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§2443 Notification of Employee Practices Affecting National Security

Title 50 › Chapter 41— NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter III— MATTERS RELATING TO PERSONNEL › § 2443

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

When the President’s budget goes to Congress under 31 U.S.C. 1105(a), the Administrator must tell certain congressional committees how many covered employees lost their security clearances in the past year and, for each person, how long they had worked at the Administration since that loss. By December 31 each year, the Administrator must report every time a covered employee was fired or removed and reassigned for cause. "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 a Department of Energy employee who works on nuclear security.

Full Legal Text

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(1)the number of covered employees whose security clearance was revoked during the year prior to the year in which the notification is made; and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

Legislative History

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.

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Citation

50 U.S.C. § 2443

Title 50War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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