DEFINITIONS

1.   ACCESS PERMIT.  An authorization, issued by DOE, affording access by a
     specifically named person or organization (permittee) to Restricted
     Data applicable to the civilian uses of atomic energy in accordance
     with specific terms and conditions.

2.   ACCOUNTABILITY.

     a.   The property which enables activities on an automated data
          processing (ADP) system to be traced to individuals who can then
          be held responsible for their activities.

     b.   That part of the safeguards and security program which encompasses
          the measurement and inventory verification systems and records and
          reports to account for nuclear materials.

     c.   A system which audits the control measures provided classified
          material through the use of verifiable inventory and the
          establishment of a custodial chain.

3.   CLASSIFIED INTEREST.  Classified information or material possessed by
     DOE, a DOE contractor, or any other facility under DOE jurisdiction.
     This may include SNM owned by DOE.

4.   FACILITY.  An educational institution, manufacturing plant, laboratory,
     office building, or complex of buildings located on the same site that
     is operated and protected as one unit by the Department or its
     contractor(s).

5.   FACILITY APPROVAL.  A determination that a facility (and/or activities
     conducted within a facility) is eligible to receive, produce, use, or
     store classified matter, nuclear materials, or other DOE property of
     significant monetary value.

6.   FACILITY DATA AND APPROVAL RECORD.  A standard DOE form (DOE F 5600.2)
     which is used to record approvals, changes, and deletions of security
     facilities.

7.   FACILITY REGISTER.  An index of security facilities under the
     administrative or survey responsibility of a DOE Field Office.

8.   FINDING.  A separate, distinct situation in a surveyed organization
     that is not in compliance with directives or requirements, a deficiency
     in the performance of a safety records and security system, or a
     concern regarding the adequacy of a practice.

9.   FOREIGN OWNERSHIP, CONTROL, OR INFLUENCE.  Foreign ownership, control,
     or influence exists when a DOE contractor performing classified work,
     or having access to significant quantities of special nuclear material,
     has an institutional or personal relationship with foreign interests.
     A contractor is considered to be under foreign ownership, control, or
     influence when the degree of interest, as defined above, is such that a
     reasonable basis exists for concluding that compromise of classified
     information or significant quantity of special nuclear material, as
     defined in 10 CFR 710, may result.

10.  GRADED SAFEGUARDS.  A system designed to provide varying degrees of
     physical protection, accountability, and material control to different
     types, quantities, physical forms, and chemical or isotopic
     compositions of nuclear materials consistent with the risks and
     consequences associated with threat scenarios.

11.  MALEVOLENT ACT.  An illegal action or an action that is committed with
     the intent of causing wrongful harm.

12.  MASTER FACILITY REGISTER.  A central record index which is maintained
     by the Office of Safeguards and Security (SA-10) of all safeguards and
     security facilities and activities under the administrative
     jurisdiction of DOE Elements.

13.  NUCLEAR MATERIALS.

     a.   All materials so designated by the Secretary of Energy, at
          present:  depleted uranium, enriched uranium, plutonium-242,
          americium-241, americium-243, curium, berkelium, californium,
          plutonium 238-242, lithium-6, uranium-233, normal uranium,
          neptunium-237, deuterium, tritium, and thorium.

     b.   Special nuclear material, byproduct material, or source material
          as defined by Sections 11aa., 11e., and 11z., respectively, of the
          Atomic Energy Act, or any other material used in the production,
          testing, utilization, or assembly of nuclear weapons or components
          of nuclear weapons that the Secretary determines to be nuclear
          material under 10 CFR 1017.10(a).

14.  NUCLEAR MATERIALS ACCOUNTING.  The principles and/or practices of
     systematically recording, reporting, and interpreting nuclear material
     transaction and physical inventory data.

15.  NUCLEAR MATERIALS CONTROL.  The part of the safeguards program to:
     assign and exercise responsibility for nuclear material; maintain
     vigilance over the material; govern its movement, location, and use;
     monitor the inventory and process status; detect unauthorized
     activities for all nuclear material; and help investigate and resolve
     apparent losses of nuclear material.

16.  NUCLEAR MATERIALS SURVEY.  A comprehensive examination and evaluation
     of the effectiveness of the control and accountability systems for
     nuclear materials at DOE facilities.

17.  PHYSICAL PROTECTION (PHYSICAL SECURITY).  The application of methods
     for preventing malevolent acts against DOE safeguards and security
     interests, detecting such acts as they occur, and responding to such
     acts.

