Inside NIRMA Fall 2020

Records & Information
Management Business Unit
(RIMBU) News
R
IMBU team members held their annual Summer
Meeting in Virtually this year with an amazing level
of participation by all. A special thank you goes out
to those who made the technology available for us
to support this effort.
Election of RIMBU Director
Chris Boudreaux announced his vacating of the Director
role prior to the Summer Meeting this year as he pursues new
ventures based on changes in his role at South Texas Project,
thus leading RIMBU to an election to fill the Director
position. Stephanie Price was nominated and unanimously
voted in. Stephanie has been active with NIRMA for several
years and served as a member of RIMBU since 2018, most
recently filling the Co-Director position. She has participated
on several review teams and is currently leading the TG24 -
Procurement of Digitization Services team. Stephanie
currently works for Southern Nuclear. We want to
congratulate Stephanie on her new role within NIRMA and
the RIMBU Team as Director.
NIRMA/ANSI CM 1.0 – 5 Year Revision
The proposed 2020 revision for the ANSI/NIRMA CM
Standard is moving through the process with projected
approval in the October/November timeframe. The
proposed draft revision is completed, it has undergone a
technical edit review and is ready for review.
Review and voting on the proposed changes will be done
by the Consensus Body that will be a group of industry
individuals representing various interest groups, e.g., nuclear
utilities, NSSS vendors, Architect/Engineers and Industry
Organizations such as EPRI and the Configuration
Management Benchmark Group (CMBG).
The proposed revision will be distributed to the
Consensus Body members in July with the ballots due in in
October. If no issues are identified on the ballots, the
proposed revision will be submitted to ANSI for final
approval. If ballots identify issues, the issues will be resolved
prior to submitting the proposed revision to ANSI. Current
projections are that the proposed 2020 revision will be
approved in late November 2020.
RIMBU to produce new Technical Guide on
Digitization Services
The team discussed the need for guidance on obtaining
By Chris Boudreaux, RIMBU Business Unit Director
digitization services for physical records. It was decided that a
new Technical Guideline was warranted and would be an
expansion of the guidance provided in TG08 - Development
of Procurement Specifications for Microfilm Services. The
new guideline will be Technical Guideline 24 (TG-24). The
document has been progressing well since its charter in the
Spring of this year, and now enters the final draft stages
following the tremendous efforts of the team during the
Summer Meeting. Thank you to all the members participating
in this effort which are: Stephanie Price (Lead), Chris
Boudreaux, Eugene Yang, Amy Odom, Michelle Reed,
Kathy Padilla, and Lona Smith.
Less with Less Benchmark
RIMBU has held multiple discussions around the
continually decreasing size of records organizations across
the industry. The majority of facilities represented in both
RIMBU and the larger NIRMA organization have
experienced staffing reductions in records management,
document control, and/or IT with little or no reduction in
workload. Initially, RIMBU proposed a white paper on how
to accomplish essential records management, document
control, and IT functions with less staffing. After further
discussion during our spring meeting, it was decided this
topic would be better covered by an industry benchmarking
effort. The RIMBU team will distribute a questionnaire to its
membership asking for feedback on staffing levels and
success stories on how facilities have implemented
technology or reduced collateral duties in order to continue
successfully performing core functions. Our membership’s
participation in this effort is crucial to helping us all adapt to
our changing industry.
Cloud Computing White Paper Update
The RIMBU team continued discussions around cloud
computing during our Spring Meeting. Facilities continue to
be faced with the question of whether nuclear records should
be maintained in cloud storage. RIMBUs goal is provide
guidance on developing a Cloud implementation strategy to
include consideration of legal issues, regulatory compliance,
security, audits, and more. The team continues to progress on
this effort and hopes to enter the draft stage for this White
Paper in the coming month.
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