination and Recovery. Termination must be coordinated with State, Tribal,
and local agencies and organizations responsible for offsite emergency response
and notification. Recovery must include establishment of criteria for resumption
of normal operations. Recovery must also include investigation of the root
cause(s) of the emergency and corrective action(s) to prevent recurrence in
accordance with Departmental requirements (e.g., see DOE O 225.1A, Accident
Investigations, dated 11-26-97, DOE O 231.1A, Environment, Safety, and Health
Reporting, with Change 1dated 6-3-04, and DOE 5480.19, Conduct of Operations
Requirements for DOE Facilities, with Change 2, dated 10-23-01).
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Chapter IV
OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY HAZARDOUS MATERIAL PROGRAM
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS. The Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Section 21
Program adds to the Operational Emergency Base Program. If required based on the
findings of the Hazards Survey (see Chapter III), DOE/NNSA sites/facilities and
activities must establish and maintain a quantitative EPHA. The EPHA must be used to
define the provisions of the Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program,
ensuring that the program is commensurate with the hazards identified. The EPHA
provides the basis for establishing a graded approach that will meet the program
requirements outlined in this chapter.
2. RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS. The following regulations and plans have
been developed by Congress, other Federal agencies, and DOE/NNSA offices. They
establish requirements similar to those required within the Operational Emergency
Hazardous Material Program and should be integrated, where applicable, to ensure a
standard approach and continuity of effort. Newly issued or revised regulations and
plans should be incorporated in accordance with corresponding implementation
requirements or as soon as reasonably achievable (e.g., during the performance of the
Emergency Planning Hazards Assessment review/update).
a. Congress has directed that emergency planning and preparedness be improved for
hazardous material releases through provisions of the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act of 1976, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, and the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990. Implementing regulations have been issued or are
forthcoming.
b. The Environmental Protection Agency has published emergency planning
requirements in the 40 CFR 68 series for industries using hazardous materials.
c. The Environmental Protection Agency has published regulations regarding
emergency planning for hazardous material waste sites through the 40 CFR 260
and 265 series. These requirements are generally implemented at DOE/NNSA
sites as part of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Part B permit
process, with an emergency plan being part of the permit submission.
d. The Environmental Protection Agency has established requirements in
40 CFR 116 and 117 for limiting discharge of hazardous chemicals through the
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permits.
e. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has established requirements
for preventing or minimizing the consequences of catastrophic release of toxic,
reactive, flammable, or explosive chemicals in 29 CFR 1910.119.
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f. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has established requirements
for emergency planning, preparedness, and response in 29 CFR 1910.120.
g. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has established emergency planning
and preparedness requirements as part of its licensing process for reactors, in
10 CFR 50, in particular Appendix E, and for other facilities using special nuclear
materials, in 10 CFR 70. This applies only to those facilities licensed by the
NRC.
h. The Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan has been replaced by the
Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex of the National Response Plan (NRP), to
guide Federal response to a peacetime radiological accident.
i. The National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan, or
National Contingency Plan, is published in 40 CFR 300 to provide the
organizational structure and procedures for Federal preparation for and response
to discharges of oil and releases of hazardous substances.
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j. The Environmental Protection Agency has published Protective Action Guides to
which the exposure level resulting from radiological releases is compared for
determining whether protective actions should be implemented.
k. The American Industrial Hygiene Association has published Emergency
Response Planning Guidelines to which the exposure level resulting from the
release of non-radiological material is compared for determining whether
protective actions should be implemented.
3. PLANNING PHASE.
a. Emergency Planning Hazards Assessment.
(1) The release of or loss of control of hazardous materials must be
quantitatively analyzed in an Emergency Planning Hazards Assessment
(EPHA).
(a) If the EPHA indicates the potential for an Alert, Site Area
Emergency, or General Emergency, as defined in Chapter V, the
results of the analysis must be used to determine the necessary
personnel, resources, and equipment for the Operational
Emergency Hazardous Material Program.
(b) If the quantitative analysis indicates that all events would be
classified as less than an Alert, an EPHA is not required to be
maintained. The results of the hazardous material screening
process and the quantitative analysis may be incorporated directly
into the Hazards Survey or may be incorporated by reference in the
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Hazards Survey. The minimum program requirements must
encompass the requirements for Hazardous Waste Operations and
Emergency Response found in 29 CFR 1910.120 and the
requirements specified in Chapter III of this Order.
(2) An accurate and timely method for tracking changes in operations
processes, or accident analyses that involve hazardous materials (e.g.,
introduction of new materials, new uses, significant changes in
inventories, modification of material environments) must be established
and maintained for each facility/activity. The method must allow
sufficient time for emergency management personnel to review the EPHA
and modify plans and procedures, as necessary. For example, significant
changes are those changes which would result in an unreviewed safety
question for nuclear facilities, as defined in 10 CFR 830, or in an
unreviewed safety issue for accelerator facilities, as defined in
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(3) The EPHA must be reviewed at least every three years and updated prior
to significant changes to the site/facility or hazardous material inventories.
Changes that result in a reduction of hazards with no adverse effect on
safety or emergency preparedness and response may be included in the
next scheduled review and update.
(4) The EPHA must include a determination of the size of the Emergency
Planning Zone (EPZ). The EPZ is the geographic area surrounding the
site/facility for which special planning and preparedness actions are taken
or need to be taken to reduce or minimize the impact to onsite personnel
and public health and safety in the event of an Operational Emergency
involving hazardous materials. Assumptions, methodology, models, and
evaluation techniques used in the Emergency Planning Hazards
Assessment must be documented.
(5) The Office of Secure Transportation (OST) must develop an EPHA for
OST shipments to provide the technical planning basis for the OST
Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program.
(6) An EPHA must be developed for shipments that do not satisfy governing
DOT regulations and specifications for commercial hazardous materials
transport. However, if a shipment satisfies DOT regulations and
specifications, then an EPHA is not required.
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b. Planning Requirements.
(1) Emergency Response Organization. This organization must be established
and maintained for each site/facility with overall responsibility for the
initial and ongoing response to and mitigation of an emergency. Control
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at the event/incident scene must be consistent with the National Incident
Management System’s Incident Command System, which integrates local
agencies and organizations that provide onsite response services.
(2) Offsite Response Interfaces. Offsite response interfaces have the same
requirements as for the Operational Emergency Base Program although
additional offsite organizations may be involved.
(3) Emergency Classification. Provisions must be established to categorize
and classify (determine the emergency class) emergency events.
(a) Hazardous material emergencies involving DOE/NNSA facilities
must be classified in accordance with Chapter V.
(b) Site/facility-specific Emergency Action Levels must be developed
for the spectrum of potential Operational Emergencies identified
by the Emergency Planning Hazards Assessment and must include
protective actions corresponding to each Emergency Action Level
(EAL).
(4) Communications. See Chapter VIII.
(5) Consequence Assessment. Provisions must be established to adequately
assess the potential or actual onsite and offsite consequences of an
emergency.
(a) Consequence assessments must—
1 be timely throughout the emergency;
2 be integrated with the event classification and protective
action process;
3 incorporate monitoring of specific indicators and field
measurements; and
4 be coordinated with Federal, State, local, and Tribal
organizations.
(b) The National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC)
capability must be used as the primary source of consequence
assessment information, the backup to a primary source of
consequence assessment, the primary source for consequence
assessment at distances beyond the scope of local consequence
assessment capability, or as a source for corroborating or
confirming consequence assessment information.
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1 If the facility has the potential for an Operational
Emergency classified as a General Emergency, the
facility/site must have connectivity to NARAC capabilities
and procedures to use the NARAC capability effectively as
part of near real-time consequence assessment activities for
the mode (primary, backup, corroborating) selected by the
facility.
2 If the facility has the potential for an Operational
Emergency classified as a Site Area Emergency, the
facility/site must have procedures in place to activate or
request NARAC capabilities and must be able to use those
capabilities as part of near real-time consequence
assessment activities.
3 All DOE/NNSA facilities/sites that have access to NARAC
or have procedures in place to activate or request NARAC
capabilities must ensure that facility/site meteorological
data and information on source terms for actual or potential
releases of hazardous materials to the atmosphere are
available or can be made available to NARAC in a timely
manner to facilitate near real-time computations.
(6) Protective Actions. Protective actions must be predetermined for onsite
personnel and the public and must include—
(a) methods for controlling, monitoring, and maintaining records of
personnel exposures to hazardous materials;
(b) procedures to implement the separate protective actions of
evacuation and sheltering of employees;
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(c) methods for controlling access to contaminated areas and for
decontaminating personnel or equipment exiting the area;
(d) actions that may be taken to increase the effectiveness of
protective actions [i.e., heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
(HVAC) shutdown during sheltering];
(e) methods for providing timely recommendations to appropriate
State, Tribal, or local authorities of protective actions, such as
sheltering, evacuation, relocation, and food control; and
(f) specific protective action criteria, based on the Base Order,
paragraph 4a(14), for use in protective action decision making.
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(7) Medical Support. Medical support must be planned in accordance with
DOE O 440.1A for workers contaminated by hazardous material. Medical
support must include documented arrangements with onsite and offsite
medical facilities to accept and treat contaminated, injured personnel.
(8) Public Information. See Chapter IX.
(9) Emergency Facilities and Equipment. Facilities and equipment adequate
to support emergency response must be available and maintained as
follows.
(a) A facility must be available for use as a command center.
(b) Provisions must be established for use of an alternate location if
the primary command center is not available.
(c) Adequate personal protective equipment and other equipment and
supplies must be available and operable to meet the needs
determined by the results of the Emergency Planning Hazards
Assessment.
(10) Program Administration. See Chapter XI.
4. PREPAREDNESS PHASE.
a. Training and Drills. A coordinated program of training and drills for developing
and/or maintaining specific emergency response capabilities must be an integral
part of the emergency management program. The program must apply to
emergency response personnel and organizations that the site/facility expects to
respond to onsite emergencies. Emergency-related information must be available
to offsite response organizations. The program must consist of self-
study/homework, training, and drills.
(1) Training. Both initial training and annual refresher training must be
provided for the instruction of and demonstration of proficiency by all
personnel (i.e., primary and alternate) comprising the emergency response
organization.
(2) Drills. Drills must provide supervised, "hands-on" training for members
of emergency response organizations.
b. Exercises. A formal exercise program must be established to validate all elements
of the emergency management program over a five-year period. Each exercise
must have specific objectives and must be fully documented (e.g., by scenario
packages that include objectives, scope, timelines, injects, controller instructions,
and evaluation criteria). Exercises must be evaluated. A critique process, which
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includes gathering and documenting observations of the participants, must be
established. Corrective action items identified as a result of the critique process
must be incorporated into the emergency management program.
(1) Sites/Facilities.
(a) Each DOE/NNSA facility subject to this chapter must exercise its
emergency response capability annually and include at least
facility-level evaluation and critique. Evaluations of annual
facility exercises by Departmental entities (e.g., Cognizant Field
Element, Program Secretarial Officer or Headquarters Office of
Security and Safety Performance Assurance) must be performed
periodically so that each facility has an external Departmental
evaluation at least every three years.
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(b) Site-level emergency response organization elements and
resources must participate in a minimum of one exercise annually.
This site exercise must be designed to test and demonstrate the
site's integrated emergency response capability. For multiple-
facility sites, the basis for the exercise must be rotated among
facilities.
(c) Offsite response organizations must be invited to participate in
site-wide exercises at least once every three years.
(d) Annual emergency response exercises must be supported by
documentation that contains, but is not limited to, the exercise
scope, its objectives and corresponding evaluation criteria, a
narrative description of the scenario, timeline, and a list of
participants. Documentation for site exercises must be approved
by the Cognizant Field Element. After approval, the Cognizant
Field Element submits the approved exercise package to the
Program Secretarial Officer(s), and the Director, Office of
Emergency Operations for information, preferably 30 days prior to
the conduct of the exercise.
