OAR 333-125-0025: Background Investigations and Access Control Program: Access Authorization Program Requirements

(1) Granting unescorted access authorization. Licensees shall implement the following requirements under OAR 333-125-0020 through 333-125-0095 for granting initial or reinstated unescorted access authorization: (a) Individuals who have been determined to be trustworthy and reliable, shall complete the security training required by OAR 333-125-0115 before being allowed unescorted access to category 1 or category 2 of radioactive material. (b) Reviewing officials shall be the only individuals who may make trustworthiness and reliability determinations that allow individuals to have unescorted access to category 1 or category 2 of radioactive material possessed by the licensee. (c) Each licensee shall name one or more individuals to be reviewing officials. After completing the background investigation on the reviewing official, the licensee shall provide under oath or affirmation, a certification that the reviewing official is deemed trustworthy and reliable by the licensee. The licensee shall provide the oath or affirmation certifications to the Authority, attention: Radiation Protection Services, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 640, Portland, Oregon 97232. The fingerprints of the named reviewing official must be taken by a law enforcement agency, federal or state agencies that provide fingerprinting services to the public, or commercial fingerprinting services authorized by a state to take fingerprints. The licensee shall recertify that the reviewing official is deemed trustworthy and reliable every 10 years in accordance with OAR 333-125-0070. (2) Reviewing officials must be permitted to have unescorted access to category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive materials and access to the licensee’s safeguards information or safeguards information-modified handling, if the licensee possesses safeguards information or safeguards information-modified handling. (3) Reviewing officials cannot approve other individuals to act as reviewing officials. (4) A reviewing official does not need to undergo a new background investigation before being named by the licensee as the reviewing official if: (a) The individual has undergone a background investigation that included fingerprinting and an FBI criminal history records check and has been determined to be trustworthy and reliable by the licensee; or (b) The individual is subject to a category listed in OAR 333-125-0085.