Emergency Management Program

Draft 2/6/2006

FUNCTIONAL AREA GOAL: An integrated and comprehensive Emergency Management System that ensures the Department can respond effectively and efficiently to Operational Emergencies and Energy Emergencies and can provide Emergency Assistance by applying the necessary resources to mitigate the consequences and protect workers, the public, the environment, and national security.

REQUIREMENTS:

DOE O 151.1C, Comprehensive Emergency Management System
Executive Order 12656
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5
National Incident Management System
National Response Plan
29 CFR 1910.38, Employee Emergency Plans and Fire Prevention Plans
29 CFR 1910.119, Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals
29 CFR 1910.120, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response
40 CFR 68, Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions
40 CFR 300, National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
40 CFR 355, Emergency Planning and Notification
41 CFR 102-74.235 to 102-74.260, Occupant Emergency Program
41 CFR 102-74-360, Accident and Fire Prevention
49 CFR 170, National Transportation Plan

GUIDANCE:

DOE G 151.1-1, Emergency Management Guide

Performance Objective 1: Contractor Program Documentation

The site (or facility) has an up-to-date, comprehensive, and documented Emergency Management Program.

1.1 Operational Emergency Base Program

Criteria:

1There must be an integrated Operational Emergency Base Program (see also DOE O 151.1C, Chapter III) for each facility and activity.
The Operational Emergency Base Program must provide the framework for response to serious events involving health and safety, the environment, safeguards, and security.
The Operational Emergency Base Program must ensure all requirements of DOE regulations and directives, regulations developed by other Federal agencies, and, if applicable, State and local requirements addressing emergency issues are seamlessly integrated without duplication of emergency management effort.
The Operational Emergency Base Program must be based on a Hazards Survey.

1.2 Hazards Survey

Criteria:

Each Hazards Survey must identify (e.g., in matrix or tabular form) the emergency conditions (e.g., fires, work place accidents, natural phenomena, etc.) that affect the facility; describe the potential health, safety, or environmental impacts; indicate the need for further analyses of hazardous materials in an EPHA; and identify the planning and preparedness requirements that apply to each type of hazard.
Each Hazards Survey must identify specific hazardous materials and quantities that, if released, could produce impacts consistent with the definition of an Operational Emergency through the Hazardous Material Screening Process.
A description of the screening process and the results of its application to the hazardous materials in the facility/activity must be included in the Hazards Survey, or incorporated by reference into supporting documentation.
All radioactive materials in a facility/activity must be subjected to a hazardous material screening process.
All chemicals in a facility/activity with known or suspected toxic properties must be subjected to a hazardous material screening process.
Hazards surveys must be updated every 3 years, and prior to significant changes to the site/facility or to hazardous material inventories.

1.3 Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program

Criteria:

The integrated Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program executes the general duty to identify the hazards that may result from an unplanned release of hazardous materials; strives to prevent unplanned releases of hazardous materials from DOE/NNSA facilities; takes any steps necessary to prevent releases; and uses feasible means to eliminate or materially reduce the hazard to workers and the public.
The results of the Emergency Planning Hazards Assessment (EPHA) must be used to determine the necessary personnel, resources, and equipment for the Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program.
If the quantitative analysis indicates that all events would be classified as less than an Alert, the minimum program requirements must encompass the requirements for Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response found in 29 CFR 1910.120 and the Operational Emergency Base Program requirements.
Each DOE closure site/facility must adjust its Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program to be commensurate with hazards that remain after a decontamination and decommission action is completed.

1.4 Emergency Planning Hazards Assessments (EPHAs)

Criteria:

The EPHA must identify hazards and the potential consequences from unplanned releases of (or loss of control over) hazardous materials, using accepted assessment techniques.
An accurate and timely method for tracking changes in operations, processes, or accident analyses that involve hazardous materials (e.g., introduction of new materials, new uses, significant changes in inventories, modification of material environments) must be established and maintained for each facility/activity. The method must allow sufficient time for emergency management personnel to review the EPHA and modify plans and procedures, as necessary.
An EPHA must be developed for shipments that do not satisfy governing DOT regulations and specifications for commercial hazardous materials transport. However, if a shipment satisfies DOT regulations and specifications, then an EPHA is not required.
The EPHA must include a determination of the size of the Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). Assumptions, methodology, models, and evaluation techniques used in the EPHA must be documented.
The EPHA must be reviewed at least every 3 years, and updated prior to significant changes to the site/facility or hazardous material inventories.

