Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 75093034-0d96-4f33-8b5d-aa7cb62592bf
Document Type: srp
Title: Technical Rationale58
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070627.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 13
Section ID: 13.4.57
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e applicant should identify the applicable version of references, Regulatory Guides, and Codes and Standards used. The reviewer should identify the applicable version of references, Regulatory Guides, and Codes and Standards used in the review. 13.1.1-9 DRAFT Rev. 3 - April 1996 In the review and evaluation of the subject matter of this section of the SAR, the following points should be taken into consideration. The corporate level management and technical support structure, as demonstrated by organizational charts and descriptions of functions and responsibilities, should be free of ambiguous assignments of primary responsibility. A corporate officer should clearly be responsible for nuclear activities, without having ancillary responsibilities that might detract from his attention to nuclear safety matters. Design and construction responsibilities should be 61 reasonably well defined in both numbers and experience of persons required to implement their responsibilities. Similarly, management and organizational responsibilities should be clearly defined with regard to HFE considerations in the management of human-system interface issues. (This subject is addressed in more detail in NUREG-0711 and in SRP Chapter 18.) The 62 reviewer must recognize that there are many acceptable ways to define and delegate job responsibilities. For example, aAt the CPearly construction stage, with respect to technical 63 support for operations, the applicant's plans for headquarters staffing may not yet be firm. It is acceptable, therefore, if these plans are not fully specific in terms of numbers of people, provided the commitment made is sufficiently firm to assure ensure the responsibility can be met. Variations in staffing may also be expected between applicants who lack with and without prior experience with in nuclear plant design, construction, or operation and those who have such experience. It is important that the reviewer assure himself be convinced that applicants 64 in