§2210d Security Evaluations

Summary

The Commission must run security checks at certain licensed facilities at least once every 3 years to see if the facility’s private security force can defend against the facility’s design basis threat (the kinds of attacks it plans for). The checks must include force-on-force drills that try to copy the applicable threat as closely as possible. The Commission must reduce any conflicts of interest that could skew those drills and may pause an evaluation if doing it would weaken security during a heightened threat level. The Commission must make sure the facility owner fixes any serious performance problems that hurt defense. At least once each year the Commission must send a classified and an unclassified report to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce describing the evaluations and any corrective actions taken in the prior year.