1.5 Program Administration. Effective organizational management and administrative control of the facility emergency management program must be provided by establishing and maintaining authorities and resources necessary to plan, develop, implement, and maintain a viable, integrated, and coordinated comprehensive emergency management program.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must designate an individual to administer emergency management. This individual must develop and maintain the emergency plan, develop the ERAP and annual updates, develop and conduct training and exercise programs, coordinate assessment activities, develop related documentation, and coordinate emergency resources.
All DOE/NNSA facilities that are generating classified information or Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI), or are conducting classified or UCNI operations, must review all emergency preparedness documents, such as plans, procedures, scenarios, and assessments for classified information and UCNI. This review must be conducted by the appropriate official using current guidance. If the EPHAs do not contain classified information or UCNI, they must be reviewed by the emergency management program administrator to determine if they contain potentially exploitable information. EPHAs containing potentially exploitable information must be protected as Official Use Only under exemption 2 of the Freedom of Information Act.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must document the emergency management program in an emergency plan that also describes the provisions for response to an Operational Emergency.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must develop Emergency Plan Implementing Procedures to describe how emergency plans must be implemented.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must establish a program to ensure that vital records, regardless of media, essential to the continued functioning or reconstitution of an organization during and after an emergency, are available, per 36 CFR 1236.

Performance Objective 2: Contractor Program Implementation

2.1 Training and Drills. A comprehensive, coordinated, and documented program of training and drills must be an integral part of the emergency management program to ensure that preparedness activities for developing and maintaining program-specific emergency response capabilities are accomplished.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must provide initial training and periodic drills to all workers who may be required to take protective actions (e.g., shelter-in-place, assembly, evacuation). This training is required when they are employed, when their expected actions change, or when the emergency plan changes.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must provide refresher training annually to certified operators and supervisors and those workers who are likely to witness a hazardous material release and who are required to notify proper authorities of the release.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must make available emergency-related information and training on site-specific conditions and hazards to offsite personnel who may be required to participate in response to an emergency at the DOE/NNSA site/facility.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also establish a coordinated program of training and drills for developing and/or maintaining specific emergency response capabilities as an integral part of the emergency management program. The program must apply to emergency response personnel and organizations that the site/facility expects to respond to onsite emergencies. Emergency-related information must be available to offsite response organizations. The program must consist of self-study/homework, training, and drills.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also provide both initial training and annual refresher training for the instruction of and demonstration of proficiency by all personnel (i.e., primary and alternate) comprising the emergency response organization.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also provide drills for the supervised, "hands-on" training of members of emergency response organizations.

