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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 84 — Department of Energy

§ 7144. Establishment of policy for National Nuclear Security Administration

Statutory text

(a)

Responsibility for establishing policy

The Secretary shall be responsible for establishing policy for the National Nuclear Security Administration.

(b)

Review of programs and activities

The Secretary may direct officials of the Department who are not within the National Nuclear Security Administration to review the programs and activities of the Administration and to make recommendations to the Secretary regarding administration of those programs and activities, including consistency with other similar programs and activities of the Department.

(c)

Staff

The Secretary shall have adequate staff to support the Secretary in carrying out the Secretary’s responsibilities under this section.

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.

  1. Department of Energy Organization Act

    Pub. L. 95–91 title II § 213 · 91 Stat. 565

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7144

    (Pub. L. 95–91, title II, § 213, as added Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3203(a), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 954.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–91, title II, § 213, as added Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3203(a), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 954.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 3299 of Pub. L. 106–65, set out as a note under section 2401 of Title 50, War and National Defense.

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–91, title II, § 213, as added Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3203(a), , 113 Stat. 954.)

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