(e) Evaluation reports for facility and site exercises must be completed
within 30-working days and submitted to the Cognizant Field
Element, the Program Secretarial Officer(s), and the Director,
Office of Emergency Operations.
(f) Corrective action plans must be completed within 30-working days
of receipt of the final facility and site exercise evaluation report.
(g) Completion of corrective actions for all facility and site exercises
must include a verification and validation process, independent of
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those who performed the corrective action, that verifies that the
corrective action has been put in place and that validates that the
corrective action has been effective in resolving the original
finding. Corrective actions involving revision of procedures or
training of personnel should be completed before the next exercise.
(2) Emergency Response Assets. Exercises of each of the Department's
radiological emergency response assets must be conducted at least once
every three years. These assets include the Accident Response Group
(ARG), Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST), Federal Radiological
Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC), Aerial Measuring System
(AMS), National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC),
Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS), and
Radiological Assistance Program (RAP).
5. RESPONSE PHASE.
a. Response. Emergencies involving hazardous materials require time-urgent
response actions to minimize or prevent unacceptable consequences. Events must
be classified on the basis of potential severity of the consequences as detailed in
Chapter V. Response actions must be implemented accordingly.
(1) Declaration of an Alert does not necessarily require the activation of
response centers, but does require availability of personnel and resources
to—
(a) continuously assess pertinent information for DOE/NNSA decision
makers, offsite authorities, the public, and other appropriate
entities;
(b) conduct appropriate assessments, investigations, or preliminary
sampling and monitoring;
(c) mitigate the severity of the occurrence or its consequences; and
(d) prepare for other response actions should the situation become
more serious, requiring emergency response organizations to
mobilize or activate resources.
(2) Declaration of a Site Area Emergency requires the same response as for an
Alert plus—
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(a) initiation of predetermined protective actions for onsite personnel;
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(b) notification and assembly of emergency response personnel and
equipment to activate response centers and to establish
communications, consultation, and liaison with offsite authorities;
(c) provision of information to the public and the media;
(d) implementation of or assistance in any evacuations and sheltering;
and
(e) mobilization of appropriate emergency response groups or
protective/security forces for immediate dispatch should the
situation become more serious.
(3) Declaration of a General Emergency requires the same response as for a
Site Area Emergency, plus the notification, mobilization, and dispatch of
all appropriate emergency response personnel and equipment, including
appropriate DOE emergency response assets, and liaison with offsite
authorities for the recommendation of predetermined public protective
actions.
b. Termination and Recovery.
(1) Predetermined criteria for termination of emergencies must be
established/developed.
(2) The means must exist for estimating exposure to hazardous materials and
for protecting workers and the general public from exposure during
reentry and recovery activities.
(3) Recovery procedures must include: dissemination of information to
Federal, State, Tribal, and local organizations regarding the emergency
and possible relaxation of public protective actions; planning for
decontamination actions; establishment of a recovery organization;
development of reporting requirements; and establishment of criteria for
resumption of normal operations.
(4) Emergencies, once categorized, must not be downgraded to a lower
significance category unless the original categorization was incorrect. An
event determined to be an emergency will remain so until the emergency
response is terminated. In general, the emergency classification (i.e.,
Alert, Site Area Emergency, General Emergency) should not be
downgraded until termination of the event. However, emergency
classification must be reviewed periodically to ensure the classification is
commensurate with response activities.
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Chapter V
OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY EVENTS AND CONDITIONS
1. GENERAL. Operational Emergencies are major unplanned or abnormal events or
conditions that: involve or affect DOE/NNSA facilities and activities by causing or
having the potential to cause serious health and safety or environmental impacts; require
resources from outside the immediate/affected area or local event scene to supplement
the initial response; and, require time-urgent notifications to initiate response activities at
locations beyond the event scene. Such emergencies represent, cause, or have the
potential to cause the events or conditions described below.
Incidents that can be controlled by employees or maintenance personnel in the
immediate/affected facility or area are not Operational Emergencies. Incidents that do
not pose a significant hazard to safety, health, and/or the environment and that do not
require a time-urgent response are not Operational Emergencies.
Note that the initiating events described below are not all-inclusive. Other initiating
events that warrant categorization as Operational Emergencies must be included in
site/facility-specific procedures. Less severe events are reported through the process
described in DOE O 231.1A, Environment, Safety, and Health Reporting, dated 8-19-03.
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2. EVENTS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE CLASSIFICATION. An Operational Emergency
must be declared when events occur that represent a significant degradation in the level
of safety at a site/facility and that require time-urgent response efforts from outside the
site/facility. These events do not require classification (i.e., as Alert, Site Area
Emergency, or General Emergency). Such events include the following.
a. Health and Safety. The following events or conditions represent, cause, or have
the potential to cause serious health and safety impacts to workers or members of
the public.
(1) The discovery of radioactive or other hazardous material contamination
from past DOE/NNSA operations that may have caused, is causing, or
may reasonably be expected to cause uncontrolled personnel exposures
exceeding protective action criteria.
(2) An offsite hazardous material event not associated with DOE/NNSA
operations that is observed to have or is predicted to have an impact on a
DOE/NNSA site, such that protective actions are required for onsite
DOE/NNSA workers.
(3) An occurrence (e.g., earthquake, tornado, aircraft crash, fire, explosion)
that causes or can reasonably be expected to cause significant structural
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damage to DOE/NNSA facilities, with confirmed or suspected personnel
injury or death.
(4) Any facility evacuation in response to an actual occurrence that requires
time-urgent response by specialist personnel, such as hazardous material
responders or mutual aid groups not normally assigned to the affected
facility.
(5) An unplanned nuclear criticality.
(6) Any mass casualty event.
b. Environment. The following events or conditions represent, cause, or have the
potential to cause serious detrimental effects on the environment.
(1) Any actual or potential release of hazardous material or regulated
pollutant to the environment, in a quantity greater than five times the
Reportable Quantity (RQ) specified for such material in 40 CFR 302, that
could result in significant offsite consequences, such as major wildlife
kills, wetland degradation, aquifer contamination, or the need to secure
downstream water supply intakes.
(2) Any release of greater than 1,000 gallons (24 barrels) of oil to inland
waters; greater than 10,000 gallons (238 barrels) of oil to coastal waters;
or a quantity of oil that could result in significant off-site consequences
(e.g., need to relocate people, major wildlife kills, wet-land degradation,
aquifer contamination, need to secure downstream water supply intakes,
etc.) [Oil as defined by the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1321) means any
kind of oil and includes petroleum.]
c. Security and Safeguards. (Security incidents are also subject to reporting in
accordance with DOE O 471.4, Incidents of Security Concern. Per this Order,
foreign involvement in security incidents must be reported to the Office of
Counterintelligence.) The following events or conditions represent, cause, or
have the potential to cause degradation of security or safeguards conditions with
actual or potential direct harm to people or the environment.
(1) Actual unplanned detonation of an explosive device or a credible threat of
detonation resulting from the location of a confirmed or suspicious
explosive device.
(2) An actual terrorist attack or sabotage event involving a DOE/NNSA
site/facility or operation.
(3) Kidnapping or taking hostage(s) involving a DOE/NNSA site/facility or
operation.
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d. Offsite DOE Transportation Activities. The following events or conditions
represent an actual or potential release of hazardous materials from a DOE/NNSA
shipment.
(1) Any accident/incident involving an offsite DOE/NNSA shipment
containing hazardous materials that causes the initial responders to initiate
protective actions at locations beyond the immediate/affected area. .
(2) Failures in safety systems threaten the integrity of a nuclear weapon,
component, or test device.
(3) A transportation accident results in damage to a nuclear explosive, nuclear
explosive-like assembly, or Category I/II quantity of Special Nuclear
Materials.
e. Hazardous Biological Agent or Toxins. The following events or conditions
involving the release of a hazardous biological agent or toxin [identified in Base
Order, paragraph 4a(14)(c)] represent major failure of safety systems, protocols,
and/or practices with the potential to have a serious impact on health and safety of
workers, collocated workers, emergency responders, members of the public, or
the environment:
(1) Any actual or potential release of a hazardous biological agent or toxin
outside of the secondary barriers of the biocontainment area.
3. EVENTS REQUIRING CLASSIFICATION. Operational Emergencies must be
classified as either an Alert, Site Area Emergency, or General Emergency, in order of
increasing severity, when events occur that represent a specific threat to workers and the
public due to the release or potential release of significant quantities of hazardous
materials from DOE/NNSA facilities/activities/operations, as described below.
Classification aids in the rapid communication of critical information and the initiation of
appropriate time-urgent emergency response actions. Events listed in paragraph 2, this
chapter, that serve as initiating events for the release of hazardous materials must be
classified under the provisions of this section.
a. Alert. An Alert must be declared when events are predicted, are in progress, or
have occurred that result in one or more of the following.
(1) An actual or potential substantial degradation in the level of control over
hazardous materials.
(a) The radiation dose from any release to the environment of
radioactive material or a concentration in air of other hazardous
material is expected to exceed either—
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1 a site-specific criterion corresponding to 10 percent of the
applicable Protective Action Criterion [see Base Order,
paragraph 4a(14)] at or beyond the facility boundary, or
2 the applicable Protective Action Criterion [see Base Order,
paragraph 4a(14)] at or beyond 30 meters from the point of
release to the environment.
(b) It is not expected that the applicable Protective Action Criterion
[see Base Order, paragraph 4a(14)] will be exceeded at or beyond
the facility boundary.
(2) An actual or potential substantial degradation in the level of safety or
security of a nuclear weapon, component, or test device that would not
pose an immediate threat to workers or the public.
(3) An actual or potential substantial degradation in the level of safety or
security of a facility or process that could, with further degradation,
produce a Site Area Emergency or General Emergency.
b. Site Area Emergency. A Site Area Emergency must be declared when events are
predicted, in progress, or have occurred that result in one or more of the following
situations.
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(1) An actual or potential major failure of functions necessary for the
protection of workers or the public. The radiation dose from any release
of radioactive material or concentration in air from any release of other
hazardous material is expected to exceed the applicable Protective Action
Criterion [see Base Order, paragraph 4a(14)] at or beyond the facility
boundary. The Protective Action Criterion is not expected to be exceeded
at or beyond the site boundary.
(2) An actual or potential threat to the integrity of a nuclear weapon,
component, or test device that may adversely impact the health and safety
of workers in the immediate area, but not the public.
(3) Actual or potential major degradation in the level of safety or security of a
facility or process that could, with further degradation, produce a General
Emergency.
c. General Emergency. A General Emergency must be declared when events are
predicted, in progress, or have occurred that result in one or more of the following
situations.
(1) Actual or imminent catastrophic reduction of facility safety or security
systems with potential for the release of large quantities of hazardous
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materials to the environment. The radiation dose from any release of
radioactive material or a concentration in air from any release of other
hazardous material is expected to exceed the applicable Protective Action
Criterion [see Base Order, paragraph 4a(14)] at or beyond the site
boundary.
(2) Actual or likely catastrophic failures in safety or security systems
threatening the integrity of a nuclear weapon, component, or test device
that may adversely impact the health and safety of workers and the public.
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Chapter VI
ENERGY EMERGENCY PROGRAM
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS. The Energy Emergency Program must ensure that the
Department is capable of providing analysis and recommendations on mitigating
potential energy supply crises, economic impacts, widespread energy distribution
interruptions, and/or energy infrastructure recovery advice. The program recognizes that
resources and expertise within the Department may be requested to support an energy
emergency response. The program also recognizes that DOE assistance may be required
in support of a Presidentially-declared emergency invoking the Stafford Act, as amended,
and implemented through the National Response Plan. The Energy Emergency Program
may be implemented coincident with implementation of the Emergency Assistance
Program (Chapter VII).
2. RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS.
a. DOE has established requirements in 10 CFR 205.350 for maintaining current
information regarding the status of electrical energy supply systems.
b. The Department of Homeland Security has published the National Response Plan,
which meets requirements established in Public Law 93-288, as amended. The
National Response Plan provides the framework for a coordinated Federal
response in support of State and local governments.
