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§2277 Disclosure of Restricted Data

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 23— - DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XVII— - ENFORCEMENT OF CHAPTER › § 2277

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

It makes it a crime for current or former federal workers, members of the Armed Forces, contractors, licensees, or employees of those groups to share or agree to share Restricted Data with someone who is not allowed to get it. The rule also covers agreeing with someone to receive such data. The person must know, or have reason to believe, that the material is Restricted Data and that the other person is not authorized to receive it. If convicted, the person can be fined up to $12,500.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §2277

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Whoever, being or having been an employee or member of the Commission, a member of the Armed Forces, an employee of any agency of the United States, or being or having been a contractor of the Commission or of an agency of the United States, or being or having been an employee of a contractor of the Commission or of an agency of the United States, or being or having been a licensee of the Commission, or being or having been an employee of a licensee of the Commission, knowingly communicates, or whoever conspires to communicate or to receive, any Restricted Data, knowing or having reason to believe that such data is Restricted Data, to any person not authorized to receive Restricted Data pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or under rule or regulation of the Commission issued pursuant thereto, knowing or having reason to believe such person is not so authorized to receive Restricted Data shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than $12,500.

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References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 919, known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2011 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1999—Pub. L. 106–65 substituted “$12,500” for “$2,500”.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 2277

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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