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§7235 Armed Services Personnel

Title 42 › CHAPTER 84 — DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY › SUBCHAPTER VI — ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Part B — Personnel Provisions › § 7235

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allow Armed Forces members to help carry out functions that, on August 4, 1977, were allowed for the Energy Research and Development Administration and under chapter 869 of title 10. Military members can be assigned to the Department by the appropriate military Secretary under cooperative agreements. Being assigned does not change a member’s rank, grade, pay, benefits, or official status. While doing the Department job, the member is not under the direction or control of their military chain of command about those duties.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §7235

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary is authorized to provide for participation of Armed Forces personnel in carrying out functions authorized to be performed, on August 4, 1977, in the Energy Research and Development Administration and under chapter 869 of title 10. Members of the Armed Forces may be detailed for service in the Department by the Secretary concerned (as such term is defined in section 101 of such title) pursuant to cooperative agreements with the Secretary.
(b)The detail of any personnel to the Department under this section shall in no way affect status, office, rank, or grade which officers or enlisted men may occupy or hold or any emolument, perquisite, right, privilege, or benefit incident to, or arising out of, such status, office, rank, or grade. A member so detailed shall not be subject to direction or control by his armed force, or any officer thereof, directly or indirectly, with respect to the responsibilities exercised in the position to which detailed.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–232 substituted “chapter 869 of title 10” for “chapter 641 of title 10”. 1978—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–509 struck out requirement that a detailed member be charged to the limitations applicable to the Department and prohibition of such member from being charged to any statutory or other limitation or strengths applicable to the Armed Forces.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

42 U.S.C. § 7235

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102