DOE M 460.2-1A
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6-4-08
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CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT DOE M 460.2-1A, Radioactive Material Transportation Practices Manual
Contractors performing transportation and packaging work for the Department of Energy (DOE), including the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), must act in accordance with requirements that pertain to radioactive material. Regardless of the performer of the work, the contractor is responsible for compliance with the requirements of this CRD. The contractor is responsible for flowing down the requirements of this CRD to subcontractors at any tier to the extent necessary to ensure the contractors’ compliance with the requirements. The contractor must follow these additional requirements for radioactive material and radioactive waste: 1. General. Notwithstanding the exemption available through the National Security Provision [Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), part 173.7(b)], all shipments will be undertaken in accordance with the requirements of 49 CFR 100–185, except those that infringe upon maintenance of classified information. 2. Transportation of Radioactive Material and Radioactive Waste. Specific requirements that must be followed include: a. Transportation Planning. The contractor must prepare a transportation plan with information on shipments of spent nuclear fuel (SNF), high-level waste (HLW), tritium-bearing reactor components, and transuranic (TRU) waste shipments and submit it to the appropriate field element. (TRU waste shipments shall follow the WIPP Transportation Plan (DOE/CBFO 98-3103)). Transportation plans describe operational strategy and delineate steps that will be taken to meet applicable regulatory and DOE requirements. Specific contents of transportation plans are determined by the program office and/or operations office, but should include organizational roles and responsibilities, material to be shipped, projected shipping dates, estimated number of shipments, mode of transport and carriers to be used, packages to be used, preferred and/or alternative routes, shipment pre-notifications required, safe parking arrangements, tracking systems that will be used, emergency preparedness and response plans, recovery and cleanup strategy, security and escort arrangements, and a public information plan. At the direction of the responsible program office or field element, the contractor must prepare a transportation plan for low-level and mixed low-level, or other radioactive shipments. The contractor must also assist in preparing public information materials such as fact sheets, briefing packages, press releases, etc. b. Routing. For nonclassified shipments (by highway and rail) of spent nuclear fuel, high-level waste, and tritium-bearing reactor components, the contractor must perform an analysis of proposed routes using transportation models such as Transportation Routing Analysis Geographic Information System. c. Security. The contractor must ensure that a security plan is developed and includes an assessment of possible transportation security risks for radioactive
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