10 U.S.C. § 6235 | Identification in budget materials of amounts for declassification activities and limitation on expenditures for such activities

(a)

Amounts for Declassification of Records .—

section 1105(a) of title 31 50 U.S.C. 3161The 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 ) 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 ( note), or any successor Executive order, or to comply with any statutory requirement to declassify Government records.

(b)

Certification Required With Respect to Automatic Declassification of Records .—

October 5, 1999No 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.

Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a)Dec. 18, 2025139 Stat. 1411(Added , , .)

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

section 2675 of Title 50 Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1)Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in , War and National Defense, prior to repeal by .