January 24, 2003

Personnel Security Clearances and Badge Access Controls at Selected Field Locations

At each of the four locations we visited – the Oak Ridge Reservation (Oak Ridge), the Savannah River Site (Savannah River), and the Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories (Sandia and Los Alamos) – we selected random samples of contractor and other non-federal workers to determine whether badges had been recovered when the workers terminated their association with the Department. Although there were some discrepancies at three of the four locations, only at Oak Ridge was the number of discrepancies significant.