DOE SURVEY PROGRAM ORDER

Background information on the revision of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Safeguards and Security Orders is provided in Panel Chairman's paper. The Survey Subtask Group's effort focused on elimination of policy gaps in the current survey program orders, as identified in the development of DOE's Safeguards and Security Standards and Criteria, and an examination of the completeness and effectiveness of current policy where questions or issues may have arisen. The Survey Subtask Group identified the following four major areas for change: (1) the need to standardized general survey requirements, ratings and follow-up procedures for security and nuclear materials, (2) the need to incorporate standards set forth in the DOE Standards and Criteria where appro- pr iate, (3) the need to continue to address the detailed requirements of security surveys and nuclear materials (IC&A) surveys separately, and (4) the need to include compliance based and performance-based segments. The revised Survey Order addressed the sited needs with no significant operational or cost impacts. The Subtask Group's efforts benefited from the earlier work of the Office of Safe- guards and Security and various DOE Standards and Criteria and Operations Cerberus Committees.