Title 10 — Armed Forces
Part VI · Chapter 605 — Safeguards and Security Matters
§ 6235. Identification in budget materials of amounts for declassification activities and limitation on expenditures for such activities
Statutory text
Amounts for Declassification of Records.—
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.
Certification Required With Respect to Automatic Declassification of Records.—
No records of the Department of Energy that have not as of , 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
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 119–60 div. C title XXXI § 3111(a) · 139 Stat. 1411
Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 6235
(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1411.)
Unresolved: Pub. L. 119–60 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1411.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2675 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), , 139 Stat. 1411.)