3. PLANNING PHASE.
a. Hazards Assessment. Hazards assessments for energy emergencies are routinely
conducted by the Energy Information Administration and the Assistant Secretary
of Policy and International Affairs through short- and long-range forecasts.
b. Planning Requirements. The Headquarters Energy Emergency Management Plan
and Implementing Procedures must include the following:
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(1) plan for supply crises due to, but not limited to, international political
situations, defense mobilization, natural or technological disasters, energy
system sabotage, major accidents involving energy systems, and labor
strikes or lockouts;
(2) Emergency Management Team procedures for energy emergencies,
including activation and staffing;
(3) the definition of potential emergencies for which the program is
responsible and for which procedures will be developed;
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(4) Energy Emergency Management Plan activation thresholds for plan
implementation;
(5) the process for developing, maintaining, and activating procedures related
to the National Response Plan Emergency Support Function #12 (Energy)
and other Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) where DOE is a support
agency;
(6) specific planned roles and resources from Headquarters offices or
DOE/NNSA offices in the field required in response to energy emergency
scenarios;
(7) reporting formats for documenting the situation and the DOE response;
(8) processes for monitoring and analyzing the energy situation and for
responding to an energy emergency, including recovery.
4. PREPAREDNESS PHASE. The Headquarters Energy Emergency Management Plan
must establish a readiness assurance program, including training, drills, exercises, and
evaluation of readiness for energy emergencies.
5. RESPONSE PHASE.
a. An energy emergency must be declared after events of significant magnitude have
occurred, activation of ESF #12 (Energy) or other ESFs involving DOE as a
support agency for energy-related activities, or as directed by the Deputy
Secretary. See Chapter VIII.
b. Declaration of an energy emergency requires the availability of appropriate DOE
personnel and resources to continuously assess pertinent information for DOE
decision makers and to provide recommendations or coordination to other Federal
agencies or industries to mitigate the severity of the occurrence or its
consequences.
c. At the request of the Deputy Secretary or as events warrant, appropriate members
of the Emergency Management Team must convene in the Headquarters
Operations Center to—
(1) provide timely assessments of the dimensions of the energy emergency as
required under interagency plans or as requested by the Secretary;
(2) establish communications, consultation, and liaison with appropriate
energy industry entities and other Federal agencies, as appropriate; and
(3) notify appropriate energy emergency response assets, experts, and
resources to respond according to the severity of the situation.
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Chapter VII
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS. The Emergency Assistance Program includes all
activities whereby Departmental resources, emergency response assets, personnel,
and/or facilities are deployed in support of Federal interagency plans; international
agreements; Presidential direction; and State, local, or Tribal agreements of mutual aid.
The Emergency Assistance Program may be implemented along with the Energy
Emergency Program (Chapter VI).
2. RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS.
a. Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 (HSPD-5) directs measures to
enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents,
including development of a National Response Plan (NRP) that integrates
Federal Government domestic prevention, preparedness, response, and
recovery plans into one all-discipline, all-hazards plan.
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b. The Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan has been replaced by the
Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex of the National Response Plan (NRP), to
guide Federal response to a peacetime radiological accident.
c. The National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (also
called the National Contingency Plan) is published in 40 CFR 300 to provide
the organizational structure and procedures for Federal responses to discharges
of oil and releases of hazardous substances. This plan will be integrated into or
replaced by the NRP described above.
d. The Continuity of Government Operations Plan provides the capability to
maintain essential Government services and emergency functions in the most
serious of events affecting national security.
e. The Continuity of Operations Plan provides a capability to ensure that essential
Departmental missions and functions can be performed without disruption
during an emergency or other situation.
f. The DOE 5530-series Orders describe the programmatic requirements of the
Department's radiological emergency response assets.
3. PLANNING PHASE.
a. Emergency Assistance planning must encompass, but not be limited to, the
capability to provide—
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(1) support and direction as prescribed in the National Response Plan
(NRP), the Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex to the NRP, and the
National Contingency Plan (until superceded by a rulemaking based on
the NRP);
(2) the means to support Presidential direction to continue operations of
critical Departmental functions in the event that Headquarters facilities
are inoperable;
(3) direction and support as prescribed in the Presidentially-mandated
National Security Emergency Planning requirements and Continuity of
Government concept of operations; and
(4) technical and response assistance to organizations and agencies with
which the Department has entered into mutual aid agreements.
b. The Headquarters Emergency Assistance Plan and Implementing Procedures
must—
(1) document Emergency Management Team procedures for Emergency
Assistance including activation and staffing;
(2) define potential emergencies for which the program is responsible and for
which procedures must be developed;
(3) identify specific planned roles and resources from Headquarters offices
or DOE/NNSA offices in the field required in response to Emergency
Assistance scenarios; and
(4) establish reporting formats to document the situation and DOE/NNSA
response activities.
c. Plans and procedures developed in accordance with the DOE 5530-series
Orders for the Department's radiological emergency response assets must be
cross-referenced in the Headquarters Emergency Assistance Plan and
implementing procedures.
4. PREPAREDNESS PHASE. The Headquarters Emergency Assistance Plan must
establish a readiness assurance program, including training and drills, exercises, and
evaluation of readiness for emergencies.
5. RESPONSE PHASE. The Administrator, NNSA, has responsibility for the
deployment of the radiological emergency response assets. The Headquarters
Emergency Manager must coordinate with appropriate response teams (e.g., Defense
Nuclear Programs, Energy Information Administration, Cognizant Field Element) and
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ensure deployment of radiological emergency response asset personnel and energy
emergency response personnel. Coordination with the Executive Branch, other Federal
agencies, or other governments will be accomplished by Headquarters.
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Chapter VIII
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS
1. GENERAL. Requirements in this chapter pertaining to notification and reporting apply
to Operational Emergencies, Energy Emergencies, and Emergency Assistance. This
section emphasizes Operational Emergencies because of the criticality of timely
notification and reporting during such emergencies. Communications requirements for
emergencies do not supplant other required notifications and reporting delineated under
other legislation, implementing regulations, and DOE Orders.
2. PLANNING PHASE.
a. For Operational Emergencies, provisions must be established for prompt initial
notification of workers and emergency response personnel and organizations,
including appropriate DOE/NNSA elements and other Federal, State, Tribal, and
local organizations. Provisions must also be established for continuing effective
communication among the response organizations throughout an emergency.
b. Notification and reporting responsibilities for Energy Emergencies and
Emergency Assistance must be established to support appropriate plans and
agreements.
3. PREPAREDNESS PHASE. Adherence to Operational Emergency notification and
reporting requirements must be demonstrated in all emergency management exercises.
Preparedness responsibilities for Energy Emergencies and Emergency Assistance must be
established to support appropriate plans and agreements.
4. RESPONSE PHASE.
a. Initial Emergency Notifications. For Operational Emergencies, initial emergency
notifications must be made to workers, emergency response personnel, and
organizations, including DOE/NNSA elements and other local, State, Tribal, and
Federal organizations.
(1) The Manager/Administrator of each DOE-/NNSA- or contractor-operated
site/facility must—
(a) notify State and local officials and the Cognizant Field Element
Emergency Operation Center and Headquarters Operations Center
within 15 minutes and all other organizations within 30 minutes of
the declaration of an Alert, Site Area Emergency, or General
Emergency [Chapter V, paragraph 3];
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(b) notify the Cognizant Field Element Emergency Operation Center
and Headquarters Operations Center within 30 minutes of the
declaration of an Operational Emergency not requiring
classification [Chapter V, paragraph 2]; and
(c) notify local, State, and Tribal organizations within 30 minutes or
as established in mutual agreements for declaration of an
Operational Emergency not requiring classification [Chapter V,
paragraph 2].
(2) Headquarters Watch Office staff in the Headquarters Operations Center
and Headquarters Emergency Management Team personnel must be
responsible for the following.
(a) Receive notifications of Operational Emergencies and disseminate
such information to Program Secretarial Officer representatives
and, where appropriate, to Headquarters organizations of other
Federal agencies. The Headquarters Operations Center must
disseminate notifications involving Energy Emergencies and
Emergency Assistance to the appropriate Headquarters Cognizant
Secretarial Offices and affected DOE/NNSA offices in the field.
(b) Facilitate communications among Headquarters organizations,
DOE/NNSA field organizations, and contractor personnel.
(3) At a minimum, emergency notification to the Headquarters Operations
Center must consist of a phone call providing as much information as is
known at the time. The same information must be provided by e-mail or a
fax either immediately prior to or following the phone call. Information
for initial notification includes as much as possible of the following:
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(a) that an Operational Emergency has been declared and, if
appropriate, the classification of the emergency;
(b) the description of the emergency;
(b) the date and time the emergency was discovered;
(c) the damage and casualties;
(d) whether the emergency has stopped other facility/site operations or
program activities;
(e) the protective actions taken and/or recommended;
(f) the notifications made;
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(g) the weather conditions at the scene of the emergency;
(h) the level of any media interest at the scene of the emergency or at
the facility/site; and
(i) the contact information of the DOE or NNSA on-scene point of
contact.
b. Emergency Status Updates. Emergency status reports must be forwarded to the
next-higher Emergency Management Team on a continuing basis until the
emergency is terminated.
c. Responder Communications. Effective communications methods must be
established between event scene responders, emergency managers, and response
facilities.
d. Final Emergency Report. Following termination of emergency response, and in
conjunction with the Final Occurrence Report (see DOE M 231.1-2), each
activated Emergency Management Team must submit a final report on the
emergency response to the Emergency Manager for submission to the Director,
Office of Emergency Operations.
e. Recovery Reporting. Reporting requirements must be specified during recovery
planning.
f. Review for Classified and Unclassified Controlled Information. All reports and
releases must be reviewed for classified or unclassified controlled information
(e.g., Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information) prior to being provided to
personnel not authorized access to such information, entered into databases not
authorized for such information, or transmitted using non-secure communications
equipment.
g. Energy Emergencies and Emergency Assistance Response. Responsibilities for
Energy Emergencies and Emergency Assistance must be established to support
appropriate plans and agreements.
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Chapter IX
PUBLIC AFFAIRS POLICY AND PLANNING REQUIREMENTS
1. GENERAL. The Department must provide accurate, candid, and timely information,
consistent with requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act, to
site workers and the public during all emergencies, so as to establish facts and avoid
speculation.
2. PLANNING PHASE.
a. Public affairs policy and planning requirements apply for all emergencies or when
the Department is obligated by law, Executive Order, interagency agreement, or
other accord to provide technical support and assistance in accidents, defense
mobilization, war, or other emergencies, including those involving another
government agency, private organization, or nation.
b. These policies and planning requirements must apply in conjunction with the
United States' international commitments to the International Energy Program, the
International Energy Agency, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the
International Atomic Energy Agency, or through the Department's commitments
under the Defense Production Act.
c. The Department must establish an Emergency Public Information Program that
includes adequate plans for all emergencies at DOE/NNSA, or contractor
facilities, as well as potential offsite emergencies that may involve DOE/NNSA
resources or personnel.
d. Each Cognizant Field Element and site/facility must prepare an Emergency Public
Information Plan. The same plan can cover multiple facilities on a site. The
plans must provide the following.
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(1) identification of personnel, resources, facilities, and coordination
procedures necessary to provide emergency public information;
(2) training and exercises for personnel who will interact with the media;
(3) a methodology for informing workers and the public of DOE/NNSA
emergency plans and protective actions, before and during emergencies;
(4) coordination of public information efforts with State, local, and Tribal
governments, and Federal emergency response plans, as appropriate.
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e. The Director, Headquarters Office of Public Affairs, in coordination with the
NNSA Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs, must prepare an Emergency
Public Information Plan.
