APPLICATION OF EXTERNAL REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS TO DOE DIRECTIVES.

Historically, the Department of Energy (DOE) has written its safeguards and security directives to provide “one-stop shopping” for DOE and NNSA activities that need to identify safeguards and security requirements. To this end, the security clause in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR 52.204-2) is replaced in DOE contracts by the security clause in the Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation (DEAR 952.204-2). At the direction of Secretary Chu, DOE requirements are being re-written to avoid duplication of external requirements such as treaties, laws, and Federal Regulations in DOE directives. In addition, Doctor Chu has directed that DOE safeguards and security directives should adopt all applicable external standards and again avoid duplication of their content in DOE directives. As a result, effective use of the revised DOE safeguards and security directives requires a high degree of user familiarity with these external documents and also a greatly enhanced ability to access the current version of each referenced document. In addition, most of the external requirements do not address the protection of special nuclear material, although there are external standards and references that do at least partially address such security assets. This paper will discuss some of the external requirements to which the DOE must conform and some of the standards that have been identified as wholly or partially applicable to DOE safeguards and security policy. The efforts to smoothly integrate selected requirements and standards will be discussed, as will the Office of Security Policy’s initiatives to assist in the identification and application of requirements and standards to site-specific issues.