---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 709.1"
title: "10"
number: "709.1"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/709.1"
---

# §709.1. Purpose.


This part:

- (a) Describes the categories of individuals who are subject for counterintelligence evaluation processing;
- (b) Provides guidelines for the counterintelligence evaluation process, including the use of counterintelligence-scope polygraph examinations, and for the use of event-specific polygraph examinations; and
- (c) Provides guidelines for protecting the rights of individual DOE employees and DOE contractor employees subject to this part.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2011, et seq., 7101, et seq., 7144b, et seq., 7383h-1; 50 U.S.C. 2401, et seq.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 57392, Sept. 29, 2006, unless otherwise noted.