§2443 — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

Summary

The Administrator must tell certain congressional committees, when the President’s budget is sent to Congress under 31 U.S.C. 1105(a), how many covered employees had their security clearances revoked in the prior year and, for each person, how long they worked for the Administration after the revocation. By December 31 each year, the Administrator must also report every firing or removal-and-reassignment for cause of a covered employee that happened that year. “Appropriate congressional committees” means the congressional defense committees, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. “Covered employee” means an employee of the Administration or an employee of a DOE unit (other than the Administration) that works on nuclear security.

Title 50, §2443

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(a)At or about the time that the President’s budget is submitted to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, the Administrator shall notify the appropriate congressional committees of—

(1)the number of covered employees whose security clearance was revoked during the year prior to the year in which the notification is made; and

(2)for each employee counted under paragraph (1), the length of time such employee has been employed at the Administration, as the case may be, since such revocation.

(b)Not later than December 31 of each year, the Administrator shall notify the appropriate congressional committees of each instance in which the Administrator terminated the employment of a covered employee or removed and reassigned a covered employee for cause during that year.

(c)In this section:

(1)The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(A)the congressional defense committees; and

(B)the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.

(2)The term “covered employee” means—

(A)an employee of the Administration; or

(B)an employee of an element of the Department of Energy (other than the Administration) involved in nuclear security.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 2443, Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3245, as added Pub. L. 106–377, § 1(a)(2) [title III, § 315], Oct. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 1441, 1441A–81, related to prohibition on pay of personnel engaged in concurrent service or duties inside and outside Administration, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 107–107, div. C, title XXXI, § 3143, Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1371.

Amendments

2021—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 117–81 added subsecs. (a) and (b) and struck out former subsecs. (a) and (b), which related to annual notification and notification to congressional committees, respectively.

§2443 Notification of employee practices affecting national security