(1) This plan must:
(a) Identify the personnel, resources, and facilities necessary to
support the Headquarters Emergency Manager and provide
emergency public information to the national media, the White
House Situation Room, the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) National Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC);
and Congress; and
(b) Specify the coordination procedures between public information
efforts at the Headquarters and those conducted at the Cognizant
Field Element and site/facility level, as well as with State, local,
and Tribal governments, and other Federal agencies, as
appropriate.
(2) Copies of the Headquarters Emergency Public Information Plan must be
provided to the Cognizant Field Element Managers, the Program
Secretarial Officers and the Director, Office of Emergency Operations.
3. PREPAREDNESS PHASE. Adherence to emergency public information policies and
requirements must be demonstrated during exercise evaluations, appraisals, and approved
training programs.
4. RESPONSE PHASE.
a. The Emergency Public Information Plan must be applied during deployment of
the following Departmental emergency response assets: the Aerial Measuring
System (AMS), the Accident Response Group (ARG), the National Atmospheric
Release Advisory Center (NARAC), the Federal Radiological Monitoring and
Assessment Center (FRMAC), the Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST),
the Radiological Assistance Program (RAP), and the Radiation Emergency
Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS).
b. The Cognizant Field Element and contractor personnel must cooperatively ensure
that an adequate public information program is established and maintained,
commensurate with site hazards, to ensure that information can be provided to the
public and the media during an emergency.
(1) For Operational Emergency Base Program facilities, the emergency public
information program must have provisions in place to establish a media
center. A media center is a designated location where Cognizant Field
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Element and contractor personnel can conduct the necessary briefings and
press conferences regarding an Operational Emergency at the facility.
(2) For Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities, the
emergency public information program must have provisions in place to
establish a Joint Information Center (JIC). A JIC is a working location,
where multiple jurisdictions gather, process and disseminate public
information during an emergency. The JIC must be adequately staffed
with personnel trained to serve as spokesperson and newswriter.
Personnel must be assigned to the JIC to provide support in media
services, public inquiry, media inquiry, JIC management and
administrative activities, and media monitoring. Persons with technical
expertise related to the emergency and with spokesperson training must
also be assigned to the JIC. The JIC must be established, directed, and
coordinated by the senior Cognizant Field Element public affairs manager
or a designee.
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c. In situations involving classified or unclassified controlled information, the
Department must provide sufficient publicly releasable information to explain the
emergency response and protective actions required for the health and safety of
workers and the public.
d. Public announcements in areas involving classified or unclassified controlled
information must be reviewed by the appropriate official before release to ensure
that no classified or unclassified controlled information is contained in the
announcement.
e. The Cognizant Field Element must assign a DOE, NNSA, or contractor public
information officer to the emergency public information response team involved
in a significant offsite response deployment.
f. A Headquarters official or team must provide support to the affected Program
Offices/Emergency Management Team and/or requesting Cognizant Field
Element, as appropriate.
g. The DOE/NNSA (as appropriate) Director of Public Affairs and the Headquarters
Emergency Manager must be informed of all DOE/NNSA emergency public
information actions. These notifications must be made as soon as practicable.
h. Initial news releases or public statements must be approved by the Cognizant
Field Element official responsible for emergency public information review and
dissemination. Following initial news releases and public statements, updates
must be coordinated with the DOE/NNSA (as appropriate) Director of Public
Affairs and the Headquarters Emergency Manager.
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i. An emergency public information communications system must be established
among Headquarters, Cognizant Field Element, and on-scene locations.
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Chapter X
READINESS ASSURANCE
1. GENERAL. A readiness assurance program provides assurances that emergency
plans, implementing procedures, and resources are adequate and sufficiently
maintained, exercised, and evaluated, and that improvements are made in response to
identified needs. Each DOE/NNSA emergency management program must implement
a readiness assurance program consisting of the following components:
a. Evaluations (including appraisals and assessments). Identify findings (i.e.,
weaknesses or deficiencies) in emergency management programs and/or
provide assurances that emergency capabilities are sufficient to implement
emergency plans. Readiness assurance evaluation activities can include:
program and exercise evaluations, tracking performance indicators, and no-
notice exercises;
b. Improvements. Ensure that appropriate and timely improvements are made in
response to needs identified through coordinated emergency planning, resource
allocation, program assistance activities, evaluations, training, drills, and
exercises; and,
c. Emergency Readiness Assurance Plans (ERAPs). Document the readiness of
the emergency management program based on emergency planning and
preparedness activities and the results of the readiness assurance program,
including evaluations and improvements. The ERAP is a planning tool to
identify and develop needed resources and improvements, and to highlight
changes and achievements in the program.
2. EVALUATIONS. Program Secretarial Officers and Cognizant Field Elements must
periodically review and evaluate the ability of DOE/NNSA facilities and/or
DOE/NNSA contractor-operated facilities to meet requirements of the Emergency
Management System. Program and exercise evaluations (including appraisals and
assessments) must be based on specific standards and criteria, issued by the Director,
Office of Emergency Operations. Tracking performance indicators and conducting no-
notice exercises can provide useful information about program readiness.
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a. Program Evaluations
(1) DOE/NNSA facilities and DOE/NNSA contractor-operated facilities
must conduct an annual self-assessment of their emergency
management programs. Self-assessment results must be documented in
the ERAP submitted to the Cognizant Field Element.
(2) The Cognizant Field Element must:
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(a) consolidate facility self-assessment results in the Cognizant Field
Element ERAP; and
(b) assess the Cognizant Field Element emergency management
program annually and record the results of the self-assessment in
the Cognizant Field Element portion of the ERAP.
(3) Each DOE/NNSA Cognizant Field Element must evaluate the emergency
management program at each site/facility under its supervision. Each
site/facility must be evaluated at least once every three years. The
Cognizant Field Element must notify the Program Secretarial Officer of its
evaluation schedule.
(4) Program Secretarial Officers must schedule and perform periodic
evaluations of emergency management programs every three years.
b. Exercise Evaluations. See Chapter IV, paragraph 4b.
c. Performance Indicators. Contractor facilities/sites must participate in a program
of performance indicators (including performance measures and metrics) to
capture and track objective data regarding the performance of emergency
management programs in key functional areas.
d. No-Notice Exercises. Contractor facilities/sites must participate in a program of
No-Notice Exercises, conducted at the discretion of the Director, Office of
Emergency Operations, to determine if the facility/site ERO accomplishes
selected objectives based on applicable plans, procedures, and/or other
established requirements. Facility/site involvement is limited to providing trusted
agents and responding when the exercise is conducted.
3. IMPROVEMENTS.
a. Program Assistance. Upon request, the Director, Office of Emergency Operations
will schedule and conduct emergency management program assistance to
Headquarters Program Offices, Cognizant Field Elements, DOE/NNSA offices in
the field, and DOE/NNSA sites/facilities and activities, including NNSA
radiological emergency response assets, as needed. To ensure consistent
guidance, the Director, Office of Emergency Operations must request
participation from Cognizant Secretarial Officer(s) and the Cognizant Field
Elements.
b. Corrective Actions. These requirements supplement those in DOE O 414.1A,
Quality Assurance. Continuous improvement in the emergency management
program results from implementation of corrective actions for findings (e.g.,
deficiencies, weaknesses) in all types of evaluations, including both internal and
external evaluations.
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(1) Reports of Cognizant Field Element evaluations (assessments) conducted
in accordance with Chapter X, paragraph 2a(3) above must be submitted
to the Program Secretarial Officer(s) and the Director, Office of
Emergency Operations. Evaluation reports must be completed within 30-
working days.
(2) Corrective action plans must be developed within 30-working days of
receipt of the final evaluation report. Corrective actions must be
completed as soon as possible. Corrective actions addressing revision of
procedures or training of personnel should be completed before the next
annual self-assessment of the program.
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(3) Completion of corrective actions must include a verification and
validation process, independent of those who performed the corrective
action, that verifies that the corrective action has been put in place, and
validates that the corrective action has been effective in resolving the
original finding.
(4) See Chapter IV, paragraph 4b, for corrective actions related to findings
from exercise evaluations.
c. Lessons Learned. The readiness assurance program must include a system for
incorporating and tracking lessons learned from training, drills, actual responses,
and a site-wide lessons learned program. Program Secretarial Officers, Cognizant
Field Elements and DOE- /NNSA- and/or DOE/NNSA contractor-operated
facilities must participate in the DOE/NNSA Corporate Lessons Learned
Program. DOE–STD–7501–99, The DOE Corporate Lessons Learned Program,
provides guidance on use of the system.
4. EMERGENCY READINESS ASSURANCE PLANS (ERAPs).
a. Facilities and Activities. Facilities and offsite transportation activities must
submit an ERAP to the Cognizant Field Element by September 30 of each year.
In keeping with 31 U.S.C. 1115 and 1116, this report must identify what the goals
were for the fiscal year that ended coincident with the due date for this report
(e.g., September 30) and the degree to which these goals were accomplished.
This report must also identify the goals for the next fiscal year (e.g., which starts
on October 1).
b. Cognizant Field Element. Each Cognizant Field Element must submit an ERAP,
summarizing its programs and its facility and activity submissions, to the Program
Secretarial Officer and the Director, Office of Emergency Operations, by
November 30 of each year. In keeping with 31 U.S.C. 1115 and 1116, this report
must identify what the goals were for the fiscal year that just ended (on
September 30) and the degree to which these goals were accomplished. This
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report must also identify the goals for the current fiscal year (which started on
October 1).
c. ERAP Submittal and Approval.
(1) The Cognizant Field Element manager must review and approve ERAPs
that cover facilities under their supervision and submit a consolidated
ERAP to the Director, Office of Emergency Operations and the Cognizant
Secretarial Officer by November 30.
(2) The Director, Office of Emergency Operations must prepare, in
coordination with the Cognizant Secretarial Officers, an annual status
report that summarizes the Cognizant Field Element ERAPs by April 30.
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Chapter XI
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
1. PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS. Each Cognizant Field Element manager, and each
manager/administrator of a DOE-, NNSA- and/or DOE/NNSA contractor-operated
site/facility subject to this Order must designate an individual to administer emergency
management. This individual must develop and maintain the emergency plan, develop
the Emergency Readiness Assurance Plan and annual updates, develop and conduct
training and exercise programs, coordinate assessment activities, develop related
documentation, and coordinate emergency resources.
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2. REVIEW FOR CLASSIFIED OR UNCLASSIFIED CONTROLLED INFORMATION.
If the relevant site/facility/activity is generating classified information or Unclassified
Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI), or is conducting classified or UCNI operations,
then all emergency preparedness documents, such as plans, procedures, scenarios, and
assessments, must be reviewed for classified information and UCNI by the appropriate
official using current guidance. If the EPHAs do not contain classified information or
UCNI, they must be reviewed by the emergency management program administrator to
determine if they contain potentially exploitable information. EPHAs containing
potentially exploitable information must be protected as Official Use Only under
exemption 2 of the Freedom of Information Act.
3. EMERGENCY PLANS. The emergency plan must document the emergency
management program and describe the provisions for response to an Operational
Emergency.
4. EMERGENCY PLAN IMPLEMENTING PROCEDURES. Emergency Plan
Implementing Procedures must describe how emergency plans must be implemented.
5. EMERGENCY OPERATING RECORDS PROTECTION PROGRAM. A program must
be established to ensure that vital records, regardless of media, essential to the continued
functioning or reconstitution of an organization during and after an emergency, are
available, per 36 CFR 1236.
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DOE ELEMENTS TO WHICH DOE O 151.1C IS APPLICABLE
Office of the Secretary
Departmental Representative to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Energy Information Administration
National Nuclear Security Administration
Office of the Chief Information Officer
Office of the Chief Financial Officer
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
Office of Counterintelligence
Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution
Office of Energy Assurance
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Office of Environment, Safety and Health
Office of Environmental Management
Office of Fossil Energy
Office of General Counsel
Office of Human Capital Management
Office of Intelligence
Office of Legacy Management
Office of Management
Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology
Office of Policy and International Affairs
Office of Public Affairs
Office of Science
Office of Security
Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance
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CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT
DOE O 151.1C, Comprehensive Emergency Management System
Regardless of the performer of the work, the contractor is responsible for compliance with the
requirements of this Contractor Requirements Document (CRD). The contractor is responsible
for flowing down the requirements of this CRD to subcontracts at any tier to the extent necessary
to ensure the contractor’s compliance with the requirements. That is, the contractor must (1)
ensure that it and its subcontractors comply with the requirements of this CRD to the extent
necessary to ensure the contractor’s compliance and (2) only incur costs that would be incurred
by a prudent person in the conduct of competitive business.
