February 28, 2005

Mr. R. Dennis Brown, Director

Office of Quality Assurance

Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management

U. S. Department of Energy

P.O. Box 364629

Mail Stop 523

North Las Vegas, NV 89036-8629

SUBJECT: U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OBSERVATION AUDIT REPORT

NO. OAR–05–01, OBSERVATION AUDIT OF THE OFFICE OF QUALITY

ASSURANCE AUDIT OCRWMP–OQA–05–20 OF BECHTEL SAIC

COMPANY, LLC

Dear Mr. Brown:

I am transmitting the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Observation Audit Report

No. OAR–05–01. This report is about the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Quality

Assurance, audit of Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC (BSC) conducted at the BSC facility in Las

Vegas, Nevada. The audit team conducted this audit on January 24–28, 2005.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of General Applicability," a copy of this

letter will be available electronically in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publically

Available Records component of the NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible

from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

A written response to this letter and the enclosed report is not required; however. If you have

any questions, please contact Mr. Thomas Matula at 301–415–6700.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Elmo Collins, Deputy Director

Division of High-Level Waste Repository Safety

Office of Nuclear Material Safety

 and Safeguards

Enclosure:

The U.S. NRC Observation Audit Report OAR-05-01, Observation Audit of the Office of Quality

Assurance Audit OCRWMP–OQA–05–20 of Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC

cc: See attached list.
Letter to R. D. Brown from E. C. Collins, dated: February 28, 2005 

cc: 

A. Kalt, Churchill County, NV A. Elzeftawy, Las Vegas Paiute Tribe 

R. Massey, Churchill/Lander County, NV J. Treichel, Nuclear Waste Task Force

I. Navis, Clark County, NV W. Briggs, Ross, Dixon & Bell

E. von Tiesenhausen, Clark County, NV M. Chu, DOE/Washington, D.C.

G. McCorkell, Esmeralda County, NV G. Runkle, DOE/Washington, D.C.

R. Damele, Eureka County, NV C. Einberg, DOE/Washington, D.C.

L. Marshall, Eureka County, NV S. Gomberg, DOE/Washington, D.C.

A. Johnson, Eureka County, NV W. J. Arthur, III , DOE/ORD

A. Remus, Inyo County, CA R. Dyer, DOE/ORD

M. Yarbro, Lander County, NV J. Ziegler, DOE/ORD

S. Hafen, Lincoln County, NV A. Gil, DOE/ORD

M. Baughman, Lincoln County, NV W. Boyle, DOE/ORD

L. Mathias, Mineral County, NV D. Brown, DOE/OCRWM

D. Swanson, Nye County, NV S.A. Wade,, DOE/ORD

M. Maher, Nye County, NV C. Hanlon, DOE/ORD

D. Hammermeister, Nye County, NV T. Gunter, DOE/ORD

M. Simon, White Pine County, NV A. Benson, DOE/ORD

J. Ray, NV Congressional Delegation N. Hunemuller, DOE/ORD

B. J. Vonderheide, NV Congressional

Delegation

R. L. Craun, DOE/ORD 

T. Story, NV Congressional Delegation M. Mason, BSC

R. Herbert, NV Congressional Delegation S. Cereghino, BSC

M. Murphy N. Williams, BSC

S. Joya, NV Congressional Delegation E. Mueller, BSC

K. Kirkeby, NV Congressional Delegation J. Mitchell, BSC

R. Loux, State of NV D. Beckman, BSC/B&A

S. Frishman, State of NV M. Voegele, BSC/SAID

S. Lynch, State of NV B. Helmer, Timbisha Shoshone Tribe

P. Guinan, Legislative Counsel Bureau R. Boland, Timbisha Shoshone Tribe

R. Clark, EPA R. Arnold, Pahrump Paiute Tribe

R. Anderson, NEI J. Birchim, Yomba Shoshone Tribe
cc: (Continued)

R. McCullum, NEI R. Holden, NCAI

S. Kraft, NEI C. Meyers, Moapa Paiute Indian Tribe

J. Kessler, EPRI R. Wilder, Fort Independence Indian Tribe

D. Duncan, USGS D. Vega, Bishop Paiute Indian Tribe

R. Craig, USGS J. Egan, Egan, Fitzpatrick, Malsch, PLLC

W. Booth, Engineering Svcs, LTD J. Leeds, Las Vegas Indian Center

C. Marden, BNFL Inc. J. C. Saulque, Benton Paiute Indian Tribe

J. Bacoch, Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the

Owens Valley

C. Bradley, Kaibab Band of Southern Paiutes

P. Thompson, Duckwater Shoshone Tribe R. Joseph, Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe

T. Kingham, GAO L. Tom, Paiute Indian Tribes of Utah

D. Feehan, GAO E. Smith, Chemehuevi Indian Tribe

E. Hiruo, Platts Nuclear Publications D. Buckner, Ely Shoshone Tribe

G. Hernandez, Las Vegas Paiute Tribe V. Guzman, Walker River Paiute 

K. Finfrock, NV Congressional Delegation D. Eddy, Jr., Colorado River Indian Tribes

P. Johnson, Citizen Alert H. Jackson, Public Citizen

A. Capoferri, DOE/Washington, DC J. Wells, Western Shoshone National Council

J. Williams, DOE/Washington, DC D. Crawford, Inter-Tribal Council of NV

A. Robinson, Robinson-Seidler I. Zabarte, Western Shoshone National

Council

M. Dayton, City of Las Vegas S. Devlin

D. Wilson, Sen. Reid’s Office G. Hudlow

L. Lehman, T-REG, Inc. D. Irwin, Hunton & Williams

J. Donnell, DOE/ORD L. Alfano, Lincoln County

R. L. Craun, OPM&E M. Henderson, Cong. J. Gibbon’s Office

B. Gattoni, Burns & Roe D. Duquette, NWTRB

R. Murray, DOE/ORD
February 28, 2005

Mr. R. Dennis Brown, Director

Office of Quality Assurance

Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management

U. S. Department of Energy

P.O. Box 364629

Mail Stop 523

North Las Vegas, NV 89036-8629

SUBJECT: U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OBSERVATION AUDIT

REPORT NO. OAR–05–01, OBSERVATION AUDIT OF THE OFFICE OF

QUALITY ASSURANCE AUDIT OCRWMP–OQA–05–20 OF BECHTEL SAIC

COMPANY, LLC

Dear Mr. Brown:

I am transmitting the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Observation Audit Report

No. OAR–05–01. This report is about the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Quality

Assurance, audit of Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC (BSC) conducted at the BSC facility in Las

Vegas, Nevada. The audit team conducted this audit on January 24–28, 2005.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of General Applicability," a copy of this

letter will be available electronically in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publically

Available Records component of the NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible

from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

A written response to this letter and the enclosed report is not required; however. If you have

any questions, please contact Mr. Thomas Matula at 301–415–6700.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Elmo Collins, Deputy Director

Division of High-Level Waste Repository Safety

Office of Nuclear Material Safety

 and Safeguards

Enclosure:

The U.S. NRC Observation Audit Report OAR-05-01, Observation Audit of the Office of Quality

Assurance Audit OCRWMP–OQA–05–20 of Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC

cc: See attached list.

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