DOE-STD-1066-2016, Fire Protection
Functional areas: Fire Protection, Facility Safety, Design Criteria
This Standard was developed to provide acceptable methods and approaches for meeting DOE fire protection program and design requirements and to address special or unique fire protection issues at DOE facilities that are not comprehensively or adequately addressed in national consensus standards or other design criteria.
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Section 1
DOE-STD-1066-2016
December 2016
Superseding
DOE-STD-1066-2012
DOE STANDARD
FIRE PROTECTION
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington, DC 20585
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
NOT MEASUREMENT
SENSITIVE
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FOREWORD
This Department of Energy (DOE) Standard (STD) supersedes DOE-STD-1066-2012, Fire Protection,
and is approved for use by DOE and its contractors. This revision reflects the following major changes:
• Lessons learned and good practices since the last revision was issued;
• Guidance on Wildland Fire Management Programs;
• Guidance and criteria for Fire Protection of Subterranean Facilities; and,
• Clarification of guidance on use of industry codes and standards, maximum possible fire loss,
leased facilities, baseline needs assessments, high efficiency particulate air filters, and
gloveboxes.
This Standard now serves as the primary source document for criteria and guidance for fire protection
programs (FPPs) supporting implementation of DOE Order (O) 420.1C, Facility Safety. Other
information supporting DOE’s FPPs (such as past guidance, models, sample reports, and reference
documents) is available through the DOE Fire Protection Program website: http://energy.gov/ehss/fire-
protection-program.
This Standard was developed because national consensus standards and other design criteria do not
comprehensively or, in some cases, adequately address special or unique fire protection issues at DOE
facilities. A working group composed of subject matter experts drawn from DOE, contractors, and
industry was used to prepare this Standard. Beneficial comments (recommendations, additions, deletions)
and any pertinent data that may improve this document should be e-mailed to nuclearsafety@hq.doe.gov
or sent to:
Office of Nuclear Safety (AU-30)
Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security
U.S. Department of Energy
19901 Germantown Road
Germantown, MD 20874
DOE technical standards, such as this Standard, do not establish requirements. However, all or part of the
provisions in a DOE standard can become requirements under the following circumstances:
• They are explicitly stated to be requirements in a DOE requirements document; or,
• The organization makes a commitment to meet a standard in: (a) a contract or (b) an
implementation plan or program plan of a DOE requirements document.
Throughout this Standard, the word “shall” is used to denote a requirement of this Standard; the word
“should” is used to denote a recommendation of this Standard; and, the word “may” is used to denote
permission, but not a requirement or a recommendation of this Standard. To satisfy this Standard, all
applicable “shall” statements need to be met. Alternate approaches that demonstrate an equivalent level
of safety are also acceptable, if approved by the DOE field element. “Should” statements represent DOE
technical expectations. Alternative approaches to “should” statements are permitted and do not require
approval by DOE.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 1
Section 2
1.1 PURPOSE ....................................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 APPLICABILITY ............................................................................................................................................. 1
1.3 OVERVIEW OF STANDARD ............................................................................................................................. 1
1.4 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS ........................................................................................................................... 2
1.5 DEFINITIONS ................................................................................................................................................. 6
1.6 ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................................................. 12
2 GENERAL FIRE PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS ................................................................. 13
2.1 FIRE PROTECTION POLICY STATEMENT ...................................................................................................... 13
2.2 USE OF NATIONAL CODES AND STANDARDS ............................................................................................... 13
2.3 HIGHLY PROTECTED RISK CRITERIA ........................................................................................................... 14
3 FIRE PROTECTION PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION ............................................................ 15
3.1 DOCUMENTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 15
3.2 PROGRAM SELF-ASSESSMENTS ................................................................................................................... 15
4 FIRE PROTECTION DESIGN ....................................................................................................... 17
4.1 DESIGN PROCESS ........................................................................................................................................ 17
4.2 GENERAL DESIGN CRITERIA ....................................................................................................................... 17
4.3 PROCESS FIRE SAFETY ................................................................................................................................ 23
4.4 DOE-SPECIFIC FACILITIES AND SYSTEMS ................................................................................................... 24
5 OPERATIONS .................................................................................................................................. 32
5.1 CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES ....................................................................................................................... 32
5.2 IMPLEMENTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 34
5.3 LEASED FACILITIES ..................................................................................................................................... 36
6 EMERGENCY RESPONSE ............................................................................................................ 38
Section 3
6.1 BASELINE NEEDS ASSESSMENT .................................................................................................................. 38
6.2 DOE FIRE DEPARTMENT RESOURCES ......................................................................................................... 40
6.3 PRE-INCIDENT PLANNING ........................................................................................................................... 42
6.4 FIREFIGHTING ACTIVITIES INVOLVING SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS ............................................................ 42
6.5 FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTING .................................................................................................................. 42
7 FACILITY FIRE PROTECTION EVALUATIONS .................................................................... 43
7.1 FIRE HAZARD ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................................ 43
7.2 FACILITY ASSESSMENTS ............................................................................................................................. 44
7.3 COMPENSATORY MEASURES ....................................................................................................................... 45
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8 WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................ 46
8.1 PURPOSE ..................................................................................................................................................... 46
8.2 APPLICABLE DOE ORDER REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................. 46
8.3 OVERVIEW OF APPROACH ........................................................................................................................... 46
8.4 IMPLEMENTING FEDERAL GUIDANCE .......................................................................................................... 46
8.5 USE OF NFPA CODE 1143 .......................................................................................................................... 60
8.6 ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE ............................................................................................................................. 62
Appendix A Safety Significant and Safety Class Fire Protection System Specifications ........ A-1
Appendix B Fire Hazard Analysis ............................................................................................... B-1
Appendix C Relocatable Structures ............................................................................................. C-1
Appendix D Fire Protection for Subterranean Facilities ........................................................... D-1
Appendix E Sample Qualification Template for Lead Fire Protection Engineers .................. E-1
Appendix F Transitional Facilities .............................................................................................. F-1
Appendix G Explanatory Material .............................................................................................. G-1
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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 PURPOSE
The purpose of this Standard is to facilitate implementation of Department of Energy (DOE) Order (O),
420.1C, Facility Safety, by providing criteria and guidance for a standard and acceptable approach to meet
the DOE O 420.1C requirements for fire protection programs (FPPs). This Standard addresses special or
unique fire protection issues at DOE facilities that are not comprehensively or adequately addressed in
national consensus standards or other design criteria.
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1.2 APPLICABILITY
The provisions of this Standard apply to all departmental elements within the scope of DOE O 420.1C
and to all contractors required to meet the Order’s Contractor Requirements Document (Attachment 1 to
the Order).
Other Departmental documents contain requirements and guidance pertaining to the protection of
personnel and facilities from fire hazards. These include:
• 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 851, Worker Safety and Health Program;
• DOE O 440.1B, Worker Protection Program for DOE (Including the National Nuclear Security
Administration) Federal Employees; and,
• DOE O 151.1C, Comprehensive Emergency Management System.
This Standard may not apply to certain facilities identified in Section 3.c of DOE O 420.1C.1 Unless
specifically required by a DOE contract, directive, or regulation, provisions of this Standard provide
guidance on acceptable methods to meet DOE requirements. Nothing in this Standard is intended to limit
the application of other fire protection methods when unique situations or hazards warrant an alternate
approach. Alternate approaches that demonstrate an equivalent level of safety are acceptable if approved
by the DOE field element.
1.3 OVERVIEW OF STANDARD
This Standard follows the order of topics in DOE O 420.1C, Attachment 2, Chapter II:
Section 2, General Fire Protection Requirements
Section 3, Fire Protection Program Administration
Section 4, Fire Protection Design
Section 5, Operations
Section 6, Emergency Response
Section 7, Facility Fire Protection Evaluations
Section 8, Wildland Fire Management
Appendix G provides additional explanatory material, indicated as endnotes throughout the body of the
Standard. The other appendices contain detailed criteria and guidance for specific conditions, including
criteria and guidance for fire protection systems used in safety significant (SS) and safety class (SC)
applications.
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1.4 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
The following documents are referenced to assist in implementing this Standard.
a. Federal Laws and Regulations
(1) Public Law 107-217, Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Workers
(2) 10 CFR Part 820, Procedural Rules for DOE Nuclear Activities
(3) 10 CFR Part 830, Nuclear Safety Management
(4) 10 CFR Part 851, Worker Safety and Health Program
(Note that the use of the following regulations is directed by either 10 CFR Part 851 or by DOE)
(5) 29 CFR Part 1910, Occupational Safety and Health Standards
(6) 29 CFR Part 1926, Safety and Health Regulations for Construction
(7) 30 CFR Part 57, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Safety and Health Standards –
Underground Metal and Nonmetal Mines
b. DOE Requirements and Guidelines
(1) DOE O 151.1C, Comprehensive Emergency Management System
(2) DOE O 231.1B Admin Chg. 1, Environment, Safety, and Health Reporting
(3) DOE O 251.1C, Departmental Directives Program
(4) DOE O 410.1, Central Technical Authority Responsibilities Regarding Nuclear Safety
Requirements
(5) DOE O 413.3B, Program and Project Management for the Acquisition of Capital Assets
(6) DOE O 420.1C Admin Chg. 1, Facility Safety
(7) DOE O 426.1, Federal Technical Capability
(8) DOE O 440.1B Admin Chg. 2, Worker Protection Program for DOE (Including the National
Nuclear Security Administration) Federal Employees
(9) DOE O 471.6, Information Security
(10) DOE G 420.1-1A, Nonreactor Nuclear Safety Design Guide for Use with DOE O 420.1C,
Section 5
Facility Safety
(11) DOE G 423.1-1B, Implementation Guide for Use in Developing Technical Safety Requirements
(12) DOE Administrative Records Schedule 18, Security, Emergency Planning, and Safety Records,
September 2010, Revision 2
c. Department of Energy Technical Standards and Handbooks
(1) DOE-HDBK-1081-2014, Primer on Spontaneous Heating and Pyrophoricity
(2) DOE-HDBK-1169-2003, Nuclear Air Cleaning Handbook
(3) DOE-STD-1020-2016, Natural Phenomena Hazards Design and Evaluation Criteria for DOE
Facilities
(4) DOE-STD-1066-99, Fire Protection Design Criteria
(5) DOE-STD-1083-2009, Processing Exemptions to Nuclear Safety Rules and Approval of
Alternative Methods for Documented Safety Analyses
(6) DOE-STD-1137-2014, Fire Protection Engineering Functional Area Qualification Standard
(7) DOE-STD-1189-2016, Integration of Safety into the Design Process
(8) DOE-STD-3006-2010, Planning and Conducting Readiness Reviews
(9) DOE-STD-3009-2014, Preparation of Nonreactor Nuclear Facility Documented Safety Analysis
(10) DOE-STD-3024-2011, Content of System Design Descriptions
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d. Other Standards and Criteria2
American Glovebox Society (AGS)
(1) AGS-G006, Standard of Practice for the Design and Fabrication of Nuclear Application
Gloveboxes
(2) AGS-G010, Standard of Practice for Glovebox Fire Protection
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
(1) ASHRAE 52.2 (2012), Method of Testing General Ventilation Air-Cleaning Devices for Removal
Efficiency by Particle Size
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
(1) ASME AG-1, Code on Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment
(2) ASME, Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
(3) ASME NQA-1, Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications
ASTM International
(1) ASTM E 84-15b, Standard Test Method for Surface Burning Characteristics of Building
Materials
(2) ASTM E 108-11, Standard Test Methods for Fire Tests of Roof Coverings
(3) ASTM E 136-16, Standard Test Method for Behavior of Materials in a Vertical Tube Furnace at
750°C
(4) ASTM E 2032-09, Standard Guide for Extension of Data from Fire Endurance Tests
(5) ASTM E 2174-14b, Standard Practice for On-Site Inspection of Installed Fire Stops
(6) ASTM E 2393-10a, Standard Practice for On-Site Inspection of Installed Fire Resistive Joint
Systems and Perimeter Fire Barriers
(7) ASTM E 2750-13e1, Standard Guide for Extension of Data from Penetration Firestop System
Tests Conducted in Accordance with ASTM
Department of Defense (DoD)
(1) DoD 6055.06-M, DoD Fire and Emergency Services Certification Programs
FM Global Group
(1) FM 4991, Approval Standard for Firestop Contractors
FM Global Property Loss Prevention Data Sheets
(1) 1-0, Safeguards During Construction
(2) 1-6, Cooling Towers
(3) 1-20, Protection Against Exterior Fire Exposure
(4) 1-28R, Roof Systems
(5) 1-31, Metal Roof Systems
(6) 3-2, Water Tanks for Fire Protection
(7) 3-7, Fire Protection Pumps
(8) 3-10, Installation and Maintenance of Private Fire Service Mains and Their Appurtenances
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(9) 5-4, Transformers
(10) 7-40, Heavy Duty Mobile Equipment
(11) 7-98, Hydraulic Fluids
International Code Council (ICC)
(1) International Building Code (IBC)
(2) International Fire Code
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Section 6
(1) NFPA 1, Fire Code
(2) NFPA 2, Hydrogen Technologies Code
(3) NFPA 10, Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers
(4) NFPA 11, Standard for Low-, Medium-, and High-Expansion Foam
(5) NFPA 12, Standard on Carbon Dioxide Extinguishing Systems
(6) NFPA 13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems
(7) NFPA 14, Standard for the Installation of Standpipe and Hose Systems
(8) NFPA 15, Standard for Water Spray Fixed Systems for Fire Protection
(9) NFPA 16, Standard for the Installation of Foam-Water Sprinkler and Foam-Water Spray Systems
(10) NFPA 17, Standard for Dry Chemical Extinguishing Systems
(11) NFPA 17A, Standard for Wet Chemical Extinguishing Systems
(12) NFPA 20, Standard for the Installation of Stationary Pumps for Fire Protection
(13) NFPA 22, Standard for Water Tanks for Private Fire Protection
(14) NFPA 24, Standard for the Installation of Private Fire Service Mains and Their Appurtenances
(15) NFPA 25, Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection
Systems
(16) NFPA 30, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code
(17) NFPA 34, Standard for Dipping, Coating, and Printing Processes Using Flammable or
Combustible Liquids
(18) NFPA 45, Standard on Fire Protection for Laboratories Using Chemicals
(19) NFPA 51, Standard for the Design and Installation of Oxygen-Fuel Gas Systems for Welding,
Cutting, and Allied Processes
(20) NFPA 51B, Standard for Fire Prevention during Welding, Cutting, and Other Hot Work
(21) NFPA 55, Compressed Gases and Cryogenic Fluids Code
(22) NFPA 58, Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code
(23) NFPA 68, Standard on Explosion Protection by Deflagration Venting
(24) NFPA 69, Standard on Explosion Prevention Systems
(25) NFPA 70, National Electrical Code®
(26) NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code
(27) NFPA 75, Standard for the Fire Protection of Information Technology Equipment
(28) NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives
(29) NFPA 80A, Recommended Practice for Protection of Buildings from Exterior Fire Exposures
(30) NFPA 85, Boiler and Combustion Systems Hazards Code
(31) NFPA 86, Standard for Ovens and Furnaces
(32) NFPA 88A, Standard for Parking Structures
(33) NFPA 90A, Standard for the Installation of Air Conditioning and Ventilation Systems
(34) NFPA 90B, Standard for the Installation of Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Systems
(35) NFPA 91, Standard for Exhaust Systems for Air Conveying of Vapors, Gases, Mists and
Particulate Solids
(36) NFPA 101, Life Safety Code®
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(37) NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety
(38) NFPA 110, Standard for Emergency and Standby Power Systems
(39) NFPA 111, Standard on Stored Electrical Energy Emergency and Standby Power Systems
(40) NFPA 122, Standard for Fire Prevention and Control in Metal/Nonmetal Mining and Metal
Mineral Processing Facilities
(41) NFPA 221, Standard for High Challenge Fire Walls, Fire Walls, and Fire Barrier Walls
(42) NFPA 241, Standard for Safeguarding Construction, Alteration, and Demolition Operations
(43) NFPA 318, Standard for the Protection of Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities
(44) NFPA 400, Hazardous Materials Code
(45) NFPA 484, Standard for Combustible Metals
(46) NFPA 501, Standard on Manufactured Housing
(47) NFPA 520, Standard on Subterranean Spaces
(48) NFPA 600, Standard on Facility Fire Brigades
(49) NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing,
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Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids
(50) NFPA 701, Standard Methods of Fire Tests for Flame Propagation of Textiles and Films
(51) NFPA 720, Standard for the Installation of Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection and Warning
Equipment
(52) NFPA 750, Standard on Water Mist Fire Protection Systems
(53) NFPA 780, Standard for the Installation of Lightning Protection Systems
(54) NFPA 801, Standard for Fire Protection for Facilities Handling Radioactive Materials
(55) NFPA 820, Standard for Fire Protection in Wastewater Treatment and Collection Facilities
(56) NFPA 901, Standard Classifications for Incident Reporting and Fire Protection Data
(57) NFPA 1001, Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications
(58) NFPA 1143, Standard for Wildland Fire Management
(59) NFPA 1144, Standard for Reducing Structural Ignition Hazards from Wildland Fire
(60) NFPA 1221, Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Emergency Services Communications Systems
(61) NFPA 1500, Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program
(62) NFPA 1561, Standard on Emergency Services Incident Management System and Command
Safety
(63) NFPA 1620, Standard for Pre-Incident Planning
(64) NFPA 1710, Standard for the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations,
Emergency Medical Operations, and Special Operations to the Public by Career Fire
Departments
(65) NFPA 1901, Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus
(66) NFPA 1906, Wildland Fire Apparatus
(67) NFPA 1911, Standard for the Inspection, Maintenance, Testing, and Retirement of In-Service
Automotive Fire Apparatus
(68) NFPA 2001, Standard on Clean Agent Fire Extinguishing Systems
(69) NFPA 2010, Standard for Fixed Aerosol Fire Extinguishing Systems
(70) NFPA 5000, Building Construction and Safety Code®
National Interagency Fire Center
(1) Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy, 2009
(2) NFES 2092, National Interagency Mobilization Guide
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National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)
(1) NWCG, PMS 210, Wildland Fire Incident Management Field Guide
(2) NWCG, PMS 310-1, Wildland and Prescribed Fire Qualification System Guide
Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)
(1) SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection, 2nd Edition
Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
(1) UL-790, Standard for Standard Test Methods for Fire Tests of Roof Coverings
(2) ULC Subject C263E, Criteria for Use in Extension of Data from Fire Endurance Tests
(3) UL Building Materials Directory
U.S. Forest Service
(1) Forest Service Handbook 5109.18, Wildfire Prevention Handbook
1.5 DEFINITIONS
Acceptable: Considered by the authority having jurisdiction as adequate for satisfying the goals,
performance objectives, and/or performance criteria.
Alternative: A system, condition, arrangement, material, or equipment submitted to the authority having
jurisdiction as a substitute for a criterion in a standard.
Approved: Acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction.
Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ): An organization, office, or individual responsible for enforcing the
requirements of a code or standard, or for approving equipment, materials, an installation, or a procedure.
In DOE, the head of field element is the AHJ, but responsibility can be delegated to another federal
official and routine activities can be delegated to a contractor.