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This CRD requires that contractors integrate numerous requirements including this CRD to
DOE O 151.1C, Comprehensive Emergency Management System, dated 11-2-05, and existing
statutes and regulations into a comprehensive emergency management system. Other sources for
related requirements which must be integrated include 29 U.S.C. 654(a), 42 U.S.C. 7412(r),
regulations developed by DOE and other Federal agencies, State and local requirements, Federal
interagency emergency plan requirements, and the requirements of other DOE directives
addressing emergency issues. Regulatory topics related to emergency management issues
include fire; safety; hazardous wastes; community right-to-know; hazardous material transport;
and security, fundamental worker safety, and environmental protection programs.
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS. Contractors must develop and implement a
Comprehensive Emergency Management System designed to—
a. minimize the consequences of all emergencies involving or affecting
Departmental facilities, and activities (including transportation
operations/activities);
b. protect the health and safety of all workers and the public from hazards associated
with DOE/NNSA operations and those associated with decontamination,
decommissioning, and environmental restoration;
c. prevent damage to the environment; and
d. promote effective and efficient integration of all applicable policies,
recommendations, and requirements, including Federal interagency emergency
plans.
2. OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY BASE PROGRAM. Contractors must implement and
document an integrated Operational Emergency Base Program (see also DOE O 151.1C,
Chapter III) for each facility and activity.
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a. The Operational Emergency Base Program must be based on a Hazards Survey.
A Hazards Survey is an examination of the features and characteristics of the
facility or activity to identify the generic emergency events and conditions
(including natural phenomena such as earthquakes and tornadoes; wild land fires;
and other serious events involving or affecting health and safety, the environment,
safeguards, and security at the facility) and the potential impacts of such
emergencies. [See also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III, paragraph 3a.]
(1) Each Hazards Survey must—
(a) identify (e.g., in matrix or tabular form) the emergency conditions
(e.g., fires, work place accidents, natural phenomena, etc.);
(b) describe the potential health, safety, or environmental impacts;
(c) indicate the need for further analyses of hazardous materials in an
Emergency Planning Hazards Assessment (EPHA), based on the
results of the hazardous material screening process described in
paragraph 2b below; and
(d) identify the planning and preparedness requirements that apply to
each type of hazard.
(2) Each Hazards Survey may cover multiple facilities. One Hazards Survey
may be prepared to cover an entire site.
(3) Hazards surveys must be updated every three years and prior to significant
changes to the site/facility or to hazardous material inventories. For
example, significant changes are those changes which would result in an
unreviewed safety question for nuclear facilities, as defined in
10 CFR 830, or in an unreviewed safety issue for accelerator facilities, as
defined in DOE O 420.2B. Changes that result in a reduction of hazards
with no adverse effect on safety or emergency preparedness or response
may be included in the next scheduled review and update.
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b. A Hazardous Material Screening Process must identify specific hazardous
materials and quantities that, if released, could produce impacts consistent with
the definition of an Operational Emergency. The potential release of these
materials to the environment requires further analysis in an EPHA. The release of
hazardous materials less than the quantities listed below does not require
quantitative analysis in an EPHA.
(1) In general, to meet the definition of an Operational Emergency [CRD
paragraph 11], the release of a hazardous material must: immediately
threaten or endanger personnel and emergency responders who are in
close proximity of the event; have the potential for dispersal beyond the
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immediate vicinity of the release in quantities that threaten the health and
safety of onsite personnel or the public in collocated facilities, activities,
and/or offsite; and have a potential rate of dispersal sufficient to require a
time-urgent response to implement protective actions for workers and the
public.
(2) The hazardous material screening process must identify all hazardous
materials in a facility/activity that require further analysis in an EPHA.
(a) Radioactive Materials:
1 All radioactive materials in a facility/activity must be
subjected to a hazardous material screening process.
2 Radioactive materials that may be excluded from further
analysis in an EPHA include: sealed radioactive sources
that are engineered to pass the special form testing
specified by the Department of Transportation (DOT) or
the American National Standards Institute (ANSI);
materials in solid form for which there is no plausible
dispersal mechanism; materials stored in DOT Type B
shipping containers with overpack, if the Certificates of
Compliance are current and the materials stored are
authorized by the Certificate; and, materials used in
exempt, commercially available products.
3 Radioactive hazardous materials that require further
analysis in an EPHA include the radioactive materials
listed in DOE-STD-1027-92 in quantities greater than the
Category 3 values given in Attachment 1, Table A.1., of
that Standard.
(b) Chemicals:
1 All chemicals in a facility/activity with known or suspected
toxic properties must be subjected to a hazardous material
screening process.
2 Chemicals that may be excluded from further analysis in an
EPHA include: materials used in the same form, quantity,
and concentration as a product packaged for distribution
and use by the general public; materials that have a Health
Hazard rating of 0, 1 or 2 based on National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA) 704; or solid or liquid materials that
because their physical form, or other factors (e.g., plausible
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dispersal mechanisms), do not present an airborne exposure
hazard.
3 Chemical hazardous materials that require further analysis
in an EPHA include chemicals with an assigned Health
Hazard rating of 3 or 4, based on National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA) 704, in quantities greater than a
quantity that can be “easily and safely manipulated by one
person” [see 29 CFR 1910.1450(b)]. Chemicals without an
assigned Health Hazard rating require further analysis in an
EPHA if the quantity is greater than a quantity that can be
“easily and safely manipulated by one person.” Quantities
of chemical hazardous materials considered to be "easily
and safely manipulated by one person" can be locally-
determined in accordance with the provisions of
29 CFR 1910.1450(b).
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(c) Hazardous Biological Agents and Toxins. At a minimum, specific
hazardous biological agents and toxins must include Federally
regulated agents and toxins identified in lists published in
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations
[42 CFR 73] and Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations
[7 CFR 331 and 9 CFR 121], and require an EPHA and a
Hazardous Material Program. Toxins listed in 42 CFR 73 and
9 CFR 121 must exceed the minimum quantities specified to be
Federally regulated.
(d) The possibility that excluded materials could initiate, through fires
or explosions, the release of other hazardous materials must be
considered.
(3) If the screening process identifies at least one hazardous material requiring
further analysis, the Hazards Survey must indicate that an EPHA is needed
for that facility or activity.
(4) A description of the screening process and the results of its application to
the hazardous materials in the facility/activity must be included in the
Hazards Survey or incorporated by reference into supporting
documentation.
(a) For facilities/activities requiring an EPHA, this documentation
must be referenced or included in the EPHA.
(b) If the quantitative analysis indicates that all events would be
classified as less than an Alert, an EPHA is not required. The
results of the hazardous material screening process and the
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quantitative analysis may be incorporated directly into the Hazards
Survey or may be incorporated by reference in the Hazards Survey.
c. The Operational Emergency Base Program must —
(1) provide the framework for response to serious events involving health and
safety, the environment, safeguards, and security; and
(2) ensure all requirements of DOE regulations and directives, regulations
developed by other Federal agencies, and, if applicable, State and local
requirements addressing emergency issues are seamlessly integrated
without duplication of emergency management effort.
3. OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY HAZARDOUS MATERIAL PROGRAM. For each
facility, operation, and activity involved in producing, processing, handling, storing, or
transporting hazardous materials (radioactive, chemical, hazardous biological agents and
toxins) that has the potential to pose a serious threat to workers, the public, or the
environment,
a. The contractor has a general duty to—
(1) identify the hazards that may result from an unplanned release of
hazardous materials;
(2) strive to prevent unplanned releases of hazardous materials from
DOE/NNSA facilities;
(3) take any steps necessary to prevent releases; and
(4) use feasible means to eliminate or materially reduce the hazard to workers
and the public.
b. The contractor executes this general duty by developing and documenting an
integrated Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program, which does the
following:
(1) Identifies hazards and the potential consequences from unplanned releases
of (or loss of control over) hazardous materials, using accepted assessment
techniques. If this assessment, called an Emergency Planning Hazards
Assessment (EPHA), is required, it is used as the technical planning basis
for determining the extent and scope of the Operational Emergency
Hazardous Material Program.
(a) If the EPHA indicates the potential for an Alert, Site Area
Emergency, or General Emergency, as defined in Chapter V, the
results of the analysis must be used to determine the necessary
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personnel, resources, and equipment for the Operational
Emergency Hazardous Material Program.
(b) If the quantitative analysis indicates that all events would be
classified as less than an Alert, an EPHA is not required to be
maintained. The results of the hazardous material screening
process and the quantitative analysis may be incorporated directly
into the Hazards Survey, or may be incorporated by reference in
the Hazards Survey. The minimum program requirements must
encompass the requirements for Hazardous Waste Operations and
Emergency Response found in 29 CFR 1910.120 and the
requirements specified in paragraph 2 of this CRD.
(c) An accurate and timely method for tracking changes in operations,
processes, or accident analyses that involve hazardous materials
(e.g., introduction of new materials, new uses, significant changes
in inventories, modification of material environments) must be
established and maintained for each facility/activity. The method
must allow sufficient time for emergency management personnel
to review the EPHA and modify plans and procedures, as
necessary. For example, significant changes are those changes
which would result in an unreviewed safety question for nuclear
facilities, as defined in 10 CFR 830, or in an unreviewed safety
issue for accelerator facilities, as defined in DOE O 420.2B.
(d) The EPHA must be reviewed at least every three years and updated
prior to significant changes to the site/facility or hazardous
material inventories. Changes that result in a reduction of hazards
with no adverse effect on safety or emergency preparedness and
response may be included in the next scheduled review and update.
(e) The EPHA must include a determination of the size of the
Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). The EPZ is the geographic area
surrounding the site/facility for which special planning and
preparedness actions are taken or need to be taken to reduce or
minimize the impact to onsite personnel and public health and
safety in the event of an Operational Emergency involving
hazardous materials. Assumptions, methodology, models, and
evaluation techniques used in the EPHA must be documented.
(f) The Office of Secure Transportation (OST) must develop an
EPHA for OST shipments to provide the technical planning basis
for the OST Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program.
(g) An EPHA must be developed for shipments that do not satisfy
governing DOT regulations and specifications for commercial
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hazardous materials transport. However, if a shipment satisfies
DOT regulations and specifications, then an EPHA is not required.
(2) Adjusts its Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program to be
commensurate with hazards that remain after a decontamination and
decommission action is completed at each DOE closure site/facility.
(3) Develops, implements, documents, and maintains an effective, integrated
emergency management program that is commensurate with the hazards
and that addresses the following program elements: program
administration; training and drills; exercises; readiness assurance;
emergency response organization; offsite response interfaces; emergency
facilities and equipment; emergency categorization and classification;
notifications and communications; consequence assessment; protective
actions and reentry; emergency medical support; emergency public
information; and termination and recovery.
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c. The contractor at a site with multiple facilities may place facility-specific
requirements in their emergency program on a site-/contractor-level organization
(such as a single, site-wide public information program rather than separate
programs at each facility.) The contractor must gain approval, in writing, from
the Cognizant Field Element before replacing the facility-specific requirements
with site-/contractor-level requirements. Replacing facility-specific requirements
with site- or contractor-specific requirements does not require an exemption from
this CRD.
(1) The contractor placing requirements on a site-/contractor-level
organization must meet the requirements of the Operational Emergency
Hazardous Material Program if the site contains both Operational
Emergency Base Program and Operational Emergency Hazardous
Material Program facilities.