2.2 Exercises. A formal exercise program must validate all elements of an emergency management program over a 5-year period. The exercise program must validate facility- and site-level emergency management program elements by initiating response to simulated, realistic emergency events/conditions in a manner that, as nearly as possible, replicates an integrated emergency response to an actual event. Planning and preparation must use an effective, structured approach that includes documentation of specific objectives, scope, timelines, injects, controller instructions, and evaluation criteria for realistic scenarios. Each exercise must be conducted, controlled, evaluated, and critiqued effectively and reliably. Lessons-learned must be developed, resulting in corrective actions and improvements.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must, at a minimum, conduct building evacuation exercises consistent with Federal regulations [e.g., (41 CFR 102 74 360)], local ordinances, and National Fire Protection Association Standards. Exercises must be conducted at least annually to ensure that employees are able to evacuate their work area safely.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must test communications systems with DOE Headquarters, the Cognizant Field Element, and offsite agencies at least annually, or as often as needed to ensure that communications systems are operational.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also establish a formal exercise program to validate all elements of the emergency management program over a 5 year period.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also ensure each exercise has specific objectives and is fully documented (e.g., in scenario packages that include objectives, scope, timelines, injects, controller instructions, and evaluation criteria).
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also evaluate each exercise. A critique process, which includes gathering and documenting observations of the participants, must be established. Corrective action items identified as a result of the critique process must be incorporated into the emergency management program.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also exercise its emergency response capability annually and include at least facility-level evaluation and critique. Evaluations of annual facility exercises by Departmental entities (e.g., Cognizant Field Element, Program Secretarial Officer or Headquarters Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance) must be performed periodically so that each facility has an external Departmental evaluation at least every 3 years.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program sites must also exercise site-level emergency response organization elements and resources in a minimum of one exercise annually. This site exercise must be designed to test and demonstrate the site's integrated emergency response capability. For multiple-facility sites, the basis for the exercise must be rotated among facilities.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also invite offsite response organizations to participate in site-wide exercises at least once every 3 years.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also support annual emergency response exercises with documentation that contains, but is not limited to, the exercise scope, its objectives and corresponding evaluation criteria, a narrative description of the scenario, timeline, and a list of participants. Documentation for site exercises must be approved by the Cognizant Field Element.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also complete evaluation reports for facility and site exercises within 30 working days and submitted to the Cognizant Field Element, the Program Secretarial Officer(s), and the Director, Office of Emergency Operations.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also complete corrective action plans within 30 working days of receipt of the final facility and site exercise evaluation report.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also ensure completion of corrective actions for facility and site exercises includes a verification and validation process, independent of those who performed the corrective action, that verifies the corrective action has been put in place and that validates the corrective action has been effective in resolving the original finding. Corrective actions involving revision of procedures or training of personnel should be completed before the next exercise.
Exercises of each of the Department's radiological emergency response assets must be conducted at least once every 3 years. These assets include the Accident Response Group (ARG), Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST), Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC), Aerial Measuring System (AMS), National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC), Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS), and Radiological Assistance Program (RAP).

2.3 Readiness Assurance. The emergency management Readiness Assurance Program must establish a framework and associated mechanisms for assuring that emergency plans, implementing procedures, and resources are adequate by ensuring that they are sufficiently maintained, exercised, and evaluated (including assessment and appraisal) and that appropriate and timely improvements are made in response to needs identified through coordinated and comprehensive emergency planning, resource allocation, training and drills, exercises, and evaluations. The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must implement a readiness assurance program consisting of evaluations, improvements and ERAPs.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must conduct an annual self-assessment of their emergency management programs. Program and exercise evaluations (including appraisals and assessments) must be based on specific standards and criteria issued by the Director, Office of Emergency Operations. Self-assessment results must be documented in the ERAP submitted to the Cognizant Field Element.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must conduct exercise evaluations as required by Exercise Criteria (Section 2.2).
All DOE/NNSA facilities must participate in a program of performance indicators (including performance measures and metrics) to capture and track objective data regarding the performance of emergency management programs in key functional areas.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must participate in a program of No-Notice Exercises, conducted at the discretion of the Director, Office of Emergency Operations, to determine if the facility/site Emergency Response Organization (ERO) accomplishes selected objectives based on applicable plans, procedures, and/or other established requirements. Facility/site involvement is limited to providing trusted agents and responding when the exercise is conducted.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must develop corrective action plans within 30 working days of receipt of the final evaluation report. Corrective actions must be completed as soon as possible. Corrective actions addressing revision of procedures or training of personnel should be completed before the next annual self-assessment of the program.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must ensure completion of corrective actions includes a verification and validation process, independent of those who performed the corrective action, that verifies the corrective action has been put in place and that validates the corrective action has been effective in resolving the original finding. Corrective actions involving revision of procedures or training of personnel should be completed before the next exercise.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must include a system for incorporating and tracking lessons learned from training, drills, actual responses, and a site-wide lessons learned program.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must participate in the DOE/NNSA Corporate Lessons Learned Program.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must submit an ERAP to the Cognizant Field Element by September 30 of each year.

