Document: 10 CFR Part 73
Document ID: 8a97d3a8-def8-47b8-96ff-3f6fa7b025cd
Document Type: cfr
Title: Suspicious activity reports.
Source: 10 CFR Part 73
Source URL: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/part-73/section-73.1215
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Section ID: 73.1215
CFR Part: 73
CFR Title: 10

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§ 73.1215 Suspicious activity reports. ( a ) Purpose. This section sets forth the reporting criteria and process for licensees to use in reporting suspicious activities. Licensees are required to report suspicious activities to the local law enforcement agency (LLEA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) local field office, the NRC, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) local control tower if aircraft are a part of the suspicious activity. ( b ) Objective. ( 1 ) A licensee's timely submission of suspicious activity reports (SARs) to Federal and local law enforcement agencies is an important part of the U.S. government's efforts to disrupt or dissuade malevolent acts against the nation's critical infrastructure. Despite the increasingly fluid and unpredictable nature of the threat environment, some elements of terrorist tactics, techniques, and procedures remain constant. For example, attack planning and preparation generally proceed through several predictable stages, including intelligence gathering and preattack surveillance or reconnaissance. These preattack stages, in particular, offer law enforcement and security personnel a significant opportunity to identify and disrupt or dissuade acts of terrorism before they occur. However, to use this information most effectively, timely reporting of suspicious activities by licensees to both Federal and local law enforcement is of vital importance. ( 2 ) Licensee's timely submission of SARs to the NRC supports one of the agency's primary mission essential functions of threat assessment for licensed facilities, materials, and shipping activities. ( c ) General requirements. ( 1 ) ( i ) Licensees subject to paragraphs (d) , (e) , and (f) of this section must report suspicious activities that are applicable to their facility, material, or shipping activity. ( ii ) If a suspicious activity requires a physical security event notification pursuant to § 73.1200 , then the licensee is not required to also report