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Building: Any structure, having a roof and walls, used or intended for supporting or sheltering any
occupancy. It excludes structures not designed for occupancy (e.g., waste tanks, sand filters, saltstone
vaults) or that do not have at least partial enclosure by construction materials (e.g., exhaust stack, burial
ground, open pads, bridges/roads, etc.).
Building Code Official (or Building Official): The officer or other designated authority charged with the
administration and enforcement of the building code, or a duly authorized representative. The DOE head
of field element or designee is the Building Code Official, unless otherwise directed by the Cognizant
Secretarial Officer.
Central Technical Authority (CTA): Part of DOE line management, CTAs provide centralized technical
expertise and operational awareness to ensure adequate and proper implementation and maintenance of
nuclear safety policy, requirements, and guidance, and assist the field and headquarters elements in
developing line management oversight programs, policies, and processes.3
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Code of Record (COR): A set of technical and operational requirements, including Federal and state
laws, as defined in contracts and Standards or Requirements Identification Documents (or their
equivalent), that are in effect at the time a facility or item of equipment was designed or modified, and
accepted by DOE.
Combustible: Any material that, in the form in which it is used and under the conditions anticipated will
ignite and burn, or will add appreciable heat to an ambient fire. See ASTM E 136-16, Standard Test
Method for Behavior of Materials in a Vertical Tube Furnace at 750°C.
Criticality Incident: The release of energy as a result of an accidental, self-sustained nuclear fission chain
reaction.
Documented Safety Analysis (DSA): A documented analysis of the extent to which a nuclear facility can
be operated safely with respect to workers, the public, and the environment, including a description of the
conditions, safety boundaries, and hazard controls that provide the basis for ensuring safety.
Emergency Response Organization: The site fire department, brigade, or other organization that performs
any or all of the following functions: fire suppression; hazardous material (HAZMAT) response;
emergency medical services; technical rescue; confined space entry; training; off-site assistance to other
emergency response organizations; inspection, testing and maintenance of fire protection equipment or
apparatus; facility fire prevention; and life safety inspections.
Equivalency: An alternate means of providing an equal or greater degree of fire safety than that afforded
by strict conformance to prescribed codes and standards, or an applicable DOE directive requirement.
Exemption: The release from one or more requirements in a DOE directive. Unless specified otherwise
in the directive, exemptions are granted, in consultation with the Office of Primary Interest (OPI), by the
Program Secretarial Officer, or their designee, or in the case of the National Nuclear Security
Administration, by the Administrator or designee, and documented for the OPI in a memorandum. For
those directives listed in Attachment 1 of DOE O 410.1, Central Technical Authority Responsibilities
Regarding Nuclear Safety Requirements, Central Technical Authority concurrences are required prior to
the granting of exemptions.4
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Facility: Any equipment, structure, system, process, or activity that fulfills a specific purpose. Examples
include accelerators, storage areas, fusion research devices, nuclear reactors, production, or processing
plants, coal conversion plants, magneto-hydrodynamics experiments, windmills, radioactive waste
disposal systems and burial grounds, environmental restoration activities, testing laboratories, research
laboratories, transportation activities and accommodations for analytical examinations of irradiated, and
non-irradiated components. For the purpose of this Standard, the definition most often refers to buildings
and other structures, their functional systems and equipment, and other fixed systems and equipment
installed therein to delineate a facility.
Facility Assessment: A formal documented review of the facility/building programmatic and physical
fire protection features that is conducted annually, by or under the supervision of a fire protection
engineer, for facilities with a replacement value in excess of $111 million (2016 dollars), facilities
considered a high hazard, or those in which vital programs are involved and at least every three years for
remaining low and ordinary hazard facilities.
Fire: Unplanned destructive and uncontrolled burning, including detonation and deflagration, as
manifested by any or all of the following: flame, heat, or smoke. Fire does not include the following
events unless they cause a fire or occur as a consequence of the event: lightning or electrical discharge;
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rupture of a pressure vessel not caused by internal combustion; detonation of munitions; overheat
(without damage to initiating material); or failure of electric motors and other electrical equipment
through overheating or shorting where any visible sparks or flames self-extinguish after power is removed
from the device.
Fire Area: An area that is physically separated from other fire areas by space, fire barriers, fire walls, or
other means in order to contain fire within that area.
Fire Barrier: A fire separation system component that limits for a specified period of time (the fire
resistance rating) the transfer of thermal energy from one side of the barrier to the other, thereby
preventing a fire on one side of the barrier from starting a fire or affecting hazardous materials stored on
the other side of the barrier.
Fire Brigade: A group of people organized and trained to engage in rescue, fire suppression, and related
activities.
Fire Department: An emergency response organization providing rescue, fire suppression, and related
activities, including any public, governmental, private, industrial, or military organization engaging in this
type of activity.
Fire Hazard Analysis (FHA): A comprehensive assessment of the hazards of and potential damage from
fire in a building or group of buildings, which takes one of the following forms: (a) Building/Facility
FHA that establishes the fire safety of the facility at the time it is issued; (b) Preliminary/Project FHA
which establishes the fire protection requirements for a new building or a modification to an existing
building; or, (c) Transitional FHA which evaluates the minimum fire protection needs during a major
transition from an operating status to some other status.
Fire Loss: The dollar cost of restoring damaged property from an actual fire event to its pre-fire
condition.5
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Fire Prevention: The process of managing and regulating potential fire hazards (fuels and heat energy
sources) and the mechanisms that bring them together to either eliminate the hazard(s) or reduce the risk
associated with the hazard(s).
Fire Protection Assessment: A formal documented review conducted by DOE or contractors, in
accordance with DOE requirements, that examines the essential fire protection elements as they relate to a
specific facility or an overall fire protection program.
Fire Protection Design Analysis (FPDA): An engineering analysis for non-nuclear facilities during or
preceding the preliminary design to establish fire protection design criteria, including applicable national
codes and consensus standards. Updated during the design process, the FPDA provides a comprehensive
design review that ensures the fire protection requirements are incorporated into the design.
Fire Protection Engineer (FPE): A graduate of an accredited engineering curriculum who has completed
not less than four years of engineering practice, three of which were in responsible charge of diverse fire
protection engineering work. If not such a graduate, an individual should either: demonstrate knowledge
of the principles of fire protection engineering showing evidence by specific academic courses and
written examination in the related curriculum of physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, and
have completed not less than six years engineering practice, three of which in responsible charge of
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diverse fire protection engineering projects, or be a registered professional engineer in fire protection.
Federal FPEs under the Department’s Federal Technical Capability Program (see DOE O 426.1, Federal
Technical Capability) are qualified according to DOE-STD-1137-2014, Fire Protection Engineering
Functional Area Qualification Standard, or its predecessors.
Fire Resistance Rating: The time, in minutes or hours, that materials or assemblies have withstood a fire
exposure as established in accordance with an approved test procedure appropriate for the structure,
building material, or component under consideration.
Fire Resistant Construction: A building element, component, or assembly, designed and tested to
maintain its ability to continue to perform a given structural function, as determined by the fire tests or the
methods based on the fire tests, for the associated fire resistance rating.
Fire Separation: A continuous vertical or horizontal construction assembly designed and constructed with
a specified fire resistance rating to limit the spread of fire and restrict the movement of smoke.
Fire Wall: A fire barrier assembly, with a fire resistance rating and structural stability, that separates
buildings or subdivides a building into fire areas.
Glovebox: A controlled environment work enclosure providing a primary barrier from the work area.
The operation is performed through sealed, gloved openings to protect the worker, the ambient
environment, and/or the product.
Hazard Category (1, 2, 3) Nuclear Facilities: Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities are defined in
Table 1, Appendix A to Subpart B of 10 CFR Part 830, as follows: (1) a Hazard Category 1 facility has
the potential to cause significant off-site consequences; (2) a Hazard Category 2 facility has the potential
to cause significant on-site consequences beyond localized consequences; and (3) a Hazard Category 3
facility has the potential to cause only locally significant consequences.
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Limited Supply Suppression System: A system installed in accordance with the applicable National Fire
Protection Association standards and having a limited quantity of a suppression agent. These systems
typically include carbon dioxide, other gaseous agents, dry chemical, water, or hybrid systems (e.g., a
Vortex system).
Listed: Equipment, materials, or services included in a list published by an organization that is acceptable
to the AHJ and concerned with evaluation of products or services, that maintains periodic inspection of
production of listed equipment or materials or periodic evaluation of services, and whose listing states
that either the equipment, material or service meets appropriate designated standards or has been tested
and found suitable for a specified purpose. This definition applies to products that are Underwriters
Laboratories listed, FM Global approved, or certified by another nationally recognized testing laboratory
as defined in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Major Modification: As defined by 10 CFR Part 830, major modifications are those that “substantially
change the existing safety basis for the facility.” See DOE-STD-1189-2016, Integration of Safety into the
Design Process, for further guidance on determining major modifications.
Maximum Possible Fire Loss (MPFL): The dollar cost of restoring damaged property in a single,
well-defined fire area, from a hypothetical fire event, assuming the failure of both automatic fire
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suppression systems and manual fire-fighting efforts.6
Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV): Measurement created by ASHRAE to rate effectiveness
of air filters.
Noncombustible: A material that, in the form in which it is used and under the conditions anticipated,
will not ignite, support combustion, burn, or release flammable vapors when subjected to fire or heat.
Pre-Incident Plan: A document, owned and developed by a fire department, that provides information to
responding personnel that will help them safely and effectively manage incidents with available resources
at a specific facility or area.
Program Self-Assessment: A documented comprehensive evaluation of the fire protection program that is
performed at least every three years, by or under the supervision of an FPE, to review the adequacy of the
site-wide and/or facility fire protection program.
Pyrophoric Material: A chemical with an auto ignition temperature in air at or below 130°F.7
[DOE-HDBK-1081-2014]
Relocatable Structure: Facilities including manufactured structures, mobile homes, trailers, semi-trailers,
modular type structures, factory assembled structures, cargo containers, hazardous materials or flammable
liquid storage containers, air supported/inflated structures, tent/membrane, and cloth/rib structures. This
term does not apply to trailers and cargo containers that are being used in the transportation mode for
conveying materials while on-site, or to prefabricated buildings designed for a permanent location.
Structures not specifically identified herein should be referred to the AHJ for categorization.
Safety Basis: The DSA and hazard controls that provide reasonable assurance that a DOE nuclear facility
can be operated safely in a manner that adequately protects workers, the public, and the environment.
[10 CFR § 830.3]
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Safety Class Structures, Systems, and Components (SC SSCs): Structures, systems, or components,
including portions of process systems, whose preventive or mitigative function is necessary to limit
radioactive hazardous material exposure to the public, as determined from safety analyses.
[10 CFR § 830.3]
Safety Significant Structures, Systems, and Components (SS SSCs): Structures, systems, and
components which are not designated as safety class SSCs, but whose preventive or mitigative function is
a major contributor to defense-in-depth and/or worker safety as determined from safety analyses.
[10 CFR § 830.3]
Significant Modification: An addition, alteration, renovation, or repair to an existing facility that involves
a change in floor area, number of stories, size of rooms, use of the area or occupancy of the structure. A
significant modification does not include replacement with a like structure or equipment.8
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Subterranean Facility: Spaces that cannot meet NFPA 101, Life Safety Code®, NFPA 520, Standard on
Subterranean Spaces, or the International Building Code (IBC) egress requirements due to the orientation
or configuration of parts of the structure below ground level, which may include open and cut
excavations. Requirements in this Standard divide these facilities into one or more the following areas:
• Undeveloped Space: An area of the subterranean facility that has been excavated, including
subterranean and ground support structures and systems, but has not been altered for the
performance of mission-oriented process operations or experiments. Undeveloped space may
include roadways, railways, and entrances.
• Developed Space: An area of the subterranean facility that has been altered for the performance
of mission-oriented process operations or experiments. Including Process Operation/Experiment
Areas, an area of the subterranean facility in which materials that are likely to burn with extreme
rapidity or from which explosions are likely, are staged or used that is separated from the
underground infrastructure or undeveloped space by fire-resistive construction. This excludes
basements of surface structures and buildings as defined by NFPA 101, NFPA 520, and the
applicable building code.
Variance: An exception to compliance with some part of 10 CFR Part 851. The process for requesting
and approving variances from the provisions of 10 CFR Part 851 is delineated in Subpart D of Part 851
and in supplemental guidance promulgated by DOE.
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1.6 ACRONYMS
AHJ Authority Having Jurisdiction
BNA Baseline Needs Assessment
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
COR Code of Record
CTA Central Technical Authority
DOE Department of Energy
DSA Documented Safety Analysis
FACP Fire Alarm Control Panel
FHA Fire Hazard Analysis
FPDA Fire Protection Design Analysis
FPE Fire Protection Engineer
FPP Fire Protection Program
G Guide
HDBK Handbook
HPR Highly Protected Risk
IBC International Building Code
ITM Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance
L/RMP Land/Resource Management Plan
LCO Limiting Conditions for Operation
MERV Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value
MPFL Maximum Possible Fire Loss
NFPA National Fire Protection Association
O Order
QA Quality Assurance
SC Safety Class
SLC Signaling Line Circuits
SS Safety Significant
SSC Structure, System, and Component
STD Standard
TSR Technical Safety Requirement
WFMP Wildland Fire Management Plan
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2 GENERAL FIRE PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS
Section 13
2.1 FIRE PROTECTION POLICY STATEMENT
DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.a(1)) requires that a policy be established affirming
the contractor’s commitment to provide a comprehensive fire protection and emergency response
program.9
A fire protection policy statement10 should:
• Provide an organizational commitment to satisfy Highly Protected Risk levels for fire protection;
• Document the duties and responsibilities of contractor management;
• Detail strategies to maintain fire prevention features; and
• For emergency response organizations, describe the level of capability the contractor intends to
provide.
A fire protection policy statement is required to be consistent with DOE requirements and contractual
obligations.
2.2 USE OF NATIONAL CODES AND STANDARDS
2.2.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.a(2)) requires that fire protection and
emergency response programs meet the applicable building code and National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA) codes and standards. Throughout this Standard, where possible, specific
NFPA codes and standards are identified as “applicable” for identified fire protection features;
these should be evaluated for site-specific and facility-specific applicability where such features
are called for. Such statements are not intended to imply that the identified code or standard is
the only acceptable approach.
2.2.2 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 1, Section 1.c) requires contractors to identify the applicable
industry codes and standards, including the IBC and applicable DOE requirements and technical
standards for design and construction activities. The acquisition and construction of new
facilities and major modifications of existing facilities shall meet the applicable parts of the IBC,
NFPA standards, and other nationally recognized consensus standards for electrical, fire, and life
safety.11 12
2.2.2.1 If an alternative to the IBC is selected for use in accordance with DOE O 420.1C (Attachment
1, Section 1.c), it is acceptable to adjust the IBC references in this Standard to appropriate
references in the selected alternative building code for that particular site.
2.2.2.2 Performance of administrative functions of the building code should be documented by the
contractor as required by DOE Orders and not by the administration chapter of the IBC.
2.2.3 National Electrical Code. NFPA 70, National Electrical Code®, is the applicable NFPA standard
for electrical design requirements.
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2.2.4 State and Local Codes. Applicable state, regional, and local building codes should be
incorporated into the Code of Record (COR), as necessary and as directed by the Authority
Having Jurisdiction (AHJ).
2.2.5 Performance-based design alternatives to any code requirement should be based on the
methodology described in the SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection,
2nd Edition. Other methodologies, including Chapter 5 of NFPA 101, Life Safety Code®, may
also be used. Performance-based design alternatives shall be prepared under the direction of an
FPE and approved by the AHJ.
2.2.6 Conflicts between national codes and standards and DOE-specific safety or security requirements
should be resolved by alternate designs that minimize the conflict while assuring that an
equivalent level of fire protection is maintained. For such conflicts, consultation among
appropriate designated safety and security officials and the fire protection subject matter expert
should be pursued. Appropriate approvals of relief from requirements are necessary.
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2.2.7 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.a.(2)(c)2) requires that conflicts between
NFPA requirements and the applicable building code requirements be resolved by the Head of the
Field Element following consultation with designated building code and fire protection subject
matter experts.
2.2.8 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.a.(2)(b)) requires that technical provisions of
subsequent editions of codes or standards (promulgated after the original design COR) are
mandatory only to the extent that they are explicitly stated to be applicable to existing facilities.
2.2.9 Operational provisions of the most recent codes and standards (promulgated after the original
design COR) should be evaluated and implemented to the extent practicable. Such operational
provisions include inspection, testing, and maintenance necessary to ensure that design functions
are preserved during the operational lifetime.
2.3 HIGHLY PROTECTED RISK CRITERIA
This Standard defines the minimum requirements for DOE improved risk level of fire protection and is
consistent with the best protected class of industrial risks, commonly referred to as “highly protected risk”
or “improved risk.”13
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3 FIRE PROTECTION PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
3.1 DOCUMENTATION
3.1.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.b(1)) requires a documented FPP that
addresses the elements and requirements identified in Attachment 2, Chapter II of the Order. The
FPP is required to address design, operations, emergency response, Fire Hazard Analysis (FHA)
and facility assessments, wildland fire, and specific FPP criteria developed, implemented, and
maintained by the contractor.
3.1.2 The site-wide FPP should: (a) document the overall program or management systems established
to assign responsibilities and authorities, define policies and requirements; and (b) provide for the
performance and assessment of fire protection and emergency response program activities.
3.1.3 All record retention requirements necessary to support the FPP should be identified and
implemented.
3.1.4 Section 5.1 of this Standard provides operational criteria and procedures for use in developing the
FPP.
3.1.5 The site-wide FPP shall identify any alternative methods approved to the required methods
described in this Standard, and identify where the bases for these alternative methods may be
found. As such, the FPP would also identify applicable variances, equivalencies, exemptions, and
performance-based designs.
3.1.6 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.b(1)) requires that the FPP be submitted to
the DOE Field Element for review and approval when developed and revised. The detailed
policies and procedures that make up the fire protection and emergency response program should
be included for information only in the submittal.
3.2 PROGRAM SELF-ASSESSMENTS
DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.b(2)) requires that a documented comprehensive
self-assessment of the FPP be performed at least every three years, or at a frequency with appropriate
technical basis approved by the AHJ.14 The principal objectives of self-assessments are to verify the
adequacy of the site-wide and/or facility FPP and identify strengths and weaknesses in FPPs.
3.2.1 Programmatic self-assessments shall be performed by, or under the direction of an FPE.
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3.2.2 Self-assessments should, as a minimum, encompass the following FPP elements:15
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• Compliance with fire protection-related statutory requirements, DOE orders, and
mandatory national consensus codes and standards;
• Procedures for engineering design and review;
• Procedures for inspection, testing, and maintenance (ITM) of installed fire protection
systems and features;
• Fire protection engineering staff (number, qualifications, training);
• Emergency response, including the Baseline Needs Assessment (BNA), pre-incident
planning, staffing, training, and equipment;
• Management support;
• Documented exemptions and equivalencies;
• Fire protection system impairment process;
• Hot work process;
• Wildland fire management planning and preparation; and,
• Documentation and recordkeeping.
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4 FIRE PROTECTION DESIGN
This section applies to new construction and significant facility modifications, including major
modifications to nuclear facilities. Appendix A of this Standard describes an acceptable approach for
implementing the design and operational requirements specified in DOE O 420.1C for new SS and SC
fire protection systems, specifically, wet pipe automatic sprinklers, water supplies, and fire barrier
systems.
