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4The Board’s Recommendation 2008–1 is 

similarly directed at DOE’s use of a safety 

methodology (in this case, classifying fire 

protection systems as safety-class or safetysignificant) in advance of developing criteria and 

guidance. 

and progress toward developing a policy and 

accompanying guidance document on the use 

of risk assessment at defense nuclear 

facilities. This DOE letter indicated that the 

draft policy and guidance document would 

be ready for submittal to the DOE directives 

system in March 2007. Despite periodic 

meetings with the Board’s staff and briefings 

to the Board, as of July 2009, the draft policy 

and guidance document has not been entered 

into the DOE Directives system, and nearterm resolution of the issue is not evident. 

Without such a policy, DOE has little basis 

to accept the validity of existing risk 

management tools that use quantitative risk 

assessment. This is particularly important 

since the managers of DOE’s field elements 

are allowed to accept the safety risks that 

high-hazard operations pose toward workers 

and the public based on widely varying 

levels of assessments. 

Though Title 10, Part 830 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR 830, Nuclear 

Safety Management) and its associated 

quality assurance considerations govern 

nuclear safety evaluations at a fundamental 

level, these existing requirements are not of 

sufficient specificity to guide the use of 

complex quantitative risk assessments. The 

continued pursuit of ad hoc applications of 

risk assessment in the absence of adequate 

DOE policy and guidance is contrary to the 

standards-based approach to nuclear safety 

espoused by DOE and endorsed by the 

Board.4

Recommendation 

Therefore, the Board recommends that 

DOE: 

1. Establish a policy on the use of 

quantitative risk assessment for nuclear 

safety applications. 

2. Consistent with this policy, establish 

requirements and guidance in a DOE 

directive or directives that prescribe controls 

over the quality, use, implementation, and 

applicability of quantitative risk assessment 

in the design and operation of defense 

nuclear facilities. 

3. Evaluate current ongoing uses of 

quantitative risk assessment methodologies at 

defense nuclear facilities to determine if 

interim guidance or special oversight is 

warranted pending the development of 

formal policy and guidance. 

4. Establish a requirement to identify 

deficiencies and gaps in ongoing applications 

of quantitative risk assessment along with the 

additional research necessary to fill those 

gaps in support of the development and 

implementation of the final policy and 

guidance. 

A. J. Eggenberger, 

Chairman. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Record of Decision for 

Undersea Warfare Training Range 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD. 

ACTION: Notice of record of decision. 

SUMMARY: The United States (U.S.) 

Department of the Navy (Navy), after 

carefully weighing the environmental 

consequences of the installation and 

operation of the proposed action, 

announces its decision to develop an 

undersea warfare training range 

(USWTR) within the Preferred 

Alternative Site, the Jacksonville 

Operating Area (JAX OPAREA). At this 

time the Navy is implementing only a 

portion of the proposed action, a 

decision to move forward with 

installation of the USWTR, which 

consists of installing undersea cables 

and up to 300 nodes over a 500 squarenautical-mile area of the ocean. This 

location is approximately 50 nm from 

the northeast coast of Florida. The 

underwater nodes will be linked by 

underwater cable to a cable termination 

facility located ashore on Naval Station 

Mayport, Florida. 

Although both the installation phase 

and training phase of the USWTR are 

fully analyzed in the Final Overseas 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Environmental Impact Statement (OEIS/ 

EIS), and informs the decision as to the 

site selected for installation of the 

USWTR, this Record of Decision (ROD) 

implements only a portion of the 

proposed action by authorizing the 

installation of the USWTR. Because the 

USWTR is not anticipated to be ready 

for operation until at least 2014, the 

analysis regarding the environmental 

effects from training on the range will be 

updated in a future OEIS/EIS document 

closer in time to the date when the 

training will begin. The principal type 

of training activities on the USWTR will 

be anti-submarine warfare. The decision 

to implement training on USWTR will 

be based on the updated analysis of 

environmental effects in a future OEIS/ 

EIS in conjunction with appropriate 

coordination and consultation with the 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

complete text of the ROD is available on 

the public web site: http:// 

projects.earthtech.com/uswtr/ 

USWTR_index.htm along with the 

complete Final OEIS/EIS and 

accompanying documentation. Single 

copies of the ROD will be made 

available upon request by contacting 

Naval Facilities Engineering Command 

Atlantic, Attn: USWTR OEIS/EIS Project 

Manager, Code EV22LL, 6506 Hampton 

Boulevard, Lafayette River Annex 

Building A, Norfolk, Virginia 23508– 

1278. 

Dated: August 5, 2009. 

A.M. Vallandingham, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

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