2.4 Emergency Response Organization. An Emergency Response Organization (ERO), a structured organization with overall responsibility for initial and ongoing emergency response and mitigation, must be established and maintained for each facility/site. The ERO must establish effective control at the scene of an event/incident and integrate ERO activities with those of local agencies and organizations that provide onsite response services. An adequate number of experienced and trained personnel, including designated alternates, must be available on demand for timely and effective performance of ERO functions.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must assign an individual (e.g., building or facility manager or similar position) to manage and control all aspects of the site/facility response.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also establish and maintain an ERO for each site/facility with overall responsibility for the initial and ongoing response to and mitigation of an emergency. Control at the event/incident scene must be consistent with the National Incident Management System's Incident Command System, which integrates local agencies and organizations that provide onsite response services.

2.5 Offsite Response Interfaces. Effective interfaces must be established and maintained to ensure that emergency response activities are integrated and coordinated with the Federal, Tribal, State, and local agencies and organizations responsible for emergency response and protection of the workers, public, and environment.

Criterion:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must coordinate with State, Tribal, and local agencies and organizations responsible for offsite emergency response (e.g., "911" emergencies) and for protection of the health and safety of the public.

2.6 Facilities and Equipment. Facilities and equipment adequate to support emergency response must be available, operable, and maintained. At a minimum, facilities must include an adequate and viable command center. Equipment must include, but not be limited to personal protective equipment, detectors, and decontamination equipment.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must provide facilities and equipment adequate to support emergency response, including the capability to notify employees of an emergency to facilitate the safe evacuation of employees from the work place, immediate work area, or both.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also establish and maintain facilities and equipment adequate to support emergency response.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also have a facility available for use as a command center.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also have provisions established for use of an alternate location if the primary command center is not available.
Adequate personal protective equipment and other equipment and supplies must be available and operable to meet the needs determined by the results of the EPHA.

2.7 Categorization and Classification. Major unplanned or abnormal events or conditions that involve or affect DOE/NNSA facilities and activities by causing or having the potential to cause serious health and safety or environmental impacts; require resources from outside the immediate/affected area or local event scene to supplement the initial response; and, require time-urgent notifications to initiate response activities at locations beyond the event scene, are recognized promptly, categorized, and declared as Operational Emergencies. In addition to being categorized as Operational Emergencies, events involving the actual or potential airborne release of (or loss of control over) hazardous materials from an onsite facility or activity also require prompt and accurate classification as an Alert, Site Area Emergency, or General Emergency, based on health effects parameters measured or estimated at specific receptor locations (e.g., facility and site boundaries) and compared with Protective Action Criteria. Predetermined conservative onsite protective actions and offsite protective action recommendations are associated with the classification of these Operational Emergencies (as an Alert, Site Area Emergency or General Emergency).

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must establish criteria for determining quickly if an event is an Operational Emergency.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must declare an Operational Emergency when events occur that represent a significant degradation in the level of safety at a site/facility and that require time-urgent response efforts from outside the site/facility.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must categorize an event as an Operational Emergency as promptly as possible, but no later than 15 minutes after event recognition/identification/discovery.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also establish procedures to classify emergency events (as an Alert, Site Area Emergency, General Emergency).
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also develop site/facility-specific Emergency Action Levels (EALs) for the spectrum of potential Operational Emergencies identified by the EPHA and must include protective actions corresponding to each EAL.

