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a. Collection. Each institution or Administrative site must have a minimum of two trained

collectors. Specimen collection at the institution level is restricted to staff in supervisory

positions.

Human Resource staff may serve as collectors at institutions. Their authority is strictly limited to

conducting pre-employment drug test collections for applicants. Human Resource staff are

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prohibited from conducting staff drug test collections, including random, reasonable suspicion,

post-accident, return-to-duty, or follow-up-testing.

At Central Office, the National Coordinator will be the primary specimen collector. The National

Coordinator may choose a second collector from within the Central Office HSD.

 A memorandum detailing any changes to an individual site’s collector (s) must be

communicated from the local CEO to the National Coordinator to assure appropriate

required training and certification is attained before any urine collections are initiated by

the staff in question under this program statement. Bureau collectors must be guided in this

program by the Collector's Procedure Manual, located on the Drug- Free Workplace page

of the Bureau’s intranet site.

The National Coordinator may arrange for a collection by a community provider for Bureau

facilities without appropriately trained staff.

b. Medical Review. The National Coordinator must ensure an appropriately trained physician is

available to review and make a final determination regarding all drug tests reported as positive

by the contract laboratory. This review may be provided by any of the following:

 Bureau physician

 Contract with another agency

 A community provider