| 6) |
Continually promote diversity in
all aspects of the work under this contract. A Diversity Plan, as set
forth in Section J, Appendix E, shall be submitted to DOE by October 1,
1996, and updated annually thereafter. |
| (7) |
Provide an independent internal
audit capability to review its activities and those of its Major
Subcontractors. An Internal Audit Plan as set forth in Section J,
Appendix E shall be submitted to DOE for approval by October 1, 1996,
and updated annually thereafter. |
D. ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY & HEALTH (ES&H)
The Contractor shall take effective steps to avoid injuries, incidents,
and insults to the environment and ensure work performance at all levels
of the Contractor and subcontractors is in compliance with applicable,
necessary, and sufficient environmental, safety, and health (ES&H)
requirements. ES&H systems and programs will empower workers in ES&H
through the use of safety committees, employee involvement, worksite
analysis, hazard prevention/ mitigation/control, and ES&H training.
Leadership and management commitment to ES&H programs shall be
demonstrable. Worker injuries and chemical and radiological exposures and
contaminations must be tracked and appropriately treated/mitigated. The
Contractor shall:
(1) Develop and maintain an Authorization Envelope for the operation of
each facility and/or project under this contract. Submit
for DOE approval those documents when required by Clause H.14 of this
contract. This Authorization Envelope
shall consist of the Contractor's response (Implementation Plans,
compliance commitments, etc., as appropriate) to Federal/State Statutes
and Regulations, and the imposition of standards necessary, to protect the
environment and public and worker safety and health. Documents typically
constituting an Authorization Envelope are
approved S/RID (See C.2.A.(2)(D)), Safety Analysis Reports (SAR), Health
and Safety Plans (HASP), Environmental Permits, etc.
(2) Develop and submit to DOE for approval, a final Integrated
Environment, Safety and Health Management System Plan (ISMS Plan)
for ES&H risk-based planning, which identifies how the contractor will
fully integrate ES&H into budget recommendations, program execution,
comprehensive self assessments, and all work activities. Manage Contractor
and subcontractor operations at the site in accordance with the approved
plan.
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(3) Implement programs to identify and mitigate or resolve ES&H
issues.
(4) Implement a comprehensive Hanford ES&H program to address
hazards associated with the management, storage, and disposal of
radioactive and hazardous materials, industrial safety hazards, and other
occupational and nuclear hazards.
(5) Establish solid work control, self assessment, and conduct of
operations discipline in the performance of all work.
(6) Implement programs based on the principles of programs such as the
Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star Status or the Chemical
Manufacturer's Association (CMA) Responsible Care program.
(7) Ensure performance-based, comprehensive ES&H training via
the sitewide training program.
(8) Implement program to track/address environmental compliance
issues and implement requirements (e.g., sitewide permitting, sitewide
environmental reporting, Tri-Party Agreement reporting/management, NEPA).
(9) Recommend and implement ES&H performance measures to
monitor the effectiveness of and the implementation of ES&H programs
as committed to in the approved ISMS Plan.
(10) Occupational Health Services - Occupational Health Services
are provided to the Hanford site by the Hanford Environmental Health
Foundation (HEHF). The Contractor shall obtain for itself and require of
all subcontractors performing work on the Hanford site the following
services from HEHF: occupational medical evaluations including return to
work evaluations and work restriction reviews, medical surveillance
evaluations, occupational primary care, health care centers/first aid,
work conditioning, case management, worksite health programs including
blood-borne pathogens and immunizations, behavioral health services
including employee assistance programs, MSDS services, and health
information services such as medical records and medical scheduling.
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(3) Perform a complete inventory of all DOE-owned capital and sensitive
property for accountability which will transfer to the Contractor.
(4) Complete an inventory of all special nuclear material for which
accountability will be transferred to the Contractor.
