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5 U.S.C. § 421 — Additional provisions with respect to the Department of Energy
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**(a) Authority To Prohibit Access to Certain Materials.—** The Secretary of Energy may prohibit the Inspector General of the Department of Energy from accessing Restricted Data and nuclear safeguards information protected from disclosure under chapter 12 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ([42 U.S.C. 2161](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2161&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) and intelligence or counterintelligence, as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ([50 U.S.C. 3003](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3003&num=0&edition=prelim)), if the Secretary of Energy determines that the prohibition is necessary to protect the national security or prevent the significant impairment to the national security interests of the United States.
**(b) Notification to Inspector General and Statement to Congress.—** Not later than 7 days after the date on which the Secretary of Energy exercises any power authorized under subsection (a), the Secretary shall notify the Inspector General of the Department of Energy in writing of the reasons for such exercise. Within 30 days after receipt of any such notice, the Inspector General of the Department of Energy shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a statement concerning such exercise.
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**(a) Authority To Prohibit Access to Certain Materials.—** The Secretary of Energy may prohibit the Inspector General of the Department of Energy from accessing Restricted Data and nuclear safeguards information protected from disclosure under chapter 12 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ([42 U.S.C. 2161](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2161&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) and intelligence or counterintelligence, as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ([50 U.S.C. 3003](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3003&num=0&edition=prelim)), if the Secretary of Energy determines that the prohibition is necessary to protect the national security or prevent the significant impairment to the national security interests of the United States.
**(b) Notification to Inspector General and Statement to Congress.—** Not later than 7 days after the date on which the Secretary of Energy exercises any power authorized under subsection (a), the Secretary shall notify the Inspector General of the Department of Energy in writing of the reasons for such exercise. Within 30 days after receipt of any such notice, the Inspector General of the Department of Energy shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a statement concerning such exercise.
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**(a) Reports** On a biennial basis until the date that is 10 years after March 15, 2022, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees a comprehensive report on the activities, prioritization, and responsibilities of the intelligence community with respect to foreign biological threats emanating from the territory of, or sponsored by, a covered country.
**(b) Matters included** Each report under subsection (a) shall include, with respect to foreign biological threats emanating from the territory of, or sponsored by, a covered country, the following:
(1) A detailed description of all activities relating to such threats undertaken by each element of the intelligence community, and an assessment of any gaps in such activities.
(2) A detailed description of all duties and responsibilities relating to such threats explicitly authorized or otherwise assigned, exclusively or jointly, to each element of the intelligence community, and an assessment of any identified gaps in such duties or responsibilities.
(3) A description of the coordination among the relevant elements of the intelligence community with respect to the activities specified in paragraph (1) and the duties and responsibilities specified in paragraph (2).
(4) An inventory of the strategies, plans, policies, and interagency agreements of the intelligence community relating to the collection, monitoring, analysis, mitigation, and attribution of such threats, and an assessment of any identified gaps therein.
(5) A description of the coordination and interactions among the relevant elements of the intelligence community and non-intelligence community partners.
(6) An assessment of foreign malign influence efforts relating to such threats, including any foreign
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The Executive departments are:
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Atomic energy is capable of application for peaceful as well as military purposes. It is therefore declared to be the policy of the United States that—
**(a)** the development, use, and control of atomic energy shall be directed so as to make the maximum contribution to the general welfare, subject at all times to the paramount objective of making the maximum contribution to the common defense and security; and
**(b)** the development, use, and control of atomic energy shall be directed so as to promote world peace, improve the general welfare, increase the standard of living, and strengthen free competition in private enterprise.
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In this chapter:
(1) **Establishment.—** — The term “establishment” means the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Homeland Security, the Treasury, or Veterans Affairs; the Agency for International Development, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the General Services Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Office of Personnel Management, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Small Business Administration, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Social Security Administration, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Commissions established under [section 15301 of title 40](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section15301&num=0&edition=prelim), the National Security Agency, or the National Reconnaissance Office, as the case may be.
(2) **Federal agency.—** — The term “Federal agency” means an agency as defined in [section 552(f) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section552/f&num=0&edition=prelim) (including an establishment as defined in paragraph (1)), but shall not be construed to include the Government Accountability Office.
(3) **Head of the establishment.—** — The term “head of the establishment” means the Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Devel
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It shall be the policy of the Commission to control the dissemination and declassification of Restricted Data in such a manner as to assure the common defense and security. Consistent with such policy, the Commission shall be guided by the following principles:
**(a)** Until effective and enforceable international safeguards against the use of atomic energy for destructive purposes have been established by an international arrangement, there shall be no exchange of Restricted Data with other nations except as authorized by [section 2164 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2164&num=0&edition=prelim); and
**(b)** The dissemination of scientific and technical information relating to atomic energy should be permitted and encouraged so as to provide that free interchange of ideas and criticism which is essential to scientific and industrial progress and public understanding and to enlarge the fund of technical information.
