Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: f0cf8aaf-23e1-419d-b4f2-0263b33cea25
Document Type: srp
Title: MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1331/ML13311B662.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 13
Section ID: 13.1.1
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that the responsibility will be met. The management and technical support staffing plan can be verified during the Construction Inspection Program b. There are several ways to define and delegate job responsibilities. Variations in staffing are to be expected between applicants. The reviewer should be alert to the possibility that excessive workloads may be placed on too few individuals. Interface arrangements and controls between the applicant and major contractors 13.1.1-7 Draft Revision 6 – August 2014 (NSSS vendors, architect-engineer, and constructors) should be evaluated to ensure that the applicant will oversee and be responsible for design and construction activities. If the application is for more than one unit, the reviewer should ensure that headquarters staffing plans take this fact into account. This is particularly important if additional units are scheduled to come on line at intervals of a year or less, as preoperational testing, fuel load, and startup testing of a new plant will produce quite heavy workloads. In some cases the applicant may plan to bolster the plant staff organization during such periods so that it may be necessary to evaluate headquarters staffing plans in conjunction with plant staffing plans. c. The reviewer should assess the degree of participation during the design and construction phases by the headquarters group that typically has plant operating responsibility. Interfaces between this group and contractors/vendors with design and construction responsibilities should be examined. Interfaces should be examined between this group and groups with project engineering responsibilities. The mechanism employed to ensure that the applicant's headquarters is involved in risk-informed decisionmaking that impacts the safety of the plant design as it is being constructed and the retention of design and construction documentation and related records of decisionmaking and approvals should be examined. d. If the applicant has experience