4.1 DESIGN PROCESS
4.1.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.c.(1)) requires that a process be established
to ensure that FPP requirements are documented and incorporated into plans and specifications
for the design of new facilities and major modifications to existing nuclear facilities. For new
facilities, major modifications to nuclear facilities, and other significant modifications to existing
facilities, fire protection design criteria shall be developed by, or under the direction of, an FPE as
early in the conceptual design phase as practicable and updated throughout the design process to
ensure the fire protection requirements are documented and incorporated into plans and
specifications. The technical baseline for fire protection systems shall be maintained throughout
the life of the building.
4.1.2 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter I, Section 3.a.(1)) requires that safety be integrated into
the design early and throughout the design process for Hazard Category 1, 2, or 3 nuclear
facilities through use of DOE-STD-1189-2016, Integration of Safety into the Design Process.
This requirement applies to the design of fire protection systems and components.
4.1.3 For new building construction, significant building modifications, and major modifications to
nuclear facilities, the design documents shall include fire protection criteria based on either a Fire
Protection Design Analysis (FPDA) or a Preliminary/Project FHA, 16 depending upon whether or
not a building FHA is normally required (See Section 7 and Appendix B of this Standard for
guidance).
4.1.4 New Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities should be classified as High Hazard (typically
Group H-4) occupancies, as defined in IBC, unless a different classification is approved by the
Building Official.
4.1.5 The special industrial occupancy exception in the IBC for height and area limits shall not be
applied to new Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities.
4.2 GENERAL DESIGN CRITERIA
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DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.a(2)(a)) requires that the design and construction of
new facilities and major modifications to existing facilities meet codes and standards in effect when the
design criteria are approved (i.e., the COR). The applicable codes and standards for design include the
provisions of the applicable requirements of Federal regulations, DOE directives, the IBC, NFPA codes,
and other national codes and consensus standards in effect when the COR is established during the
conceptual design phase. Appendix C of this Standard provides guidance for the design of relocatable
structures. Leased facilities that are located outside DOE site boundaries should be constructed according
to the construction requirements established by the local municipality as augmented by additional DOE
life safety and property protection requirements contained in DOE O 420.1C, (see subsection 5.3 of this
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Standard for additional fire protection guidance for leased facilities).
4.2.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.a.(2)(a)) also requires facility modifications
other than those classified as a major modification (in accordance with DOE-STD-1189-2016) to
meet the most recent applicable codes and standards to the extent determined by the AHJ. In
such cases, the current editions of the codes and standards should apply to the modification unless
compelling technical basis exists to do otherwise. 17 For these cases, the COR should be updated
to reflect the codes and standards used for the modification.
4.2.2 The design and construction of DOE facilities should have a level of fire protection sufficient to
fulfill the requirements of the best protected class of industrial risks (commonly referred to as
"highly protected risk" or "improved risk") and should provide protection to achieve "defense-in-
depth."18 FM Global Loss Prevention Data Sheets may be used as guidance for design activities.
4.2.3 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.c.(2)(d)) requires that multiple fire
protection approaches be provided for property protection in areas where the Maximum Possible
Fire Loss (MPFL) exceeds $167 million (in 2016 dollars). This requirement may be met using
any two of the following approaches:19
• Automatic suppression systems, such as fire sprinklers, foam, gaseous, explosion
suppression, or other specialized extinguishing systems plus appropriate alarms.
• Automatic fire detection, occupant warning, manual fire alarm, and fire alarm reporting
systems (considered together) combined with a sufficiently-staffed, properly-equipped,
and adequately-trained fire department or brigade.
• Fire walls, high-challenge fire walls, or fire barriers.
• For outdoor locations, sufficiently rated fire barriers; adequate physical separation; or, a
combination of the two.
4.2.4 Facility Layout and Construction
4.2.4.1 Fire Area Determination. Buildings should be subdivided into separate fire areas as determined
by the FHA, FPDA, or other appropriate design documentation. Fire areas can be separated
from each other by fire walls, protection from external fire exposure, or other approved
means.20
4.2.4.2 Fire Barriers. NFPA 221, Standard for High Challenge Fire Walls, Fire Walls and Fire
Barrier Walls, is the applicable NFPA standard for design and installation of fire barriers.
Other design standards such as FM data sheets for fire wall construction and the IBC may
provide acceptable alternatives (see Section 2.2.1).
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4.2.4.3 Fire barriers relied on to separate hazards shall have adequate fire resistance to achieve the
intended fire separation including protection of openings and penetrations, and should have a
minimum two-hour fire resistance rating (or as required by the IBC or NFPA) or be
demonstrated as adequate by documented analysis. 21
4.2.4.3.1 Fire Barrier Firestop Systems. The installation of new and or repair/replacement of existing
firestop (penetration and joint) systems for fire barriers should be performed by qualified
installers (e.g., FM 4991, Approval Standard for Firestop Contractors, approved, firestop
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material manufacturer certified, or UL Qualified) that are directed by a “Designated
Responsible Individual.” This should be enforced through procurement and construction
specifications and work orders. Proper installation should be verified by visual inspection of
penetration seal during installation.
4.2.4.3.2 Criteria for Firestops. Assemblies for fire barrier firestop systems should be installed per
their listing instructions. Where an alternate installation is used, systems should be installed
in accordance with ASTM E 2032-09, Standard Guide for Extension of Data from Fire
Endurance Tests; ULC Subject C263E, Criteria for Use in Extension of Data from Fire
Endurance Tests; or ASTM E 2750-13e1, Standard Guide for Extension of Data from
Penetration Firestop System Tests Conducted in Accordance with ASTM.
4.2.4.3.3 Alternative Firestop Systems. Refer to IBC and/or NFPA 221 (Section 4.9.2.2.1) for
alternative fire barrier firestop methods.
4.2.4.3.4 Fire Barrier Identification and Inspection. Fire barriers necessary for life safety, nuclear
safety, hazard protection, or property protection should be (1) identified with appropriate
signs or facility maps to help prevent improper breaches, and (2) periodically inspected to
detect deterioration of the barrier, firestop/joint systems, and opening protective systems.
4.2.4.4 Structural Materials. DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.c.(2)(a)) requires that
new (non-relocatable) buildings exceeding 5,000 sq. ft. of floor area be of Type I or Type II
construction, as defined in the applicable building codes. For Hazard Category 1, 2, or 3
facilities, structural materials shall be non-combustible.22
4.2.4.5 Roof Covering. Roof coverings shall be Class A as defined in ASTM E 108-11, Standard Test
Methods for Fire Tests of Roof Coverings, or UL-790, Standard for Standard Test Methods for
Fire Tests of Roof Coverings. Metal deck roof systems shall meet the requirements of Class I
construction as defined in FM Global Loss Prevention Data Sheets 1-28R, Roof Systems, and
1-31, Metal Roof Systems.
4.2.4.6 Interior Finishes. Unless determined otherwise by the FHA, interior finishes in Hazard
Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities and radiological facilities, shall be a minimum of Class A
as defined in NFPA 101 (Section 10.2.3.4.1) and should have a flame spread index of 25 or less
and a smoke development index of 450 or less, when tested in accordance with ASTM E
84-15b, Standard Test Method for Surface Burning Characteristics of Building Materials. (See
also NFPA 801, Standard for Fire Protection for Facilities Handling Radioactive Materials,
Section 5.8.)
4.2.5 Building Services
4.2.5.1 Ventilation Systems. NFPA 90A, Standard for the Installation of Air Conditioning and
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Ventilation Systems, or NFPA 90B, Standard for the Installation of Warm Air Heating and
Air-Conditioning Systems, are the applicable NFPA standards for design and installation of
ventilation systems. NFPA 91, Standard for Exhaust Systems for Air Conveying of Vapors,
Gases, Mists, and Particulate Solids, is the applicable NFPA standard for exhaust conveyance
systems. Once-through ventilation systems do not require shutdown upon activation of duct
smoke detectors unless the FHA establishes that shutdown is needed to prevent the spread of
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fire or for emergency management.
4.2.5.2 Transformers. Transformers installed inside buildings shall be of a dry type containing no
combustible dielectric fluids. Outside transformers shall be located and protected in
accordance with FM Global Loss Prevention Data Sheet 5-4, Transformers.
4.2.5.3 Lightning Protection. NFPA 780, Standard for the Installation of Lightning Protection
Systems, is the applicable NFPA standard for lightning protection. NFPA 780 describes how to
determine the need for lightning protection and how to install and maintain lightning protection
systems when required. (See also DOE-STD-1020-2016, Natural Phenomena Hazards Design
and Evaluation Criteria for DOE Facilities, for additional information on lightning protection).
4.2.5.4 Drainage. When high-value property, safety SSCs, or mission-critical equipment is subject to
flooding from the discharge of automatic sprinkler systems and/or use of manual hose streams,
protection against water damage shall be provided by means of floor drains, sumps and sump
pumps, equipment pedestals, or combinations thereof. Other methods may be used based on a
documented analysis.
4.2.5.5 Cooling Towers. NFPA 214, Standard on Water-Cooling Towers, is the applicable NFPA
standard for cooling towers. FM Data Sheet 1-6, Cooling Towers, also provides useful methods
and guidance.
4.2.6 Life Safety
4.2.6.1 10 CFR Part 851 provides requirements for worker safety including protection of workers from
fire hazards. NFPA 101 is the applicable NFPA code for life safety from fire as stated in
Appendix A, Section 2 of 10 CFR Part 851. Additional means of egress requirements may be
provided within the applicable building code according to Appendix A, Section 2 of 10 CFR
Part 851; if any conflicts exist, Section 2.2.7 of this Standard addresses resolution.
Performance based designs, in accordance with NFPA 101, may be applied to support
equivalencies to NFPA 101 in which strict compliance is not practical.
4.2.6.2 For business occupancies, the methods outlined in NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative
Approaches to Life Safety, may be applied to support equivalencies to NFPA 101 in which strict
compliance with NFPA 101 is not practical.
4.2.6.3 Refer to Appendix D of this Standard for subterranean facility life safety requirements.
4.2.7 Fire Protection Systems and Equipment (Note: Appendix A provides further information
applicable to new SC and SS fire protection systems for Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear
facilities.)
4.2.7.1 Water Supply. DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.c.(3)(e)) requires that a
reliable and adequate water supply and distribution system be provided for fire suppression, as
documented through appropriate analysis.23
4.2.7.1.1 Redundant Water Supply. Redundant water supplies (including storage tanks and pumping
systems) shall be provided when a fire protection water supply system is classified as SC (see
Section 19
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Appendix A of this Standard), and should be provided when the MPFL exceeds $390 million
(in 2016 dollars) in any site facility.
4.2.7.1.2 Adequacy. The water supply should be designed to meet the following combined demands
for a period of not less than two hours: (a) hydraulically most demanding sprinkler system;
(b) 500 gallons per minute (gpm) for fire hose streams (Ordinary Hazard Group II and
higher);24 and (c) uninterruptable domestic and process demands.
4.2.7.1.3 Reliability. The water supply and distribution system should be designed to prevent a single
failure from causing the system to fail to meet its demand. Design features should include
looped and gridded distribution piping with sectional valves and redundant supplies (pumps
and tanks or elevated water sources).
4.2.7.2 Tanks. NFPA 22, Standard for Water Tanks for Private Fire Protection, is the applicable
NFPA standard for design and installation of fire water tanks.25
4.2.7.3 Water Supply Mains. NFPA 24, Standard for the Installation of Private Fire Service Mains
and Their Appurtenances, is the applicable NFPA standard for design and installation of water
supply mains.26
4.2.7.3.1 Facility Fire Protection Water Service. Fire protection water service piping should be run and
controlled separately from any domestic or process water piping that enters the facility from a
combination of fire and domestic-process water supply sources. Fire protection risers and
valves should be located as close as practical to the building’s exterior walls. When the
system could be affected by radioactive contamination in the facility, consideration should be
given to locating the riser adjacent to the building in a separately-protected enclosure.
4.2.7.3.2 Fire Hydrants. Hydrants should be installed no closer than 40 feet from the facility’s external
walls. Hose runs from hydrants should not exceed 300 feet to all exterior portions of the
facility. A minimum of two hydrants per building should be provided. Branch piping
between the water main and a hydrant should not exceed 300 feet.
4.2.7.3.3 Control Valves. Listed and/or approved control valves should be installed at maximum
intervals not exceeding 5,000 feet on supply lines and at maximum intervals not exceeding
1,200 feet on main distribution loops, feeders and all primary branches connected to the
supply lines. Such control valves should also be installed at selected points throughout the
distribution system to provide system control over each service area. At intersections of
distribution mains, one less control valve than the total number of intersecting mains may be
provided. As an aid in determining the minimum number of sectional control valves, the
mission importance of the building/facility should be considered, as well as the number of
fire and domestic systems affected in a potential line failure.
4.2.7.4 Fire Pumps. NFPA 20, Standard for the Installation of Stationary Pumps for Fire Protection,
is the applicable NFPA standard for design and installation of fire pumps and controllers.
Pumps should be sized to meet the system demand without exceeding 120 percent of rated
capacity.27 The system of pumps and drivers should be designed such that loss of primary
electrical power will not prevent the system from meeting the design demand. This objective
may be accomplished for general service systems by providing a diesel generator as an
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auxiliary electrical power source or by providing a diesel-driven fire pump.
4.2.7.5 Standpipe and Hose Systems. NFPA 14, Standard for the Installation of Standpipe and Hose
Systems, is the applicable NFPA standard for design and installation of standpipes. Standpipes
should be installed in all structures having three levels or more above or below grade.
Additional standpipes should be provided, as necessary, to protect areas where laying of
hoselines is problematic because of ventilation, security, or other reasons.
4.2.7.6 Automatic Sprinkler Systems. NFPA 13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems, is
the applicable NFPA standard for design and installation of automatic sprinkler systems. 28
4.2.7.6.1 To account for possible occupancy fluctuations, occupancy classification for a sprinkler
system should not be less than Ordinary Hazard Group 1.
4.2.7.6.2 Hydraulically designed sprinkler systems shall be designed for a supply pressure of at least 10
percent, but not less than 10 pounds per square inch, below the water supply curve to provide
a pressure margin to accommodate minor system modifications or degradation of the water
supply and sprinkler systems that may occur over time.
4.2.7.6.3 When the building is seismically designed, the design of sway bracing for seismic supports of
sprinkler piping shall meet site-specific acceleration criteria. These requirements may exceed
the minimum seismic bracing requirements of NFPA 13.
4.2.7.7 Water Spray Systems. NFPA 15, Standard for Water Spray Fixed Systems for Fire Protection,
is the applicable NFPA standard for water spray systems.
4.2.7.8 Special Suppression Systems. When automatic sprinkler or water spray systems cannot be
safely employed or need to be supplemented, an analysis of alternative approaches should be
performed by, or under the direction of, an FPE. The analysis should consider, initial design
and installation cost and the long-term cost of ITM of the system over its useful life, especially
where access for the performance of increased ITM activities may be difficult due to security or
radiological concerns.29
4.2.7.8.1 NFPA 11, Standard for Low-, Medium-, and High-Expansion Foam, and NFPA 16, Standard
for the Installation of Foam-Water Sprinkler and Foam-Water Spray Systems, are the
applicable NFPA standards for design and installation of foam systems.
4.2.7.8.2 NFPA 12, Standard on Carbon Dioxide Extinguishing Systems, is the applicable NFPA
standard for design and installation of carbon dioxide systems.
4.2.7.8.3 NFPA 17, Standard for Dry Chemical Extinguishing Systems, is the applicable NFPA
standard for design and installation of dry chemical extinguishing systems where provided.
NFPA 17A, Standard for Wet Chemical Extinguishing Systems, is the applicable NFPA
standard for design and installation of wet chemical extinguishing systems.
4.2.7.8.4 NFPA 750, Standard on Water Mist Fire Protection Systems, is the applicable NFPA standard
for design and installation of water mist fire protection systems.
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4.2.7.8.5 NFPA 2001, Standard on Clean Agent Fire Extinguishing Systems, is the applicable NFPA
standard for design and installation of clean agent fire extinguishing systems.
4.2.7.8.6 NFPA 2010, Standard for Fixed Aerosol Fire Extinguishing Systems, is the applicable NFPA
standard for design and installation of fixed aerosol fire extinguishing systems.
4.2.8 Fire Detection and Alarm Systems
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4.2.8.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.c.(3)(f)) requires a means to notify
responders and building occupants in case of fire.
4.2.8.1.1 DOE O 420.1C requires a means to notify responders and building occupants in case of fire.
As a minimum, a manual notification method, such as telephone, radio, or manual fire alarm
boxes, shall be available for all facilities. When required, a fire alarm system shall be
provided for DOE facilities to monitor fire suppression and detection systems, to notify
occupants, to perform safety functions, and to notify emergency responders.
4.2.8.1.2 A fire alarm system shall be provided for DOE buildings to monitor fire suppression and
detection systems, to notify occupants, to perform safety functions, and to notify emergency
responders.
4.2.8.2 NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, is the applicable NFPA standard for
design, installation, and maintenance of fire detection and alarm systems, including circuits and
pathways, initiation devices, and audible and visual alarm devices.30
4.2.8.2.1 Circuits and Pathways. At a minimum, all pathways should be designed with Pathway
Survivability Level 1, unless an FHA or other appropriate design documentation indicates
that a higher survivability level is required.31
4.2.8.2.2 Signaling line circuits (SLCs) that provide communication between addressable appliances
and control panels over which multiple input and output signals are transmitted shall be
designed as Class A, B, or X as determined by an FHA or other appropriate design
documentation. SLCs that provide communication between local fire alarm control panels
(FACPs) and the main or master fire alarm control station or panel should be designed as
Class A or Class X. SLCs that provide communication between networked FACPs should be
designed as Class A or Class X between each node on the network.
4.2.8.2.3 Notification Appliances. When a public address system or other voice notification is
provided and that system is evaluated and approved by the AHJ to be as reliable as the fire
alarm system (e.g., backup power supply, circuit and speaker supervision), this system may
be used as an acceptable portion of the fire alarm notification.32
4.3 PROCESS FIRE SAFETY
4.3.1 Gases. The following NFPA standards are applicable for the design and installation of storage
and distribution systems and sub-systems for flammable and other hazardous compressed gases:
NFPA 2, Hydrogen Technologies Code; NFPA 45, Standard on Fire Protection for Laboratories
Using Chemicals; NFPA 51, Standard for the Design and Installation of Oxygen-Fuel Gas
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Systems for Welding, Cutting, and Allied Processes; NFPA 55, Compressed Gases and Cryogenic
Fluids Code; NFPA 58, Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code; NFPA 400, Hazardous Materials Code;
and NFPA 801.33
4.3.2 Combustible Mists and Vapors. Processes that create or have the potential to create combustible
mist and vapors shall be designed to (a) monitor accumulations of vapors and provide an alarm
set at 25 percent of the lower flammable limit and (b) control the accumulation of combustible
residues in adjacent areas and ductwork. (See NFPA 69, Standard on Explosion Prevention
Systems; and NFPA 91.)
4.3.3 Flammable and Combustible Liquids. NFPA 30, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code, is
the applicable NFPA standard for the design of storage and distribution of systems and
sub-systems for flammable and combustible liquids.