(5) Complete and document assessment(s) of existing conditions of site
and facilities and obtain DOE concurrence in the assessment(s). (See
Clause H.3)
(6) Execute any necessary transition or ancillary agreements with
incumbent site contractors, including those necessary to define the
infrastructure requirements. DOE approval must be obtained prior to
execution by the Contractor.
(7) Update and finalize the Management and Integration Plan submitted
with the proposal to reflect results of negotiation including but not
limited to a schedule for the implementation of the elements of the
management system.
(8) Develop and submit to DOE for approval by September
30, 1997 a final ISMS
Plan for ES&H risk-based planning, which identifies how the
contractor will fully integrate ES&H into budget recommendations,
program execution, comprehensive self assessments, and all work
activities.
(9) Submit proposed billing rates for the FY-97 to DOE prior to
September 1, 1996.
(10) Submit for DOE approval by October 1, 1996, an acceptable
Safeguards and Security Plan as required by Section J, Appendix E.
(11) Work with RL and the incumbent site contractor to transition the
FY-97 baseline which is already part of the FY-97 Budget to effect an
orderly transition of required reporting and performance measurement. Work
with RL and the incumbent contractor on the planning for the execution of
the FY-98 Budget.
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H.5 INTEGRATION OF
ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH INTO WORK PLANNING AND EXECUTION DEAR
970.5204-2 (June 1997)
- For the purposes of this clause,
- Safety encompasses environment, safety and
health, including pollution prevention and waste minimization; and
- Employees include subcontractor employees.
- In performing work under this contract, the
Contractor shall perform work safely, in a manner that ensures adequate
protection for employees, the public, and the environment, and shall be
accountable for the safe performance of work. The Contractor shall
exercise a degree of care commensurate with the work and the associated
hazards. The Contractor shall ensure that management of environment,
safety and health (ES&H) functions and activities becomes an
integral but visible part of the Contractor's work planning and
execution processes. The Contractor shall, in the performance of work,
ensure that:
- Line management is responsible for the
protection of employees, the public, and the environment. Line
management includes those Contractor and subcontractor employees
managing or supervising employees performing work.
- Clear and unambiguous lines of authority
and responsibility for ensuring ES&H are established and
maintained at all organizational levels.
- Personnel possess the experience,
knowledge, skills, and abilities that are necessary to discharge
their responsibilities.
- Resources are effectively allocated to
address ES&H, programmatic, and operational considerations.
Protecting employees, the public, and the environment is a priority
whenever activities are planned and performed.
- Before work is performed, the associated
hazards are evaluated and an agreed-upon set of ES&H standards
and requirements are established which, if properly implemented,
provide adequate assurance that employees, the public, and the
environment are protected from adverse consequences.
- Administrative and engineering controls
to prevent and mitigate hazards are tailored to the work being
performed and associated hazards. Emphasis should be on designing
the work and/or controls to reduce or eliminate the hazards and to
prevent accidents and unplanned releases and exposures.
- The conditions and requirements to be
satisfied for operations to be initiated and conducted are
established and agreed-upon by DOE and the Contractor. These
agreed-upon conditions and requirements are requirements of the
contract and binding upon the Contractor. The extent of
documentation and level of authority for agreement shall be tailored
to the complexity and hazards associated with the work and shall be
established in a Safety Management System.
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- The Contractor shall manage and perform work
in accordance with a documented Safety Management System (System) that
fulfills all conditions in paragraph (B) of this clause at a minimum.
Documentation of the System shall describe how the Contractor will:
- Define the scope of work;
- Identify and analyze hazards associated
with the work;
- Develop and implement hazard controls;
- Perform work within controls; and
- Provide feedback on adequacy of controls
and continue to improve safety management.
- The System shall describe how the Contractor
will establish, document, and implement safety performance objectives,
performance measures, and commitments in response to DOE program and
budget execution guidance while maintaining the integrity of the System.
The System shall also describe how the Contractor will measure system
effectiveness.
- The Contractor shall submit to the
Contracting Officer documentation of its System for review and approval.
