Sec. 3120. Prohibition on use of funds to support access to National Nuclear Security Administration facilities
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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act, or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2025 or any subsequent fiscal year, for the National Nuclear Security Administration may be obligated or expended to permit or facilitate the access by any citizen of a covered country to any facility at which individuals perform work related to— the protection, sustainment, or modernization of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile; or capabilities for protecting, developing, sustaining, or disposing of technologies or materials related to the provision of nuclear propulsion for United States naval vessels.
The Administrator for Nuclear Security may waive the prohibition under subsection
(a)with respect to an individual if the Administrator, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, certifies to Congress not less than 60 days before providing that individual with access to a facility described in subsection
(a)that— such access is in the national security interest of the United States; the Department of Defense has completed a comprehensive background investigation of the individual and has not uncovered any affiliation with military or intelligence organizations associated with a covered country; the individual will not be provided access to any classified information and all appropriate protective measures will be taken to ensure the risk of inadvertent access is minimized to the maximum extent possible; the individual will be provided access to the facility for not more than 60 days in a calendar year; and after the individual has had access to the facility for 60 days as described in paragraph (4), such access will be terminated immediately. In this section, the term covered country means— the People’s Republic of China; the Russian Federation; the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; and the Islamic Republic of Iran.