---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 709.31"
title: "10"
number: "709.31"
heading: "DOE standards for polygraph examiners and polygraph examinations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/709.31"
---

# §709.31. DOE standards for polygraph examiners and polygraph examinations.

- (a) DOE adheres to the procedures and standards established by the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute (DODPI). DOE administers only DODPI approved testing formats.
- (b) A polygraph examiner may administer no more than five polygraph examinations in any twenty-four hour period. This does not include those instances in which a covered person voluntarily terminates an examination prior to the actual testing phase.
- (c) The polygraph examiner must be certified to conduct polygraph examinations under this part by the DOE Psychophysiological Detection of Deception/Polygraph Program Quality Control Official.
- (d) To be certified under [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section, an examiner must have the following minimum qualifications:
  - (1) The examiner must be an experienced CI or criminal investigator with extensive additional training in using computerized instrumentation in Psychophysiological Detection of Deception and in psychology, physiology, interviewing, and interrogation.
  - (2) The examiner must have a favorably adjudicated single-scope background investigation, complete a CI-scope polygraph examination, and must hold a “Q” access authorization, which is necessary for access to Secret Restricted Data and Top Secret National Security Information. In addition, he or she must have been granted SCI access approval.
  - (3) The examiner must receive basic Forensic Psychophysiological Detection of Deception training from the DODPI.

## 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.