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4.3.4 Combustible Dusts. NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from
the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids, is the applicable
NFPA standard for design of facilities that use or create combustible dusts.
4.3.5 Combustible Metals. NFPA 484, Standard for Combustible Metals, is the applicable NFPA
standard, complemented by the applicable FM Global Loss Prevention Data Sheets and
DOE-HDBK-1081-2014, Primer on Spontaneous Heating and Pyrophoricity, for the design of
facilities that store, use, or process combustible metals. Additional features may be required to
address the added hazards associated with radioactive materials that are not addressed in
consensus codes and standards.
4.3.6 Furnaces. NFPA 86, Standard for Ovens and Furnaces, is the applicable NFPA standard for the
design and installation of furnaces. New process furnaces shall be provided with a system for
automatically shutting off the gas and purging with inert gas in the event of power failure, loss of
coolant water, loss of exhaust ventilation, oven temperature, or detection of combustible gas in
the vicinity of the furnace.
4.3.7 Carbon Monoxide Gas. NFPA 720, Standard for the Installation of Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Detection and Warning Equipment, is the applicable NFPA standard for the design and
installation of carbon monoxide detection systems where required by the use of permanently
installed natural gas or propane fired equipment within a structure.
4.4 DOE-SPECIFIC FACILITIES AND SYSTEMS
4.4.1 Facilities Containing Radioactive and Other Hazardous Materials
4.4.1.1 NFPA 801 is the applicable NFPA standard for the design, construction, and use of Hazard
Category 2 and 3 nuclear facilities.34 NFPA standards (801, 803-806) for nuclear reactors are
the appropriate NFPA standards, as applicable, for design and construction of Hazard Category
1 nuclear facilities.
4.4.1.2 Light hazard automatic sprinkler density, according to NFPA 13 shall not be used.
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4.4.1.3 If the facility’s interior surfaces are contaminated, or if a fire could result in the release of
radioactive material, the fire suppression water shall be contained, monitored, and treated as
necessary. The containment system shall be capable of collecting fire suppression water for a
minimum of 30 minutes’ flow expected from sprinkler and hose systems during an anticipated
fire event.35
4.4.1.4 Additional fire protection features may be determined based on the FHA in concert with the
Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) or other safety basis documentation. (Note: Appendix A
provides further information applicable to new SC and SS fire protection systems for Hazard
Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities.)
4.4.1.5 Process confinement systems shall be constructed of non-combustible materials. 36
4.4.1.6 Storage racks for special nuclear materials shall be constructed of non-combustible materials
and designed to (a) securely hold storage containers in place, and (b) maintain structural
integrity under fire conditions.
4.4.1.7 Where required as a confinement barrier, the confinement structure and supporting members
shall be able to withstand anticipated fire conditions along with failure of any fire suppression
system. The fire resistance rating of the confinement structure shall exceed the maximum fire
exposure and duration anticipated, and in any event shall not be less than 2 hours. This rating
shall be achieved by use of structural features (concrete slabs, walls, beams, and columns) and
not by use of a composite assembly (membrane fireproofing).37
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4.4.2 Gloveboxes, Hot Cells, and Canyons
4.4.2.1 Hot cells and canyons shall be constructed of non-combustible or fire-resistive material.
4.4.2.2 If oil filled windows are used for radiation shielding, they shall be protected with an automatic
fire suppression system designed for the hazard, fire shutters, or other physical protection
means, as required by the FHA.
4.4.2.3 AGS-G010, Standard of Practice for Glovebox Fire Protection, provides requirements and
guidance for the protection of gloveboxes from fire.38
4.4.2.4 When inerting is used for fire prevention, the level of inerting shall be sufficient to prevent
ignition of the material(s) present both during normal operations and under potential accident
conditions identified in the FHA39 or safety basis documentation. A safety factor should be
included in establishing the inert gas design concentration to compensate for errors in
instrumentation or other conditions that might lead to an increase in oxygen level.40 Oxygen
levels should be monitored and high oxygen alarms be annunciated at a constantly attended
location to facilitate timely restoration of the inert atmosphere or the establishment of adequate
compensatory measures until the inert atmosphere is re-established.
4.4.2.5 Requirements for deflagration mitigation and prevention are identified in NFPA 68, Standard
on Explosion Protection by Deflagration Venting, and NFPA 69.
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4.4.2.6 When a non-listed fire suppression system is employed, the system should satisfy the intent of
the applicable code. Where no code is available that addresses a particular system, efficacy
should be demonstrated through calculation, fire modeling, or fire testing, and approved by the
AHJ.
4.4.3 Fume Hoods
4.4.3.1 Hoods and hood installations shall meet the requirements of NFPA 801 and NFPA 45.
4.4.3.2 Hoods should be made of non-combustible materials and capable of maintaining a negative
pressure environment relative to the room whenever toxic, flammable, or other hazardous
chemicals are located within the hood.
4.4.3.3 A hood shall be provided with a fire suppression system where required by NFPA 45, unless
otherwise determined, as allowed, in an FHA or appropriate analysis.41
4.4.4 Nuclear Confinement Ventilation System Fire Protection42
4.4.4.1 Fire protection in or around nuclear confinement ventilation systems shall be designed to
accomplish the following objectives: (a) prevent fires from affecting the operation of the
ventilation system; (b) protect the filtration function; and, (c) prevent the release of material
that has accumulated on filters.43
4.4.4.1.1 Alternate confinement ventilation system protection strategies to the prescriptive requirements
established in paragraphs 4.4.4.2 through 4.4.4.18.3 are permitted. The technical adequacy of
the alternate protective strategy shall be demonstrated by an analysis that establishes the
quantitative fire demand that could potentially be created in the rooms and compartments
served by the ventilation system. Such analysis shall be approved by DOE and summarized in
the FHA.
4.4.4.1.2 The alternate protection strategy should demonstrate that the fire demand estimates do not
exceed the filter performance capabilities. In addition, the potential for fires starting inside the
filter ducts or plenums, or room fires that expose ventilation system components necessary to
maintain the confinement function, shall be evaluated and control strategies established to
minimize the potential for significant unfiltered radioactive releases. Emergency response
procedures to actively manage a fire event with filter damage should be one of the control
strategies addressed in the analysis.
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4.4.4.2 Filter Housing Construction. ASME AG-1, Code on Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment, provides
requirements for the performance, design, construction, acceptance testing, and quality
assurance of HEPA filters and other components used in nuclear ventilation exhaust systems.44
4.4.4.2.1 When nuclear HEPA filters serve as the final means of cleaning, DOE-HDBK-1169-2003,
Nuclear Air Cleaning Handbook, calls for a minimum of two stages of HEPA filters arranged
in series in the final filter plenum for the primary confinement zone. The two stages of
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HEPA filtration are typically arranged in series in the final filter plenum for secondary
confinement zones. This is appropriate for both primary and secondary confinement zones.
4.4.4.3 Location of Final Filter Assembly Ventilation System Equipment. Final filter assemblies and
associated duct work and fans should be protected against exposure fires capable of affecting
the operation of the filtration system. Filter assemblies and associated fans located inside
buildings should be separated from all other parts of the building by two-hour fire-rated
construction. Buildings and the room/enclosure around the filter assembly and fans should be
provided with appropriate fire protection systems.
4.4.4.3.1 In addition to the two-hour fire-rated separation recommended above, filter assemblies and
associated fans located on the roof of buildings should be protected against exposure fires
either by fire barriers or spatial separation.
4.4.4.3.2 Separate buildings which house filter plenums should be a minimum of: (a) two-hour
fire-rated construction when located less than five feet from an adjacent building; (b) one-
hour fire-rated construction when located more than five feet, but not more than 20 feet from
an adjacent building; (c) unprotected, non-combustible construction, when greater than 20
feet, provided that no unprotected openings occur in the adjacent building; and, (d) if
unprotected openings exist in an adjacent structure, the minimum exposure distance
determined by analysis to be acceptable. Filter plenum housings need not be fire-rated or
separated from an adjacent building if the adjacent building wall is of minimum two-hour
fire-rated construction with no unprotected openings.
4.4.4.3.3 Filter plenums located near combustible or flammable liquid storage buildings or tanks
(including cryogenic liquified gas tanks) should be located not less than 50 feet away from
the buildings or tanks and should be housed in minimum two-hour fire-rated construction. If
such tanks or storage buildings exist on the premises, the minimum exposure distance for a
non-combustible filter plenum enclosure should be determined by analysis.
4.4.4.3.4 NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives, NFPA 90A, and the IBC
provide guidance on the protection of openings in fire-rated construction.
4.4.4.3.5 Fire dampers are not required when ducting penetrates one-hour or less fire-rated
construction. For such arrangements, the duct should pass through the wall and extend into
both adjoining areas, which shall be completely protected by an automatic fire suppression
system. Transfer grills and other similar openings without ducting should be provided with
an approved damper.
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4.4.4.3.6 Fire dampers should not be used in ducting that is part of a nuclear air filtration system
required to function continuously as part of the confinement system. Such ducting should be
protected from exposure fires up to the rating of the barrier being penetrated, or alternatively,
the ducting itself can be shown capable of withstanding a two-hour exposure fire. The means
of guaranteeing duct integrity should be addressed in the FHA and be based as needed on fire
testing and engineering analysis.45
4.4.4.3.7 Small filter plenums that serve as a final filter and have a total leading surface area of 12
square feet or less may be located in buildings protected throughout with an automatic fire
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sprinkler system that is designed and installed in accordance with NFPA 13. In such cases,
additional fire separation is not necessary.
4.4.4.4 Walk-in Filter Plenums. Filter plenum enclosures shall be used only for ventilation control
equipment. Transient combustible materials, and spare filters shall not be stored in such
enclosures.
4.4.4.5 Electrical Equipment. NFPA 70 is the applicable NFPA standard for design and installation of
all electrical equipment located in a filter plenum enclosure. All electrical wiring located in a
filter plenum enclosure shall be installed inside metal conduit.46
4.4.4.6 Protection of the final filters plenum from dust and particulate loading should be accomplished
by using duct entrance filters or prefilters or a combination of both. The following subsections
provide additional guidance.
4.4.4.6.1 Gloveboxes, hot cells, and fume hoods connected to containment ventilation systems should
be provided with duct entrance filters. The prefilters should meet ASME AG-1, Section FJ,
“Low Efficiency Filters” or Section FB “Medium Efficiency Filters” requirements with a
minimum rating of MERV 5 based on ASHRAE 52.2, (2012), Method of Testing General
Ventilation Air-Cleaning Devices for Removal Efficiency by Particle Size.
4.4.4.6.2 High efficiency prefilters47 should be provided in the ventilation system to protect the final
HEPA filters from: (a) particles with diameters larger than 1 or 2 microns; (b) lint; and (c)
dust concentrations greater than 10 grains per 1,000 cubic feet. Such prefilters should meet
ASME AG-1 Section FB "Medium Efficiency Filters" requirements with a minimum rating
on MERV 9 based on ASHRAE 52.2 (2012), Method of Testing General Ventilation Air-
Cleaning Devices for Removal Efficiency by Particle Size.
4.4.4.6.3 Prefilters located in final filter plenums enclosure should meet ASME AG-1, Section FB
requirements. These prefilters should be located at least 36 inches upstream from the final
HEPA filters.
4.4.4.7 When airborne materials are known to be combustible (such as metal powders), replaceable
prefilters should be located as near to the source as practical, but without posing an
unacceptable radioactive hazard to personnel when changing the prefilters.
4.4.4.8 Fire screens should be located upstream from prefilters and final filter plenums.48 Duct
entrance filters may not require fire screens unless a significant amount of combustible
materials is expected to be present in the exhaust stream exiting the duct.
4.4.4.9 Pyrophoric Metals. When operations or processes involve pyrophoric materials that may cause
deposition of pyrophoric particulates on a final filter, a method to remove such particles (such
as a prefilter or duct entrance filter) should be installed between the source of the material and
the final filter.
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4.4.4.10 Fire Detection. NFPA 72 is the applicable NFPA standard for design, installation, and testing
of fire detection systems. Rate-compensated type heat detectors or line type heat detection
cable approved for the specified use should be provided in the enclosure for the final filter.
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Such detectors should be of the 190o F temperature range, unless operations require higher
temperature air flows. These detectors can also operate the automatic deluge sprinklers without
the need for a second set of detectors dedicated for that purpose.
4.4.4.10.1 Airflow should be considered when determining detector location. Detectors should be
arranged to detect a fire in the first stage HEPA filters, which may necessitate locating
detectors on both sides (upstream and downstream) of the first stage HEPA filters.49
Control units and signaling alarm systems connected to the heat detectors should be listed for
their intended purpose.
4.4.4.10.2 If an automatic deluge system actuated by pilot sprinklers has been installed in the final filter
enclosure, heat detectors are not required in the ducting or the filter enclosure, unless
otherwise directed by the AHJ.
4.4.4.10.3 Heat detection systems should be designed and installed to allow for regular testing. Remote
testing should be provided for detectors that are made inaccessible by unacceptable hazards.
Remote testing of detectors may be accomplished by use of heating strips or coils that can be
energized by a separate control unit. If a line-type heat detection system is used, a heat
testing pad should be provided outside the plenum for operability testing of the system.
4.4.4.10.4 When high contamination levels are not expected in the final filter enclosure, detectors may
be installed to allow removal for testing.
4.4.4.11 Temperature Control from Fire Exposure. In fire events filters should be protected from
overheating and potential ignition. Filter cooling should be accomplished by dilution air, or a
water-based automatic suppression system, or both.50 Such cooling equipment shall be treated
as a required support system when the ventilation equipment is relied on for nuclear safety
purposes (e.g., classified as SC or SS).
4.4.4.11.1 Automatic deluge spray systems provided upstream of the HEPAs should be designed
according to the applicable provisions of NFPA 13 and NFPA 15, with the following
additional guidance:51 (a) density - water spray density should be 0.25 gpm per sq. ft. over
the entire filter area or 1 gpm per 500 cubic feet per minute (cfm) air flow, whichever is
greater; (b) sprinkler type - spray sprinklers with fusible elements and caps removed, or open
spray nozzles approved for fire protection applications; (c) location from prefilters or
demisters: the spray pattern of the deluge sprinklers/nozzles should be in the form of a
downward vertical water curtain approximately 6 inches in front of the prefilter or demister,
with spacing such that each sprinkler/nozzle does not exceed 4 lineal feet of curtain coverage;
and (d) activation by detection: a deluge system should operate upon activation of fire alarm
system heat detectors or pilot sprinklers, located in either the final ducting or filter plenum
housing. The automatic system should be equipped with a locked bypass valve that can be
manually opened if the detection system for the deluge valve fails to operate.
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4.4.4.12 Filter Plugging. HEPA filters serving as final filters should be protected from excessive
pressure drops across the filter media caused by plugging by soot or smoke particles from a
fire. Plugging may be prevented or mitigated by suppressing the fire and by providing filters
upstream of the final HEPA filters.52
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4.4.4.13 Suppression of Fires in Final HEPA Filters. When HEPA filters serve as the final means of
preventing a release of radioactive or toxic materials, the filters should be protected by either
(a) a fire suppression system capable of preventing an unacceptable release of material
accumulated on the filters, or (b) isolation dampers, based on an analysis in the FHA. If the
FHA determines that isolation of the damper assembly is insufficient to prevent release of
unfiltered air, a water-based suppression system should be provided.53
4.4.4.14 Isolation Dampers. If airtight isolation dampers are provided in the inlet and outlet ducts to
prevent the release of radioactive material accumulated on the final filters resulting from a filter
fire, these dampers should be remote-operated from a safe location. Such dampers and
associated equipment shall be treated as a required support system when the ventilation
equipment is relied on for nuclear safety purposes (e.g., classified as SC or SS). Isolation
dampers should not be used for primary confinement unless a redundant filter bank is provided
and equipped with such dampers to maintain active confinement ventilation.
4.4.4.14.1 Manual water spray systems provided in the HEPA enclosure should be designed according
to NFPA 15 with the following additional guidance (a) location from filters: open spray
nozzles should be horizontally directed at the face of the first stage of HEPA filters so that all
areas of the first stage filters and framing support system are wetted; and (b) activation by
manual operation: activation should be by manually activating a deluge valve or opening a
normally closed indicating gate valve. A similar design density to that of the automatic
deluge system should be used.
4.4.4.14.2 Control devices to activate the deluge valve should be provided in the process operator’s
control room or other locations accessible to emergency responders. When a deluge valve is
used, manual activation may be provided at the deluge valve as well.
4.4.4.15 Deluge Spray Suppression Systems. Automatic and manual deluge systems should be
designed to allow for periodic testing without requiring conditions that could result in the
spread of contamination.54
4.4.4.16 Demister Guidelines. (a) When automatic deluge or water spray systems are installed in filter
housing enclosures, a means to protect HEPA filters from moisture should be provided. One
option is to install a demister downstream of the sprinklers/nozzles and upstream of the first
stage of HEPA filters. When used, demisters should meet the airflow and moisture removal
performance requirements found in ASME AG-1, Article FA-4200. (b) Demisters should be
located as far away as possible from the HEPA filters (no less than 36 inches) and at least 6
inches from the sprinklers/nozzles.
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4.4.4.17 Water Supply Guidelines. (a) Water supply for a deluge system should be redundant. One of
the two water supplies may be a fire department connection, if approved by the AHJ. (b) The
water supply for the deluge system should be hydraulically analyzed and shown to be capable
of supplying for a minimum of two hours a simultaneous flow of the automatic and manual
water spray systems, if provided, together with the overhead automatic sprinkler system for the
fire area providing air to the plenum. (c) A minimum two-hour water supply is not required for
a “limited water supply system,” discussed below, where justified to prevent accidental
criticality events.
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4.4.4.18 Special System Guidelines
4.4.4.18.1 Water Drains. Water drains with traps and a means to eliminate drain trap evaporation should
be provided in plenum floor drains. Plenum floor drains should be piped to either a process
waste system or to collection tanks. Process waste systems and collections tanks should be of
sufficient capacity to capture all water from the fire suppression systems for the densities and
durations required in the FHA. Criticality safety should be observed in all drainage and
storage systems when the potential for affecting fissile materials is encountered.
4.4.4.18.2 Limited Water Supply Systems. Limited water supply systems for the fire suppression
system(s) should be permitted when a documented criticality potential exists in the final filter
plenum. A documented criticality potential should be provided showing criticality
calculations and the total amount of water allowed in the plenum enclosure before a limited
water supply system is permitted. Limited water supply can be accomplished by either
limited capacity water tanks or system water flow control valves.
4.4.4.18.3 Lighting and Window Viewing Ports. Lighting should be provided inside the filter plenum in
front of or between the filter banks in the area where automatic and manual sprinklers/nozzles
are located. Such lighting may be provided with an on/off switch provided that the switch is
located outside the plenum at an accessible location. Window viewing ports made up of wire
glass, laminated lead safety glass, or fire-rated glass should be provided for viewing inside
the filter plenum. The window viewing ports should be provided at each location where fire
protection sprinklers/nozzles are located and should be placed so that all sprinklers/nozzles
are visible from outside the filter plenum.
