[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4737 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4737

To require an inventory of documents and devices containing Restricted 
Data at the national security laboratories of the Department of Energy, 
  to improve security procedures for access to the vaults containing 
     Restricted Data at those laboratories, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 2000

  Mr. Hunter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require an inventory of documents and devices containing Restricted 
Data at the national security laboratories of the Department of Energy, 
  to improve security procedures for access to the vaults containing 
     Restricted Data at those laboratories, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Nuclear Secrets Safety Act''.

SEC. 2. INVENTORY OF RESTRICTED DATA AT NATIONAL SECURITY LABORATORIES.

    (a) Inventory Required.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the 
specified congressional committees a report containing an inventory of 
each document or device at each national security laboratory that 
contains Restricted Data.
    (b) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            (1) The term ``specified congressional committees'' means 
        the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee 
        on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
            (2) The term ``national security laboratory'' has the 
        meaning given such term in section 3281 of the National Nuclear 
        Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2471).
            (3) The term ``Restricted Data'' has the meaning given such 
        term in section 11 y. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 
        U.S.C. 2014(y)).

SEC. 3. INCREASED SECURITY FOR VAULTS AT NATIONAL SECURITY 
              LABORATORIES.

    (a) Access to Vaults.--Section 3234 of the National Nuclear 
Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2424) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Administrator'' and inserting ``(a) 
        Procedures Required.--The Administrator''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Access to Vaults at National Security Laboratories.--With 
respect to any vault containing Restricted Data at any national 
security laboratory, the procedures shall, at a minimum, provide that 
an individual shall not have access to any such vault unless, before 
each access, the identity of the individual is verified by an attendant 
through direct visual observation.''.
    (b) Vault Access Polygraph Program.--Section 3233 of such Act (50 
U.S.C. 2423) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(c) Vault Access Polygraph Program.--(1) At each national 
security laboratory, the counterintelligence program specified in 
subsection (a) shall include a polygraph program for individuals who 
have access to any vault containing Restricted Data at that laboratory. 
The polygraph program shall consist of the administration, to each 
individual who has access to any such vault, of polygraph examinations 
using questions reasonably calculated to obtain information relating to 
such access.
    ``(2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), each individual 
shall undergo a polygraph examination not later than one year after the 
individual has access to any such vault.
    ``(B) In the case of an individual's first access to any such 
vault, the individual shall undergo a polygraph examination not later 
than--
            ``(i) 30 days after the date of such access, if the 
        individual's first such access occurred after the date of the 
        enactment of the Nuclear Secrets Safety Act; and
            ``(ii) 120 days after the date of the enactment of the 
        Nuclear Secrets Safety Act, if the individual's first such 
        access occurred on or before such date.''.
    (c) Change of Lock Combinations.--The Administrator for Nuclear 
Security shall ensure, for each vault containing Restricted Data at 
each national security laboratory, that the combination of each lock to 
such vault is changed not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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