§6224 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

§6224 Department of Energy counterintelligence polygraph program

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Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must create a new counterintelligence polygraph program for the Department of Energy. The program’s goal is to lower the chance that classified information, materials, or data get released or disclosed. The Secretary must write rules for the program following the federal rulemaking process (the Administrative Procedure Act). The rules must consider the results of the Polygraph Review, and the Secretary must publish a proposed rule within six months after getting those results. In counterintelligence cases, the rules can require polygraphs for people who are U.S. nationals who also hold another nationality and who are employees or contractors with access to classified information. Polygraph Review means the National Academy of Sciences committee’s review of the polygraph science.

Title 10, §6224

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(a)The Secretary of Energy shall carry out, under regulations prescribed under this section, a new counterintelligence polygraph program for the Department of Energy. The purpose of the new program is to minimize the potential for release or disclosure of classified data, materials, or information.

(b)(1)The Secretary shall prescribe regulations for the new counterintelligence polygraph program required by subsection (a) in accordance with the provisions of subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5 (commonly referred to as the Administrative Procedures Act).

(2)In prescribing regulations for the new program, the Secretary shall take into account the results of the Polygraph Review.

(3)Not later than six months after obtaining the results of the Polygraph Review, the Secretary shall issue a notice of proposed rulemaking for the new program.

(4)In the event of a counterintelligence investigation, the regulations prescribed under paragraph (1) may ensure that the persons subject to the counterintelligence polygraph program required by subsection (a) include any person who is—

(A)a national of the United States (as such term is defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)) and also a national of a foreign state; and

(B)an employee or contractor who requires access to classified information.

(c)In this section, the term “Polygraph Review” means the review of the Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 6224, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 388, provided that members of the United States Navy Band and the United States Marine Corps Band shall lose no allowances while on concert tours approved by the President, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 87–649, § 14c(46), Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 501, effective Nov. 1, 1962. See section 425 of Title 37, Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services. Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2654 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins.