ML19210B469
| ML19210B469 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 09/30/1977 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 7911080695 | |
| Download: ML19210B469 (4) | |
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NRR SUPPLEMENTAL STAFF POSITION Oil PERSONNEL SEARCH RE0VIRE"ENTS Seotemoer 30, 1977 The orefatory paragraoh of 10 CFR 73.55 as amended Seotember 29, 1977 states that the performance reauirements of oaragraph (d)(1) as they apply to searches of regular employees of the licensee at the site may be satisfied using only equipment caoable of detecting firearms, explosives and incendiary devices. Acceotable metal detectors and explosive searching devices of the types currently available are deemed capable of detecting firearms, explosives and incendiary devices for regular employees of the licensee at the site.
Such equipment, if not currently in operation, must be purchased and made operational as soon as possible if the licensee using this ootion is to be in compliance with the performance reouirenents of 10 CFR 73.55. A regular employee of a licensee is one who is a full time permanent employee whose oermanent work station is at the site or those employees of t.he licensee who report regularly to the site (at least once per week) and includes employees of licensee contractors who are regularly employed at the site. All other oersonnel* are required by 10 CFR 73.55 (d)(1) to be searched at points of personnel access to the orotected area. The following are acceptable methods for satisfving'these requirements:
- All NRC emoloyees are subject to the search recuirenents of 73.55 (d)(1).
NRC resident inspectors will be searched in the same manner as regular employees of the licensee at the site. Other NRC cersonnel that have a government grant.d security clearance will be searched in the same canner as licensee employees who are not regularly employed at the site,as long as (1) they can orocerly identify themselves; and (2) they have been previously identified by the Director of the Regicnal O'fice.
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(a) A search program consisting of:
(1) processing all individuals through an acceotable metal detector, (2) orocessing all individuals through an explosives search device of the types currently available, (3) conducting a " hands-on" search of at least 5", (selected randomly) of all licensees employees who are not regularly emoloyed at the site, (4) searching a regular employee at the site when the licensee has a wel'-grounded suspicion that the individual may be carrying firearms, explosives or incendiary devices, with a " hands-on" search, (5) conducting a " hands-on" search of 'al'1 other individuals, and (6) subjecting all outer garments such as the coats or heavy sweaters of each individual who is not a regular emoloyee at the site to the search requirements at the entry to the protected area. The orocess and procedures which select the individualstobesubjectedtoa" hands-on"searc'honarandom' basis must: (1) require the search to be conducted when the random selection process indicates, regardless of who the person to be searched is,
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and (2) ens':re that an individual entering the search process area cannot know in advance if he or she will be selected for the
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" hands-on" search.
(b) For those facilities which have only metal detectors, installed and operable, the personnel search progran for non-regular emoloyees described in (a)(3) above is acceptable provided that the cercentage of individuals randomly selected for " hands-on" search is increased to at least 105.
For those facilities which have only an exolosives searching system in operation the " hands-en" search reouirement of (c) below applies.
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. (c) For those facilities which have neither metal detectors nor explosives searching devices installed and operable the personnel search program for non-regular employees described in (a)(3) above is acceptable i
provided that the percentage of individuals randomly selected for
" hands-on" search is increased to at least 20%.
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Metropolitan Edison Company cc:
G. F. Trowbridge, Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge 1800 M Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
20036 GPU Service Corporation Richard W. Heward, Project Manager Mr. T. Gary Broughton, Safety and Licensing f% nager 260 Cherry Hill Road Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 Pennsylvania Electric Company Mr. R. W. Conrad Vice President, Generation 1001 Broad Street Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15907 Miss Mary V. Southard, Chairman Citizens for a Safe Environment P. O. Box 405 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108 Government Publications Section State Library of Pennsylvania Box 1601 (Education Building)
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