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[CITE: 42USC2455]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                   CHAPTER 26--NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAM
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2455. Security requirements


(a) Establishment; investigations; referral to Federal Bureau of 
        Investigation

    The Administrator shall establish such security requirements, 
restrictions, and safeguards as he deems necessary in the interest of 
the national security. The Administrator may arrange with the Director 
of the Office of Personnel Management for the conduct of such security 
or other personnel investigations of the Administration's officers, 
employees, and consultants, and its contractors and subcontractors and 
their officers and employees, actual or prospective, as he deems 
appropriate; and if any such investigation develops any data reflecting 
that the individual who is the subject thereof is of questionable 
loyalty the matter shall be referred to the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation for the conduct of a full field investigation, the results 
of which shall be furnished to the Administrator.

(b) Access to Restricted Data of Atomic Energy Commission

    The Atomic Energy Commission may authorize any of its employees, or 
employees of any contractor, prospective contractor, licensee, or 
prospective licensee of the Atomic Energy Commission or any other person 
authorized to have access to Restricted Data by the Atomic Energy 
Commission under 2165(b) of this title, to permit any member, officer, 
or employee of the Council, or the Administrator, or any officer, 
employee, member of an advisory committee, contractor, subcontractor, or 
officer or employee of a contractor or subcontractor of the 
Administration, to have access to Restricted Data relating to 
aeronautical and space activities which is required in the performance 
of his duties and so certified by the Council or the Administrator, as 
the case may be, but only if (1) the Council or Administrator or 
designee thereof has determined, in accordance with the established 
personnel security procedures and standards of the Council or 
Administration, that permitting such individual to have access to such 
Restricted Data will not endanger the common defense and security, and 
(2) the Council or Administrator or designee thereof finds that the 
established personnel and other security procedures and standards of the 
Council or Administration are adequate and in reasonable conformity to 
the standards established by the Atomic Energy Commission under section 
2165 of this title. Any individual granted access to such Restricted 
Data pursuant to this subsection may exchange such Data with any 
individual who (A) is an officer or employee of the Department of 
Defense, or any department or agency thereof, or a member of the armed 
forces, or a contractor or subcontractor of any such department, agency, 
or armed force, or an officer or employee of any such contractor or 
subcontractor, and (B) has been authorized to have access to Restricted 
Data under the provisions of section 2163 of this title.

(Pub. L. 85-568, title III, Sec. 304(a), (b), July 29, 1958, 72 Stat. 
433, 434; 1978 Reorg. Plan No. 2, Sec. 102, eff. Jan. 1, 1979, 43 F.R. 
36037, 92 Stat. 3783.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of subsec. (a) and (b) of section 304 of Pub. 
L. 85-568. Subsecs. (c) and (d) of section 304 are classified to 
sections 799 and 1114, respectively, of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal 
Procedure. Subsec. (e) of section 304 is classified to section 2456 of 
this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Director of the Office of Personnel Management'' substituted for 
``Civil Service Commission'' in subsec. (a), pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 
2 of 1978, Sec. 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 
1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which 
transferred all functions vested by statute in United States Civil 
Service Commission to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except 
as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 
1-102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under 
section 1101 of Title 5.
    Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by 
sections 5814 and 5841 of this title. See also Transfer of Functions 
notes set out under those sections.

           Abolition of National Aeronautics and Space Council

    The National Aeronautics and Space Council, including office of 
Executive Secretary of Council, together with functions of Council, 
abolished by section 3(a)(4) of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1973, 38 F.R. 9579, 
87 Stat. 1089, effective July 1, 1973, set out in the Appendix to Title 
5, Government Organization and Employees.
