Toolkit for ANS Standards Development and Maintenance

Section and Contents

1. ANS Standards Committee Procedures Manual for Consensus Committees
2. Policy Manual for the ANS Standards Committee
3. Standards Committee Rules and Procedures
4. ANS 2025 Standards Style Manual—2nd Edition
5. Incorporating Risk-Informed and Performance-Based Approaches/Attributes in ANS Standards (for trial use)
6. Standards Development Checklist
7. ANS Standards Development Process Overview
8. Standards Development Flow Chart
9. Review of Draft Approval Process for Working Group Chairs
10. Policy for Specifying Requirements, Recommendations, and Permission in a Standard
11. 2022 ANS Standards Committee Glossary of Definitions and Terminology (Reformatted 2024)
    (This glossary is an archive of definitions and terms in ANS standards.)
    -2024 Glossary Report
12. Template for an ANS Standard
13. Recent Problem Areas Identified During Recent Ballots of New Standards
14. Approaches to Staffing Working Groups

Forms

1. Project Initiation Notification Systems (PINS) Form

   • PINS Form Instructions

2. Project Implementation Plan (PIP) Format
3. Disclosure Form for New Terms & Acknowledgements
4. Generic Reaffirmation Statement
5. Public Review Comment FormInquiry-Submittal-Form-for-Web-RV-2025(2).pdf
6. Standards Inquiry Submittal Form

Resources

1. ANSI 2025 Essential Requirements
2. An Introduction to the Preparation of ANSI/ANS Standards and Their Role in the Licensing Process
3. NEI 07–06, The Nuclear Regulatory Process