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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§6235 Identification in Budget Materials of Amounts for Declassification Activities and Limitation on Expenditures for Such Activities

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART VI — ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS › Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense › CHAPTER 605 — SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY MATTERS › SUBCHAPTER II — CLASSIFIED INFORMATION › § 6235

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must show, as a separate line in the budget papers sent to Congress with the President’s budget each year, how much money is needed that year to carry out planned work to declassify DOE records under Executive Order 13526 (or any replacement order) or to meet any law that requires declassification. Any DOE records that had not been reviewed for declassification by October 5, 1999 cannot be automatically declassified unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that doing so would not harm national security.

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Title 10, §6235

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Amounts for Declassification of Records.—
The Secretary of Energy shall include in the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of the Department of Energy budget for any fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31) specific identification, as a budgetary line item, of the amounts required to carry out programmed activities during that fiscal year to declassify records pursuant to Executive Order No. 13526 (50 U.S.C. 3161 note), or any successor Executive order, or to comply with any statutory requirement to declassify Government records.
(b)Certification Required With Respect to Automatic Declassification of Records.—
No records of the Department of Energy that have not as of October 5, 1999, been reviewed for declassification shall be subject to automatic declassification unless the Secretary of Energy certifies to Congress that such declassification would not harm the national security.

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Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2675 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

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10 U.S.C. § 6235

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110