CHAPTER III

                            SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM

1.  PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.  The mission of a Special Response Team is to
    provide resolution of incidents that require force options that exceed
    the capability of SPO-I and SPO-II personnel and/or existing physical
    security systems.  Special Response Teams shall be capable of effective
    and timely response as dictated by site or activity specific
    vulnerability assessments.  Teams shall be trained and equipped to
    conduct interdiction, interruption, neutralization, and recapture
    operations directed against an adversary.

    a.   Special Response Teams are required at facilities or sites which
         receive, use, or process Category I quantities of special nuclear
         material, Attractiveness Levels A and B.

    b.   Requests for authorization for a Special Response Team function at
         Departmental sites or facilities not meeting requirements in
         paragraph 1a above may be based upon a site vulnerability
         assessment demonstrating the need; e.g., a radiological/
         toxicological sabotage target that could have adverse impact on
         national security, the health and safety of Departmental and
         contractor employees, the public, or the environment.

    c.   A Special Response Team shall be staffed with Security Police
         Officers Level III (SPO-III).

2.  CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS.  A Special Response Team shall be capable of
    effective, aggressive, and timely resolution of adversary actions as
    established in the "Design Basis Threat Policy for Department of Energy
    (DOE) Programs and Facilities (U)" using force options and team
    techniques for interdiction, interruption, neutralization, and recapture
    operations.

    a.   Team Availability.  A Special Response Team capability shall be
         available on a continuous basis.  The Special Response Team may
         either be a fulltime assignment, a unit constituted during a
         safeguards and security emergency event, or be provided by local,
         state, and/or Federal law enforcement agency.

    b.   Plans.  Team operations and tactical response will be integrated
         into the Site Safeguard and Security Plan.

    c.   Team Composition.  Sites or activities requiring a Special Response
         Team will consider the functional capabilities set forth Below when
         developing and deploying a team.  The specific composition and
         functional capabilities will be dependent upon the Site Safeguards
         and Security Plan as dictated by the site vulnerability analysis
         and site management objectives.

         (1)  Assaulter

         (2)  Precision Rifle/Forward Observer Team

         (3)  Tactical Entry Specialist

         (4)  Assault Leader

         (5)  Team Commander

3.  TRAINING.  A formal training program for SPO-IIIs shall be in compliance
    with Chapter IV.

4.  SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM EQUIPMENT.  See page VI-1, paragraph 1a(2)(b).

5.  PROGRAM CERTIFICATION/RECERTIFICATION.  Special Response Team programs
    will be validated/revalidated annually by the cognizant local
    Departmental authority for safeguards and security.  A Special Response
    Team program is considered certified/recertified when the site has
    completed a validation/revalidation of the following:

    a.   All assigned Special Response Team members have met the
         requirements of Chapter IV, paragraph 4.

    b.   The responsible Operations Office or, for Headquarters, the
         Director of Safeguards and Security has determined that the Special
         Response Team program is in compliance with this Order.

6.  USE OF NONDEPARTMENTAL RESOURCES.  The use of local, State, and Federal
    law enforcement agencies is permissible to meet the intent of this
    chapter when those agencies successfully meet site and Departmental
    training and certification requirements contained herein, and the
    agencies have been integrated into the site's Site Safeguards and
    Security Plan.  A site will also conduct a vulnerability analysis and an
    annual force-on-force exercise to determine the augmenting
    organizations' continued ability and capability to respond to threats.