4.4.5 Protection of Essential Electronic/Information Technology Equipment. Unless otherwise directed
by the DOE Field Element Manager, high monetary value (over 10 million dollars) and mission
essential electronic/information technology equipment shall be designed and installed according
to NFPA 75, Standard for the Fire Protection of Information Technology Equipment. The need
for supplemental fire protection (such as clean agent systems) shall be determined based on an
analysis by, or under the direction of, an FPE with input and concurrence by major stakeholders.
Examples of systems that should be considered for supplemental protection include advanced
computing systems, mission-critical computing systems, control room computer systems, data
storage libraries, and automatic information storage systems.
4.4.6 Subterranean Facilities. Fire protection for subterranean facilities shall meet the requirements in
Appendix D of this Standard, “Fire Protection for Subterranean Facilities.”
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5 OPERATIONS
5.1 CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES
DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.d(1)) requires establishment of comprehensive,
written fire protection criteria and procedures to implement the following FPP requirements:
• Site-specific requirements;
• Staff organization, resources, training, roles and responsibilities;
• ITM of fire protection systems;
• Use and storage of combustible, flammable, radioactive, and hazardous materials;
• A “hot-work” control program;
• Identification and tracking of fire protection system impairments;
• Fire prevention measures (e.g., combustible loading, hot-work, and ignition source controls);
• Facility and FHA assessment programs;
• Design and construction oversight; and,
• Equivalencies, exemptions, modifications, and variances processes.
5.1.1 Site-specific Requirements. Site-specific requirements that form the basis for the FPP shall be
documented. Such documentation should address: site size; operation complexity; the need for
the protection of the public, workers, and the environment; property value and mission;
geography and climate; and, external support facilities available (e.g., emergency response,
service contractors).
5.1.2 Staff, Organization, Training, Roles, and Responsibilities. Necessary staffing levels,
organizational structure, training requirements, and roles and responsibilities necessary to
implement the FPP shall be established and documented.
5.1.3 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance
5.1.3.1 The following NFPA standards are applicable to the ITM program for fire protection features,
apparatus and equipment: NFPA 25, Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of
Water-Based Fire Protection Systems, NFPA 72 for fire detection and alarm systems; NFPA
80, for fire doors and dampers. Other NFPA codes containing ITM requirements may be
applicable in certain circumstances. Appendix A of this Standard provides additional ITM
requirements for SC and SS fire protection systems.
5.1.3.2 Inspection of fire barrier firestop systems should be performed in accordance with the criteria
established in ASTM E 2174-14b, Standard Practice for On-Site Inspection of Installed Fire
Stops, and ASTM E 2393-10a, Standard Practice for On-Site Inspection of Installed Fire
Resistive Joint Systems and Perimeter Fire Barriers. In accordance with ASTM E 2174 and
ASTM E 2393 conflict-of-interest guidelines, inspections, including destructive testing, should
not be performed by installers, manufacturers, or suppliers, or competitors of any of these
entities, of the material being inspected.
5.1.3.3 Test results should be reviewed by or under the direction of the FPE, the system engineer or
other qualified persons and compared to previous data to determine any adverse trends to
system performance or reliability. Adverse trending may indicate the need for equipment
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repair or replacement, more extensive or frequent testing, or a more detailed evaluation of
results to anticipate future conditions.
5.1.3.4 Section 11.4 of DOE Administrative Records Schedule 18, “Security, Emergency Planning and
Safety Records” provides the requirements for inspection and test records.55 If not specifically
addressed in Schedule 18, the records shall be maintained for a minimum of three review
cycles, but not less than three years. In addition, responsible authorities should retain records
and results of relevant ITM procedures, to facilitate trending, for as long as such equipment
remains in service.
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5.1.4 Use and Storage of Combustible, Flammable, Radioactive, and Hazardous Materials
5.1.4.1 The FPP shall identify the baseline standards applied to manage the fire safety risks associated
with the use and storage of combustible, flammable, radioactive, and other hazardous materials.
5.1.4.2 NFPA 1, Fire Code, and NFPA 400 are the applicable NFPA standards for hazardous materials
management plans within the FPP. These plans should be supplemented with FM Global Loss
Prevention Section 7 Data Sheets, and the International Fire Code, as applicable.
5.1.4.3 A combustible control program shall be included in FPPs. Additional fire protection measures
may be required for nuclear, radiological, high-hazard, explosive, and mission-critical
facilities.56
5.1.4.4 Procedures necessary to implement the established controls shall be developed and documented.
5.1.5 Fire Protection System Impairments
5.1.5.1 Procedures shall be developed for assessing the operability of fire protection-related structures,
systems, and components and for implementing compensatory measures when the system does
not meet the operating requirements. Compensatory measures are determined by, or under the
direction of, an FPE based on the significance of the impairment compared to performance
objectives. Appendix A of this Standard provides additional requirements for SC and SS fire
protection system impairments.
5.1.5.2 The ITM program includes a fire protection system impairment program. This portion of the
ITM program should include the process for: (a) approving and initiating impairments; (b)
tracking of impairments; and, (c) reporting to DOE when impairments exceed DOE field
element-established criteria for reporting and recording.57
5.1.6 Ignition Source Control
5.1.6.1 NFPA 51B, Standard for Fire Prevention During Welding, Cutting, and Other Hot Work, is the
applicable NFPA standard for control of hot work such as welding, cutting, brazing, and
grinding.
5.1.6.2 Fire watch personnel should additionally monitor workers performing hot work or nearby the
hot work area, especially where visual observation might impair normal viewing of the work
area.
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5.1.6.3 Control of potential ignition sources, such as space heaters, furnaces, ovens, lighting fixtures,
sparks from failing insulation on motors and pumps, static electricity, cooking and temporary
electrical equipment, other hot surfaces, and smoking by employees, subcontractors, and
visitors, shall be established by site-specific FPP.
5.2 IMPLEMENTATION
5.2.1 Staffing
5.2.1.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.d.(2)(a)) requires the contractor to ensure
that it has access to qualified, trained fire protection staff (including FPEs, technicians, and
fire-fighting personnel) needed to implement the FPP.58
5.2.1.2 Emergency response training and qualifications shall be based on established industry criteria,
such as those promulgated by the NFPA, and the Center for Public Safety Excellence, and as
supplemented by DOE fire safety criteria. As an alternative to DOE directives or applicable
NFPA standards, emergency services organization officers and personnel may meet the
minimum requirements for training and certifications as established in the BNA and approved
by the AHJ.59
5.2.1.3 A training and qualifications program commensurate with their duties shall be established for
FPEs and fire protection technicians. This program shall cover DOE-specific FPP elements and
application of relevant DOE orders and technical standards.
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5.2.1.4 An FPE shall meet the minimum qualifications standards in Section 1.5 of this Standard. Fire
protection technicians should meet the standards of National Institute for Certification in
Engineering Technologies. Appendix E of this Standard provides a sample qualification
template for lead FPEs.
5.2.2 Design Reviews. The design process shall include appropriate documented reviews by, or under
the direction of, an FPE of plans and specifications, design changes, inspections, acceptance
testing, and commissioning of fire protection features. DOE-STD-1189-2016 provides design
process requirements for nuclear facility design. The design review should be documented in
either an FHA or an FPDA (for non-nuclear facilities only), depending upon the complexity of
the project.
5.2.3 Relief from DOE Directives, Mandatory Codes and Standards, and the Building Code.
Contractors are required by DOE O 420.1C (Chapter II, Section 3.d.(2)(c)) to establish a process
for developing and requesting AHJ approval of fire protection equivalencies and exemptions to
fire protection requirements. This process should address the development, review, approval, and
periodic reevaluation of variances, exemptions, and equivalencies in accordance with applicable
rules, directives, and standards.60 Documented requests for relief should be developed by, or
under the direction of, the responsible subject matter expert and submitted through the AHJ or
Building Code Official to the appropriate approval authority. Table 5.1 summarizes types of
relief for various sources of requirements.
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Table 5.1 Requirements Relief Summary
Source of
Requirement
Type of
Relief Concurrence Approval Authority1
10 CFR Part 851 Variance2,3 Office of Environment, Health,
Safety and Security (AU) Under Secretary
DOE O 420.1C Exemption3,4
Central Technical Authority
(CTA) for nuclear facilities
only
Program Secretarial
Officer
DOE O 420.1C Equivalency3,4 CTA for nuclear facilities only
Program Secretarial
Officer
NFPA Codes and
Standards
Equivalency5 Subject Matter Expert Head of Field Element
Building Code Alternative5 Subject Matter Expert Head of Field Element
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Alternative6 Subject Matter Expert
As designated by Head of
Field Element
Notes:
1. Approval Authority applies to nuclear and non-nuclear facilities.
2. See 10 CFR Part 851 for variances to the Worker Safety and Health Rule.
3. Variances to 10 CFR Part 851 and exemptions and equivalencies to DOE O 420.1C are typically submitted to the
responsible Secretarial Office through the DOE field element, with the DOE field element providing a
recommendation for action.
4. See DOE O 251.1C for exemptions and equivalencies for DOE O 420.1C.
5. An exemption from applicable NFPA codes and standards, or the Building Code, requires an exemption from
DOE O 420.1C.
6. DOE O 420.1C requires that any alternate approach to DOE-STD-1066-2016 provides an equivalent level of
safety. The DOE field element provides approval of the FPP. The site-wide FPP is used to catalogue where
alternate approaches to DOE-STD-1066-2016, in whole or in part, are adopted.
5.2.4 Delegated Authority
5.2.4.1 DOE O 420.1C (Section 5.c.(6)) assigns the responsibilities for the AHJ to the DOE Heads of
Field Elements under advisement of an FPE as the subject matter expert.
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5.2.4.2 The DOE Head of Field Element may approve generic equivalencies to specific standard or
code requirements. In such cases, the contractor would apply the generic equivalencies by
identifying and documenting specific instances that meet the criteria established in the
approved generic equivalencies.
5.2.4.3 The Heads of Field Elements may designate a contractor as the site’s AHJ to act as DOE’s
representative for routine activities.61 DOE retains the right to override decisions of the
contractor, including the interpretation and application of DOE orders, guides, standards, and
mandatory codes and standards.
5.2.4.4 A contractor AHJ shall maintain a current written record of all delegations made by DOE for
fire protection activities.
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5.2.4.5 DOE O 420.1C (Section 5.d.(7)) assigns the responsibilities for the Building Code Official to
the DOE Head of Field Element for the purposes of enforcement. The DOE Head of Field
Element may delegate, to the contractor, responsibility for routine code activities, but may not
delegate approval authority for alternatives to building code requirements.
5.3 LEASED FACILITIES
5.3.1 A graded approach should be used in application of fire protection requirements to leased
facilities, with emphasis on DOE criteria for personnel safety and protection of DOE programs
and property. The graded approach should be tailored to the leased facility according to (a)
facility hazard; (b) DOE liabilities for injuries and accidents; (c) mission importance; and (d)
remaining facility lifetime. The graded approach should be determined by, or under the direction
of, an FPE and approved by the AHJ. Prior to signing any lease agreement, the lessee or its
designee should implement the actions set forth below.
5.3.1.1 Perform a fire protection assessment of the facility to verify the adequacy of life safety and fire
protection features of the space, including limiting the loss of government-owned equipment to
limits established by DOE and potential mission interruption. Facilities and operations that are
determined to need additional safety features and/or supplemental fire protection should be
provided with such protection or compensatory measures prior to leasing.
5.3.1.2 Communicate to the owner all fire protection deficiencies (measured against the applicable
industry codes) within the facility/structure. Verify that closure of deficiencies affecting life
safety, DOE-owned equipment, and mission objectives will be tracked to resolution. Any
pre-leasing agreements should describe the process in which fire protection deficiencies within
the leased space will be corrected and funded before occupancy (such as installing special
extinguishing systems), or after occupancy (such as general maintenance upgrades).
5.3.1.3 Specify responsibilities in the lease agreement, and participate and partner with the local
jurisdiction’s fire department in developing their pre-incident plan for leased facilities situated
outside DOE site boundaries (i.e., off-site facilities).
5.3.1.4 Specify in the lease agreement DOE and owner responsibilities for coordinating and
participating in evacuation exercises for off-site facilities.
5.3.1.5 Reach agreement on the scope and frequency of DOE-conducted and owner-conducted fire
protection assessments. In general, the owner would be responsible for assessing off-site leased
facilities in accordance with local jurisdictions and the DOE contractor would be responsible
for assessing leased facilities within the site’s jurisdiction.
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5.3.1.6 Specify in the lease agreement the DOE and owner responsibilities for ITM of facility fire
protection systems in accordance with local jurisdiction building and fire code requirements. In
general, the owner would be responsible for off-site assessments with local jurisdictions and the
DOE contractor organization would be responsible for assessments of leased facilities within
the jurisdiction of a site’s FPP and ITM of supplemental fire protection installed for DOE-
owned equipment and operations.
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5.3.1.7 For leased facilities that are located off-site, verify that the leased building’s hazardous
materials control areas, as defined in the local jurisdiction’s building code, have been
documented. When applicable, the lease agreement should specify the way in which the
maximum allowable quantities of hazardous materials will be apportioned to the DOE
contractor and to any other tenants in the building. Hazardous materials control for leased
facilities under the jurisdiction of a site-wide FPP should be in accordance with Section 5.1.4 of
this Standard.
5.3.1.8 Specify in the lease agreement the lessee and owner roles and responsibilities for control of hot
work operations in the facility.
5.3.1.9 Specify in the lease agreement that all fire protection assessments, ITM records, and hot work
operations will be available to the local AHJ, the facility owner, and the DOE contractor.
5.3.1.10 For off-site leased facilities, specify in the lease agreement the lessee and owner roles and
responsibilities for addressing owner-initiated impairments and responding to and resolving
out-of-service components in facility fire protection systems.
5.3.1.11 Leased facilities should not be used for Hazard Category 1, 2, or 3 nuclear facilities,
radiological facilities, or explosive handling facilities unless approved for such use by the
responsible DOE Head of Field Element with concurrence from the CTA (for Hazard Category
1, 2, or 3 facilities). Such leased facilities should meet all construction and operating
requirements that a new DOE-owned facility would be required to meet, including the
applicable requirements of this Standard.
5.3.1.12 Off-site leased facilities shall transmit building fire alarms to an Underwriters Laboratories
listed central station, unless otherwise approved by the AHJ.
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6 EMERGENCY RESPONSE
DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.e) requires contractors to provide emergency
response capabilities, as necessary, to meet site needs, as established by the BNA, safety basis
documentation, and applicable regulations, and in codes and standards. A comprehensive, multi-faceted
emergency response capability can be achieved in a number of ways. These approaches include: on-site
emergency response organizations, such as the fire departments and fire brigades that currently exist at
many DOE sites; off-site fire departments; or a combination of both. Department of Defense (DoD)
6055.06-M, DoD Fire and Emergency Services Certification Program, may be used as a guide to assist in
meeting the requirements of this section.
Regardless of the approach, DOE’s overall objective is to maintain adequate emergency response
capabilities to effectively and safely respond to and mitigate credible emergency incidents, including fire,
emergency medical and applicable operations. Emergency response includes resources and command
capabilities for the initial incident management of emergency events of Type 4 complexity as defined by
the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
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6.1 BASELINE NEEDS ASSESSMENT
6.1.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3e (1)) requires the BNA to address facility
hazards, response capabilities, response time requirements, staffing levels and training, apparatus
and equipment, mutual aid agreements, and procedures.62
6.1.1.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, 3.e(1)(c)) requires the BNA to be submitted to the
DOE Field Element for approval.
6.1.1.2 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, 3.e(1)(d)) requires the BNA to be reviewed at least
every three years or when a significant new hazard is introduced, and updated as necessary.
The BNA should be submitted for approval triennially or on a schedule acceptable to the AHJ
and when significant changes are made.
6.1.2 The BNA should be prepared by knowledgeable and experienced individuals and address
compliance with the governing requirements, codes and standards, and site-specific conditions
that are applicable to the emergency response organization.63 In addition, the BNA should
describe the organization's various programs that support its personnel. Such programs include
training, physical fitness, and medical programs relating to emergency responders.
6.1.3 If an on-site fire department or fire brigade will be relied on to provide complete emergency
response, the BNA should delineate the full scope of its capabilities including: mission
responsibilities, personnel, apparatus, equipment, facilities, programs, and incident reporting.
6.1.4 If off-site emergency response organizations are relied on completely to satisfy the emergency
response requirement, the BNA should define the DOE emergency response needs compared to
the services available from the off-site organization and identify the gaps between the needs and
the available services.64
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6.1.5 If a combination of on-site and off-site emergency services response organizations is relied on, a
comprehensive emergency response capability should be demonstrated based on a combination of
the efforts described above.65
6.1.6 The BNA should also include a review of the emergency response organization’s activities and
permitted practices that may increase response time or result in reduced staffing for DOE site
needs.66
6.1.7 Information related to the site emergency response organization, such as the number of
emergency responders, number and types of apparatus, and response time, should be incorporated
into the site’s emergency plans, the FHAs, and the safety basis documentation. These plans
establish a minimum level below which compensating safeguards and/or the restriction of
hazardous operations should be applied.67
6.1.8 The BNA should be based on responding to a single significant emergency event, such as a fire or
explosion that includes a casualty requiring medical assistance, and at the same time responding
to a one-person medical emergency, such as a heart attack or fall with injuries.
6.1.9 The BNA should describe how the fire department will respond if a second incident occurred
while the first was underway. The second response capability may be based on documented
mutual aid agreements and use of some percentage of off-duty personnel overtime. To the extent
that an insufficient response capability is determined to exist for this second incident emergency,
the BNA should address any supplemental emergency response resources and response times that
would be needed to respond to this event.
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6.1.10 The BNA should describe how the fire department will respond if the initial emergency incident
expanded in complexity (such as multiple operating periods and/or initial response resources
beyond NIMS Type 4). This description includes the availability and use of additional alarm
assignments and discussion on the command structure methodology used in supporting the site’s
emergency plan in addressing Operational Emergencies addressed in the DOE O 151.1C,
Comprehensive Emergency Management System. This discussion should identify the limits of the
Fire Department’s response capabilities, situations that may call for defensive tactical strategies,
and limit situations for the site’s emergency management system and external emergency
response assistance. The BNA shall be coordinated with, and incorporate the elements and
requirements of site emergency response plans to provide a complete, seamless and effective
response capability.
6.1.11 If the Fire Department also provides emergency services to others, unless dedicated Fire
Department services are reserved for protection of the site, the BNA should address the potential
for off-site fire response concurrent with an on-site response, including the potential for delayed
response or a resource-limited response and resulting potential risks and vulnerabilities.
6.1.12 Where on-site staff (i.e., emergency response teams or ERTs) supplements professional Fire
Department services as first responders or HAZMAT teams, the BNA should evaluate and
address such resources based their availability, training, and qualifications.
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6.2 DOE FIRE DEPARTMENT RESOURCES
6.2.1 Fire Stations
6.2.1.1 Where new DOE site fire stations are constructed or significantly modified, the provisions of
Section 4 of this Standard apply.68 Fire stations providing initial response resources to defense
nuclear and other significant missions should be designed to withstand natural phenomena
events and ensure delivery of emergency response resources as appropriate.
6.2.1.2 New fire stations shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the applicable Facility
Safety Chapter in NFPA 1500, Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health
Program.