(2) After gaining approval of the Cognizant Field Element Manager, the
contractor must note those requirements placed on the site-/contractor-
level organization in the emergency plan at both the facility and
site/contractor levels, as well as in the program description of the
Emergency Readiness Assurance Plan (ERAP).
4. PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION. Effective organizational management and
administrative control of the facility emergency management program must be provided
by establishing and maintaining authorities and resources necessary to plan, develop,
implement, and maintain a viable, integrated, and coordinated comprehensive emergency
management program. [See DOE O 151.1C, Chapter XI, Program Administration.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must designate an individual to
administer emergency management. This individual must develop and maintain
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the emergency plan, develop the ERAP and annual updates, develop and conduct
training and exercise programs, coordinate assessment activities, develop related
documentation, and coordinate emergency resources.
b. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities that are generating classified
information or Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI), or are
conducting classified or UCNI operations, must review all emergency
preparedness documents, such as plans, procedures, scenarios, and assessments
for classified information and UCNI. This review must be conducted by the
appropriate official using current guidance. If the EPHAs do not contain
classified information or UCNI, they must be reviewed by the emergency
management program administrator to determine if they contain potentially
exploitable information. EPHAs containing potentially exploitable information
must be protected as Official Use Only under exemption 2 of the Freedom of
Information Act.
c. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must document the emergency
management program in an emergency plan that also describes the provisions for
response to an Operational Emergency.
d. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must develop Emergency Plan
Implementing Procedures to describe how emergency plans must be implemented.
e. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must establish a program to ensure
that vital records, regardless of media, essential to the continued functioning or
reconstitution of an organization during and after an emergency, are available, per
36 CFR 1236.
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5. TRAINING AND DRILLS. A comprehensive, coordinated, and documented program of
training and drills must be an integral part of the emergency management program to
ensure that preparedness activities for developing and maintaining program-specific
emergency response capabilities are accomplished. [See DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III,
paragraph 4a, and Chapter IV, paragraph 4a, Training and Drills.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must —
(1) Provide initial training and periodic drills to all workers who may be
required to take protective actions (e.g., shelter-in-place; assembly,
evacuation). This training is required when they are employed, when their
expected actions change, or when the emergency plan changes.
(2) Provide refresher training annually to certified operators and supervisors
and those workers who are likely to witness a hazardous material release
and who are required to notify proper authorities of the release.
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(3) Make available emergency-related information and training on site-
specific conditions and hazards to offsite personnel who may be required
to participate in response to an emergency at the DOE/NNSA site/facility.
b. The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Program facilities must also establish a coordinated program of training and drills
for developing and/or maintaining specific emergency response capabilities as an
integral part of the emergency management program. The program must apply to
emergency response personnel and organizations that the site/facility expects to
respond to onsite emergencies. Emergency-related information must be available
to offsite response organizations. The program must consist of self-
study/homework, training, and drills.
(1) Training. Both initial training and annual refresher training must be
provided for the instruction of and demonstration of proficiency by all
personnel (i.e., primary and alternate) comprising the emergency response
organization.
(2) Drills. Drills must provide supervised, "hands-on" training for members
of emergency response organizations.
6. EXERCISES. A formal exercise program must validate all elements of an emergency
management program over a 5-year period. The exercise program must validate facility-
and site-level emergency management program elements by initiating response to
simulated, realistic emergency events/conditions in a manner that, as nearly as possible,
replicates an integrated emergency response to an actual event. Planning and preparation
must use an effective, structured approach that includes documentation of specific
objectives, scope, time lines, injects, controller instructions, and evaluation criteria for
realistic scenarios. Each exercise must be conducted, controlled, evaluated, and critiqued
effectively and reliably. Lessons-learned must be developed, resulting in corrective
actions and improvements. [See also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter IV, paragraph 4b,
Exercises.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must —
(1) At a minimum, conduct building evacuation exercises consistent with
Federal regulations [e.g., (41 CFR 102-74-360)], local ordinances, and
National Fire Protection Association Standards. Exercises must be
conducted at least annually to ensure that employees are able to evacuate
their work area safely.
(2) Test communications systems with DOE Headquarters, the Cognizant
Field Element, and offsite agencies at least annually or as often as needed
to ensure that communications systems are operational.
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b. The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Program facilities must also establish a formal exercise program to validate all
elements of the emergency management program over a 5-year period. Each
exercise must have specific objectives and must be fully documented (e.g., in
scenario packages that include objectives, scope, timelines, injects, controller
instructions, and evaluation criteria). Exercises must be evaluated. A critique
process, which includes gathering and documenting observations of the
participants, must be established. Corrective action items identified as a result of
the critique process must be incorporated into the emergency management
program.
(1) Each DOE/NNSA facility subject to this CRD paragraph must exercise its
emergency response capability annually and include at least facility-level
evaluation and critique. Evaluations of annual facility exercises by
Departmental entities (e.g., Cognizant Field Element, Program Secretarial
Officer or Headquarters Office of Security and Safety Performance
Assurance) must be performed periodically so that each facility has an
external Departmental evaluation at least every three years.
(2) Site-level emergency response organization elements and resources must
participate in a minimum of one exercise annually. This site exercise must
be designed to test and demonstrate the site's integrated emergency
response capability. For multiple-facility sites, the basis for the exercise
must be rotated among facilities.
(3) Offsite response organizations must be invited to participate in site-wide
exercises at least once every three years.
(4) Annual emergency response exercises must be supported by
documentation that contains, but is not limited to, the exercise scope, its
objectives and corresponding evaluation criteria, a narrative description of
the scenario, timeline, and a list of participants. Documentation for site
exercises must be approved by the Cognizant Field Element.
(5) Evaluation reports for facility and site exercises must be completed within
30 working days and submitted to the Cognizant Field Element, the
Program Secretarial Officer(s), and the Director, Office of Emergency
Operations.
(6) Corrective action plans must be completed within 30 working days of
receipt of the final facility and site exercise evaluation report.
(7) Completion of corrective actions for facility and site exercises must
include a verification and validation process, independent of those who
performed the corrective action, that verifies that the corrective action has
been put in place and that validates the corrective action has been effective
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in resolving the original finding. Corrective actions involving revision of
procedures or training of personnel should be completed before the next
exercise.
(8) Exercises of each of the Department’s radiological emergency
response assets must be conducted at least once every three years.
These assets include the Accident Response Group (ARG), Nuclear
Emergency Support Team (NEST), Federal Radiological Monitoring
and Assessment Center (FRMAC), Aerial Measuring System (AMS),
National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC), Radiation
Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS), and
Radiological Assistance Program (RAP).
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7. READINESS ASSURANCE. The emergency management Readiness Assurance
Program must establish a framework and associated mechanisms for assuring that
emergency plans, implementing procedures, and resources are adequate by ensuring
that they are sufficiently maintained, exercised, and evaluated (including assessment
and appraisal) and that appropriate and timely improvements are made in response to
needs identified through coordinated and comprehensive emergency planning,
resource allocation, training and drills, exercises, and evaluations. [See also
DOE O 151.1C, Chapter X, Readiness Assurance.]
The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must implement a readiness assurance
program consisting of evaluations, improvements and ERAPs.
a. Evaluations
(1) Self-assessments. The contractor must conduct an annual self-
assessment of their emergency management programs. Program and
exercise evaluations (including appraisals and assessments) must be
based on specific standards and criteria, issued by the Director, Office
of Emergency Operations. Self-assessment results must be
documented in the ERAP submitted to the Cognizant Field Element.
(2) Exercise Evaluations. See CRD paragraph 6.
(3) Performance Indicators. Contractor facilities/sites must participate in
a program of performance indicators (including performance measures
and metrics) to capture and track objective data regarding the
performance of emergency management programs in key functional
areas.
(4) No-Notice Exercises. Contractor facilities/sites must participate in a
program of No-Notice Exercises, conducted at the discretion of the
Director, Office of Emergency Operations, to determine if the
facility/site Emergency Response Organization (ERO) accomplishes
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selected objectives based on applicable plans, procedures, and/or other
established requirements. Facility/site involvement is limited to
providing trusted agents and responding when the exercise is
conducted.
b. Improvements
(1) Corrective Actions. These requirements supplement those in the CRD to
DOE O 414.1A, Quality Assurance. Continuous improvement in the
emergency management program results from implementation of
corrective actions for findings (e.g., deficiencies, weaknesses) in all types
of evaluations, including both internal and external evaluations.
(a) Corrective action plans must be developed within 30-working days
of receipt of the final evaluation report. Corrective actions must be
completed as soon as possible. Corrective actions addressing
revision of procedures or training of personnel should be
completed before the next annual self-assessment of the program.
(b) Completion of corrective actions must include a verification and
validation process, independent of those who performed the
corrective action, that verifies that the corrective action has been
put in place, and validates that the corrective action has been
effective in resolving the original finding.
(c) See CRD, paragraph 6b(6) and (7) for corrective actions related to
findings from exercise evaluations.
(2) Lessons Learned. The readiness assurance program must include a system
for incorporating and tracking lessons learned from training, drills, actual
responses, and a site-wide lessons learned program. DOE/NNSA
contractor-operated facilities must participate in the DOE/NNSA
Corporate Lessons Learned Program. DOE-STD-7501–99, The DOE
Corporate Lessons Learned Program, provides guidance on use of the
system.
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c. Emergency Readiness Assurance Plan. Facilities and offsite transportation
activities must submit an ERAP to the Cognizant Field Element by September 30
of each year. In keeping with 31 U.S.C. 1115 and 1116, this report must identify
what the goals were for the fiscal year that ended, coincident with the due date for
this report (e.g., September 30), and the degree to which these goals were
accomplished. This report must also identify the goals for the next fiscal year
(e.g., which starts on October 1).
8. EMERGENCY RESPONSE ORGANIZATION. An Emergency Response Organization
(ERO), a structured organization with overall responsibility for initial and ongoing
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emergency response and mitigation, must be established and maintained for each
facility/site. The ERO must establish effective control at the scene of an event/incident
and integrate ERO activities with those of local agencies and organizations that provide
onsite response services. An adequate number of experienced and trained personnel,
including designated alternates, must be available on demand for timely and effective
performance of ERO functions. [See also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III, paragraph 3d(1)
and DOE O 151.1C, Chapter IV, paragraph 3b(1), Emergency Response Organization.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must assign an individual (e.g.,
building or facility manager or similar position) to manage and control all aspects
of the site/facility response.
b. The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Program facilities must also establish and maintain an ERO for each site/facility
with overall responsibility for the initial and ongoing response to and mitigation
of an emergency. Control at the event/incident scene must be consistent with the
National Incident Management System’s Incident Command System, which
integrates local agencies and organizations that provide onsite response services.
9. OFFSITE RESPONSE INTERFACES. Effective interfaces must be established and
maintained to ensure that emergency response activities are integrated and coordinated
with the Federal, Tribal, State, and local agencies and organizations responsible for
emergency response and protection of the workers, public, and environment. [See also
DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III, paragraph 3d(2) and Chapter IV, paragraph 3b(2), Offsite
Response Interfaces.]
The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must coordinate with State, Tribal, and local
agencies and organizations responsible for offsite emergency response (e.g., "911"
emergencies) and for protection of the health and safety of the public.
10. EMERGENCY FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT. Facilities and equipment adequate to
support emergency response must be available, operable, and maintained. At a
minimum, facilities must include an adequate and viable command center. Equipment
must include, but not be limited to, personnel protective equipment, detectors, and
decontamination equipment. [See also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III, paragraph 3d(8) and
Chapter IV, paragraph 3b(9), Emergency Facilities and Equipment.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must provide facilities and equipment
adequate to support emergency response, including the capability to notify
employees of an emergency to facilitate the safe evacuation of employees from
the work place, immediate work area, or both.
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b. The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Program facilities must also establish and maintain facilities and equipment
adequate to support emergency response as follows.
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(1) A facility must be available for use as a command center.
(2) Provisions must be established for use of an alternate location if the
primary command center is not available.
