Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: c422c59e-3da0-4294-a2cc-0e84c5c8422e
Document Type: srp
Title: to ensure that the Access Authorization Operational Program and associated milestones
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1212/ML12125A098.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 13
Section ID: 13.6.4
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nominally” which allows a 25 percent margin, consistent with the definition of nominal in 10 CFR Part 26.5, which provides a limited flexibility in meeting the scheduled due date for completing this recurrent activity. Completing a recurrent activity at a nominal frequency means that the activity may be completed within a period that is 25 percent longer (30 months) or shorter (18 months) than the period required, with the next scheduled due date no later than the current scheduled due date plus the required frequency for completing the activity. Licensees or applicants shall establish, implement, and develop independence of audit team members. Personnel who conduct audits will possess the requisite knowledge to evaluate the holistic implications of individual requirements or the complexities associated with meeting the rule’s performance objective and, therefore, can adequately evaluate program effectiveness, and are independent of management having responsibility for day-to-day operation of the AA program. Licensees and other entities are permitted to jointly conduct audits as well as to rely on one another’s audits, if the audits upon which they are relying address the services obtained from the C/V by each of the sharing licensees or applicants. Licensees, applicants, and contractors or vendors may rely on a shared audit to ensure that all services and elements upon which they rely have been adequately audited and to make clear that the licensees, applicants, and C/V are responsible for ensuring that an adequate audit is conducted of any services or elements upon which they rely that are not adequately covered by the shared audit. 14. 10 CFR 73.56 (o), “Records” − Licensees or applicants shall establish, implement, and outline requirements for the retention, storage, and protection of records required by this section. Licensees, applicants, C/V will retain, store, and protect records to ensure their 13.6.4-12 Draft Revision 0 – December 2012