2.8 Notifications and Communications. Initial emergency notifications must be made promptly, accurately and effectively to workers and emergency response personnel/organizations, appropriate DOE/NNSA elements, and other Federal, Tribal, State, and local organizations and authorities. Accurate and timely follow-up notifications must be made when conditions change, when the emergency classification level (as an Alert, Site Area Emergency, General Emergency) is upgraded, or when the emergency is terminated. Continuous, effective, and accurate communication among response components and/or organizations must be reliably maintained throughout an Operational Emergency.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must provide prompt initial notification of workers, emergency response personnel, and response organizations, including DOE/NNSA elements and State, Tribal, and local organizations; notify the Cognizant Field Element EOC and Headquarters Operations Center within 30 minutes of the declaration of an Operational Emergency not requiring classification; and notify local, State, and Tribal organizations within 30 minutes, or as established in mutual agreements, for declaration of an Operational Emergency not requiring classification.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must provide for continuing effective communication among response organizations throughout an emergency.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must establish effective communications methods between event scene responders, emergency managers, and response facilities.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must forward emergency status reports to the next-higher Emergency Management Team on a continuing basis until the emergency is terminated.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must submit a final report on the emergency response to the Emergency Manager for submission to the Director, Office of Emergency Operations, following termination of emergency response, and in conjunction with the Final Occurrence Report (see DOE M 231.1 2).
All DOE/NNSA facilities must review all reports and releases for classified or unclassified controlled information (e.g., Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information) prior to being provided to personnel not authorized access to such information, entered into databases not authorized for such information, or transmitted using non-secure communications equipment.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also notify State and local officials and the Cognizant Field Element Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Headquarters Operations Center within 15 minutes and all other organizations within 30 minutes of the declaration of an Alert, Site Area Emergency, or General Emergency

2.9 Consequence Assessment. Estimates of onsite and offsite consequences of actual or potential releases of hazardous materials must be computed and assessed correctly and in a timely manner throughout the emergency. Consequence assessments must be integrated with emergency classification and protective action decision-making; incorporated with facility and field indications and measurements; and coordinated with offsite agencies.

Criteria:

DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must establish provisions to assess the potential or actual onsite and offsite consequences of an emergency.
Consequence assessments must be timely throughout the emergency; be integrated with the emergency classification and protective action process; incorporate monitoring of specific indicators and field measurements; and be coordinated with Federal, State, local, and Tribal organizations.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities that have access to NARAC, or have procedures in place to activate or request NARAC capabilities, must ensure that facility/site meteorological data and information on source terms for actual or potential releases of hazardous materials to the atmosphere are available or can be made available to NARAC in a timely manner to facilitate near real-time computations.

2.10 Protective Actions. Protective actions must be promptly and effectively implemented or recommended for implementation, as needed, to minimize the consequences of emergencies and to protect the health and safety of workers and the public. Protective actions must be implemented individually or in combination to reduce exposures to a wide range of hazardous materials. Protective actions must be reassessed throughout an emergency and modified as conditions change. Reentry activities must be planned, coordinated, and accomplished properly and safely.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must develop procedures to implement the separate protective actions of evacuation and sheltering of employees; develop a procedure to account for employees after emergency evacuation has been completed; and ensure the protection of workers, covered by 29 CFR 1910.120, involved in response and clean-up.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also predetermine protective actions for onsite personnel and the public, and must include methods for controlling, monitoring, and maintaining records of personnel exposures to hazardous materials; procedures to implement the separate protective actions of evacuation and sheltering of employees; methods for controlling access to contaminated areas and for decontaminating personnel or equipment exiting the area; actions that may be taken to increase the effectiveness of protective actions [i.e., heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) shutdown during sheltering]; methods for providing timely recommendations to appropriate State, Tribal, or local authorities of protective actions, such as sheltering, evacuation, relocation, and food control; and specific protective action criteria, based on the Base Order, paragraph 4a(14), for use in protective action decision making.

2.11 Medical Support. Medical support for contaminated or injured personnel must be planned and promptly and effectively implemented. Arrangements with offsite medical facilities to transport, accept, and treat contaminated or injured personnel must be documented.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must provide medical treatment and planning for mass casualty situations. [See also DOE O 440.1A.]
All DOE/NNSA facilities must coordinate in advance the sharing of patient information between onsite and offsite health care providers during emergencies, consistent with the requirements of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 [42 USC 300].
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also provide medical support for workers contaminated by hazardous material [See also DOE O 440.1A.].
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also document arrangements with onsite and offsite medical facilities to accept and treat contaminated or injured personnel.