6.2.1.3 Fire stations should be located to meet time objectives established by NFPA 1710, Standard for
the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical
Operations, and Special Operations to the Public by Career Fire Departments.69
6.2.2 Fire Department Apparatus
6.2.2.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.e) requires that emergency response
capabilities meet site needs as established by the BNA, safety basis requirements, and
applicable regulations, codes and standards. Meeting site needs includes procuring of fire
department apparatus.70
6.2.2.2 NFPA 1901, Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus, NFPA 1906, Wildland Fire Apparatus,
and NFPA 1911, Standard for the Inspection, Maintenance, Testing, and Retirement of
In-Service Automotive Fire Apparatus are the applicable NFPA standards for fire apparatus.
Procedures shall be established and implemented to maintain and eventually replace outdated
equipment.71 Fire apparatus’ not meeting applicable NFPA standards or exceeding 25 years in
service shall be replaced.
6.2.2.3 Reserve apparatus, if used, shall be properly maintained and equipped to provide the intended
backup response capability.
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6.2.3 Fire Department Staffing
6.2.3.1 NFPA 1710 and NFPA 1500 are the applicable NFPA standards for determining the minimum
number of trained fire-fighters necessary to begin interior structural fire-fighting. In addition,
the following OSHA rules are applicable: 29 CFR Section 1910.156, Fire Brigades; and 29
CFR Section 1910.134(g)(4) (two-in-two-out rule).72
6.2.3.2 The minimum number of personnel required for fire-fighting, hazardous material incidents,
specialized rescue, or other related events, shall be based on the OSHA two-in-two-out rule,
NFPA guidelines, pre-incident fire planning, and the judgment of trained and experienced
incident commanders.73
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6.2.3.3 Management and support functions should also be considered when developing staffing needs
for an emergency response organization.74
6.2.3.4 NFPA 600, Standard on Facility Fire Brigades, is the applicable NFPA standard for staffing
and operation of fire brigades.
6.2.4 Emergency Communications
6.2.4.1 NFPA 1710 requires the establishment of reliable communication systems.
6.2.4.2 NFPA 1710 and NFPA 1561, Standard on Emergency Services Incident Management System
and Command Safety, are the applicable NFPA standards for ensuring emergency radio
communications are compatible with other organizations involved in emergency response.
6.2.4.3 New emergency communications systems shall be designed, installed and maintained consistent
with the performance standards identified in NFPA 1221, Installation, Maintenance, and Use of
Emergency Services Communications Systems.
6.2.5 Training Certification and Drills
6.2.5.1 NFPA 1001, Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications, is the applicable standard
for emergency responder training. All DOE fire departments shall have a training program and
policy that ensure that members are trained and competency is maintained to execute all
responsibilities consistent with the Department's organization and deployment.75
6.2.5.2 Drills and exercises should be structured to emphasize realistic scenarios and feature standard,
and special fire department tactical evolutions. Such drills should also be scheduled, as
appropriate, during weekends and evening shifts, when normal activities are reduced.
6.2.5.3 Adequate facilities shall be made available for training consistent with the training requirements
identified above.76
6.2.5.4 Fire department staff should be certified under state programs when available. When a state
program is not available, certification may be done by an organization approved by the DOE
Head of Field Element (for example, a certification program from an adjoining state).77
6.2.5.5 To the extent possible, common base qualifications for company and command officers should
be used to facilitate interoperability between Sites. The Emergency Management Issues
Special Interest Group (EMI-SIG) Field and First Responders Subcommittee Recommended
Practice, DOE/NNSA Company and Command Officer Baseline Qualifications should be used
in site qualification programs to the extent relevant.
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6.3 PRE-INCIDENT PLANNING
DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, 3.e.(2)) requires that pre-incident strategies, plans, and
standard operating procedures be established to enhance the effectiveness of manual fire suppression
activities, including areas within or adjacent to, moderator-controlled areas. The criticality safety staff is
required to review pre-incident plans and procedures related to moderator-controlled areas.
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6.3.1 NFPA 1620, Standard for Pre-Incident Planning, is the applicable NFPA standard for
development of pre-incident plans. The provisions of this code are complemented by input from
the site fire protection engineering staff, facility subject matter experts, and emergency
responders.
6.3.2 Pre-incident fire plans should be developed in accordance with standard practices within the
emergency services community and DOE expectations, as reflected in published guidelines. The
format of such plans may be established by the organization providing the emergency response.
6.4 FIREFIGHTING ACTIVITIES INVOLVING SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
6.4.1 Procedures for firefighting activities involving special hazards shall be developed and
maintained.78 The FHAs and safety basis documentation should reflect firefighting strategies
when rapid intervention may not be possible (for example, in areas covered by criticality control)
and when fixed fire protection systems may no longer be available as in transitional facilities.
(See Appendix F of this Standard for additional information.)79
6.4.2 Fire-fighting procedures should address delays related to security and nuclear safety concerns.
6.4.3 Emergency response organizations responsible for firefighting activities should be informed of
transitional planning and should revise pre-incident planning activities as necessary to
accommodate the facility transition. When practicable, the emergency response organization
should be given access to the facility to review firefighting strategies and to use the facility for
training activities.
6.4.4 DOE O 471.6, Admin Chg. 2, Information Security, provides protection and notification
requirements for access to classified information by non-cleared individuals during an
emergency.
6.5 FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTING
6.5.1 DOE O 231.1B, Admin Chg. 1, Environment, Safety, and Health Reporting, provides DOE
reporting requirements for emergency responses. Emergency response records shall be based on
standard fire incident reporting practices, such as the National Fire Incident Reporting System or
NFPA 901, Standard Classifications for Incident Reporting and Fire Protection Data. Where
off-site fire response is provided to a DOE owned or leased facility, such responding
organizations should make available to the AHJ all logs or reports completed for the incident in
the organization’s standard reporting format. The AHJ or designee should then incorporate this
information into the DOE O 231.1B data collection system.
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7 FACILITY FIRE PROTECTION EVALUATIONS
7.1 FIRE HAZARD ANALYSIS
The purpose of an FHA is to assess the hazards of and potential damage from fire and verify that fire
safety objectives are met. The FHA usually is broken down by building, but may be further broken down
into fire areas. The FHA is also a vital tool for incorporating appropriate fire protection criteria into
designs in accordance with DOE-STD-1189-2016, and for demonstrating compliance with DOE orders
and standards, building codes requirements, and industry fire protection standards. An FHA may be
required for facilities other than buildings if the value and hazard warrant. Additionally, the FHA may
incorporate facilities, other than buildings, when they are exposed to or are integral to the building
operations.
7.1.1 Building/Facility FHA
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7.1.1.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.f (1)) requires FHAs to be prepared using
a graded approach for (a) Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities and major
modifications thereto; (b) facilities that represent unique fire safety risks; (c) new facilities, or
modifications to existing facilities with value greater than $167 million (in 2016 dollars), and
(d) when directed by the responsible DOE authority.
7.1.1.2 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Sections 3.f.(1)(b) and (c)) requires the FHA be
updated, as needed, when changes occur to the facility structure or layout, processes,
occupancy, safety basis documentation, or the BNA impacts the analysis in the FHA. The FHA
shall be reviewed and updated, as necessary, at a minimum of every three years.
7.1.2 Documented Fire Protection Design Review and Analysis
7.1.2.1 An FPDA should be performed to ensure that FPP requirements are documented and
incorporated into plans and specifications for new buildings and significant modifications to
existing buildings (See Section 4.1.1 of this Standard).
7.1.2.2 For Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities, new facilities that represent a unique fire
safety risk, facilities valued over $167 million (in 2016 dollars), or when directed by the
responsible DOE authority, the FPDA should be documented in a Preliminary/Project FHA that
will be converted or incorporated into the facility FHA after project completion.
7.1.2.3 The FPDA and Preliminary/Project FHA should be of sufficient detail to identify applicable
design criteria for meeting the fire safety objectives. The Preliminary/Project FHA should be
used to justify design decisions, where required, when one or more solution is available, when
multiple protection approaches are necessary, or where prescriptive requirements do not
adequately address the situation encountered.
7.1.3 Transitional FHA
7.1.3.1 Transitional facilities have been shut down (i.e., are no longer operational) and may be in
surveillance and maintenance mode or undergoing decontamination and decommissioning
(D&D). The need for fire protection features in such facilities should be governed by the
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consequences of a fire to the public, workers, and fire-fighters, and the potential for a release of
hazardous and radiological materials.80 See Appendix F of this Standard for guidance on
transitional facilities.
7.1.3.2 For transitional facilities covered by DOE O 420.1C, and when directed by the DOE Field
Element, a transitional FHA shall be developed.
7.1.4 Preparation, Review, and Approval of FHAs
7.1.4.1 FHAs and FPDAs are required by DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II 3.f.(1)(a)) to be
prepared by or under the direction of an FPE, and should be subjected to an adequate peer
review, and approved through an established process.
7.1.4.2 A Building/Facility FHA is required by DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II 3.f.(1)(b)) to
be reviewed at least every three years with the review documented and the FHA revised as
necessary.
7.1.4.3 An FPDA and Preliminary/Project FHA should be reviewed at major project milestones or
following significant changes to the project scope.
7.1.4.4 A Transitional FHA should be reviewed at major milestones in the transition process, if any.
7.1.5 Detailed criteria and guidance for FHAs are provided in Appendix B of this Standard.
7.2 FACILITY ASSESSMENTS
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The principal objective of a facility assessment is to strengthen the facility FPP. This objective is
accomplished through the identification and correction of deficiencies and the effective communication of
lessons learned from the assessment.
7.2.1 DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3.f) provides requirements on the frequency of
facility assessments.
7.2.2 Facility assessments shall be performed by, or under the direction of an FPE. Personnel
conducting such assessments shall have an appropriate level of knowledge and experience in the
application of fire safety codes and standards in diverse facilities.
7.2.3 Facility assessments should evaluate the following programmatic and physical fire protection
features:
• Applicable codes and standards;
• Fire and explosion hazards;
• Protection of SC and SS equipment;
• Life safety;
• Protection of mission-critical equipment or programs;
• Protection of high-value property;
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• Suppression equipment;
• Detection and alarm systems and equipment;
• Fire system ITM;
• Water runoff;
• Facility fire prevention planning documents;
• Emergency response capability;
• Completeness of FHA, and, other documented assessment of fire hazards;
• Fire barrier requirements and integrity;
• Completeness of fire loss potential determination;
• Fire safety training;
• Potential for toxic, biological and /or radiological incident due to fire;
• Status and tracking of previous findings; and
• Equivalencies and exemptions.
7.3 COMPENSATORY MEASURES
7.3.1 When modifications are necessary to correct significant fire safety deficiencies, interim
compensatory measures shall be provided until the modifications are complete.81 Compensatory
measures shall be initiated without delay, commensurate with the identified fire safety
deficiencies and the Head of the Field Element should be notified.
7.3.2 When fire protection features are impaired, compensatory measure shall be put into place to offset
the loss or reduction in protection, in accordance with an established impairment program.
7.3.3 When compensatory measures are used as administrative controls in support of an equivalency or
exemption request, they shall remain in place and be reviewed annually until the request has been
dispositioned.
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8 WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
8.1 PURPOSE
This section provides guidance for wildland fire management at DOE sites.82
8.2 APPLICABLE DOE ORDER REQUIREMENTS
DOE Order 420.1C, provides the following requirements for wildland fire management:
• Section 4f: “DOE must … [E]stablish an integrated site-wide wildland fire management plan,
consistent with the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy.”
• Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3b: “Documentation. A documented fire protection program
that includes the elements and requirements identified in this chapter for design, operations,
emergency response, fire analysis and assessments, wildland fire, and specific fire protection
program criteria must be developed, implemented, and maintained by the contractor.”
• Attachment 2, Chapter II, Section 3g: “Wildland Fire. An integrated site-wide wildland fire
management plan, consistent with the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy, must be
developed, provided to DOE for approval, and implemented in accordance with the relevant
portions of the NFPA 1143, Standard for Wildland Fire Management, 2014.”
8.3 OVERVIEW OF APPROACH
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The Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (referred to hereafter as the “Federal Policy”) and NFPA
1143 are different in structure and purpose. The former document is coordinative in nature, providing
guidelines to promote “consistent implementation of federal wildland fire policy.” The NFPA Code
states its purpose as “specify[ing] management practices and policies necessary for a fire protection
organization to develop a wildland fire management program.” As a matter of government policy, DOE
is expected to demonstrably conform to the Federal Policy as written, to the extent it applies to DOE’s
sites and operations.
Guidance on wildland fire management is organized into the following three subsections:
• Subsection 8.4 is devoted to explaining how DOE implements the Federal Policy.
• Subsection 8.5 offers guidance on the application of NFPA 1143 to DOE’s site-wide wildland fire
management plans.
• Subsection 8.6 provides additional guidance on several topics.
8.4 IMPLEMENTING FEDERAL GUIDANCE
8.4.1 Identification of DOE Policies
Table 1 of the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy lists 17 topics and provides for each
topic an additional statement of “Management Intent” and a set of “Implementation Actions” for
federal agencies. In the tables below, the contents of the first and second column come directly
from the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy; the core policy is shown in italics in the first
column, and statements of management intent are shown as lettered items in the first column.
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8.4.2 Firefighter Safety
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Firefighter and public safety is the
first priority. All Fire Management
Plans and activities must reflect this
commitment.
(a) No natural or cultural resource,
home, or item of property is worth a
human life.
(b) All strategies and tactics should
seek to mitigate the risk to
firefighters and the public.
(1) Agency administrators
will develop and establish
process, procedures and
objectives that ensure
firefighter and public safety.
(2) Incident Commanders
will develop and establish
incident objectives, strategies
and operational tactics that
ensure firefighter and public
safety.
DOE wildland fire activities should reflect
a commitment to firefighter and public
safety as the first priority. DOE site
management contractors should:
(a) Establish procedures for issuance, use,
and accountability of personal protective
clothing and equipment;
(b) Ensure that training, use, appropriate
employee medical surveillance programs,
and maintenance and storage of the
protective equipment comply with
applicable standards;
(c) Provide 4 hours of annual wildland fire
safety refresher training to personnel
directly involved with such activities; and,
(d) Ensure that work supervisors are
responsible for the safety of employees
engaged in wildland fire management
activities.
8.4.3 Fire Management and Ecosystem Sustainability
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
The full range of fire management
activities will be used to help achieve
ecosystem sustainability, including
its inter-related ecological,
economic, and social components.
(a) “Full range of fire management
activities” may include any
vegetative management treatment
tool.
(b) Ecosystem sustainability provides
a supply of goods, services, social
values, and natural processes in
perpetuity.
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(c) Economic intent is to provide for
sustainable supplies of goods,
services, and social values through
implementation of appropriate fire
management activities.
(1) Land/Resource Management Plans
(L/RMP) will be developed consistent
with both ecological conditions, and
fire regime dynamics, and consider
the short and long term effects of both
action and no action alternatives for
planned vegetation management
activities as well as responses to
wildfire.
(2) Agencies will exploit the full
range of fire management options to
sustain healthy ecosystems within
acceptable risk levels as identified in
the L/RMP, or Fire Management Plan
(FMP).
(3) Fire management activities will be
based on planning and decision
analysis processes that address current
and anticipated situational conditions.
See DOE O 436.1, Departmental
Sustainability
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8.4.4 Response to Wildland Fire
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Fire, as a critical natural process,
will be integrated into land and
resource management plans and
activities on a landscape scale, and
across agency boundaries. Response
to wildland fires is based on
ecological, social and legal
consequences of the fire. The
circumstances under which a fire
occurs, and the likely consequences
on firefighter and public safety and
welfare, natural and cultural
resources, and, values to be
protected, dictate the appropriate
response to the fire.
(a) The L/RMP will define and
identify fire’s role in the ecosystem.
The response to an ignition is guided
by the strategies and objectives
outlined in the L/RMP and/or the
Fire Management Plan.
(b) Values to be protected from
and/or enhanced by wildland fire are
defined in the L/RMP and/or the Fire
Management Plan.
(c) The L/RMP and fire management
planning is coordinated across
jurisdictional boundaries.
FMPs assist in developing the
management response to meet L/RMP
objectives in designated Fire
Management Units (FMU).
(1) Fire management strategies will
consider current landscape conditions
and spatial and temporal components
of the fire regime.
(2) Responses to wildland fires will be
coordinated across jurisdictional
boundaries.
DOE site management
contractors should:
(a) Identify the applicable Fire
Management Unit; and
(b) Coordinate wildland fire
response as agreed with other
agencies adjacent to the DOE
site.
8.4.5 Use of Wildland Fire
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Wildland fire will be used to protect,
maintain, and enhance resources
and, as nearly as possible, be
allowed to function in its natural
ecological role. Use of fire will be
based on L/RMP and associated Fire
Management Plans and will follow
specific prescriptions contained in
operational plans.
(a) Use planned and unplanned
ignitions to achieve land and
resource management goals. Fire
management is one tool in the
restoration process and should be
integrated with other land
management activities.
(1) Incident objectives will
identify resource objectives
for wildfires managed to
achieve resource objectives.
(2) Beneficial
accomplishments will be
measured through specific
quantified objectives.
DOE sites should integrate fuel
management and fire management
programs in support of the following
resource management objectives.
(a) Use an interdisciplinary approach to
integrate fuel management planning into
all appropriate activities.
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(b) Identify, through economic analysis,
the most cost-efficient fuel profile to
meet resource management direction.
Consider a full range of fuel management
alternatives, including no treatment. Fuel
management activities should be
responsive to long-term site productivity,
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Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
(b) Preference will be given for
natural ignitions to be managed in
meeting the role of fire as an
ecological process.
(c) Decision support process
encourages strategies to manage fire
to restore and maintain the natural
fire regime where safe and possible.
utilization opportunities, and air quality
considerations.
(c) Where a management activity, such as
timber sales, thinning, or road
construction, contributes to an
unacceptable fuel profile, modify that
activity to reduce its incremental
contribution to the fuel profile.
(d) On lands where repetitive
management activities will occur,
evaluate the projected fuel profile to
determine the most cost-efficient time(s)
of entry and the level of treatment(s).
(e) Manage fuel in accordance with fire
management direction in the site land-use
planning and management process.
8.4.6 Rehabilitation and Restoration
Federal Policy
Federal Policy
Implementation
Actions
DOE Guidance
Rehabilitation and restoration efforts
will be undertaken to protect and
sustain ecosystems, public health and
safety, and to help communities
protect infrastructure.
(a) Conduct emergency stabilization
of burned areas such that no further
harm is done.
(b) Probability of success will be
evaluated for rehabilitation and
restoration efforts.
(1) Burned areas will be
assessed to determine
suitable and effective
emergency stabilization
and rehabilitation needs
to meet current and
anticipated environmental
conditions.
(2) Rehabilitation and
restoration activities will
be evaluated to assess
effectiveness of
treatments.
The following post-fire activities (for
prescribed, operational and wild fires) should
be accomplished at the earliest opportunity.
(a) Sites should conduct an immediate
assessment of watershed conditions following
the fire.
(b) Sites should determine if emergency
watershed rehabilitation efforts are required to
restore watershed functions and minimize
damage to soil resources.
(c) Sites should initiate post-fire rehabilitation
treatments as necessary (e.g., sediment
reduction, channel treatments, check dams) to
stabilize biotic communities, address safety
concerns, and to prevent degradation of
critical known natural and cultural resources.