Dates for submittal, discussions, and revisions to the System will be
established by the Contracting Officer. Guidance on the preparation,
content, review, and approval of the System will be provided by the
Contracting Officer. On an annual basis, the Contractor shall review and
update, for DOE approval, its safety performance objectives, performance
measures, and commitments consistent with and in response to DOE's
program and budget execution guidance and direction. Resources shall be
identified and allocated to meet the safety objectives and performance
commitments as well as maintain the integrity of the entire System.
Accordingly, the System shall be integrated with the Contractor's
business processes for work planning, budgeting, authorization,
execution, and change control.
- The Contractor shall comply with, and assist
the Department of Energy in complying with, ES&H requirements of all
applicable laws and regulations, and applicable directives identified in
the clause of this contract on Laws, Regulations, and DOE Directives.
The Contractor shall cooperate with Federal and non-Federal agencies
having jurisdiction over ES&H matters under this contract.
- The Contractor shall promptly evaluate and
resolve any noncompliance with applicable ES&H requirements and the
System. If the Contractor fails to provide resolution or if, at any
time, the Contractor's acts or failure to act causes substantial harm or
an imminent danger to the environment or health and safety of employees
or the public, the Contracting Officer may issue an order stopping work
in whole or in part. Any stop work order issued by a Contracting Officer
under this clause (or issued by the Contractor to a subcontractor in
accordance with paragraph (I) of this clause) shall be without
prejudice to any other legal or contractual rights of the Government. In
the event that the Contracting Officer issues a stop work order, an
order authorizing the resumption of the work may be issued at the
discretion of the contracting officer. The Contractor shall not be
entitled to an extension of time or additional fee or damages by reason
of, or in connection with, any work stoppage ordered in accordance with
this clause.
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- The Contractor is responsible for compliance
with the ES&H requirements applicable to this contract regardless of
the performer of the work.
- The Contractor shall include a clause
substantially the same as this clause in subcontracts involving complex
or hazardous work on site at a DOE-owned or -leased facility. Such
subcontracts shall provide for the right to stop work under the
conditions described in paragraph (G) of this clause. Depending on the
complexity and hazards associated with the work, the Contractor may
require that the subcontractor submit a Safety Management System for the
Contractor's review and approval.
H.6 TOXIC CHEMICAL RELEASE REPORTING
REQUIREMENTS (FAR 52.223-14) (OCT 1995)
- Unless otherwise exempt, the Contractor-owned or -operated facilities
used in the performance of this contract shall file by July 1 for the
prior calendar year an annual Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Form
(Form R) as described in sections 313 (a) and (g) of the Emergency
Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) (42 U.S.C.
11023 (a) and (g)), and section 6607 of the Pollution Prevention Act of
1990 (PPA) (42 U.S.C. 13106). Such Contractor facilities shall file the
annual Form R throughout the life of the contract.
- A Contractor is exempt from the requirement to file an annual Form R
if none of the Contractor-owned or -operated facilities used in the
performance of this contract--
- manufacture, process, or otherwise use any toxic chemicals listed
under section 313(c) of EPCRA, 42 U.S.C. 11023(c);
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- through 39 as set forth in FAR 19.102, the substance of this clause,
except this paragraph (E).
H.7 SITEWIDE SAFETY
PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS
In order to provide consistency on the Hanford Site, the Contractor
shall recommend to DOE those safety programs
which are appropriate for Hanford sitewide
implementation, to provide the proper emphasis and requirements for
safety for both the Contractor and all subcontractors working at the site,
including any provisions for sitewide training not
currently in place. The Contractor shall include a justification for the
programs selected as a part of that recommendation.
H.8 SITEWIDE QUALIFICATION AND TRAINING PLAN
- In order to provide consistency with personnel qualification on the
Hanford Site, the Contractor shall submit a Sitewide Qualification and
Training Plan (see Section J, Appendix E). This Plan shows how the
Contractor will ensure that all personnel working at the Hanford Site
meet and maintain qualification and training requirements in accordance
with DOE and other applicable regulations. The plan shall include:
- assignment of responsibilities both with the DOE Richland
Operations Office (RL) and any Hanford central training
organizations.