2.12 Emergency Public Information. Accurate, candid, and timely information must be provided to workers, the news media, and the public during an emergency to establish facts, avoid speculation, and for health and safety and protective measure information. Emergency public information efforts must be coordinated with DOE and NNSA (if appropriate); State, local, and Tribal governments; and Federal emergency response organizations, as appropriate. Workers and the public must be informed of emergency plans and planned protective actions before emergencies.

Criteria:

All DOE/NNSA facilities must prepare an Emergency Public Information Plan. The same plan can cover multiple facilities on a site.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must have provisions in place to establish a media center.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must provide sufficient publicly releasable information to explain the emergency response and protective actions required for the health and safety of workers and the public in situations involving classified or unclassified controlled information.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must have the appropriate official review, before release, public announcements in areas involving classified or unclassified controlled information to ensure that no classified or unclassified controlled information is contained in the announcement.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must assign a Federal or contractor public information officer to the emergency public information response team involved in a significant offsite response deployment.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must inform the DOE/NNSA (as appropriate) Director of Public Affairs and the Headquarters Emergency Manager of all DOE/NNSA emergency public information actions. These notifications must be made as soon as practicable.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must get all initial news releases or public statements approved by the Cognizant Field Element official responsible for emergency public information review and dissemination. Following initial news releases and public statements, updates must be coordinated with the DOE/NNSA (as appropriate) Director of Public Affairs and the Headquarters Emergency Manager.
All DOE/NNSA facilities must establish an emergency public information communications system among Headquarters, Cognizant Field Element, and on-scene locations.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also have provisions in place to establish a Joint Information Center (JIC).
The Departmental emergency response assets [the Aerial Measuring System (AMS), the Accident Response Group (ARG), the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC), the Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC), the Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST), the Radiological Assistance Program (RAP), and the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS)] must also apply the Emergency Public Information Plan during deployment of the assets.

2.13 Termination and Recovery. An Operational Emergency can be terminated only after a predetermined set of criteria has been met and termination has been coordinated with offsite agencies. Recovery from a terminated Operational Emergency must include communication and coordination with State, Tribal, and local government and other Federal agencies; planning, management, and organization of the associated recovery activities; and ensuring the health and safety of the workers and public.

Criteria:

The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must coordinate termination with State, Tribal, and local agencies and organizations responsible for offsite emergency response and notification.
The contractor at all DOE/NNSA facilities must establish criteria for resumption of normal operations (i.e., recovery). Recovery must also include provisions for investigation of the root cause(s) of the emergency and corrective action(s) to prevent recurrence, in accordance with Departmental requirements (e.g., see DOE O 225.1A, Accident Investigations, dated 11-26-97, DOE O 231.1A, Environment, Safety, and Health Reporting, with Change 1dated 6-3-04, and DOE 5480.19, Conduct of Operations Requirements for DOE Facilities, with Change 2, dated 10-23-01).
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also have the means for estimating exposure to hazardous materials and for protecting workers and the general public from exposure during reentry and recovery activities.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also develop recovery procedures that include dissemination of information to Federal, State, Tribal, and local organizations regarding the emergency and possible relaxation of public protective actions; planning for decontamination actions; establishment of a recovery organization; development of reporting requirements; and establishment of criteria for resumption of normal operations.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also not downgrade emergencies, once categorized, to a lower significance category unless the original categorization was incorrect.
DOE/NNSA Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program facilities must also review emergency classification periodically to ensure the classification is commensurate with response activities.

Performance Objective 3: DOE Line Management Oversight

DOE Line Management has assigned personnel with competence commensurate with the responsibility to oversee the Emergency Management Program at a site(s) under their purview. A documented oversight program is implemented to verify the effectiveness of the Emergency Management Program across a covered site and DOE Field/Site Office oversight processes.

Criteria:

Site Office is staffed with adequate numbers of technically competent and experienced personnel who are qualified to assess the adequacy of an emergency management program.
Site Office has implemented procedures to define expectations and requirements for an emergency management program.
Site Office oversight is being effectively conducted based upon independent performance assessments.
Program Secretarial Office oversight includes an evaluation of the Site Office's Emergency Management Program and its oversight program to assess contractor Emergency Management Program performance.

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