(3) Adequate personal protective equipment and other equipment and supplies
must be available and operable to meet the needs determined by the results
of the EPHA.
11. CATEGORIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION. Operational Emergencies are major
unplanned or abnormal events or conditions that: involve or affect DOE/NNSA facilities
and activities by causing or having the potential to cause serious health and safety or
environmental impacts; require resources from outside the immediate/affected area or
local event scene to supplement the initial response; and, require time-urgent
notifications to initiate response activities at locations beyond the event scene. In
general, to be considered an Operational Emergency, an event or condition involving the
uncontrolled release of a hazardous material must: immediately threaten or endanger
personnel who are in close proximity of the event; have the potential for dispersal beyond
the immediate vicinity of the release in quantities that threaten the health and safety of
onsite personnel or the public in collocated facilities, activities, and/or offsite; and have a
potential rate of dispersal sufficient to require a time-urgent response to implement
protective actions for workers and the public.
In addition to being categorized as Operational Emergencies, events involving the actual
or potential airborne release of (or loss of control over) hazardous materials from an
onsite facility or activity also require prompt and accurate classification as an Alert, Site
Area Emergency, or General Emergency, based on health effects parameters measured or
estimated at specific receptor locations (e.g., facility and site boundaries) and compared
with protective action criteria. Predetermined conservative onsite protective actions and
offsite protective action recommendations must be associated with the classification of
these Operational Emergencies (as an Alert, Site Area Emergency or General
Emergency). [See also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III, paragraph 3d(3), Emergency
Categorization; Chapter IV, paragraph 3b(3), Emergency Classification; and Chapter V,
Operational Emergency Events and Conditions.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must —
(1) Establish criteria for determining quickly if an event is an Operational
Emergency.
(2) Declare an Operational Emergency when events occur that represent a
significant degradation in the level of safety at a site/facility and that
require time-urgent response efforts from outside the site/facility. These
events do not require further classification (i.e., as Alert, Site Area
Emergency, or General Emergency). Such events include the following.
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(a) Health and Safety. The following events or conditions represent,
cause, or have the potential to cause serious health and safety
impacts to workers or members of the public.
1 The discovery of radioactive or other hazardous material
contamination from past DOE/NNSA operations that may
have caused, is causing, or may reasonably be expected to
cause uncontrolled personnel exposures exceeding
protective action criteria.
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2 An offsite hazardous material event not associated with
DOE/NNSA operations that is observed to have or is
predicted to have an impact on a DOE/NNSA site, such
that protective actions are required for onsite DOE/NNSA
workers.
3 An occurrence (e.g., earthquake, tornado, aircraft crash,
fire, explosion) that causes or can reasonably be expected
to cause significant structural damage to DOE/NNSA
facilities, with confirmed or suspected personnel injury or
death.
4 Any facility evacuation in response to an actual occurrence
that requires time-urgent response by specialist personnel,
such as hazardous material responders or mutual aid groups
not normally assigned to the affected facility.
5 An unplanned nuclear criticality.
6 Any mass casualty event.
(b) Environment. The following events or conditions represent, cause,
or have the potential to cause serious detrimental effects on the
environment.
1 Any actual or potential release of hazardous material or
regulated pollutant to the environment, in a quantity greater
than 5 times the Reportable Quantity (RQ) specified for
such material in 40 CFR 302, that could result in significant
offsite consequences, such as major wildlife kills, wetland
degradation, aquifer contamination, or the need to secure
downstream water supply intakes.
2 Any release of greater than 1,000 gallons (24 barrels) of oil
to inland waters; greater than 10,000 gallons (238 barrels)
of oil to coastal waters; or a quantity of oil that could result
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in significant off-site consequences (e.g., need to relocate
people, major wildlife kills, wet-land degradation, aquifer
contamination, need to secure downstream water supply
intakes, etc.) [Oil as defined by the Clean Water Act
(33 U.S.C. 1321) means any kind of oil and includes
petroleum.]
(c) Security and Safeguards. (Security incidents are also subject to
reporting in accordance with DOE O 471.4, Incidents of Security
Concern. Per this Order, foreign involvement in security incidents
must be reported to the Office of Counterintelligence.) The
following events or conditions represent, cause, or have the
potential to cause degradation of security or safeguards conditions
with actual or potential direct harm to people or the environment.
1 Actual unplanned detonation of an explosive device or a
credible threat of detonation resulting from the location of a
confirmed or suspicious explosive device.
2 An actual terrorist attack or sabotage event involving a
DOE/NNSA site/facility or operation.
3 Kidnapping or taking hostage(s) involving a DOE/NNSA
site/facility or operation.
(d) Offsite DOE Transportation Activities. The following events or
conditions represent an actual or potential release of hazardous
materials from a DOE/NNSA shipment.
1 Any accident/incident involving an offsite DOE/NNSA
shipment containing hazardous materials that causes the
initial responders to initiate protective actions at locations
beyond the immediate/affected area.
2 Failures in safety systems threaten the integrity of a nuclear
weapon, component, or test device.
3 A transportation accident results in damage to a nuclear
explosive, nuclear explosive-like assembly, or Category I/II
quantity of Special Nuclear Materials.
(e) Hazardous Biological Agent or Toxins. The following events or
conditions involving the release of a hazardous biological agent or
toxin [identified in 42 CFR 73, 7 CFR 331 and 9 CFR 121]
represent major failure of safety systems, protocols, and/or
practices with the potential to have a serious impact on health and
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safety of workers, collocated workers, emergency responders,
members of the public, or the environment:
Any actual or potential release of a hazardous biological agent or
toxin outside of the secondary barriers of the biocontainment area.
(3) Categorize an event as an Operational Emergency as promptly as possible,
but no later than 15 minutes after event recognition/identification/
discovery.
b. The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Program facilities must also establish procedures to classify emergency events (as
an Alert, Site Area Emergency, General Emergency).
(1) Hazardous material emergencies involving DOE/NNSA facilities must be
classified Operational Emergencies as either an Alert, Site Area
Emergency, or General Emergency, in order of increasing severity, when
events occur that represent a specific threat to workers and the public due
to the release or potential release of significant quantities of hazardous
materials. Classification aids in the rapid communication of critical
information and the initiation of appropriate time-urgent emergency
response actions. Events, listed in paragraph 11a, above, that serve as
initiating events for the release of hazardous materials must be classified
under the provisions of this section.
(a) Alert. An Alert must be declared when events are predicted, are in
progress, or have occurred that result in one or more of the
following.
1 An actual or potential substantial degradation in the level
of control over hazardous materials.
a The radiation dose from any release to the
environment of radioactive material or a
concentration in air of other hazardous material is
expected to exceed either—
i. a site-specific criterion corresponding to
10 percent of the applicable protective
action criterion [see Base Order,
paragraph 4a(14)] at or beyond the facility
boundary; or
ii. the applicable protective action criterion at
or beyond 30 meters from the point of
release to the environment.
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b It is not expected that the applicable protective
action criterion will be exceeded at or beyond the
facility boundary.
2 An actual or potential substantial degradation in the level
of safety or security of a nuclear weapon, component, or
test device that would not pose an immediate threat to
workers or the public.
3 An actual or potential substantial degradation in the level
of safety or security of a facility or process that could, with
further degradation, produce a Site Area Emergency or
General Emergency.
(b) Site Area Emergency. A Site Area Emergency must be declared
when events are predicted, in progress, or have occurred that result
in one or more of the following situations.
1 An actual or potential major failure of functions necessary
for the protection of workers or the public. The radiation
dose from any release of radioactive material or
concentration in air from any release of other hazardous
material is expected to exceed the applicable protective
action criterion [see Base Order, paragraph 4a(14)] at or
beyond the facility boundary. The protective action
criterion is not expected to be exceeded at or beyond the
site boundary.
2 An actual or potential threat to the integrity of a nuclear
weapon, component, or test device that may adversely
impact the health and safety of workers in the immediate
area, but not the public.
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3 Actual or potential major degradation in the level of safety
or security of a facility or process that could, with further
degradation, produce a General Emergency.
(c) General Emergency. A General Emergency must be declared
when events are predicted, in progress, or have occurred that result
in one or more of the following situations.
1 Actual or imminent catastrophic reduction of facility safety
or security systems with potential for the release of large
quantities of hazardous materials to the environment. The
radiation dose from any release of radioactive material or a
concentration in air from any release of other hazardous
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material is expected to exceed the applicable protective
action criterion [see Base Order, paragraph 4a(14)] at or
beyond the site boundary.
2 Actual or likely catastrophic failures in safety or security
systems threatening the integrity of a nuclear weapon,
component, or test device that may adversely impact the
health and safety of workers and the public.
(2) Site/facility-specific Emergency Action Levels (EALs) must be developed
for the spectrum of potential Operational Emergencies identified by the
EPHA and must include protective actions corresponding to each EAL.
12. NOTIFICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS. Initial emergency notifications must be
made promptly, accurately and effectively to workers and emergency response
personnel/organizations, appropriate DOE/NNSA elements, and other Federal, Tribal,
State, and local organizations and authorities. Accurate and timely follow-up
notifications must be made when conditions change, when the emergency classification
level (as an Alert, Site Area Emergency, General Emergency) is upgraded, or when the
emergency is terminated. Continuous, effective, and accurate communication among
response components and/or organizations must be reliably maintained throughout an
Operational Emergency. [See also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III, paragraph 3d(4),
Communications, and Chapter VIII, Communications Requirements.]
The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must —
a. Provide prompt initial notification of workers, emergency response personnel, and
response organizations, including DOE/NNSA elements and State, Tribal, and
local organizations;
b. Notify State and local officials and the Cognizant Field Element Emergency
Operations Center (EOC) and Headquarters Operations Center within 15 minutes
and all other organizations within 30 minutes of the declaration of an Alert, Site
Area Emergency, or General Emergency;
c. Notify the Cognizant Field Element EOC and Headquarters Operations Center
within 30 minutes of the declaration of an Operational Emergency not requiring
classification [per CRD paragraph 11a(2)]; and
d. Notify local, State, and Tribal organizations within 30 minutes or as established in
mutual agreements for declaration of an Operational Emergency not requiring
classification [per CRD paragraph 11a(2)].
e. At a minimum, emergency notification to the Headquarters Operations Center
must consist of a phone call providing as much information as is known at the
time. The same information must be provided by e-mail or a fax, either
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immediately prior to or following the phone call. Information for initial
notification includes as much as possible of the following:
(1) that an Operational Emergency has been declared and, if appropriate, the
classification of the emergency;
(2) the description of the emergency;
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(3) the date and time the emergency was discovered;
(4) the damage and casualties;
(5) whether the emergency has stopped other facility/site operations or
program activities;
(6) the protective actions taken and/or recommended;
(7) the notifications made;
(8) the weather conditions at the scene of the emergency;
(9) the level of any media interest at the scene of the emergency or at the
facility/site; and
(10) the contact information of the DOE or NNSA on-scene point of contact.
f. Provide for continuing effective communication among response organizations
throughout an emergency.
g. Establish effective communications methods between event scene responders,
emergency managers, and response facilities.
h. Forward emergency status reports to the next-higher Emergency Management
Team on a continuing basis until the emergency is terminated.
i. Each activated Emergency Management Team must submit a final report on the
emergency response to the Emergency Manager for submission to the Director,
Office of Emergency Operations, following termination of emergency response,
and in conjunction with the Final Occurrence Report (see DOE M 231.1-2).
j. Review all reports and releases for classified or unclassified controlled
information (e.g., Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information) prior to being
provided to personnel not authorized access to such information, entered into
databases not authorized for such information, or transmitted using non-secure
communications equipment.
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13. CONSESQUENCE ASSESSMENT. Estimates of onsite and offsite consequences of
actual or potential releases of hazardous materials must be computed and assessed
correctly and in a timely manner throughout the emergency. Consequence assessments
must be: integrated with emergency classification and protective action decision-making;
incorporated with facility and field indications and measurements; and coordinated with
offsite agencies. [See DOE O 151.1C, Chapter IV, paragraph 3b(5), Consequence
Assessment.]
