---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 810.8"
title: "10"
number: "810.8"
heading: "Restrictions on general and specific authorization."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/810.8"
---

# §810.8. Restrictions on general and specific authorization.


A general or specific authorization granted by the Secretary under this part:

- (a) Is limited to activities involving only unclassified information and does not permit furnishing classified information;
- (b) Does not relieve a person from complying with the relevant laws or the regulations of other U.S. Government agencies applicable to exports; and
- (c) Does not authorize a person to engage in any activity when the person knows or has reason to know that the activity is intended to provide assistance in designing, developing, fabricating, or testing a nuclear explosive device.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 57, 127, 128, 129, 161, 222, 232, and 234 AEA, as amended by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95-242, 68 Stat. 932, 948, 950, 958, 92 Stat. 126, 136, 137, 138 (42 U.S.C. 2077, 2156, 2157, 2158, 2201, 2272, 2280, 2282), the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Pub. L. 108-458, 118 Stat. 3768, and sec. 3116 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, Pub. L. 115-232; Sec. 104 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Pub. L. 93-438; Sec. 301, Department of Energy Organization Act, Pub. L. 95-91; National Nuclear Security Administration Act, Pub. L. 106-65, 50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq., as amended.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 9375, Feb. 23, 2015, unless otherwise noted.