18.  PROPERTY PROTECTION FACILITY.  A facility where a special standard of
     protection must be applied.  Such a facility may have:  property of
     significant monetary value (>$5,000,000); nuclear materials requiring
     safeguards controls or special accounting procedures other than those
     required by A, B or C facilities; significance to DOE program
     continuity; national security consideration; or potential adverse
     impact upon the public health and safety.

19.  RESPONSIBLE ORGANIZATION.  The DOE organization responsible for
     implementation and oversight of safeguards and security requirements at
     a DOE facility, including approval of safeguards and security plans and
     resolution of deficiencies other than those which are specific to
     another DOE organization's security interests.

     NOTE:  If there is more than one DOE organization with security
     interests at a facility, the organization which is responsible for the
     programs involving the highest level of security interest is normally
     the responsible office.  However, this responsibility may, by mutual
     agreement of the offices involved, be accepted by an office which does
     not have the highest level of security interest but a greater scope
     interest, as with a long term or traditional interest.

20.  SAFEGUARDS.  An integrated system of physical protection, material
     accounting, and material control measures designed to deter, prevent,
     detect, and respond to unauthorized possession, use, or sabotage of
     nuclear materials.

21.  SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY ACTIVITY.  Any work performed under contract,
     subcontract, or other agreement which involves access to classified
     information, nuclear material, or DOE property of significant monetary
     value by DOE, a DOE contractor, or any other activity under DOE
     jurisdiction.  Also included is the verification of the capabilities of
     approved Federal locations.

22.  SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY SURVEY.  The security survey and/or nuclear
     materials survey, as appropriate.  The security survey and nuclear
     materials survey may be performed independently or as one integrated
     survey.  Integrated safeguards and security survey refers to the
     combined security and nuclear material survey.

23.  SECURITY.  An integrated system of activities, systems, programs,
     facilities; and policies for the protection of Restricted Data and
     other classified information or matter, nuclear materials, nuclear
     weapons and nuclear weapon components, and/or Departmental and
     Departmental contractor facilities, property, and equipment.

24.  SECURITY, PHYSICAL.  See Physical Protection.

25.  SECURITY FACILITY.  Any facility which has been approved by DOE for
     generating, receiving, using, processing, storing, reproducing,
     transmitting, destroying, or handling classified matter and/or handling
     nuclear materials.

26.  SECURITY INTEREST.  A general term which includes any of the following
     which require special protection:  classified information, classified
     matter, special nuclear material and other nuclear materials, secure
     communications centers, sensitive compartmented information facilities,
     automatic data processing centers, systems processing, storing, and
     transmitting classified information, and/or Departmental property.

27.  SECURITY SURVEY.  Onsite examination of the devices, equipment,
     personnel, and procedures employed at a facility to safeguard SNM,
     classified matter, and/or DOE property.

28.  SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI).  Classified information
     concerning or derived from intelligence sources, methods, or analytical
     processes, which is required to be handled within formal access control
     systems established by the Director of Central Intelligence.

29.  SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION FACILITY (SCIF).  An accredited
     area, room, group of rooms, or installation where sensitive
     compartmented information may be stored, used, and/or electronically
     processed.

30.  SIGNIFICANT SYSTEM ALARM.  Any facility safeguards and security
     capability that identifies and communicates an indication of a
     malevolent act involving radiological or industrial sabotage,
     espionage, or the theft or diversion of classified matter or nuclear
     materials which could be used to construct an improvised nuclear
     device, a nuclear device, or unauthorized detonation of a weapon or
     test device.

31.  SIGNIFICANT VULNERABILITY.  The loss of, or discovered way to bypass,
     an essential safeguards and security system component or set of
     components for which there is no effective backup.

32.  SOURCE MATERIAL.  Depleted uranium, normal uranium, thorium, or any
     other material determined, pursuant to the provisions of Section 61 of
     the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to be source material; or
     ores containing one or more of the foregoing materials in such
     concentration as may be determined by regulation.

33.  SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL (SNM).  Plutonium, uranium-233, or uranium
     enriched in the isotope 235, and any other material which, pursuant to
     the provisions of Section 51 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
     amended, has been determined to be special nuclear material, but which
     does not include source material; or it also includes any material
     artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, not including source
     material.

34.  SUGGESTION.  Information a field element provides to identify potential
     program enhancements.

35.  SURVEYING ORGANIZATION.  The DOE safeguards and security organization
     which has responsibility for conducting a security and/or nuclear
     materials survey of a DOE facility.