Underground Test Area Fiscal Year 2014 Annual Quality Assurance Report: Nevada National Security Site, Nevada, Revision 0

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1196901· OSTI ID:1196901

Krenzien, Susan ^[1]

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1. Navarro-Intera, LLC (N-I), Las Vegas, NV (United States)

This report is required by the Underground Test Area (UGTA) Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) and identifies the UGTA quality assurance (QA) activities from October 1, 2013, through September 30, 2014 (fiscal year [FY] 2014). All UGTA organizations—U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Field Office (NNSA/NFO); Desert Research Institute (DRI); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); National Security Technologies, LLC (NSTec); Navarro-Intera, LLC (N-I); and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)—conducted QA activities in FY 2014. The activities included conducting oversight assessments for QAP compliance, identifying findings and completing corrective actions, evaluating laboratory performance, and publishing documents. UGTA Activity participants conducted 25 assessments on topics including safe operations, QAP compliance, activity planning, and sampling. These assessments are summarized in Section 2.0. Corrective actions tracked in FY 2014 are presented in Appendix A. Laboratory performance was evaluated based on three approaches: (1) established performance evaluation programs (PEPs), (2) interlaboratory comparisons, or (3) data review. The results of the laboratory performance evaluations, and interlaboratory comparison results are summarized in Section 4.0. The UGTA Activity published three public documents and a variety of other publications in FY 2014. The titles, dates, and main authors are identified in Section 5.0. The Contract Managers, Corrective Action Unit (CAU) Leads, Preemptive Review (PER) Committee members, and Topical Committee members are listed by name and organization in Section 6.0. Other activities that affected UGTA quality are discussed in Section 7.0. Section 8.0 provides the FY 2014 UGTA QA program conclusions, and Section 9.0 lists the references not identified in Section 5.0.

• Research Organization: Navarro-Intera, LLC (N-I), Las Vegas, NV (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM), Safety, Security, and Quality Assurance; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-09NA28091
• OSTI ID: 1196901
• Report Number(s): DOE/NV--1531
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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FY 2014
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