§2481 Functions Transferred

Summary

As of immediately before October 5, 1999, the Administrator takes over national security work that had been done by six parts of the Department of Energy, including defense programs, nonproliferation and national security, fissile materials disposition, the nuclear weapons production plants, national security laboratories, and the Office of Naval Reactors. The Energy Secretary can also move other facilities, missions, or jobs to the Administrator if those moves fit the Administration’s mission and are done after talking with the Administrator and Congress. For cleanup and waste work, the Energy Secretary may move responsibility for specific activities to another DOE part. Any leftover appropriated money that the Secretary says is needed for a moved duty must also move to the Administrator and be used for the same original purposes. That money will be put into the Administration’s matching account or a new Treasury account and treated as one fund, and it will follow the spending limits that apply to whichever account it goes into. Employees needed to do the moved work will transfer to the Administration, and the sending DOE office’s authorized civilian staff level will be reduced by the number of people moved.