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50 U.S.C. § 2481 — Functions transferred
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**(a) Transfers** There are hereby transferred to the Administrator all national security functions and activities performed immediately before October 5, 1999, by the following elements of the Department of Energy:
(1) The Office of Defense Programs.
(2) The Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.
(3) The Office of Fissile Materials Disposition.
(4) The nuclear weapons production facilities.
(5) The national security laboratories.
(6) The Office of Naval Reactors.
**(b) Authority to transfer additional functions** The Secretary of Energy may transfer to the Administrator any other facility, mission, or function that the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator and Congress, determines to be consistent with the mission of the Administration.
**(c) Environmental remediation and waste management activities** In the case of any environmental remediation and waste management activity of any element of the Administration, the Secretary of Energy may determine to transfer responsibility for that activity to another element of the Department.
**(d) Transfer of funds**
(1) Any balance of appropriations that the Secretary of Energy determines is available and needed to finance or discharge a function, power, or duty or an activity that is transferred to the Administration shall be transferred to the Administration and used for any purpose for which those appropriations were originally available. Balances of appropriations so transferred shall—
(A) be credited to any applicable appropriation account of the Administration; or
(B) be credited to a new account that may be established on the books of the Department of the Treasury;and shall be merged with the funds already credited to that account and accounted for as one fund.
(2) Balances of appr
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**(a) Transfers** There are hereby transferred to the Administrator all national security functions and activities performed immediately before October 5, 1999, by the following elements of the Department of Energy:
(1) The Office of Defense Programs.
(2) The Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.
(3) The Office of Fissile Materials Disposition.
(4) The nuclear weapons production facilities.
(5) The national security laboratories.
(6) The Office of Naval Reactors.
**(b) Authority to transfer additional functions** The Secretary of Energy may transfer to the Administrator any other facility, mission, or function that the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator and Congress, determines to be consistent with the mission of the Administration.
**(c) Environmental remediation and waste management activities** In the case of any environmental remediation and waste management activity of any element of the Administration, the Secretary of Energy may determine to transfer responsibility for that activity to another element of the Department.
**(d) Transfer of funds**
(1) Any balance of appropriations that the Secretary of Energy determines is available and needed to finance or discharge a function, power, or duty or an activity that is transferred to the Administration shall be transferred to the Administration and used for any purpose for which those appropriations were originally available. Balances of appropriations so transferred shall—
(A) be credited to any applicable appropriation account of the Administration; or
(B) be credited to a new account that may be established on the books of the Department of the Treasury;and shall be merged with the funds already credited to that account and accounted for as one fund.
(2) Balances of appropriations credited to an account under paragraph (1)(A) are subject only to such limitations as are specifically applicable to that account. Balances of appropriations credited to an account under paragraph (1)(B) are subject only to such limitations as are applicable to the appropriations from which they are transferred.
**(e) Personnel**
(1) With respect to any function, power, or duty or activity of the Department of Energy that is transferred to the Administration, those employees of the element of the Department of Energy from which the transfer is made that the Secretary of Energy determines are needed to perform that function, power, or duty, or for that activity, as the case may be, shall be transferred to the Administration.
(2) The authorized strength in civilian employees of any element of the Department of Energy from which employees are transferred under this section is reduced by the number of employees so transferred.
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(1) **Sense of Congress** — It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security.
(2) **Limitation on statutory construction** — Nothing in this chapter, including any amendment made by this chapter, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.
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**(a) Establishment** There is established within the Department of Energy a separately organized agency to be known as the National Nuclear Security Administration (in this chapter referred to as the “Administration”).
**(b) Mission** The mission of the Administration shall be the following:
(1) To enhance United States national security through the military application of nuclear energy.
(2) To support the deterrence of strategic attacks against the United States by maintaining and enhancing the performance, reliability, security, and safety of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile, including the ability to design, produce, and test nuclear weapons as necessary in order to meet national security requirements.
(3) To provide the United States Navy with safe, militarily effective nuclear propulsion plants and to ensure the safe and reliable operation of those plants.
(4) To promote international nuclear safety and nonproliferation.
(5) To reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction.
(6) To support United States leadership in science and technology.
**(c) Operations and activities to be carried out consistently with certain principles** In carrying out the mission of the Administration, the Administrator shall ensure that all operations and activities of the Administration are consistent with the principles of—
(1) fulfilling, to the maximum extent possible, the requirements for nuclear weapons of the Department of Defense;
(2) protecting the environment;
(3) safeguarding the safety and health of the public and of the workforce of the Administration; and
(4) ensuring the security of the nuclear weapons, nuclear material, and classified information in the custody of the Administration.
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**(a) Reports by Heads of Laboratories and Facilities.—** In the event of a difficulty at a national security laboratory or a nuclear weapons production facility that has a significant bearing on confidence in the safety or reliability of a nuclear weapon or nuclear weapon type, the head of the laboratory or facility, as the case may be, shall submit to the Administrator a report on the difficulty. The head of the laboratory or facility shall submit the report as soon as practicable after discovery of the difficulty.
**(b) Transmittal by Administrator.—** Not later than 10 days after receipt of a report under subsection (a), the Administrator shall transmit the report (together with the comments of the Administrator) to the congressional defense committees, to the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Defense, and to the President.
