Program Management includes all the activities and expenses necessary to operate and support Nye County NWRPO activities. These activities include Quality Assurance (QA), staff, salaries, rents, equipment, travel, printing, subscriptions, and certain capital costs.

QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM

NWRPO's Quality Assurance Program (QAP) assures that NWRPO's scientific activities proceed in a systematic and technically sound manner, and that documented instructions and procedures are used to ensure the validity, integrity, preservation and retrievability of all data generated under the Independent Scientific Investigations Program.  The NWRPO QAP meets the requirements of ANSI/ASME NQA-1 and the criteria of 10 CFR50, Appendix B.

All NWRPO personnel and contractors or subcontractors who perform or manage quality-affecting functions, work under the procedures outlined in the QAP. The NWRPO Director is responsible for assuring all work performed under his or her direction complies with the requirements of the QAP. The Project Quality Assurance Officer is responsible for establishing, implementing and verifying the QAP complies with this policy.

NWRPO FUNDING

Nye County Oversight Funds

Funding for Nye County's nuclear waste oversight program is provided by the federal Nuclear Waste Fund and passes through the appropriations and allocation process of the U.S. Federal Budget cycle.

DOE Science Grant

A portion of the Nye County Independent Scientific Investigations Program (ISIP) is funded under a grant (#DE-FG08-96NV12027) from the U.S. Department of Energy.


ORGANIZATION AND STAFFING

NWRPO manages the Nye County's Yucca Mountain Repository Oversight Program and Independent Scientific Investigations Program (ISIP).   NWRPO program policy is established by the Nye County Board of County Commissioners. NWRPO program management is the responsibility of the NWRPO Director under the direction of the County Manager.

NWRPO staff consisted of eight county employees.  An independent Nye County auditor monitors NWRPO's use of funds. The NWRPO maintains offices in Pahrump, and a satellite location at DOE's Yucca Mountain Project Office in Las Vegas. The Nye County NWRPO also uses a variety of contractor services to supplement its' professional capabilities.