(d) Sites should monitor the effectiveness of
rehabilitation treatments to determine if
additional treatments are required.
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8.4.7 Protection Priorities
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
The protection of human life is the
single, over-riding priority. Setting
priorities among protecting human
communities and community
infrastructure, other property and
improvements, and natural and
cultural resources will be done based
on the values to be protected, human
health and safety, and the costs of
protection. Once people have been
committed to an incident, these
human resources become the highest
value to be protected.
(a) Resources are allocated
nationally, geographically, and
locally based on protection priorities.
(b) Protection of human life
overrides all other priorities should
response capability limits be reached.
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(c) Local protection priorities are
established in the L/RMP and/or
FMP.
NMAC [National Multi-Agency
Coordinating Group] establishes
national protection priorities
considering maintenance of initial
attack capability; protection of
communities, infrastructure,
property, cultural and natural
resources; costs; local agency
objectives; and national response
framework and tasking.
(1) Geographic and local area
coordination groups will establish
a process to set protection
priorities.
(2) The Agency Administrator will
convey protection priorities, based
on the L/RMP and FMP, to the
geographic and national groups
through an incident status report
and ensure that protection
priorities are known and carried
out by the incident commander(s).
In general, DOE field elements are
responsible for developing,
implementing, and overseeing
protection programs for individuals
and assets under their cognizance.
This includes protecting assets from
internal structural fire damage and
from the conflagration potential
associated with the external wildland
fire. A Wildland Fire Management
Program comprises the full range of
activities and functions necessary to
plan, prepare, and respond to
potential fires and rehabilitate
undeveloped lands following a fire.
DOE should observe the following
fire management priorities on all
fires:
(a) Ensure firefighter, worker, and
public safety.
(b) Protect mission property and
natural and cultural resources based
on the relative values to be protected.
8.4.8 Wildland Urban Interface
Federal Policy
Federal Policy
Implementation
Actions
DOE Guidance
The operational roles of federal
agencies as partners in the
Wildland Urban Interface are
wildland firefighting, hazard fuels
reduction, cooperative prevention
and education, and technical
assistance. Structural fire
suppression is the responsibility
of tribal, state, or local
governments. Federal agencies
may assist with exterior
structural protection activities
under formal Fire Protection
Agreements that specify the
mutual responsibilities of the
partners, including funding.
(Some federal agencies have
(1) Agreements will
be developed to clarify
jurisdictional inter-
relationships and
define roles and
responsibilities among
local, state, tribal, and
federal fire protection
entities, based on each
organization’s
enabling protection
authorities and
assistance/mutual aid
responsibilities.
(2) Agencies will
support the
The zone where structures and other human
development meet or become intermingled with
undeveloped wildland is referred to as the
wildland/urban interface. The objectives of
wildland/urban interface fire management are to
facilitate fire prevention and protection and
minimize fire loss and damage to structures, other
human development, and wildland resources; to
prevent a structure fire from spreading into wildland
fuels; and to encourage property owners to take an
active role in establishing and maintaining their own
fire prevention and safety measures in the
wildland/urban interface. The following
recommendations are applicable to this category.
(a) Document DOE wildland fire protection and
suppression assistance in mutual-aid agreements
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Federal Policy
Federal Policy
Implementation
Actions
DOE Guidance
structural protection authority for
their facilities on lands they
administer and may also enter
into formal agreements to assist
state and local governments with
structural protection).
Section 44
(a) Prevent the movement of
wildfires from the wildlands into
the Wetland-Urban Interface area,
out of the Wetland-Urban
Interface area into the wildlands,
and improve efficiency of
wildfire suppression in Wetland-
Urban Interface situations.
(b) The primary responsibility for
protecting private property and
rural communities lies with
individual property owners and
local governments.
(c) Recognize that many states
have wildland fire responsibility
while rural fire districts have
structural responsibility.
development and
implementation of
Community Wildfire
Protection Plans
(CWPP).
(3) The Federal
wildland agencies will
collaborate with tribal,
state and local fire
management
organizations to
identify and reconcile
gaps in protection
responsibility.
with all emergency response organizations engaged
in such activities;
(b) Collaborate with outside emergency response
organizations to (1) establish and update cooperative
agreements that recognize the jurisdictional
protection responsibilities and assistance capabilities
of the respective cooperators;
(c) Educate wildland firefighters about safe
operational procedures in the wildland/urban
interface and provide training in safe wildland
firefighting operations for structural firefighters who
respond to wildland/urban interface fires;
(d) Provide education to adjoining property owners
on fire risks and hazards and on fire prevention
responsibilities and actions to minimize losses and
damage to structures and lands in the wildland/urban
interface;
(e) Assess, analyze, and plan for fire prevention and
protection in conjunction with other Federal, tribal,
state, county, and local government entities and with
community and citizen groups;
(f) Integrate wildland/urban interface considerations
in the DOE land-use planning and management
process, as well as in program project and plans;
(g) Implement fuel modification projects to mitigate
fire hazards;
(h) Adopt special building construction requirements
in wildland/urban interface areas, such as the
construction requirements of NFPA 1144; and
(i) Implement other practices that reduce wildland
fire risks.
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8.4.9 Planning
Federal Policy
Federal Policy
Implementation
Actions
DOE Guidance
Every area with burnable
vegetation must have an
approved Fire Management Plan.
Fire Management Plans are
strategic plans that define a
program to manage wildland
fires based on the area's
approved land management plan.
Fire Management Plans must
provide for firefighter and public
safety; include fire management
strategies, tactics, and
alternatives; address values to be
protected and public health
issues; and be consistent with
resource management objectives,
activities of the area, and
environmental laws and
regulations.
(a) Promote interagency and
inter-governmental planning.
(b) Encourage landscape scale
planning across jurisdictional
boundaries.
(1) The FMP should
be interagency or
intergovernmental in
scope and developed
on a landscape scale,
where practical to take
advantage of
efficiency, reduce
conflict and provide
understanding and
cooperation.
(2) The L/RMP and/or
FMPs will address the
location and
conditions under
which resource
benefits and protection
objectives can be met.
Preparedness planning provides for timely
recognition of approaching fire management
situations and for setting priorities, deploying
resources, and considering other actions to respond
to those situations. Wildland fire preparedness
planning should include the
following:
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(a) The purpose of preparedness plans and
reviews is to ensure the timely recognition of and
appropriate response to fire management situations
and to provide the basis for ensuring program
accountability. Preparedness planning requires (1) an
intelligence system, (2) an analysis and decision-
making process, and (3) identified actions to be
taken at increasing levels of fire severity and activity
(preparedness level). Preparedness plans should be
documented in a site mobilization guide or other
appropriate document.
(b) When developing preparedness plans, consider
the following:
1) Actions for responding to fire preparedness
levels (National
Interagency Mobilization Guide, NFES 2092);
2) Preparedness levels and actions addressing the
full range of anticipated fire danger and activities;
3) Documented processes to coordinate
actions among cooperating
agencies and to transmit decisions promptly to all
affected organizations, including adjacent units
and cooperators;
4) Preparation of a Fire Management Plan
documenting the fire management
program that most effectively achieves land-use
planning and management
process direction;
5) Preparation of a Site Fire Plan, to be reviewed
and revised at least once every three years, for
any activities that increase wildland fire risk or
constitute a wildland fire hazard, such as land
clearing, timber harvesting, mining, and power
line or highway construction; and
6) Triennial review and update of all cooperative
wildland fire agreements.
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8.4.10 Science
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Fire Management Plans and programs will be based
on a foundation of sound science. Research will
support ongoing efforts to increase our scientific
knowledge of biological, physical, and sociological
factors. Information needed to support fire
management will be developed through an integrated
interagency fire science program. Scientific results
must be made available to managers in a timely
manner and must be used in the development of land
management plans, Fire Management Plans, and
implementation plans.
(a) Increase the body of scientific knowledge and
understanding about fire management programs
through the development of management tools and
transfer of knowledge to practitioners and decision
makers.
(b) Social sciences are a part of the research need.
(1) Agencies will integrate science in
planning and monitoring processes.
(2) Agencies will coordinate fire-
related research to improve fire
management program capability.
(3) Agencies will emphasize applied
science including fire and fuels,
physics, social science, and operations
research areas.
(4) Agencies will seek to improve
decision support tools through
updated data sets and advances in
technology.
No specific
action
recommended.
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8.4.11 Preparedness
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Agencies will ensure their capability to
provide safe, cost-effective fire
management programs in support of
land and resource management plans
through appropriate planning, staffing,
training, equipment, and management
oversight.
(a) Recognize that particular budget
processes and external influences will
affect capability and capacity.
(b) Size the organization to meet
realistic and sustainable management
objectives by effective preparedness
planning on an interagency basis.
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(c) Realize efficiencies by
incorporating other federal, tribal, state,
and local agencies and
nongovernmental organizations to meet
peak demands for resources.
(d) Preseason agreements are an
integral part of preparedness.
(1) Agencies will identify and realign
organizational staffing and
equipment mixes to implement a safe
and cost effective fire management
program that meets the fire
management guidance identified in
the L/RMP.
(2) Agencies will develop a common
process for determining budget needs
and cost sharing for all aspects of fire
management operations.
(3) Implement training program to
meet staffing levels (qualification
requirements) with the emphasis on
managing fires for both protection
and resource management objectives.
(4) Agencies will develop
agreements to efficiently utilize other
federal, state, local, and non-
governmental resources.
DOE site management
contractors should:
(a) Establish and document the
need for developing agreements
with other federal, state, local,
and non-governmental
resources;
(b) Relay the need for these
agreements to the DOE Head of
Field Element (or designee) so
that DOE may pursue these
agreements;
(c) Assist DOE, as requested, in
developing agreements with
other federal, state, local, and
non-governmental resources;
and
(d) Identify and address staffing,
equipment, and training needs
based on the wildland fire threat
as determined by the BNA.
8.4.12 Suppression
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Wildland fires are
suppressed at minimum
cost, considering
firefighter and public
safety, benefits, and
values to be protected,
consistent with resource
objectives.
(a) Suppression
considerations will be
addressed in L/RMP and
FMP's.
(1) Use a decision support
process to assess
conditions, analyze risk
and document decisions.
(2) Predictive services
products will be used to
support pre-positioning
resources.
(3) Agencies will
coordinate staffing levels
through common trend
analysis of environmental
indicators.
Wildland fire suppression is intended to safely suppress
wildland fires at minimum cost, consistent with land and
resource management objectives and fire management
direction as stated in fire
management plans. Expectations or actions to take in the
event of a wildland fire include the following.
(a) Ensure that suppression planning, operations, and
personnel comply with the wildland fire suppression
principles and practices that are set out in the DOE
Wildland Fire Management Program and associated
procedures.
(b) Conduct fire suppression in a timely, effective, and
efficient manner, giving the first priority to firefighter
and public safety.
(c) Decide how to organize and conduct suppression
operations (suppression strategies). Line managers
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(b) Notwithstanding
protection of life, the
cost of suppression,
emergency stabilization
and rehabilitation must
be commensurate with
values to be protected.
should minimize both suppression cost and resource loss
consistent with
the resource management objectives for the values to be
protected.
(d) Consider fire behavior, the availability of suppression
resources, the value of natural resources and property at
risk, direction in the site land-use planning and
management process, and the potential cost of
suppression.
(e) Consider using a wildland fire situation analysis to
document suppression strategy decisions
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(f) Conduct a cost-effective initial attack on any wildland
fire not considered as an operational fire or a prescribed
fire.
(g) Respond to each reported wildland fire with planned
forces and tactics as directed in the fire management
plan.
8.4.13 Prevention
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Agencies will work together and with
their partners and other affected
groups and individuals to prevent
unauthorized ignition of wildfires.
(a) Prevention focuses on the activities
needed to reduce human-caused
ignitions.
(b) Prevention includes mitigating risks
and loss to ecosystems and
communities.
Agencies will work with all partners
to develop and implement risk
assessment, prevention, and
mitigation plans to reduce the
frequency of wildfires due to
human–caused ignitions.
The objective of wildland fire
prevention is to avoid the costs
and risks associated with
wildland fire suppression
activities. A DOE site’s
wildland fire prevention
program should be:
(a) Coordinated with local
stakeholders to encourage
planning and analysis of
stakeholder lands in accordance
with wildland fire prevention
programs; and
(b) Coordinated with other
agencies where risks affect other
jurisdictions.
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8.4.14 Standardization
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Agencies will use compatible
planning processes, funding
mechanisms, training and
qualification requirements,
operational procedures,
values-to-be-protected
methodologies, and public
education programs for all
fire management activities.
(a) All processes are
compatible and transparent
so that individuals from
cooperating agencies
(federal, tribal, state, and
local) can more effectively
work together.
(b) Enhance public and
cooperator understanding of
wildland fire management
processes.
(1) To the extent possible, agencies will use
common standards in all aspects of fire
management programs so that planning and
budgeting methodologies applied in one
situation will provide the same results in
similar circumstances.
(2) Agencies will develop and implement
common operational field guidance and
operational procedures to deal with all aspects
of fire management operations.
(3) Agencies will streamline interagency
transfer of funds to reduce fiscal
inconsistencies.
No specific action
recommended. This Standard
provides DOE’s standard
approach.
8.4.15 Interagency Cooperation and Coordination
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Fire management planning,
preparedness, prevention,
suppression, fire use,
restoration and
rehabilitation, monitoring,
research, and education will
be conducted on an
interagency basis with the
involvement of cooperators
and partners.
(a) Involve all participating
agencies, federal, tribal,
state, local, and non-
governmental organizations
in fire management activities.
(b) Get everyone working in
concert, rather than in
opposition to each other.
(1) Ensure that fire management
program actions are implemented in
collaboration with cooperators and
affected partners with due
consideration of all management
objectives.
(2) Agencies will engage cooperators
and affected partners at the strategic,
and program planning levels, as well as
the tactical, program implementation
level.
Each site’s Fire Management Plan
should:
(a) Contain or reference all cooperative
agreements and interagency contacts.
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(b) Describe or reference the
interagency coordination needed to
implement the wildland fire
management plan.
(c) List or reference key interagency
contacts by function.
(d) Discuss local agreements that are in
place. Include major cooperators,
such as state and other Federal agencies,
as well as local volunteer fire
companies.
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8.4.16 Communication and Education
Federal Policy
Federal Policy
Implementation
Actions
DOE Guidance
Agencies will enhance knowledge and under-
standing of wildland fire management
policies and practices through internal and
external communication and education
programs. These programs will be
continuously improved through the timely
and effective exchange of information among
all affected agencies and organizations.
(a) Knowledge and understanding reach all
personnel in the field, across agencies.
(b) Develop and provide consistent
communication, education and outreach with
shared messages for the public and internal
staff. [Communication and Education, cont.]
(c) Have a public that understands the risk,
benefits and complexity of wildland fire
management.
(1) Develop a
consistent and uniform
message using common
terminology on
importance and role of
wildland fire in natural
resource management.
(2) Develop
understanding with the
public on what we’re
trying accomplish with
fire management.
(3) Build understanding
with the public on their
role when living and
recreating in fire prone
ecosystems.
Each site’s wildland fire management
plan should address:
(a) The overall wildland fire prevention
and community education and assistance
programs for the site,
(b) A description of the typical human-
caused wildland fire, and
(c) The main activities of the site related
to wildland fire prevention.
8.4.17 Agency Administrator and Employee Roles
Federal Policy
Federal Policy
Implementation
Actions
DOE Guidance
Agency administrators will ensure that their employees
are trained, certified, and made available to participate
in the wildland fire program locally, regionally, and
nationally as the situation demands. Employees with
operational, administrative, or other skills will support
the wildland fire program as necessary. Agency
administrators are responsible and will be held
accountable for making employees available.
(a) Employees participate in wildland fire operations to
obtain understanding, expand capabilities, and increase
organizational capacity.
(b) Assure that we maximize use of the local workforce
for efficiencies of knowledge, cost and involvement.
(c) Maintain a competent and capable workforce to
implement the wildland fire management program to
include fuels, aviation, suppression, planning,
monitoring, research, communication, finance, etc.
(1) Agency
administrators will
train, qualify, and
certify available
personnel for local
fire needs and
interagency fire
management
priorities.
(2) Agencies will
consider
adjustment of
annual
performance
expectations based
on employee and
program
contribution to the
fire effort.
Every DOE site where wildfire
risk exists is expected to:
(a) Provide training adequate to
meet fire management needs,
and
(b) Ensure that cognizant DOE
and contract employees meet
standards for training,
experience, and physical fitness
before they are certified for
wildland fire organization
positions. Site management
should adhere to the
qualification standards
established by the NWCG,
NFPA and state or local laws or
regulations.
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8.4.18 Evaluation
Federal Policy Federal Policy
Implementation Actions DOE Guidance
Agencies will develop and implement a
systematic method of evaluation to determine
effectiveness of projects through
implementation of the 2001 Federal Fire
Policy. The evaluation will assure
accountability, facilitate resolution of areas of
conflict, and identify resource shortages and
agency priorities.
(a) Use adaptive management process to
evaluate and improve the fire management
program at all levels.
(b) Provide a formal review process to
monitor and evaluate performance, suggest
revisions, and make necessary adaptations to
the implementation guidance at all
organizational levels on a regular basis.
Conduct interagency, internal
and periodic reviews of the
fire management program (all
agencies) to determine:
(1) Consistency of policy
implementation;
(2) Effectiveness of
interagency coordination;
(3) Progress towards
ecosystem sustainability;
(4) Cost management;
(5) Safety.
DOE site management
contractor should provide
periodic reviews of wildland fire
management planning consistent
with Section 3.2.2 of this
Standard.
8.5 USE OF NFPA CODE 1143
8.5.1 Overview
As noted in Section 8.2 above, DOE Order 420.1C requires that each DOE site where wildfire
risk exists create and implement an integrated, site-wide wildland fire management plan (WFMP)
“in accordance with NFPA 1143, Standard for Wildland Fire Management, 2014.” Section 5.1.3
of NFPA 1143, “Preparedness Planning,” requires that the AHJ prepare a plan having the
contents specified in subsection 5.1.3.2.83
Once developed, the WFMP shall be reviewed every three years or when conditions addressed by
the plan change to an extent that a revision to the plan is necessary for accuracy and effectiveness.
The wildland fire management plans are prepared, approved and reviewed periodically to (a)
formally document the site wildland fire program elements, objectives, strategies and resource
considerations based on the land-use planning and management process; (b) provide the
responsible manager with specific guidance to implement fire-related direction on the ground;
and (c) interpret strategic Land Management Plan direction into specific wildland fire
management direction for each fire management unit delineated in the wildland fire management
plan. A WFMP does not document wildland fire management decisions; rather, it provides
operational parameters whereby fire managers implement the goals and objectives in the site
land-use planning and management process.
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The comprehensive site plan should contan the following major sections:84
• Introduction;
• Relationship to Land Management Planning and Wildland Fire Policy;
• Wildland Fire Management Strategies;
• Wildland Fire Management Program Components;
• Organizational and Budgetary Parameters; and
• Monitoring and Evaluation.