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Page 5469
TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 2162
• Sections 135(d)(1)–(d)(3), (d)(5)(B), and (d)(6) to the
Secretary of State, in consultation with other relevant
agencies as appropriate;
• Section 135(d)(4) to the Secretary of State, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of the Treasury as appro-
priate, with respect to the requirement to submit the
report described in that provision and to prepare each
of the required elements of the report, with the excep-
tion of the required assessment related to money laun-
dering or terrorist finance activities in section
135(d)(4)(H);
• Section 135(d)(4)(H) to the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, with
respect to preparation of the assessment described in
that provision for inclusion in the report required by
section 135(d)(4).
Any reference in this memorandum to provisions of
any act related to the subject of this memorandum
shall be deemed to include references to any hereafter
enacted provisions of law that are the same or substan-
tially the same as such provisions.
The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to
publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA.
SUBCHAPTER XI—CONTROL OF
INFORMATION
§ 2161. Policy of Commission
It shall be the policy of the Commission to
control the dissemination and declassification of
Restricted Data in such a manner as to assure
the common defense and security. Consistent
with such policy, the Commission shall be guid-
ed by the following principles:
(a) Until effective and enforceable inter-
national safeguards against the use of atomic
energy for destructive purposes have been estab-
lished by an international arrangement, there
shall be no exchange of Restricted Data with
other nations except as
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TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 421
eign Affairs, and the Committee on Oversight and
Accountability of the House of Representatives.
‘‘(2) The term ‘Inspectors General’ means the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(A) The Inspector General of the Department of
Defense.
‘‘(B) The Inspector General of the Department of
State.
‘‘(C) The Inspector General of the United States
Agency for International Development.
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is au-
thorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2024 $8,000,000
to carry out this section.’’
§ 420. Information on websites of Offices of In-
spectors General
(a) DIRECT LINKS TO INSPECTORS GENERAL OF-
FICES.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Each Federal agency and
designated Federal entity shall establish and
maintain on the homepage of the website of
that Federal agency or designated Federal en-
tity, a direct link to the website of the Office
of the Inspector General of that Federal agen-
cy or designated Federal entity.
(2) ACCESSIBILITY.—The direct link under
paragraph (1) shall be obvious and facilitate
accessibility to the website of the Office of the
Inspector General.
(b) REQUIREMENTS
FOR INSPECTORS GENERAL
WEBSITES.—
(1) POSTING OF REPORTS AND AUDITS.—The In-
spector General of each Federal agency and
designated Federal entity shall—
(A) not later than 3 days after any audit
report, inspection report, or evaluation re-
port (or portion of any such report) is sub-
mitted in final form to the head of the Fed-
eral agency or the head of the designated
Federal entity, as applicable, post that re-
port (or portion of that report) on the
website of the Office of Inspector General;
and
(B) ensure that any posted report (or por-
tion of that report) described under subpara-
graph (A)—
(i) is easily acc
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TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
§ 3003
Stat. 495, known as the National Security Act of 1947,
which is classified principally to this chapter. For com-
plete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 401 of this
title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering
as this section.
AMENDMENTS
1958—Pub. L. 85–599 amended section generally, and,
among other changes, provided that each military de-
partment shall be separately organized, instead of sepa-
rately administered, under its own Secretary and shall
function under the direction, authority, and control of
the Secretary of Defense, and inserted provisions relat-
ing to establishment of unified or specified combatant
commands and for elimination of unnecessary duplica-
tion.
1949—Act Aug. 10, 1949, provided that the military de-
partments shall be separately administered but be
under the direction of the Secretary of Defense, and
that there shall not be a single Chief of Staff over the
armed forces nor an armed forces general staff.
§ 3003. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) The term ‘‘intelligence’’ includes foreign
intelligence and counterintelligence.
(2) The term ‘‘foreign intelligence’’ means
information relating to the capabilities, inten-
tions, or activities of foreign governments or
elements thereof, foreign organizations, or for-
eign persons, or international terrorist activi-
ties.
(3) The term ‘‘counterintelligence’’ means
information gathered, and activities con-
ducted, to protect against espionage, other in-
telligence activities, sabotage, or assassina-
tions conducted by or on behalf of foreign gov-
ernments or elements thereof, foreign organi-
zations, or foreign persons, or international
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