Personnel Security

The DOE Personnel Security Program is designed to ensure that individuals with access to classified information and special nuclear materials do not pose a threat to these significant national security interests. This is accomplished by the issuing initial and continuing access authorizations (security clearances) only to personnel who meet defined Federal standards for honesty, reliability, and trustworthines. Other programs, although not a part of the DOE Personnel Security Program, are grouped under that heading for inspection purposes because they have a similar purpose of ensuring that only individuals who do not pose a threat to the national security interests are granted access. These programs are the Human Reliability Program, Foreign Visits and Assignments Program, and Safeguards and Security Awareness Program.

The following are the principal baseline documents used by the inspectors:

• Personnel Security Inspectors Guide, August 2007

• DOE O 142.1, Unclassified Foreign Visits and Assignments

• DOE M 470.4-1, Integrated Safeguards and Security Management (ISSM) Policy

• DOE O 470.4, Safeguards and Security Program

• DOE M 470.4-1, Section K, Security Awareness

• DOE O 470.2B, Independent Oversight and Performance Assurance Program

• DOE M 470.4-5, Personnel Security Program Manual

• DOE O 3792.3, Chg 1, Drug-Free Federal Workplace Testing Implementation Program

• 10 CFR 710 (Subpart A), Criteria and Procedures for Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified Matter or Special Nuclear Material

• 10 CFR 710 (Subpart B), Criteria and Procedures for Establishing of the Personnel Security Assurance Program and Determining of an Individual's Eligibility for Access to a Personnel Security Assurance Program Position

• 10 CFR 707, Workplace Substance Abuse Programs at DOE sites