ML20126E125

NRC Supplemental Staff Position on Personnel Search Requirements. Outlines Acceptable Methods for Satisfying Search Requirements of Personnel at Points of Access to Protected Area

ML20126E125
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Site:	Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png
Issue date:	09/30/1977
From:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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o NRR SUPPLLMENT!i STAFF POSIT L.

OH G PERSONNEL SEARCH REQUIREMENTS September 30, 1977 I

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The pref atory paragraph of 10 CFR 73.55 as amended September 29,'1977 states that the performar.ce requirements of paragraph (d)(1) as they apply to searches of regular employees of the licensee at the site may be satisfied using only equipment cauable of detecting firearns, explosives and incendiary devices. Acceptable 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 purchesed and made operational as soon as possible if the licensee using this option is to be in compliance with the performance recuirements 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 the licensr.e who report regularly to the site (at least once per week) and includes employees of licensee contractors who are All other personnel

• are required by regularly employed t the site.

10 CFR 73.55 (d)(1) ti be searched at points of personnel access to the protected area. The following are acceptable methods for satisfying these requirements:

Tall NRC emnioyees are subject to the search requirenents of 73.55 (d)(1).

NRC resident inspectors will be searched in the same manner as regular Other NRC personnel that have a employees of the licensee at the site.

government granted security clearance will be searched in the same manner as licensee employees who are not regulariv employed at the site. as long as (1) they can procerly identify themselves; end (2) they have been previously identified by the Director of the Regional Office.

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4 (a) A search program consisting of:

(1) processing all individuals through an acceptable metal detector, (2) processing 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 well-grounded suspicion that the individual may be carrying firearms, explosives or incendiary devices, with a " hands-on" search, (5) conducting a " hands-on" sea"ch of all other individuals, and (6) subjecting all outer garments such as the coats or heavy sweaters of each individual who is not a regular cmployee at the site to the search requirements at the entry to the protected area. The process and procedures which select the individuals to be subjected to a " hands-on" search on a randon basis must: (1) require the search to be conducted when the random selection process indicates, regardless of who the person to be searched is, and (2) ensure that an individual entering the search process area cannot know in cdvance if he or she will be selected for the

" hands-on" search.

- (b) For those facilities which have only metal detectors installed and operable, the personnel search program for non-regular employees described in (a)(3) above is acceptable provided that the percentage of individuals randomly selected for " hands-on" search is increased to at least 10%. For those facilities which have only an explosives searching systen in operation the " hands-on" search requirement 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 I

,for non-regular employees described in (a)(3) above is acceptable provided that the percentage of individuals randomly selected for

" hands-on" search is increased to at least 205.

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