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    50 USC Sec. 2410                                            01/08/2008

EXPCITE

    TITLE 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
    CHAPTER 41 - NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
    SUBCHAPTER I - ESTABLISHMENT AND ORGANIZATION

HEAD

    Sec. 2410. Status of Administration and contractor personnel within
      Department of Energy

STATUTE

    (a) Status of Administration personnel
      Each officer or employee of the Administration -
        (1) shall be responsible to and subject to the authority,
      direction, and control of -
          (A) the Secretary acting through the Administrator and
        consistent with section 7132(c)(3) of title 42;
          (B) the Administrator; or
          (C) the Administrator's designee within the Administration;
        and
        (2) shall not be responsible to, or subject to the authority,
      direction, or control of, any other officer, employee, or agent
      of the Department of Energy.
    (b) Status of contractor personnel
      Each officer or employee of a contractor of the Administration
    shall not be responsible to, or subject to the authority,
    direction, or control of, any officer, employee, or agent of the
    Department of Energy who is not an employee of the Administration,
    except for the Secretary of Energy consistent with section
    7132(c)(3) of title 42.
    (c) Construction of section
      Subsections (a) and (b) of this section may not be interpreted to
    in any way preclude or interfere with the communication of
    technical findings derived from, and in accord with, duly
    authorized activities between (1) the head, or any contractor
    employee, of a national security laboratory or of a nuclear weapons
    production facility, and (2) the Department of Energy, the
    President, or Congress.
    (d) Prohibition on dual office holding
      Except in accordance with sections 2402(a)(2) and 2406(a)(1) of
    this title:
        (1) An individual may not concurrently hold or carry out the
      responsibilities of -
          (A) a position within the Administration; and
          (B) a position within the Department of Energy not within the
        Administration.
        (2) No funds appropriated or otherwise made available for any
      fiscal year may be used to pay, to an individual who concurrently
      holds or carries out the responsibilities of a position specified
      in paragraph (1)(A) and a position specified in paragraph (1)(B),
      the basic pay, salary, or other compensation relating to any such
      position.
    (e) Status of intelligence and counterintelligence personnel
      Notwithstanding the restrictions of subsections (a) and (b), each
    officer or employee of the Administration, or of a contractor of
    the Administration, who is carrying out activities related to
    intelligence or counterintelligence shall, in carrying out those
    activities, be subject to the authority, direction, and control of
    the Secretary of Energy or the Secretary's delegate.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 106-65, div. C, title XXXII, Sec. 3220, formerly Sec.
    3213, Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 958; Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [div. C,
    title XXXI, Sec. 3157], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-468;
    renumbered Sec. 3220, Pub. L. 107-107, div. C, title XXXI, Sec.
    3141(a)(1), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1370; Pub. L. 109-364, div. C,
    title XXXI, Sec. 3117(a)(2)(B), (d), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2507,
    2508.)