Title 50 — War and National DefenseRelease 119-73not60
§2675 Identification in Budget Materials of Amounts for Declassification Activities and Limitation on Expenditures for Such Activities
Title 50 › Chapter 42— ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROVISIONS › Subchapter V— SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY MATTERS › Part B— Classified Information › § 2675
Summary
Each year the Secretary of Energy must list funds separately in the DOE budget for declassifying records under Executive Order No. 13526 or by law. Records not reviewed by October 5, 1999 cannot be auto-declassified unless the Secretary certifies to Congress it won't harm national security.
Full Legal Text
Title 50, §2675
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(a)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)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.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly set out as a note under section 435 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 108–136.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 2691, Pub. L. 107–314, div. D, title XLV, § 4541, formerly Pub. L. 104–106, div. C, title XXXI, § 3158, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 626; renumbered Pub. L. 107–314, div. D, title XLV, § 4541, by Pub. L. 108–136, div. C, title XXXI, § 3141(h)(17), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1776, related to responsibility for Defense Programs Emergency Response Program, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, § 3146(f)(5)(A), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1079.
Amendments
2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–291 substituted “Executive Order No. 13526 (50 U.S.C. 3161 note)” for “Executive Order No. 12958 (50 U.S.C. 435 note)”. 2013—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 113–66 struck out subsec. (c) which required submission of a report on automatic declassification of Department of Energy records. 2003—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–136, § 3141(h)(15)(D), substituted “October 5, 1999,” for “the date of the enactment of this Act”.
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50 U.S.C. § 2675
Title 50 — War and National Defense
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Apr 5, 2026
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