PUBLIC LAW 106-65—OCT. 5, 1999 113 STAT. 935 SEC. 3145. PROTECTION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION DURING LAB- 42 USC 7383b. ORATORY-TO-LABORATORY EXCHANGES. (a) PROVISION OF TRAINING. —The Secretary of Energy shall ensure that all Department of Energy employees and Department of Energy contractor employees participating in laboratory-to-laboratory cooperative exchange activities are fully trained in matters relating to the protection of classified information and to potential espionage and counterintelligence threats. (b) COUNTERING OF ESPIONAGE AND INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING ABROAD. —(1) The Secretary shall establish a pool of Department employees and Department contractor employees who are specially trained to counter threats of espionage and intelligence-gathering by foreign nationals against Department employees and Department contractor employees who travel abroad for laboratory-to-laboratory exchange activities or other cooperative exchange activities on behalf of the Department. (2) The Director of Counterintelligence of the Department of Energy may assign at least one employee from the pool established under paragraph (1) to accompany a group of Department employees or Department contractor employees who travel to any nation designated to be a sensitive country for laboratory-to-laboratory exchange activities or other cooperative exchange activities on behalf of the Department. SEC. 3146. RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS TO NATIONAL LABORATORIES 42 USC 7383c. BY FOREIGN VISITORS FROM SENSITIVE COUNTRIES. (a) BACKGROUND REVIEW REQUIRED.— The Secretary of Energy may not admit to any facility of a national laboratory other than areas accessible to the general public any individual who is a citizen or agent of a nation that is named on the current sensitive countries list unless the Secretary first completes a background review with respect to that individual. (b) MORATORIUM PENDING CERTIFICATION. — (1) During the period described in paragraph (2), the Secretary may not admit to any facility of a national laboratory other than areas accessible to the general public any individual who is a citizen or agent of a nation that is named on the current sensitive countries list. (2) The period referred to in paragraph (1) is the period begin- Deadlines, ning 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on the later of the following: (A) The date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. (B) The date that is 45 days after the date on which the Secretary submits to Congress the certifications described in paragraph (3). (3) The certifications referred to in paragraph (2) are one certification each by the Director of Counterintelligence of the Department of Energy, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of Central Intelligence, of each of the following: (A) That the foreign visitors program at that facility complies with applicable orders, regulations, and policies of the Department of Energy relating to the safeguarding and security of sensitive information and fulfills any counterintelligence requirements arising under such orders, regulations, and policies.
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