The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program
facilities must establish provisions to assess the potential or actual onsite and offsite
consequences of an emergency.
a. Consequence assessments must—
(1) be timely throughout the emergency;
(2) be integrated with the emergency classification and protective action
process;
(3) incorporate monitoring of specific indicators and field measurements; and
(4) be coordinated with Federal, State, local, and Tribal organizations.
b. If the facility has the potential for an Operational Emergency classified as a
General Emergency, the facility/site must have connectivity to NARAC
capabilities and procedures to use the NARAC capability effectively as part of
near real-time consequence assessment activities for the mode (primary, backup,
corroborating) selected by the facility.
c. If the facility has the potential for an Operational Emergency classified as a Site
Area Emergency, the facility/site must have procedures in place to activate or
request NARAC capabilities and must be able to use those capabilities as part of
near real-time consequence assessment activities.
d. All DOE/NNSA facilities/sites that have access to NARAC or have procedures in
place to activate or request NARAC capabilities must ensure that facility/site
meteorological data and information on source terms for actual or potential
releases of hazardous materials to the atmosphere are available or can be made
available to NARAC in a timely manner to facilitate near real-time computations.
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14. PROTECTIVE ACTIONS AND REENTRY. Protective actions must be promptly and
effectively implemented or recommended for implementation, as needed, to minimize the
consequences of emergencies and to protect the health and safety of workers and the
public. Protective actions must be implemented individually or in combination to reduce
exposures to a wide range of hazardous materials. Protective actions must be reassessed
throughout an emergency and modified as conditions change. Reentry activities must be
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planned, coordinated, and accomplished properly and safely. [See also DOE O 151.1C,
Chapter III, paragraph 3d(5) and Chapter IV, paragraph 3b(6), Protective Actions.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must —
(1) develop procedures to implement the separate protective actions of
evacuation and sheltering of employees;
(2) develop a procedure to account for employees after emergency evacuation
has been completed;
(3) ensure the protection of workers, covered by 29 CFR 1910.120, involved
in response and clean-up.
b. The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Program facilities must also predetermine protective actions for onsite personnel
and the public, and must include —
(1) methods for controlling, monitoring, and maintaining records of personnel
exposures to hazardous materials;
(2) procedures to implement the separate protective actions of evacuation and
sheltering of employees;
(3) methods for controlling access to contaminated areas and for
decontaminating personnel or equipment exiting the area;
(4) actions that may be taken to increase the effectiveness of protective
actions [i.e., heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) shutdown
during sheltering];
(5) methods for providing timely recommendations to appropriate State,
Tribal, or local authorities of protective actions, such as sheltering,
evacuation, relocation, and food control; and
(6) specific protective action criteria, based on the Base Order,
paragraph 4a(14), for use in protective action decision making.
15. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SUPPORT. Medical support for contaminated or injured
personnel must be planned and promptly and effectively implemented. Arrangements
with offsite medical facilities to transport, accept, and treat contaminated, injured
personnel must be documented. [See also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III, paragraph 3d(6)
and Chapter IV, paragraph 3b(7), Medical Support; and DOE O 440.1A, Worker
Protection Management for DOE Federal and Contractor Employees, dated 3-27-98.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must—
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(1) provide medical treatment and planning for mass casualty situations. [See
also DOE O 440.1A.]
(2) coordinate in advance the sharing of patient information between onsite
and offsite health care providers during emergencies, consistent with the
requirements of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 [42 USC 300].
b. The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Program facilities must also —
(1) Provide medical support for workers contaminated by hazardous material
[See also DOE O 440.1A.]
(2) Document arrangements with onsite and offsite medical facilities to accept
and treat contaminated, injured personnel.
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16. EMERGENCY PUBLIC INFORMATION. Accurate, candid, and timely information
must be provided to workers, the news media, and the public during an emergency to
establish facts and avoid speculation. Emergency public information efforts must be
coordinated with DOE and NNSA (if appropriate); State, local, and Tribal governments;
and Federal emergency response organizations, as appropriate. Workers and the public
must be informed of emergency plans and planned protective actions before emergencies.
[See also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter IX, Public Affairs Policy and Planning
Requirements.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must prepare an Emergency Public
Information Plan. The same plan can cover multiple facilities on a site.
(1) The plans must provide—
(a) identification of personnel, resources, facilities, and coordination
procedures necessary to provide emergency public information;
(b) a program for training and exercises of personnel who will interact
with the media;
(c) a methodology for informing workers and the public of
DOE/NNSA emergency plans and protective actions, before and
during emergencies;
(d) coordination of public information efforts with State, local, and
Tribal governments, and Federal emergency response plans, as
appropriate.
(2) The emergency public information program must have provisions in place
to establish a media center. A media center is a designated location where
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Cognizant Field Element and contractor personnel can conduct the
necessary briefings and press conferences regarding an Operational
Emergency at the facility.
(3) In situations involving classified or unclassified controlled information,
the contractor must provide sufficient publicly releasable information to
explain the emergency response and protective actions required for the
health and safety of workers and the public.
(4) Public announcements in areas involving classified or unclassified
controlled information must be reviewed by the appropriate official before
release to ensure that no classified or unclassified controlled information
is contained in the announcement.
(5) When directed by the cognizant field element, a contractor public
information officer must be assigned to the emergency public information
response team involved in a significant offsite response deployment.
(6) The DOE/NNSA (as appropriate) Director of Public Affairs and the
Headquarters Emergency Manager must be informed of all DOE/NNSA
emergency public information actions. These notifications must be made
as soon as practicable.
(7) Initial news releases or public statements must be approved by the
Cognizant Field Element official responsible for emergency public
information review and dissemination. Following initial news releases
and public statements, updates must be coordinated with the DOE/NNSA
(as appropriate) Director of Public Affairs and the Headquarters
Emergency Manager.
(8) An emergency public information communications system must be
established among Headquarters, Cognizant Field Element, and on-scene
locations.
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b. The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Program facilities must also have provisions in place to establish a Joint
Information Center (JIC). A JIC is a working location, where multiple
jurisdictions gather, process and disseminate public information during an
emergency. The JIC must be adequately staffed with personnel trained to serve as
spokesperson and newswriter. Personnel must be assigned to the JIC to provide
support in media services, public inquiry, media inquiry, JIC management and
administrative activities, and media monitoring. Persons with technical expertise
related to the emergency and with spokesperson training must also be assigned to
the JIC. The JIC must be established, directed, and coordinated by the senior
Cognizant Field Element public affairs manager or a designee.
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c. The contractor providing personnel for the Departmental emergency response
assets [the Aerial Measuring System (AMS), the Accident Response Group
(ARG), the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC), the
Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC), the Nuclear
Emergency Support Team (NEST), the Radiological Assistance Program (RAP),
and the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS)] must
apply the Emergency Public Information Plan during deployment of the assets.
17. TERMINATION AND RECOVERY. An Operational Emergency can be terminated
only after a predetermined set of criteria has been met and termination has been
coordinated with offsite agencies. Recovery from a terminated Operational Emergency
must include: communication and coordination with State, Tribal, and local government
and other Federal agencies; planning, management, and organization of the associated
recovery activities; and ensuring the health and safety of the workers and public. [See
also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III, paragraph 5b and Chapter IV, paragraph 5b,
Termination and Recovery.]
a. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must—
(1) coordinate termination with State, Tribal, and local agencies and
organizations responsible for offsite emergency response and notification
and
(2) establish criteria for resumption of normal operations (i.e., recovery).
Recovery must also include provisions for investigation of the root
cause(s) of the emergency and corrective action(s) to prevent recurrence in
accordance with Departmental requirements (e.g., see DOE O 225.1A,
Accident Investigations, dated 11-26-97, DOE O 231.1A, Environment,
Safety, and Health Reporting, with Change 1dated 6-3-04, and
DOE 5480.19, Conduct of Operations Requirements for DOE Facilities,
with Change 2, dated 10-23-01).
b. The contractor at DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material
Program facilities must also—
(1) establish predetermined criteria for termination of emergencies;
(2) have the means for estimating exposure to hazardous materials and for
protecting workers and the general public from exposure during reentry
and recovery activities;
(3) develop recovery procedures that include dissemination of information to
Federal, State, Tribal, and local organizations regarding the emergency
and possible relaxation of public protective actions; planning for
decontamination actions; establishment of a recovery organization;
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development of reporting requirements; and establishment of criteria for
resumption of normal operations;
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(4) not downgrade emergencies, once categorized, to a lower significance
category unless the original categorization was incorrect. An event
determined to be an emergency will remain so until the emergency
response is terminated. In general, the emergency classification (i.e.,
Alert, Site Area Emergency, General Emergency) should not be
downgraded until termination of the event. However, emergency
classification must be reviewed periodically to ensure the classification is
commensurate with response activities.
18. REFERENCES. The following Chapters of DOE O 151.1C, Comprehensive Emergency
Management System, dated 11-2-05, and the associated Emergency Management Guides
(DOE G 151.1-1 series) provide additional discussion.
a. Chapter I. Responsibilities
b. Chapter III. Operational Emergency Base Program
c. Chapter IV. Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program
d. Chapter V. Operational Emergency Events and Conditions
e. Chapter VIII. Communications Requirements
f. Chapter IX. Public Affairs Policy and Planning Requirements
g. Chapter X. Readiness Assurance
h. Chapter XI. Program Administration
OBJECTIVES
CANCELLATIONS
APPLICABILITY
REQUIREMENTS
General
Planning and Preparedness
Response
Recovery
IMPLEMENTATION
CONTACT
Chapter I. RESPONSIBILITIES
DEPUTY SECRETARY
NNSA ADMINISTRATOR
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
STANDING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
HEADQUARTERS EMERGENCY MANAGER
HEADQUARTERS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAM
PROGRAM SECRETARIAL OFFICERS
FIELD ELEMENT MANAGERS
SITE/FACILITY MANAGERS
INITIATORS OF PROCUREMENT REQUESTS
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ENERGY ASSURANCE
DIRECTOR, HEADQUARTERS OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT, BUDGET ANDEVALUATION
DIRECTOR, HEADQUARTERS OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Chapter III. OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY BASE PROGRAM
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS
PLANNING PHASE
PREPAREDNESS PHASE
RESPONSE PHASE
Chapter IV. OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY HAZARDOUS MATERIAL PROGRAM
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS
PLANNING PHASE
PREPAREDNESS PHASE
RESPONSE PHASE
Chapter V. OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY EVENTS AND CONDITIONS
GENERAL
EVENTS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE CLASSIFICATION
EVENTS REQUIRING CLASSIFICATION
Chapter VI. ENERGY EMERGENCY PROGRAM
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS
PLANNING PHASE
PREPAREDNESS PHASE
RESPONSE PHASE
Chapter VII. EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
RELATED REGULATIONS AND PLANS
PLANNING PHASE
PREPAREDNESS PHASE
RESPONSE PHASE
Chapter VIII. COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS
GENERAL
PLANNING PHASE
PREPAREDNESS PHASE
RESPONSE PHASE
Chapter IX. PUBLIC AFFAIRS POLICY AND PLANNING REQUIREMENTS
GENERAL
PLANNING PHASE
PREPAREDNESS PHASE
RESPONSE PHASE
Chapter X. READINESS ASSURANCE
GENERAL
EVALUATIONS
IMPROVEMENTS
EMERGENCY READINESS ASSURANCE PLANS
Chapter XIPROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS
REVIEW FOR CLASSIFIED OR UNCLASSIFIED CONTROLLED INFORMATION
EMERGENCY PLAN IMPLEMENTING PROCEDURES
EMERGENCY OPERATING RECORDS PROTECTION
ATTACHMENT 1. DOE ELEMENTS TO WHICH DOE O 151.1C IS APPLICABLE
CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT