A key component to analyzing any process is an assessment of the inputs to the process. For ease of understanding, the following conventions were used in this appendix. Therefore the SMM Executive Summaries are analyzed first. Each input shaded according to which NRC office has primary control over that input.
Asterisks highlight the principal sources.
This analysis revealed some interesting patterns. Much of the information is controlled by the regions. Six of the twelve inputs analyzed were controlled primarily by the regions. The purposes of several inputs are not distinctive. Resident inspectors we interviewed corroborated this analysis when they told us that many of the documents, including SALP, PPR, IPAP, and PIM, were created by cutting and pasting from the executive summaries of the inspection reports.