ML20210Q666
| ML20210Q666 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 08/18/1997 |
| From: | Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Horn S HOUSE OF REP., GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9709020092 | |
| Download: ML20210Q666 (4) | |
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Dear Mr Chairman:
in response to your request ci May 20,1997, enclosed please find NRC's August 1997 quarterly report on the Year 2000 as submitted to the Office of Management and Budget.
If you have any qmtions, please contact Arnold (Moe) E. Levin at 3C1415-7458 or via electronic mail at AEL1@NRC. gov.
Sincerely, Shirley Ann Jackson
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7 Status of the Nuclear Renulatorv Commission's Year 2000 Efforts Quarterly Report for_ Auaust 1997 1.
9Elanizational Responsibilities. Describe how your Department /Agencyis organized to track progress in addressing the Year 2000 problem.
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Describe responsible organizations for addressing the Year 2000 problem and h
provide an organization chart if organizations have changed from the previous report.
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Arnold t.evin, Acting Director of the Office of Information Resources Management (IRM), is the agency's Year 2000 Program Manager. The Year C
2000 Program Manager has overall responsibility for NRC's Year 2000 Program and reports directly to the NRC Chief Information Officer (ClO). The CIO reports to the Chairman.
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Describe processes for assuring internal accountability of responsible organizations. Inc:ude quantitat!ve measures used to track performance and other methods to determine whether the responsible organizations ara b
performing according to plan.
internal accountability for performance of Year 2000 activities will be assured through continuous monitoring of the progess of all Offices against established milestones. A Year 2000 point of contact (POC) has been established for every Office within the agency. POCs will provide progress reports to the Year 2000 Program Manager on a monthly basis. These reports will be used to update a central Year 2000lnventory System database. Reports will be generated monthly showing the status of Year 2000 efforts for each Office.
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Describe the management actions taken and by whom, when a responsible organization falls behind schedule Progress reports are revieweo on an ongoing basis by the Year 2000 Program Manager and deviations from established schedules are reported to 3
the CIO. If any such deviations are reported, the CIO will discuss them with
,i the n anagers who are responsible for the systems. As part of this discussion, the ClO will determine the remedial actions to be taken. The CIO
..N will periodically brief the Chairman, the Executive Director for Operations, and the Chief Finarcial Officer of the NRC on any schedule deviations and the status of any remedial actions taken, d.
Describe how internal performance reports are verified.
We are implementing procedures requiring that the head of each responsible unit submit and certify performance reports on a regular basis.
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2.
Status. Provide a report of the status of agency efforts to address the Year 2000 computer problems, a.
An agency wide status of the total number of mission criticalsystems.
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Total Number of Number Already Number being Number being Number being Mission critical Compliant Replaced Repaired Retired 7
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The status of tne mission-critical systems being repaired.
Assessment Renovation Validation implementation Milestones Sep 1997 Mar 1999 Apr 1999 Nov1999
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A brief narrative description of where significant progrets has been made in addressing the problem in mission-critical systems, systems other than mission critical systems, and problems beyond information techno!ogy systems. Also describe any significant problems affectir g progrosa.
Significant progress made since last report; Assessment of mission-critical systems was complete 1 Renovation of one mission-critical system has begun.
Assessment of other than mission-critical systems is nearing completi::n.
Renovation has begun on other than mission-critical systems, Replacement of commercial off-the-shelf software that is known to be Year 2000 non-compliant has begun.
Significant problems affecting progress include:
Inability to precisely determine and docurnent the status of systems that are outside agency control. This category includes systems services provided by other Government agencies and systems acquired from commercial sources. Most of the services are provided by major vendors such as AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Microsoft, IBM, etc.
We are confident that these providers will correct any Year 2000 problems in such a manner as to prevent interruption of the business functions of their customers.
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3.
Costs, if estimates of Year 2000 information technology costs have changed from the amounts most recently reported to OMB, report the new estimates.
NRC's cost estimates were previously provided to OMB and reported to Congress in OMB Report Getting Federal Computers Ready for 2000, dated February 6,1997. These figures will be refined, if necessary, as renovation is performed.
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Exceotia Report on Systems.
No exceptions to report.
If you have any questions, please contact Arnold E. (Moe) Levin at 301-415-7458or via electronic mail as AEL1@NRC. gov.
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