- how the Contractor will use a single point of contact project
management approach to integrate and track the best available
training resources to meet the diverse training needs of the Hanford
Site.
- how the Contractor will recognize and use equivalent training
and/or reciprocity for training.
- a system to track flowdown of training requirements to
subcontractors.
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- In complying with the requirements of Paragraph A of this clause,
the Contractor shall coordinate its concerns and seek implementing
guidance on Federal and Departmental policy, plans, and program guidance
with the DOE recycling point of contact, who shall be identified by the
Contracting Officer. Reports required pursuant to Paragraph B of this
clause, shall be submitted through the DOE recycling point of contact.
H.14 LAWS, REGULATIONS, AND
DOE DIRECTIVES DEAR 970.5204-78 (June 1997)
- In performing work under this contract, the
Contractor shall comply with the requirements of applicable Federal,
State, and local laws and regulations (including DOE regulations),
unless relief has been granted in writing by the appropriate regulatory
agency. A List of Applicable Laws and regulations may be appended to
this contract for information purposes. Omission of any applicable law
or regulation from the List does not affect the obligation of the
Contractor to comply with such law or regulation pursuant to this
paragraph.
- In performing work under this contract, the
Contractor shall comply with the requirements of those Department of
Energy directives, or parts thereof, identified in Appendix C to this
contract. Except as otherwise provided for in paragraph (C) of this
clause, the Contracting Officer may, from time to time and at any time,
revise Appendix C by unilateral modification to the contract to add,
modify, or delete specific requirements. Prior to revising Appendix C,
the Contracting Officer shall notify the Contractor in writing of the
Department's intent to revise Appendix C and provide the Contractor with
the opportunity to assess the effect of the Contractor's compliance with
the revised list on contract cost and funding, technical performance,
and schedule; and identify any potential inconsistencies between the
revised list and the other terms and conditions of the contract. Within
30 days after receipt of the Contracting Officer's notice, the
Contractor shall advise the Contracting Officer in writing of the
potential impact of the Contractor's compliance with the revised list.
Based on the information provided by the Contractor and any other
information available, the Contracting Officer shall decide whether to
revise Appendix C and so advise the Contractor not later than 30 days
prior to the effective date of the revision of Appendix C. The
Contractor and the Contracting Officer shall identify and, if
appropriate, agree to any changes to other contract terms and
conditions, including cost and schedule, associated with the revision of
Appendix C pursuant to the clause entitled, Changes--Cost Reimbursement
(Alternate II) of this contract.
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- Environmental, safety, and health (ES&H)
requirements appropriate for work conducted under this contract may be
determined by a DOE approved process to evaluate the work and the
associated hazards and identify an appropriately tailored set of
standards, practices, and controls, such as a tailoring process included
in a DOE approved Safety Management System implemented under 48 CFR
(DEAR) 970.5204-2. When such a process is used, the set of tailored ES&H
requirements, as approved by DOE pursuant to the process, shall be
incorporated into Appendix C as contract requirements with full force
and effect. These requirements shall supersede, in whole or in part, the
contractual environmental, safety, and health requirements previously
made applicable to the contract by Appendix C. If the tailored set of
requirements identifies an alternative requirement varying from an ES&H
requirement of an applicable law or regulation, the Contractor shall
request an exemption or other appropriate regulatory relief specified in
the regulation.
- The Contractor is responsible for compliance
with the requirements made applicable to this contract, regardless of
the performer of the work. The Contractor is responsible for flowing
down the necessary provisions to subcontracts at any tier to which the
Contractor determines such requirements apply.