Information on a site’s wildland fire risk profile and prevention/suppression strategies will also be
found in other DOE and contractor documents:
• The site’s FPP is required by DOE O 420.1C to cover wildland fires;
• The site’s BNA evaluates the site’s resources and staffing available to suppress wildland
fires;
• DSAs under 10 CFR Part 830, for nuclear facilities contain an evaluation of wildland
fires as possible accident initiators; and
• FHAs for individual facilities on the site address wildland fire risks and methods for
mitigation.
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While much if not all of the information required in NFPA’s plan could be located in the above-
cited DOE documents, the requirement of DOE O 420.1C is for “an integrated, site-wide
wildland fire management plan” using the NFPA code’s approach. The following subsection
explains how the Order’s requirement for an integrated plan should be met.
8.5.2 Site-Wide Integrated Plan
The site management contractor at each DOE site where wildland fire hazards exist shall prepare
and triennially review and update as necessary an integrated WFMP that addresses the following
topics:
(a) Identification of specific wildland fire hazards, ignition risks, and potential hazard areas
within the jurisdiction and other hazards that negatively affect wildland fire control efforts;
(b) Identification of fire protection features such as lakes, rivers, water points, natural
firebreaks; potential escape routes, and other areas or features that are beneficial to
wildland fire control efforts;
(c) A list of fire-fighting resources, including personnel, apparatus, and equipment;
(d) A list of all cooperating agencies and other mutual aid resources and the procedures for
requesting assistance from those agencies and resources;
(e) A reference to any and all existing mutual aid agreements, contracts, and other protection
agreements applicable to wildland fire control efforts;
(f) A list of specific objectives relating to training, safety, response times, and staffing levels;
and,
(g) A list of other resources that provide analyses of fire cause, identification of special fire
hazards, identification of ignition risks, assessment of wildland/urban interface and
intermix fire protection problems, and proposed measures to reduce fire occurrence.
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Other topics related to wildland fires may be included in the WFMP. Maximum use should be
made of existing analysis and assessments such as DSAs prepared under DOE-STD-3009-2014,
Preparation of Nonreactor Nuclear Facility Documented Safety Analysis, (or other approved safe
harbor method) and BNAs prepared under this Standard. Incorporating such documents by
reference in whole or in part is an acceptable approach.
When developing a WFMP, the following topics should be considered:
• Actions needed for responding to fire preparedness levels (see NFES 2092, National
Interagency Mobilization Guide);
• Preparedness levels and actions covering the full range of anticipated fire danger and activities;
• Written procedures for coordinating actions among cooperating agencies;
• Methods to transmit decisions promptly to all affected organizations; and,
• Schedules and approaches for conducting preparedness reviews and exercises.
The WFMP shall be submitted to the DOE Head of Field Element or designee for review and approval.
8.6 ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE
8.6.1 Fire Reports
Timely reports of fire activities provide information essential for land and resource management
and for both internal and external administrative purposes. DOE site/field offices should log a
report for each wildland fire in accordance with standard site fire reporting methods. A
prescribed fire that burns out of prescription and is declared a wildland fire should be reported as
a wildland fire.
8.6.2 National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and National Wildfire Coordinating Group
(NWCG)
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Guides and reference publications offered by these two organizations should be reviewed and
considered by DOE sites in addressing wildland fire hazards. For example, the following
publications provide useful guidance: NWCG PMS 210, Wildland Fire Incident Management
Field Guide, and NWCG PMS 310-1, Wildland and Prescribed Fire Qualification System Guide.
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APPENDIX A
SAFETY SIGNIFICANT AND SAFETY CLASS FIRE PROTECTION
SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
This appendix describes an acceptable approach for implementing the design and operational
requirements specified in DOE O 420.1C, Facility Safety, for new safety significant (SS) and safety class
(SC) fire protection systems, specifically, wet pipe automatic sprinklers, water supplies, and fire barrier
systems. This appendix may also apply to situations where DOE decides to modify the safety basis for an
existing nuclear Hazard Category 1, 2, or 3 nuclear facilities, such that an existing fire protection system
is reclassified to perform a SC or SS function. This appendix does not apply to existing fire protection
systems that have already been classified as SS or SC in Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities.85
• Section A.1 provides general design criteria for any type of fire protection system that is used in
SC and SS applications. This information is derived from and essentially repeats requirements
and guidance contained in DOE O 420.1C and DOE Guide (G) 420.1-1A, Nonreactor Nuclear
Safety Design Guide for Use with DOE O 420.1C, Facility Safety.
• Section A.2 describes design and operation criteria for SC and SS wet pipe sprinkler systems.
• Section A.3 describes design and operation criteria for SC and SS water supply systems.
• Section A.4 describes design and operation criteria for SC and SS fire barriers.
This Appendix also includes Attachment A which provides details on typical water supply arrangements.
A.1 GENERAL
General design criteria for SC and SS systems specified in DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter I), are
applicable to fire protection systems used in SC and SS applications along with this Standard.86
Designation of a sprinkler system, water supply, fire barrier, or other fire protection system as
safety-related means this system is essential to protect the public and/or the worker from a fire in a
nuclear facility. Designation of a system as SC or SS necessitates a more reliable performance than a
general service system provided to meet property or building occupant life safety requirements. To
achieve high reliability, DOE O 420.1C requires that applicable National Fire Protection Association
(NFPA) standards, building code, as well as highly-protected risk criteria, are to be used for all fire
protection systems. Design, operation, and testing of safety-related systems should normally exceed these
requirements.
A.1.1 System Function and Critical Characteristics. The SC and SS function of the fire protection
system is defined in the Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) or other safety basis documentation
of the facility (typically in Chapter 4 of the DSA). DOE-STD-3009-2014, Preparation of
Nonreactor Nuclear Facility Documented Safety Analyses, specifies that Chapter 4 of the DSA
documents “the reason for designating the structures, systems and components (SSC) as a SC
SSC, followed by specific identification of its preventive or mitigative safety function(s) as
determined in the hazard and accident analysis. Safety functions are top-level statements that
express the objective of the SSC in a given accident scenario.” DOE-STD-3009-2014 also
discusses the inclusion of “pertinent aspects” of the SC and SS system and states that “pertinent
aspects are considered to be those that directly relate to the safety function (e.g., diesel generator
load capacity, time to load if critical).”
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A.1.1.1 In addition to having the “pertinent aspects” of the system in the DSA, it is a good practice to
document more detailed information on design or operational criteria critical to proper
operation of the safety system. The combination of the pertinent aspects and this additional
detailed information are “critical characteristics” of the system.
A.1.1.2 The critical characteristics shall be documented in a configuration-controlled system design
document. This information can be included in a system design description document
developed in accordance with DOE-STD-3024-2011, Content of System Design Descriptions.
A.1.2 Support Systems. Supporting systems shall be identified and included in a configuration-
controlled system design document. This can be referenced in a system design description
developed in accordance with DOE-STD-3024-2011. (See DOE G 420.1-1A for further
information regarding supporting systems.)
A.1.3 Design Criteria. General design criteria for SC and SS systems specified in DOE O 420.1C
(Attachment 2, Chapter I), are applicable to fire protection systems used in SC and SS
applications.
Additionally, DOE O 420.1C (Attachment 2, Chapter II) requires that fire protection for DOE
facilities, sites, activities, design, and construction meet, or exceed, applicable building codes and
NFPA codes and standards.
DOE-STD-1189-2016, Integration of Safety into the Design Process, provides criteria for
identifying SC and SS systems and criteria for the seismic design of SSCs, including fire
protection systems.
A.1.4 Approach and Process for Preparing Fire System Safety-Related Design. DOE O 420.1C
provides applicable requirements for design of SC and SS fire protection systems. DOE G
420.1-1A provides additional implementing guidance. Examples of documents that support the
fire protection system design include the Fire Hazard Analysis (FHA), DSA, other safety basis
documentation, and design documents identified in DOE-STD-1189-2016 (e.g., preliminary and
final hazard assessments, preliminary and final DSA).87
A.2 WET PIPE AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS
A.2.1 Safety Function and Critical Characteristics of the Wet Pipe Sprinkler System
A.2.1.1 Safety Function. The SC and SS function of the wet pipe sprinkler system is defined in the
DSA of the facility (typically in Chapter 4 of the DSA). This may include information
regarding the number, size, and type of fires that the system is designed for, along with any
specific considerations that may be required for the system to perform its intended function.
For example, automatic water-based fire suppression systems are generally intended to limit
fire spread, but not necessarily extinguish it.
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If the safety analysis determines that emergency responder actions to complete extinguishment
are an essential part of the SC or SS function, such actions shall be described in the appropriate
section of the DSA. Documentation in the DSA shall include the conditions under which the
sprinkler system is to remain operable to prevent or mitigate analyzed events such as
earthquakes and disruptions of electrical power
A.2.1.2 Critical Characteristics. The critical characteristics of the system should include the following,
as appropriate:
• Hydraulic performance requirements (e.g., sprinkler density, number of sprinklers, flow
and pressure demand at the base of the riser, and water supply sources);
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• Designs to accommodate the potential for multiple fires when required by the DSA;
• System Construction Materials;
• Components;
• Monitoring features;
• Component design lifetimes and any environmental condition limitations (e.g.,
corrosive atmosphere, temperature extremes);
• Potential for inadvertent actuation;
• Natural phenomena hazards requirements (e.g., seismic requirements); and,
• Type and characteristics of sprinklers.
This information may also be included in the system design description.
A.2.2 System Boundary for the Wet Pipe Sprinkler System88
A.2.2.1 The boundary of a SC or SS wet pipe sprinkler system shall be defined to clearly identify which
components are within the system. A boundary for sprinklers is typically determined at the
system control valve or at the underground lead-in post indicator valve.
A.2.2.2 All piping should be designed for the maximum expected pressure and design basis accident
conditions.
A.2.2.3 The designer should demonstrate that failure of the piping or components not credited to be SC
or SS will not reduce functionality of the credited system.
A.2.3 Support Systems for the Wet Pipe Sprinkler System. Examples of support systems (beyond the
water supply system) may include the freeze protection system, alarm devices and associated
trim, and pressure monitoring systems. The general criteria in DOE G 420.1-1A specify that
support systems are to be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to standards and quality
requirements commensurate with their importance to safety. The support systems shall be
classified as equal or superior to the classified wet pipe sprinkler system, if they are essential to
the sprinkler system performing its safety function.
Details supporting implementation of DOE O 420.1C and DOE G 420.1-1A for the freeze
protection system, alarm devices and associated trim, and water pressure monitoring system
gauges are provided below.
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A.2.3.1 Freeze Protection Systems. As a general rule, a sprinkler system will be protected from freezing
by the facility’s heating system. Isolated areas where sprinklers are subject to freezing during
normal operations should be evaluated for additional protection, such as an anti-freeze
subsystem, the use of dry type sprinkler heads, heat tracing subsystems, additional heating, or
monitoring, to prevent freezing or to warn of freezing temperatures. Examples and features are
described in Sections A.2.3.1.1 through A.2.3.1.5.
A.2.3.1.1 When reliance is placed on building heat to prevent sprinkler freezing, the design should
address monitoring the building and/or individual areas of the building for the loss of
building heat during freezing weather. The monitoring system should be classified at the
same level as the sprinkler system.
A.2.3.1.2 Small or individual areas where sprinklers are subject to freezing during normal operations
may rely on one or more of the following freeze protection methods:
• The use of anti-freeze subsystem or water circulation systems. The freeze protection
systems that form an integral part of the sprinkler system (e.g. anti-freeze subsystem,
water recirculation) should be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to the
standards consistent with that provided for the sprinkler system, unless the provisions
of A.2.3.1.3 are met; and,
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• Freeze protection using additional heating of the space, additional building
insulation, or heat tracing. The additional/alternate freeze protection system should
be classified at the same level as the safety sprinkler system, unless the provisions of
A.2.3.1.3 are met.
A.2.3.1.3 In most cases, the freeze protection system is classified at the same level as the sprinkler
system. Examples of appropriate freeze protection systems include heating the space, heat
tracing, building insulation, anti-freeze, and water circulation. However, the freeze
protection or building heating system should not be classified at the same level as the
sprinkler system, provided:
• The loss of the freeze protection or building heating system can be promptly detected
by a monitoring system classified at the same level as the sprinkler system; and,
• An analysis is performed to determine the elapsed time between the loss of freeze
protection or building heating system and the potential for sprinkler freezing.
Information from the analysis should be used in the development of limiting
conditions for operation (LCO) in technical safety requirements (TSRs) that address
responses to loss of building or area/room heat during freezing weather.
A.2.3.1.4 The freeze protection system does not need to be designed to preclude system failure given a
single active component failure (even at the SC level) if the facility owner can justify that
existing design features and/or controls are adequate to ensure that failure of the freeze
protection would provide indication of its inoperability and would not immediately impact
operability of the sprinkler system. The operability of the freeze protection system should be
included as an LCO in the TSRs.
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A.2.3.1.5 Compensatory actions should be specified in the LCO to ensure the operability of the
sprinkler system on loss of the freeze protection system during freezing weather.
A.2.3.2 Alarm Devices. Water flow indicating devices and associated trim support the wet pipe
sprinkler system by indicating that the system has operated.89 A flow alarm is commonly
achieved by a water pressure alarm switch that is pressurized when the alarm check valve is
unseated long enough to register an alarm. In general, the alarm will alert locally, as well as
remotely, to summon emergency responders.
A.2.3.2.1 These devices do not normally perform a safety function in that this equipment is not
required for the sprinkler system to perform its safety function (deliver water to the fire).
However, the sprinkler system should be designed to be able to deliver water to the fire at the
full volume and pressure required, with failure of these devices in any orientation (i.e., fail
open/closed, pipe rupture).
A.2.3.3 Water Pressure Monitoring System. A means to monitor the system water pressure from a
constantly attended location should be provided.90 A water pressure monitoring system
(sensors and associated local and/or remote indicating system) may support a wet pipe sprinkler
system by providing notification when system water pressure is below minimal allowable
levels. This equipment should be classified at the same level as the sprinkler system it supports
and should be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to standard industrial practices
supplemented by additional quality assurance (QA) provisions consistent with that provided for
the sprinkler system.
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A.2.4 Design Criteria for the Wet Pipe Sprinkler System. The following provides a summary of the
requirements, criteria, and guidance for new SC and SS wet pipe automatic sprinkler installations.
These are in addition to the criteria for sprinkler systems identified in DOE O 420.1C and Section
4 of this Standard.
A.2.4.1 Safety Significant Design Criteria for Wet Pipe Sprinkler Systems. In addition to the criteria
for general use, the following additional design requirements/guidance is applicable for wet
pipe sprinkler systems used in SS applications.
A.2.4.1.1 The following sprinkler components should not be used:
• On/off sprinklers;
• Mechanical slip and/or socket type fittings (i.e., fittings attached to plain end pipe by
a friction fit and gaskets); and,
• Cast iron pipe fittings.91
A.2.4.1.2 Strainers should be used for all systems connected to water supplies prone to sediment or
debris.
A.2.4.1.3 Sprinkler piping should be a minimum of Schedule 40 steel for pipe six inches or less in
diameter and Schedule 30 steel for pipe greater than six inches in diameter.
A.2.4.1.4 Areas should be designed to no less than Ordinary Group 1 requirements, according to NFPA
13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems, and should not exceed 130 square feet
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(sq. ft.) per sprinkler. For Ordinary Hazard Group 2 and extra hazard occupancies, sprinkler
coverage should not exceed 100 sq. ft. per sprinkler. In areas that have multiple small
obstructed areas (larger than about 3 ft. by 6 ft.) and no sprinklers are provided under the
obstructions, the sprinkler spacing should be no greater than 100 sq. ft.92
A.2.4.1.5 The system should be designed to the greater hydraulic demand of either the NFPA 13 design
area, or the worst case scenario as identified in the DSA.
A.2.4.1.6 For Seismic Design Category 3 and higher, a qualified structural engineer should use the
loads provided by the site seismic design authority in conjunction with NFPA 13 criteria, to
design piping and evaluate locations where hangers and earthquake sway bracing are to be
installed. The design should be capable of meeting the performance expectations established
in the safety basis documentation, (i.e., performing during and after the design basis
earthquake when required).
A.2.4.1.7 Environmental conditions should be defined and documented for sprinkler systems and the
system should be designed to remain operable for those events during which they are relied
on, as specified in the DSA. Examples include:
• Seismic;
• Other natural phenomena hazards, such as high wind potential, tornadoes, flooding,
lightning, low temperature, and humidity;
• Facility hazards, such as internal flooding, explosions, fire outside the system
boundary, missile and vehicle impacts, and corrosive environments;
• Wildland fire;
• Physical damage from adjacent equipment and systems (e.g., during a seismic event);
and,
• Water quality.
A.2.4.1.8 The system should be designed by a professional engineer or a National Institute for
Certification in Engineering Technologies Level III or IV technician.
A.2.4.1.9 Critical components should be identified and spare parts maintained.
A.2.4.1.10 To support appropriate implementation of the site or project QA program relative to fire
protection systems, the following topics should be addressed (beyond what is specifically
identified in DOE O 420.1C and referenced NFPA codes and standards):
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• Document control (documents are stored properly to avoid damage, the responsibility
for completeness, maintenance, and distribution is identified, etc.);
• Records of qualification of fire protection staff and control of qualification records;
• Procurement documentation and control of purchased items or services;
• Receipt inspections and verification of quality;
• Identification and control of components (e.g., sprinkler heads) according to ASME
NQA-1-2015, Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications;
• Handling, shipping and storage requirements for components;
• Control of nonconforming items to prevent inadvertent installation or use;
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• Commercial grade dedication of components, based on third party testing and
production
• monitoring;
• Records of qualification for installation personnel and control of qualification
records;
• Records of qualification for tools and equipment used in preparation of installation
• Hardware (e.g. appropriate gauges and cutters for grooved pipe, welding) and control
of qualification records;
• Records of proper use of manufacturer installation instructions (e.g. use of proper
• sprinkler installation wrenches, proper bolt torque for grooved fittings, valve trim,
acceptance testing) and control of qualification records;
• Configuration and design control; and,
• Results of commissioning testing.
A.2.4.1.11 The QA program for wet pipe automatic sprinklers should be audited in different phases
(design, construction, and operations) using DOE O 413.3B, Chg. 2, Program and Project
Management for the Acquisition of Capital Assets.
A.2.4.2 Safety Class Design Criteria for Wet Pipe Sprinkler Systems. In addition to the criteria for
general use and SS applications, the following additional design requirements/guidance is
applicable for wet pipe sprinkler systems used in SC applications:
A.2.4.2.1 Active features of a SC sprinkler system shall be designed to preclude loss of safety function
due to failure of any single active component of the system. Active components include the
sprinklers themselves and any other component that can change state. Loss of a single
sprinkler head shall be evaluated to ensure that it will not prevent the sprinkler system from
performing its safety class function.93 94
A.2.4.2.2 Redundancy in the suppression system to provide operational flexibility for inspection, test,
and maintenance activities should be provided in facilities that cannot be readily transitioned
to a cold standby or shutdown mode and, when available, compensatory measures cannot
effectively control a design basis fire.95
A.2.5 Codes and Standards. The following codes and standards are applicable to the design,
installation, operation, and testing of wet pipe sprinkler systems: NFPA 13; and NFPA 25,
Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems.
A.2.6 Operability Criteria for Safety Significant and Safety Class Wet Pipe Sprinkler Systems. TSRs
and LCOs should be defined (incl