Pub. L. 106-65, div. C, tit. XXXII, sec. 3204

ORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES.

EnactedYear: 1999Length: 841 wordsOfficial source
SEC. 3204. ORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES. (a) Establishment of Offices.—The Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 213, as added by section 3203(a), the following new sections: “establishment of security, counterintelligence, and intelligence policies “Sec. 214. The Secretary shall be responsible for developing and promulgating the security, counterintelligence, and intelligence policies of the Department. The Secretary may use the immediate staff of the Secretary to assist in developing and promulgating those policies. “office of counterintelligence “Sec. 215. (a) There is within the Department an Office of Counterintelligence. “(b)(1) The head of the Office shall be the Director of the Office of Counterintelligence, which shall be a position in the Senior Executive Service. The Director of the Office shall report directly to the Secretary. “(2) The Secretary shall select the Director of the Office from among individuals who have substantial expertise in matters relating to counterintelligence. “(3) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may detail, on a reimbursable basis, any employee of the Bureau to the Department for service as Director of the Office. The service of an employee of the Bureau as Director of the Office shall not result in any loss of status, right, or privilege by the employee within the Bureau. “(c)(1) The Director of the Office shall be responsible for establishing policy for counterintelligence programs and activities at Department facilities in order to reduce the threat of disclosure or loss of classified and other sensitive information at such facilities. “(2) The Director of the Office shall be responsible for establishing policy for the personnel assurance programs of the Department. “(3) The Director shall inform the Secretary, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a regular basis, and upon specific request by any such official, regarding the status and effectiveness of the counterintelligence programs and activities at Department facilities. “(d)(1) Not later than March 1 each year, the Director of the Office shall submit a report on the status and effectiveness of the counterintelligence programs and activities at each Department facility during the preceding year. Each such report shall be submitted to the following: “(A) The Secretary. “(B) The Director of Central Intelligence. “(C) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “(D) The Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.113 STAT. 956 “(E) The Committee on Armed Services and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. “(2) Each such report shall include for the year covered by the report the following: “(A) A description of the status and effectiveness of the counterintelligence programs and activities at Department facilities. “(B) A description of any violation of law or other requirement relating to intelligence, counterintelligence, or security at such facilities, including— “(i) the number of violations that were investigated; and “(ii) the number of violations that remain unresolved. “(C) A description of the number of foreign visitors to Department facilities, including the locations of the visits of such visitors. “(D) The adequacy of the Department’s procedures and policies for protecting national security information, making such recommendations to Congress as may be appropriate. “(E) A determination of whether each Department of Energy national laboratory is in full compliance with all departmental security requirements and, in the case of any such laboratory that is not, what measures are being taken to bring that laboratory into compliance. “(3) Not less than 30 days before the date that the report required by paragraph (1) is submitted, the director of each Department of Energy national laboratory shall certify in writing to the Director of the Office whether that laboratory is in full compliance with all departmental security requirements and, if not, what measures are being taken to bring that laboratory into compliance and a schedule for implementing those measures. “(4) Each report under this subsection as submitted to the committees referred to in subparagraphs (D) and (E) of paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. “office of intelligence “Sec. 216. (a) There is within the Department an Office of Intelligence. “(b)(1) The head of the Office shall be the Director of the Office of Intelligence, which shall be a position in the Senior Executive Service. The Director of the Office shall report directly to the Secretary. “(2) The Secretary shall select the Director of the Office from among individuals who have substantial expertise in matters relating to foreign intelligence. “(c) Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary, the Director of the Office shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the Secretary may prescribe.”. (b) Clerical Amendment.—The table of contents at the beginning of the Department of Energy Organization Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 213, as added by section 3203(b), the following new items: “214. Establishment of security, counterintelligence, and intelligence policies. “215. Office of Counterintelligence. “216. Office of Intelligence.”.113 STAT. 957
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