H.15 INCORPORATION OF REVISED DEPARTMENTAL
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
The parties acknowledge that the DOE has undertaken a review of DOE
policies and procedures applicable to contracts for management of
Government-owned facilities. This review may result in further deletions,
additions, or revisions to existing contract clauses, or other DOE
regulations, Orders, or Directives which are issued after the effective
date of this contract, and which could conflict with or supersede some
aspects of this contract. It is the intent of DOE to modify this contract,
as necessary, to incorporate these new or revised clauses, regulations,
Orders, or Directives or delete requirements no longer needed. This clause
does not imply the right of DOE to
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- Minimum Requirements
- ES&H Program The Contractor shall develop, obtain
DOE approval of, and implement a comprehensive ES&H Program
across the appropriate ES&H functional areas. Such Program will
be consistent with the Integrated
Environment, Safety and Health Management System Plan (ISMS Plan).
The minimal performance requirements of the Program will be set
forth in the DOE approved ISMS Plan.
The Contractor must achieve the minimum performance requirements of
the program in order to receive any otherwise earned fee, profit, or
share of cost savings.
- Catastrophic Event If, in the performance of this
contract, the Contractor should cause, through negligence or
misconduct, a fatality or an event to occur that results in
significant damage to the environment, and/or endangers the safety
and health of workers and/or the public in excess of government
(Federal, State and/or Local) regulated limits (if any), the
Manager, Richland Operations Office, may reduce any otherwise earned
fees (other than Base Fee,) in whole or in part.
- Specified Level of Performance The level of satisfactory
performance associated with this contract is the completion of 76%
or more of all individual performance expectations as set forth in
Section J, Appendix D, or as modified during contract performance.
The evaluation of the Contractor's achievement of the level of
performance shall be unilaterally determined by the Manager, RL.
To the extent that the Contractor fails to achieve the above
stipulated performance levels, the specific fee/incentive
determination, may be reduced in whole or in part.
- Cost Performance
- In the case of a performance type fee/award fee/incentive fee, the
specific work effort incentivized must be performed within the cost
specified for it in the contract/modification which incorporates the
incentivized effort. Further, the performance of such work shall not
result in an adverse impact to the cost for all other unrelated work
effort.
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H.57 "NEW CLAUSE ON 324/327 FACILITY
TRANSFER"
- Reasonable costs incurred by Contractor as a result of PNNL=s
operations at the 324 Facility shall be allowable.
- Reasonable costs incurred to modify the standards for compliance
with 10 CFR 835 and 10 CFR 830.120 from the PNNL Radiation Protection
Plan and Quality Assurance Implementation Plan to the FDH compliance
documents shall be allowable.
- Clauses H.55, Transition and Transfer - Workscope and H.56,
Transition and Transfer - Costs and Funding, shall be applied to this
transfer as appropriate.
H.58 AUTHORIZATION
AGREEMENTS
In accordance with the Integrated Environment,
Safety and Health Management System Plan (ISMS), Authorization Agreements
(AAs) will be developed, mutually agreed to and executed between FDH and
DOE-RL. The purpose of an AA is to serve as a mechanism whereby the U.S.
Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office (RL) and Fluor Daniel
Hanford, Inc. (FDH) jointly clarify and agree to the key conditions for
conducting work safely and efficiently in a facility. The AAs will be
maintained by FDH. The AAs will not alter any terms and conditions of the
Project Hanford Management Contract (PHMC) and do not impose on FDH or its
major subcontractors any liabilities, fines, or penalties not already
imposed under the terms and conditions of the PHMC and current statutes,
rules, regulations and ordinances.
H.59 IMPLEMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH
REQUIREMENTS
The contractor shall perform the work under this contract in accordance
with the requirements of Clause H.5, "Integration of Environment,
Safety, and Health Into Work Planning and Execution". In Clause H.5,
Paragraph B(7), the conditions and requirements to be satisfied for
operations to be initiated and conducted are established in the
Authorization Envelope. The term "Safety Management System"
throughout the Clause H.5 refers to the PHMC ISMS Plan. In Clause H.14, "Laws,
Regulations and DOE Directives", Paragraph A, the words "including
DOE Regulations" means the Contractor will comply with all DOE
Regulations as identified in the contract or as incorporated into the
contract in accordance with Clause H.15. The S/RID process is an approved
process with the context of H.14 Clause as it pertains to Environment,
Safety and Health requirements.