**(c) Inclusion of Reports in Annual Stockpile Assessment.—** Any report submitted pursuant to subsection (a) shall also be submitted to the President and Congress with the matters required to be submitted under section 6117(f) for the year in which such report is submitted.
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**(a) Policy.—**
(1) It is the policy of the United States—
(A) to maintain a safe, secure, effective, and reliable nuclear weapons stockpile; and
(B) as long as other nations control or actively seek to acquire nuclear weapons, to retain a credible nuclear deterrent.
(2) It is in the security interest of the United States to sustain the United States nuclear weapons stockpile through a program of stockpile stewardship, carried out at the national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities.
(3) It is the sense of Congress that—
(A) the United States should retain a triad of strategic nuclear forces sufficient to deter any future hostile foreign leadership with access to strategic nuclear forces from acting against the vital interests of the United States;
(B) the United States should continue to maintain nuclear forces of sufficient size and capability to implement an effective and robust deterrent strategy; and
(C) the advice of the persons required to provide the President and Congress with assurances of the safety, security, effectiveness, and reliability of the nuclear weapons force should be scientifically based, without regard for politics, and of the highest quality and integrity.
**(b) Advice and Opinions Regarding Nuclear Weapons Stockpile.—** In addition to a director of a national security laboratory or a nuclear weapons production facility under section 6124, any member of the Nuclear Weapons Council may also submit to the President, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, or the congressional defense committees advice or opinion regarding the safety, security, effectiveness, and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile.
**(c) Expression of Individual Views.—**
(1) No individual, including a representa
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**(a) In general**
(1) There is at the head of the Administration an Administrator for Nuclear Security (in this chapter referred to as the “Administrator”).
(2) Pursuant to subsection (c) of [section 7132 of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7132&num=0&edition=prelim), the Under Secretary for Nuclear Security of the Department of Energy serves as the Administrator.
**(b) Functions** The Administrator has authority over, and is responsible for, all programs and activities of the Administration (except for the functions of the Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors specified in the Executive order referred to in [section 2406(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section2406/b&num=0&edition=prelim)), including the following:
(1) Strategic management.
(2) Policy development and guidance.
(3) Budget formulation, guidance, and execution, and other financial matters.
(4) Resource requirements determination and allocation.
(5) Program management and direction.
(6) Safeguards and security.
(7) Emergency management and Nuclear Emergency Support Team capabilities, including all field-deployed and remote technical support to public health and safety missions, countering weapons of mass destruction operations, technical and operational nuclear forensics, and responses to United States nuclear weapon accidents.
(8) Integrated safety management.
(9) Environment, safety, and health operations.
(10) Administration of contracts, including the management and operations of the nuclear weapons production facilities and the national security laboratories.
(11) Intelligence.
(12) Counterintelligence.
(13) Personnel, including the selection, appointment, distribution, supervi
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Notwithstanding the authority granted by [section 7253 of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7253&num=0&edition=prelim) or any other provision of law, the Secretary of Energy may not establish, abolish, alter, consolidate, or discontinue any organizational unit or component, or transfer any function, of the Administration, except as authorized by subsection (b) or (c) of [section 2481 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section2481&num=0&edition=prelim).
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With respect to any facility, mission, or function of the Department of Energy that the Secretary of Energy transfers to the Administrator under [section 2481 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section2481&num=0&edition=prelim), unless otherwise provided in this chapter, all provisions of law and regulations in effect immediately before the date of the transfer that are applicable to such facility, mission, or function shall continue to apply to the corresponding functions of the Administration.
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TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
§§ 2482, 2483
Par. (2)(E). Pub. L. 112–239, § 3132(d)(4), substituted
‘‘Nevada National Security Site’’ for ‘‘Nevada Test
Site’’.
Par. (2)(F). Pub. L. 113–66 substituted ‘‘Congress’’ for
‘‘the Congress’’.
Par. (6). Pub. L. 112–239, § 3132(a)(3), added par. (6).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective Mar. 1, 2000, see section 3299 of Pub.
L. 106–65, set out as a note under section 2401 of this
title.
SUBCHAPTER VII—TRANSITION
PROVISIONS
§ 2481. Functions transferred
(a) Transfers
There are hereby transferred to the Adminis-
trator all national security functions and activi-
ties performed immediately before October 5,
1999, by the following elements of the Depart-
ment of Energy:
(1) The Office of Defense Programs.
(2) The Office of Nonproliferation and Na-
tional Security.
(3) The Office of Fissile Materials Disposi-
tion.
(4) The nuclear weapons production facili-
ties.
(5) The national security laboratories.
(6) The Office of Naval Reactors.
(b) Authority to transfer additional functions
The Secretary of Energy may transfer to the
Administrator any other facility, mission, or
function that the Secretary, in consultation
with the Administrator and Congress, deter-
mines to be consistent with the mission of the
Administration.
(c) Environmental remediation and waste man-
agement activities
In the case of any environmental remediation
and waste management activity of any element
of the Administration, the Secretary of Energy
may determine to transfer responsibility for
that activity to another element of the Depart-
ment.
(d) Transfer of funds
(1) Any balance of appropriations that the Sec-
retary of Energy determines is available and
needed to finance or disc
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