CONDUCT OF SECURITY CLEARANCES.

SEC. 3144. CONDUCT OF SECURITY CLEARANCES. (a) Responsibility of Federal Bureau of Investigation.—Subsection e. of section 145 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2165) is amended— (1) by inserting “(1)” before “If”; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(2) In the case of an individual employed in a program known as a Special Access Program or a Personnel Security and Assurance Program, any investigation required by subsections a., b., and c. of this section shall be made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”. (b) Compliance.—The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall have 18 months from the date of the enactment of this Act to meet the responsibilities of the Bureau under subsection e.(2) of section 145 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as added by subsection (a). (c) Report.—(1) Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the committees specified in paragraph (2) a report on the implementation of the responsibilities of the Bureau under subsection e.(2) of that section. That report shall include the following: (A) An assessment of the capability of the Bureau to execute the additional clearance requirements, to include additional post-initial investigations. (B) An estimate of the additional resources required, to include funding, to support the expanded use of the Bureau to conduct the additional investigations. (C) The extent to which contractor personnel are and would be used in the clearance process. (2) The committees referred to in paragraph (1) are the following: (A) The Committee on Armed Services and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. (B) The Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.113 STAT. 935