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PART III - LIST OF DOCUMENTS
EXHIBITS AND OTHER ATTACHMENTS
MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION
PLAN
SECTION J
APPENDIX E
INTRODUCTION
An overall Management and Integration Plan for the operation of an
integrated site shall be developed by the Contractor. This Plan shall be
the executive summary of the total management process the Contractor will
use at Hanford. A key element of the Management and Integration Plan is
the proposed management system including integrated technical, cost, and
schedule control requirements. The Plan will define the approach the
Contractor will use to accomplish the work as defined in Section C,
Statement of Work. The Plan shall include the subcontractor structure to
best integrate and manage operational tasks and project activities.
The Contractor shall also provide the following subject specific plans
which expand on the discussion in the Management and Integration Plan as
appendices to it:
- Integrated Environment, Safety &
Health Management System (ISMS) Plan
Specific guidance on the PHMC ISMS Plan is
found in Clause H.5., "Integration of Environment, Safety, and
Health Into Work Planning and Execution", of this contract.
- Safeguards and Security Plan
The Safeguards and Security Plan shall be consistent with the DOE's
requirements as detailed in the 5600-series of DOE Orders and the
Richland Operations Office 5600-series of Implementing Directives. The
Plan shall take into consideration risk prioritization in security,
the current efforts to reduce security clearances, and the security
management program now in place.
This Plan shall also describe the administrative, technical,
physical, and personnel safeguards employed to the unclassified
computer systems and applications that
process sensitive information using a graded approach based on the
value and sensitivity of the information. The Plan shall address
contingency and disaster
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PART III - LIST OF DOCUMENTS
EXHIBITS AND OTHER ATTACHMENTS
ENVIRONMENT,
SAFETY, AND HEALTH BUDGET PLANNING AND EXECUTION
SECTION J
APPENDIX F
The following represents additional criteria for
environment, safety and health budget planning and execution, to be
included as part of the requirements of Clause H.5, Paragraphs (d) and
(e), of this contract.
1. ES&H PLAN FOR BUDGET EXECUTION
YEAR
- Respond to the most recent Unicall Submittal,
incorporate budget decisions, and include any new information for the
upcoming execution year.
1.1 ES&H Risk Management Conclusions
- Summarize the risk management conclusions for the upcoming execution
year (updated to reflect recent budgeting decisions), including a
summary decision of the major risks and important ES&H issues being
managed at the facility.
1.2 ES&H Budget Summary
- Summarize the ES&H budget for the upcoming execution year
(analogous to the cost prepared for the Unicall Submittal).
1.3 Performance Measures and Commitments
- Include the proposed ES&H performance commitments (measures) for
the upcoming execution year. It is important that these performance
measures address the most significant risks identified, and have
performance criteria that are measurable.
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2. SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS YEAR'S ES&H
PERFORMANCE
- Provide a summary of the previous year's ES&H
performance, including the actual costs of implementing the ES&H
activities.
2.1 Status of Performance Measures and
Commitments
- Status of the previous year's performance with respect to the
measures and commitments negotiated for the previous year.
- Summary level conclusions from the previous year's self assessments
of ES&H programs and activities.
- Status of any major commitments arising from Consent Orders or
Agreements with State Agencies or the EPA regarding
environmental/ecological obligations.
2.2 Summary of Actual Costs
- Summarize the actual ES&H expenditures for the previous year,
and how this information will be used in preparing the ES&H Plan for
the next budget cycle.
(See Note 1 in Modification M032, Page 3 of 3,
Attachment 4, which applies to Appendix F).
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